# fiscal dominance (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover fiscal dominance. Page: Feed: --- ## [Power Bottom Task Force](https://mattwie.se/power-bottom-task-force) _2026-08-08 · Matt Wiese_ As a dying empire the United States has lost the ability to top, but that won't stop it from power bottoming. ## [Selling Your Soul](https://mattwie.se/selling-your-soul) _2026-07-22 · Matt Wiese_ During the American Century of Humiliation all that can be done is to pick your song and dance. ## [Hotboxing the Atmosphere](https://mattwie.se/hotboxing-the-atmosphere) _2026-07-15 · Matt Wiese_ The unprecedented fires across the world's boreal forests is one of many feedback loops. ## [Hydrocarbon Death Cult](https://mattwie.se/hydrocarbon-death-cult) _2026-03-22 · Matt Wiese_ So what if we poison and scorch the Earth? A stable climate and healthy biosphere is for suckers. ## [All My Apes Gone](https://mattwie.se/all-my-apes-gone) _2026-02-08 · Matt Wiese_ A discussion of Animoca Brands and what value it may or may not have. ## [Using Hinge as a Command & Control Server](https://mattwie.se/hinge-command-control-c2) _2026-01-03 · Matt Wiese_ A proof of concept demonstrating how to use the Hinge dating app as a C2. ## [Tokenize Deez Nuts](https://mattwie.se/tokenize-deez-nuts) _2025-12-02 · Matt Wiese_ Will tokenization be the vector by which Capital unlocks assets previously unable to be leveraged? ## [Our K-Shaped Nihilism](https://mattwie.se/our-k-shaped-nihilism) _2025-11-28 · Matt Wiese_ Imagine post-Soviet Russia but with obesity and more train derailments. ## [A Splendid Housing Bubble](https://mattwie.se/ithaca-real-estate) _2025-10-18 · Matt Wiese_ The Finger Lakes would make a great heatsink in a dismal Blade Runner future. ## [The Finger Lakes and Watershed-Scale Computing](https://mattwie.se/finger-lakes-watershed-computing) _2025-09-28 · Matt Wiese_ The Finger Lakes would make a great heatsink in a dismal Blade Runner future. ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/WlTZxOM5YzEO) _2025-09-27 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [The Tendency for the Accumulation of Capital to Accelerate](https://mattwie.se/capital-accumulation) _2025-09-27 · Matt Wiese_ If it takes money to make money, what happens if I have all the money? ## [Emotive Forces Shape The Gestalt of the Brand Identity](https://mattwie.se/brand-identity) _2025-09-01 · Matt Wiese_ Pepsi, brand identity, and your brain on postmodernism. ## [The Large Language Mammon](https://mattwie.se/large-language-mammon) _2025-08-30 · Matt Wiese_ The Market, Mammon and a Large Language Model walk into a bar. ## [My Brainrot Demands Slop: Infinite Jest and GenAI](https://mattwie.se/infinite-jest-genai-slop) _2025-08-24 · Matt Wiese_ The parallel between GenAI Slop and Infinite Jest's The Entertainment ## [What Fiscal Dominance Means for Your Polycule](https://mattwie.se/fed-fiscal-dominance) _2025-08-22 · Matt Wiese_ Frolicking through fiscal dominance with the findom baddies in my polycule ## [There Is No Bubble](https://mattwie.se/there-is-no-bubble) _2025-08-15 · Matt Wiese_ My thoughts on data center buildout and demand for compute, and how that relates to the 'tech bubble' ## [Optimizing My Sleep Around Claude Usage Limits](https://mattwie.se/no-sleep-till-agi) _2025-08-10 · Matt Wiese_ My experiment optimizing my sleep schedule around maximizing my Claude Pro subscription usage. ## [A long strange trip](https://www.themoneyillusion.com/a-long-strange-trip/) _2024-09-01 · ssumner · TheMoneyIllusion_ For readers who don’t already know this, my new blog is over at Substack: scottsumner.substack.com This will be my final Money Illusion post. The blog began on February 2, 2009. But the events that led to the blog took place in late 2008. Indeed my life can be divided into two segments, before and after \[…\] ## [Magic dust (a fable)](https://www.themoneyillusion.com/magic-dust-a-fable/) _2024-09-01 · ssumner · TheMoneyIllusion_ In the mid-1990s, the consensus view was that central banks should target inflation at 2%. Then in the late 1990s, a light rain of “magic dust” descended on the islands of Japan. The dust made people passive and fatalistic, and the economists there suddenly forgot how to create inflation, a previously inconceivable development. At the \[…\] ## [Are we moving toward fiscal dominance?](https://www.themoneyillusion.com/are-we-moving-toward-fiscal-dominance/) _2024-08-31 · ssumner · TheMoneyIllusion_ A recent Bloomberg article suggested that we may be moving toward a regime characterized by fiscal dominance, at least part of the time: In their paper, three economists from New York University, Stanford and London Business School argue that the US is moving from a regime of “monetary dominance” to one of “fiscal dominance.” In \[…\] ## [Non-Custodial Crypto Gateway (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/F0z9t6i9pKfR) _2024-08-31 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto, automated fee handling, and trustless escrow with real-time settlement. ## [An American economic miracle?](https://www.themoneyillusion.com/an-american-economic-miracle/) _2024-08-30 · ssumner · TheMoneyIllusion_ Matt Yglesias directed me to this tweet: If you looked at certain polls, you’d think the economy was doing poorly. On the other hand, if you looked at state economic performance polls, or polls asking about an individual’s personal financial situation, then things look far better. But one thing is clear—the US is outperforming the \[…\] ## [Jeffrey Ding on China](https://www.themoneyillusion.com/jeffrey-ding-on-china/) _2024-08-30 · ssumner · TheMoneyIllusion_ I’ve been amazed by the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The most militarily expansionist leader since Hitler and Stalin starts a war that threatens to spiral out of control. He leads a country with enough weapons to destroy most of the US population. He threatens to use nuclear weapons (and is scolded by China \[…\] ## [Yglesias on political sorting](https://www.themoneyillusion.com/yglesias-on-political-sorting/) _2024-08-30 · ssumner · TheMoneyIllusion_ There has recently been a lot of discussion about how all of the conspiracy nuts are moving over to the GOP, whereas not so long ago they were at least as common among Democrats. Matt Yglesias has a very good post that points out how this is a problem for both sides. The TLDR is \[…\] ## [The final nail for fiscal dominance?](https://www.themoneyillusion.com/the-final-nail-for-fiscal-dominance/) _2024-08-27 · ssumner · TheMoneyIllusion_ One of my biggest frustrations over the past 15 years has been the economics profession’s drift away from certain well established propositions, such as the fact that the Fed controls the price level. But there are signs of light. David Beckworth has a twitter thread discussing how inflation has recently fallen sharply despite absurdly large \[…\] ## [Fifty to one on job growth?](https://www.themoneyillusion.com/fifty-to-one-on-job-growth/) _2024-08-27 · ssumner · TheMoneyIllusion_ Brad DeLong directed me to a tweet that contained this intriguing graph: If you polled 51 million Americans and found that 50 million supported X, whereas 1 million opposed X, that would be a highly significant survey. So what should we make of the fact that over the past 35 years, Democratic presidents have “created” \[…\] ## [Hanania on the GOP](https://www.themoneyillusion.com/hanania-on-the-gop/) _2024-08-27 · ssumner · TheMoneyIllusion_ Here’s Richard Hanania: We can already see Republican candidates and institutions shifting over to Gribble messaging. The Heritage Foundation, once believed to represent elite conservative thought, goes to Twitter and implies that the Secret Service tried to assassinate Trump. JD Vance has praised Alex Jones as a truth teller. Meanwhile, Ted Cruz and Vivek Ramaswamy \[…\] ## [Bayesian analysis](https://www.themoneyillusion.com/bayesian-analysis/) _2024-08-25 · ssumner · TheMoneyIllusion_ The FT has a good article that might be seen as being tangentially related to my earlier post on lab leak vs. zoonosis: If a screenwriter were to come up with a storyline in which a tech tycoon drowns when his luxury yacht is hit by a freak storm just two days after his co-defendant \[…\]