Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:
- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal
Over the past few weeks I have been talking with
@emilypeck.bsky.social @axios.com about the US Treasury market.
I love her Rom-com title.
As @laynamosley.bsky.social says the perfect rom-com for debt nerds
www.axios.com/2026/03/26/t...
Not sure about the metaphor but...
The U.S. Treasury market is like a rom-com www.axios.com/2026/03/26/t...
Looking forward to welcoming the 2026-2027 cohort of Niehaus Center fellows in July!
niehaus.princeton.edu/news/2026/an...
Indeed. As if tariffs (for instance) weren't doing damage to the US economy & US consumers before February 28.
China automates while America hesitates. I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that America's strategy to compete with China in manufacturing is fundamentally misconceived — and that we're heading toward a reckoning we're not prepared for. 1/
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...
Dear students, spellcheck is no substitute for proofreading.
(My favorite error, throughout a student's paper, remains "trade surpluses and defecates.")
A lot of people are looking at this as insider trading but it's an even bigger issue for national security if there was advance warning of air strikes.
We could place bets on Polymarket on when there will be accountability for corruption, but it's hard to pay out on "never."
👇🎯 Again, neither ___ is Evil, nor ___ does Very Bad Things, nor ___ is Maybe Still Trying to Get Nuclear Weapons are justifications for what is happening now. Lots of folks & organizations are telling on themselves by revealing preferences for 👇 as the general principle.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
When you've decided that expertise doesn't matter -- and indeed, isn't wanted -- in government, this is what you get.
U.S. Ability to Determine What Comes Next in Iran Might Be Limited
Understatement alert
The notion that this is a war to "defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats" from Iran is simply fantastical. This is a straight-up preventive war a la Iraq 2003.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/28/u...
receiving Billions and Billions of Dollars that they should not have been allowed to receive, would now be entitled to an undeserved ‘windfall,’ the likes of which the World has never seen before, as a result of this highly disappointing, to say the least, ruling.”
Sigh. [2/2]
Beginning to think he *actually* doesn't understand who pays tariffs.
Not even who pays them in terms of pass-through, but who pays them when goods are imported...
“It doesn’t make sense,” Mr. Trump said on Friday, “that Countries and Companies that took advantage of us for decades.... [1/2]
A few years ago, our local middle school changed its name. After much discussion of for whom it might be renamed, the school board decided to just go with "Princeton Middle School."
Hilarity ensues.
What channel is the Bad Bunny SOTU on?
Caveat Emperor.
Not quite the regime change we've been hoping for.
Yup
Tariff tantrum, day 2.
Pritzker’s invoice to White House:
(via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov
I'm fairly certain that it's the tariffs (and the lack of respect for rule of law) that distress the financial markets & erode investor confidence [2/2]
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
First para of the order imposing Section 122 tariffs warns that currency depreciation & balance of payments deficits "can, among other things, endanger the ability of the United States to finance its spending, erode investor confidence in the economy, and distress the financial markets." [1/2]
"Consulting historian" is a great line for one's annual faculty activities report. @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social
Commenting on energy injustice is now the floor for any halftime act.
A story about competing footballers: Cleated Rivalry
Patients comparing Dr care: Treated Rivalry
Two whiskey companies vie for the top prize: Peated Rivalry
A documentary about competitive Musical Chairs: Seated Rivalry
Winter sweater crochet club: Heated Ravelry
(end-of-day energy over here)
Two fast fashion retailers battling to capture the market for trendy trousers.
Pleated Rivalry
