Perhaps the only good thing about being a Brooklyn Nets fan these days is holding an aggressive short position on this madman owner and the dysfunction he has wrought

Implicit in this smart ⁦Jeanna Smialek⁩ analysis: monetary policy is guided by the interests of the wealthy, and our conventional economic metrics are not capturing the full picture. nytimes.com/2024/04/30/bus…

Higher borrowing costs are sowing economic anxiety, an especially critical factor in presidential election battleground states. Our story from Georgia. nytimes.com/2024/04/30/bus…

Given the catastrophe still unfolding in Gaza, this may seem an insane time to contemplate long term economic development plans. But a plan is underway, aimed at readying projects whenever suitable. My story nytimes.com/2024/04/28/bus…

So much nonsensical economic dogma has been shredded over the years by the wonderful ⁦Joseph E. Stiglitz⁩ whose new book is out and distilled here by ⁦John Cassidy⁩ newyorker.com/news/our-colum…

The reporters who literally wrote to book on McKinsey’s secretive efforts to fuel the opioid market, Mike Forsythe 傅才德 and Walt Bogdanich, plus Glenn Thrush report for The New York Times that the consulting giant is under criminal investigation.

We’re thrilled to announce that Maxwell Strachan is joining Well as a senior editor to lead features coverage. nytco.com/press/maxwell-…

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Brilliant piece. Encapsulates so much of what has gone wrong and it just at Boeing. Well worth a read. Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Financial markets left to their own devices do not make economies and those who live in them free, despite what Milton Friedman said. Lots of data over 40 years shows we’re actually worse off. We need a new way to think about markets, economic policy and what we want our society…

I’ve told people for years that you have to have a really good reason to live in New York. Latest example why

Powerful, powerful frame

In bookstores tomorrow.

An excerpt from my new book, The Road to Freedom (W. W. Norton & Company, on sale tomorrow) in The Atlantic just out this morning. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

I did not think Liz Truss could make herself seem more ridiculous. I was wrong. on.ft.com/4aZUHIJ

Terrific ⁦Alan Beattie⁩ on why US dollar probably impervious to whatever another Trump term might bring. Also worth adding basic reality: no other currency can function as global reserve, so long as German debt aversion limits supply of euro bonds ft.com/content/049ce8…

🚨INVESTIGATION: Public universities are fighting a federal initiative to lower the price you are charged for medicines developed at taxpayer expense.

The schools are reaping profits off the high prices, according to documents obtained by The Lever. levernews.com/universities-a…

NEW from Brett Murphy:

A special State Dept panel sought in Dec to BAN Israeli military & police units from receiving US military aid.

The units are alleged to have committed gross human rights violations.

Killings. Rapes.

Blinken sat on it.

propublica.org/article/israel…

“Poor, working- and middle-class experience a different reality. Many worked in person during the dolorous early days of the pandemic. And they’ve weathered 20 percent inflation and rising interest rates—and lost a fifth of their purchasing power My essay: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

There are quite a few Argentine and Zimbabwean policymakers I would consult on how to maintain a reserve currency before turning to Liz Truss.