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Brad DeLong

What Brad DeLong thinks about America

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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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  1. Our readingThe US war on Iran ended up delivering Osama bin Laden's original strategic goal of ending American military presence in the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula

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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

    ↗(SEMI-)CROSSPOST: RICK PERLSTEIN: Bush’s War Is Finally Over: Al Qaeda Has Wonbraddelong.substack.com

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  3. Our readingAmerica's wealthy business-owning gentry class owes much of its fortune to deliberate tax-policy choices rather than pure market outcomes.

    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