What Brad DeLong thinks about America
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
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12 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Brad DeLong has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsA contested or overturned election would hit America’s “animal spirits” and investment, productivity growth, Treasury yields, and the dollar permanently.
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Their wordsBut after 1917 the axis of global political economy and strategic polity was that everyone was much better off when the countries that were to become Valery Giscard d’Estaing, Helmut Schmidt, and Gerald Ford’s G-7 hung together (even though Germany and Italy required some—persuasion before they would see it that way). Trump has reversed that.
↗CROSSPOST: SEVA GUNITSKY: Trump’s “Near Abroad”braddelong.substack.com
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Their wordsOnly the American racist right is fearful that immigrants are not assimilating.
↗CROSSPOST: NOAH SMITH: There Is No “Indian Question”braddelong.substack.com
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Their wordsWhat is this American identity? It is not ethnic, not blood-and-soil.
↗CROSSPOST: NOAH SMITH: There Is No “Indian Question”braddelong.substack.com
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Their wordsin the U.S., policy and plumbing now matter more than the price of a panel
↗Rooftop Solar Rules Elsewhere!: CHART OF THE DAYbraddelong.substack.com
- 6 days earlier
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Their wordsEach new outrage buys a day of base enthusiasm, and then compounds the strong-disapproval pile that never shrinks.
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Our readingRepublican foreign policy is systematically bad due to inattention to the risks of hawkishness.
Their wordsBut… Republicans have systematically bad foreign policy that is inattentive to the downside risk of saber-rattling and hawkishness….
↗Real Price of Diesel: CHART OF THE DAYbraddelong.substack.com
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Their wordsBut, Claudia, it is necessary confusion given that the point is to triangulate in order to limit the surfaces he leaves open to attack from either a disappointed Trump or a disappointed bond market.
↗CROSSPOST: CLAUDIA SAHM: Questions for the [Fed] Chair [Kevin Warsh]braddelong.substack.com
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Their wordsPerhaps half of Trump State Department political appointees are such people.
↗Trump’s State Department’s Obsession with What They Fear Are Satanic Bull-Statues: Laugh of the Daybraddelong.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsOsama bin Laden's one concrete strategic goal was to end the American military presence in the Gulf and on the Arabian Peninsula. A generation later, Donald Trump's war on Iran has apparently delivered it for him
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Their wordsFreedom of navigation is a global public good, and public goods decay the instant their provider is revealed to be unwilling to pay for them.
↗CROSSPOST: SPENCER ACKERMAN: Fanute The Houthi Coupbraddelong.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe American gentry's fortunes, in other words, are in substantial part, a policy artifact.
↗America’s Gentry Élite: TUESDAY TRENDS & TURMOILbraddelong.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece