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  • Monetary vs fiscal policy: Dancing under the r-stars

    Should central banks like the Federal Reserve consider and adapt to fiscal policy – directly, indirectly, preemptively, or belatedly?

    1. Heterogeneous-Agent New Keynesian (HANK) advanced models
    2. Large fiscal deficits in unstable economies (Turkey '90s/'00s; Mexico '94; Russia '98; Brazil '99; Argentina '01)
    3. Large fiscal deficits in stable economies (wealth effect vs inflation expectations vs monetary counterbalance)
    4. Central bank response impacts (preemptive vs coincident vs lagging)
    5. Loose fiscal vs tight monetary policy (Reagan/Volcker '80s)
    6. Central bank independence vs fiscal reaction function

    This podcast is Al-generated with NotebookLM, using the following sources, research, and analysis:

    • Difficulties in Modeling Interest Rates (Fray, 2008.12)
    • Economics-Watching: Neutral Interest Rates and the Monetary Policy Stance (Horn/Zaman, 2025.09)
    • The Effect of Monetary Policy Assumptions on Fiscal and Macroeconomic Analysis (Tedeschi/Ricco, 2024.07)
    • Fed Delivers Dovish Shift, Restarts Rate-Cutting Cycle (PIMCO, 2025.09)
    • Fiscal policy and inflation expectations (Mello, 2021.03)
    • Inflation Scares and Forecast-Based Monetary Policy (Williams, 2003.07)
    • Interaction of Monetary and Fiscal Policies: Why Central Bankers Worry About Government Budgets (Hilbers, 2005.01)
    • International Macroeconomics: From the Great Financial Crisis to COVID-19, and Beyond (Gourinchas, 2022.08)
    • Interview: The Yellen View (Yellen, 2005)
    • Measuring the Natural Rate of Interest (NY Fed)
    • Monetary-Fiscal Policy Interactions for Central Bankers (Leeper, 2023.02)
    • Navigating by Falling Stars: Monetary Policy with Fiscally Driven Natural Rates (Campos/Fernandez-Villaverde/Nuño/Paz, (2025.06)
    • New Evidence on the Interest Rate Effects of Budget Deficits and Debt (Laubach, 2003.12)
    • A Taylor Rule for Fiscal Policy (Kendricka/Ammanb, 2011.01)
    • Underlying Trends in the U.S. Neutral Interest Rate (Carvalho/Ferrero/Mazin/Nechio, 2025.04)
    • What is the difference between monetary policy and fiscal policy, and how are they related? (Federal Reserve FAQs, 2024.07)


    # economics econometrics r* r-star equilibrium policy rates Taylor Rule Laubach-Williams (LW) Holston-Laubach-Williams (HLW) Zaman Model Vasicek Interest Rate Model

    17 min
  • Social isolation: Trends, causes, non-causes, and fixes

    All about the psychological stew among socialization, digitalization, and mental health...

    1. Social isolation trends, demographics, and causation
    2. Social media, social networking, and digital communications (virtual vs IRL)
    3. Countertrend solutions
    4. Policymakers
    5. Educators
    6. Employers
    7. Technological ethics
    8. The future of socialization

      9. This podcast is Al-generated with NotebookLM, using the following sources, research, and analysis:

      • Associations between social media use and loneliness in a cross-national population: Do motives for social media use matter? (Bonsaksen/et al, 2024.01)
      • Debate: Is Social Media Bad for Kids’ Mental Health? (Open to Debate, Odgers/Murthy, 2023.07.28)
      • Digital media use and mental health (Wikipedia, 2025.01.12)
      • Does Social Media Create Isolation? (Regis College, 2023.05.03)
      • Effectiveness of Technology Interventions in Addressing Social Isolation, Connectedness, and Loneliness in Older Adults: Systematic Umbrella Review (Balki/et al, 2022.10)
      • Estimating the association between Facebook adoption and well-being in 72 countries (Vuorre/Przybylski, 2023.08)
      • Exploring the impact of information and communication technologies on loneliness and social isolation in community-dwelling older adults: A scoping review of reviews (Gunnes/et al, 2024.03)
      • Impact of digital social media on the perception of loneliness and social isolation in older adults (Kusumota/et al, 2022.05)
      • In-person and virtual social interactions improve well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic (Liang/et Al, 2024.08)
      • Persistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time (Avalle/et al, 2024.03)
      • Social Media Use and Perceived Social Isolation Among Young Adults in the US (Primack/et al, 2017.07)
      • Social isolation (Wikipedia, 2025.01.12)
      • Social media and psychology (Wikipedia, 2025.01.12)
      • Social networks and social isolation: A reason and its solution in one (Gil-Or/et Al, 2011.06)
      • The Anti-social Century (The Atlantic, Derek Thompson, 2025.01.08)
      • The relationship between social media usage and loneliness among younger and older adults: The moderating effect of shyness (Wang/et al, 2024.06)

        • Not investment advice; do your own due diligence!

        # psychology sociology mental health parenting behavioral science IRL


        23 min
      • Industrial policy: Government-led investment's resurrection and evolution

        What happens when governments proactively lead strategic investments into specific industries of their economies?

        1. Global resurgence
        2. History of intervention (infant industry protection, national champions, Latin American ISI)
        3. Regulation and the World Trade Organization (WTO prohibited/actionable/nonactionable subsidies and TRIMs)
        4. Human capital (education and skills development)
        5. Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and Regional Innovation Clusters
        6. The government-industrial-academic complex
        7. Downsides, tradeoffs, and unintended consequences
        8. Future of industrial policy
        9. Transparency and accountability

          10. This podcast is Al-generated with NotebookLM, using the following sources, research, and analysis:

          • Analyzing industrial policy portfolios (Heinrich/Knill/Steinebach, 2024.12)
          • Biden's tarnished industrial legacy (Noah Smith, 2025.01.06)
          • Debate: Is Industrial Policy Effective? (Mike Bird and Noah Smith, 2023.08.15)
          • Industrial Policy and the Great Divergence (Juhász/Steinwender, 2024.04.09)
          • Industrial Policy and the World Trade Organization: Between Legal Constraints and Flexibilities (Shadikhodjaev, 2019.02.04)
          • Industrial Policy is Back But the Bar to Get it Right Is High (IMF, 2024.04.12)
          • Industrial Policy: A Bad Idea Is Back (Cato, 2021.07)
          • Industrial policy (Wikipedia, 2025.01.06)
          • Interview: Pritzker on how public-private partnerships can underscore the importance of skill development (McKinsey, 2018.08.09)
          • Perspectives on Industrial Policy: An Interview with Alden Abbott (Truth on the Market, 2025.01.07)
          • Perspectives on Industrial Policy: An Interview with Peter Craddock (Truth on the Market, 2025.01.06)
          • Perspectives on Industrial Policy: An Interview with Scott Lincicome (Truth on the Market, 2025.01.06)
          • Red Ink: Estimating Chinese Industrial Policy Spending in Comparative Perspective (DiPippo/Mazzocco/Kennedy/Goodman, 2022.05.23)
          • Scoring 50 Years of US Industrial Policy, 1970–2020 (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2021.11)
          • The Emerging American Industrial Policy (Belton, 2021.03.25)
          • The New Economics of Industrial Policy (Juhasz/Lane/Rodrik, 2023.08)
          • The New Industrial Structure: Reforming Industrial Policy in the Digital Era (Choe, 2018.12.31)
            • The renaissance of industrial policy: Known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns (World Bank, 2024.10.29)
            • The return of industrial policy in data (CEPR, 2024.01.11)
            • What has Biden wrought? (Politico, 2024.12.23)

              • Not investment advice; do your own due diligence!

              # geopolitics regulations WTO DARPA Bidenomics China competition corruption cronyism protectionism reshoring nearshoring supply chains national security subsidy

              32 min
            • Housing shortage: The problem and solution for US housing supply

              Everything you did and didn't want to know about the US housing supply crunch...

              1. Causes (permitting regulation, zoning laws, NIMBY, Faircloth Limit)
              2. Economic costs and environmental externalities
              3. Government policy initiatives (federal, state, and local)
              4. The missing middle of housing
              5. Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)

                6. This podcast is Al-generated with NotebookLM, using the following sources, research, and analysis:

                • California housing shortage (Wikipedia, 2025.01.01)
                • Executive Order Establishing a White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing (The White House, 2019.06.25)
                • Homelessness in the United States (Wikipedia, 2025.01.01)
                • Housing in the United States (Wikipedia, 2025.01.01)
                • Housing insecurity in the United States (Wikipedia, 2025.01.01)
                • Housing underproduction in the US (Garcia/Kolachalam/MacArthur/Wilkerson, 2024)
                • HousingWire’s 2025 housing market forecast (Logan Mohtashami, 2024.12.30)
                • Make it count: Measuring our housing supply shortage (Brookings, 2024.11.26)
                • Overcoming the Nation’s Daunting Housing Supply Shortage (Parrott/Zandi, 2021.03)
                • President Biden Announces New Actions to Ease the Burden of Housing Costs (The White House, 2022.05.16)
                • The U.S. is now short 4.5 million homes as the housing deficit grows (Zillow, 2024.06.18)
                • The Understated Housing Shortage in the United States (Corinth/Dante, 2022.07)
                • Where do the estimates of a “housing shortage” come from? (Brookings, 2024.10.21)
                • Why Is There a Housing Shortage in the U.S.? (Bankrate, 2024.10.17)

                  • Not investment advice; do your own due diligence!

                  # homebuilders construction

                  19 min
                • The Million Dollar Homepage: A viral sensation's checkered past

                  The story of an early internet artifact that was speedrunning the next two decades of business on the web – in 2005, The Million Dollar Homepage was a website that displayed one million pixels in a 1000x1000 grid, each of which were sold online for $1:

                  1. Alex Tew
                  2. Pixel counter and scarcity
                  3. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack
                  4. Final sales via eBay auction
                  5. Link rot
                  6. Piexlotto sequel, copycats, and other inspiration
                  7. The Calm app (meditation)
                  8. The Million Dollar Homepage today

                    9. This podcast is Al-generated with NotebookLM, using the following sources, research, and analysis:

                    • A Million Squandered: The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact (Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab, 2017.07.21)
                    • Alex Tew (Wikipedia, 2024.12.29)
                    • ⁠FAQs⁠ (The Million Dollar Homepage, archived 2011.07.17)
                    • How the Million Dollar Homepage kid became the $250M app man (The Hustle, 2018.05.12)
                    • I Bought a Million Dollar Piece of Internet History (YouTube, Nostalgia Nerd, 2021.08.08)
                    • Story of The Million Dollar Homepage (YouTube, Tech Inspection, 2022.05.10)
                    • The Million Dollar Homepage (Wikipedia, 2024.12.29)
                    • The man behind the million-dollar homepage (BBC, 2016.09.15)
                    • This Entrepreneur Skipped College and Made $1,037,100 in Five Months (Entrepreneur, 2017.04.24)

                      • Not investment advice; do your own due diligence!

                      # entrepreneurship digital advertising ads

                      19 min
                    • CFAA: The imperfect criminal law and order of the digital land

                      Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) of 1986 is a controversial US law addressing computer crime – not only seeking to establish behavioral norms online, but also contributing to enforcement misuse/overreach with unintended consequences offline...

                      1. History of CFAA legislation
                      2. US v Matthew Keys (2012)
                      3. US v Derrick Lostutter (2017)
                      4. HiQ Labs v LinkedIn (2019)
                      5. US v Aaron Swartz (2011)
                      6. "Unauthorized access" (web scraping and who owns data?)
                      7. Safe harbor for ethical/white hat security researchers
                      8. Terms of service (ToS) violations
                      9. "Demonstrable harm" (proportionality of crime vs punishment)
                      10. Aaron's Law
                      11. Tradeoffs of CFAA and reform thereof (free speech/privacy/AI/ML/etc)

                        12. This podcast is Al-generated with NotebookLM, using the following sources, research, and analysis:

                        • California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (Wikipedia, 2024.12.12)
                        • Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (Wikipedia, 2024.12.12)
                        • Critical Fixes for the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (EFF, 2013.01.29)
                        • Department of Justice Announces New Policy for Charging Cases under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (DOJ, 2022.05.19)
                        • Explanation of effects of Aaron’s Law with EFF proposed amendments to “access without authorization” (EFF public discussion draft, 2013.01.23)
                        • Is It Time to Rethink the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act? (GovTech, 2023.02.15)
                        • Justice Manual 9-48.000: Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (DOJ, 2022.05)
                        • Legal Risks of Adversarial Machine Learning Research (Kumar/Penney/Schneier/Albert, 2020.06.29)
                        • Rebooting Computer Crime Law Part 1: No Prison Time For Violating Terms of Service (EFF, 2013.02.04)
                        • Rebooting Computer Crime Law Part 2: Protect Tinkerers, Security Researchers, Innovators, and Privacy Seekers (EFF, 2013.02.04)
                        • Rebooting Computer Crime Part 3: The Punishment Should Fit the Crime (EFF, 2013.02.08)
                        • The Case to Update the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (GW Law, 2021.04.03)
                        • The Mirage of Artificial Intelligence Terms of Use Restrictions (Henderson/Lemley, 2024.12.10)
                        • Why the Government Went After Matthew Keys (Vice, 2015.10.09)

                          • Not investment advice; do your own due diligence!

                          # cybersecurity cybercrime hackers hacktivism felony legal regulation social media networking internet IRL 1A

                          32 min
                        • Ship of Theseus: The paradox of identity despite change

                          What gives any object a constant identity even though its materials, components, and matter are constantly evolving and gradually being replaced over time?

                          1. Plutarch's "Theseus paradox"
                          2. Hobbes' "second ship"
                          3. Hume's "Bundle Theory"
                          4. Spatiotemporal continuity
                          5. Savage's "Gradual Replacement"
                          6. Popular public intuition
                          7. Engagement history criterion

                            8. This podcast is Al-generated with NotebookLM, using the following sources, research, and analysis:

                            • Bundle Theory (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
                            • ⁠Davidson's Swampman theory⁠ (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
                            • Haecceity (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
                            • How to Test the Ship of Theseus (Campdelacreu/García-Moya Marti/Terrone, 2022.11)
                            • In the Mind of Theseus or Hobbes and the Paradox of the Second Ship (Lupascu, 2019.01)
                            • Mereological essentialism (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
                            • Neurath's boat (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
                            • Perdurantism (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
                            • Philosophy of self (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
                            • Ship of Theseus (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
                            • Sorites paradox (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
                            • Teletransportation paradox (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
                            • Two Ships of Theseus (Dranseika, 2024.06.08)

                              • Not investment advice; do your own due diligence!

                              # philosophy biology

                              15 min
                            • Fourth dimension: Fractals, 4D, and higher dimensionality
                              Little ditty about 4-D...
                              What is 4D?
                              What are higher dimensions and how many could there be?
                              Hypercube tesseract
                              Sphere packing (kissing number)
                              Geometric spatial dimensions (string theory) vs temporal Minkowski spacetime (time as the 4th dimension)
                              Fractal dimensions (Coastline Paradox)
                              Knots in 2D/3D/4D
                              Brane worlds (aka brane cosmology/membrane theory) and gravity leakage (wormholes and black holes)
                              Life in higher dimensions
                              This podcast is Al-generated with NotebookLM, using the following sources, research, and analysis:
                              A Mathematician’s Guided Tour Through High Dimensions (Quanta Magazine, 2021.09.13)
                              Four-dimensional space (Wikipedia, 2024.11.21)
                              Four-dimensionalism (Wikipedia, 2024.11.21)
                              Fractal (Wikipedia, 2024.11.21)
                              Fractal dimension (Wikipedia, 2024.11.21)
                              Higher Dimensions in physics and mathematics (UT Austin)
                              Large extra dimensions (Wikipedia, 20224.11.21)
                              Minkowski space (Wikipedia, 2024.11.21)
                              Spacetime (Wikipedia, 2024.11.21)
                              The Fractal Geometry of Invention (Durham, 2012.04.18)
                              The things you'll find in higher dimensions (YouTube, Zach Star, 2019.06.07)
                              Toward a Visualization of the Fourth Dimension (Michielli, 2022.09.25)
                              Not investment advice; do your own due diligence!
                              # physics mathematics geometry science astrology astrophysics
                              26 min
                            • Flying cars: If the future's not now, then who/what/where/when/why/how?

                              They promised us flying cars and instead of breaking their promise, they're probably going to deliver:

                              1. History of flying cars
                              2. Status of today's industry (How many players; who are the players; what do the cars look like; and how do they function?)
                              3. When early and mass market adoption?
                              4. Autonomous vehicles vs flying cars (Are flying cars going to be autonomous or automated? How will they compete with autonomous vehicles like self-driving cars?)

                                5. See also: Where's my flying car (Search Engine, PJ Vogt, 2024.04.19)

                                This podcast is Al-generated with NotebookLM, using the following sources, research, and analysis:

                                • 1935 Waterman Arrowbile Roadable Aircraft (YouTube, Story Cars, 2021.02.07)
                                • 1949 Molton Taylor Aerocar Newsreel (YouTube, Classic Airliners & Vintage Pop Culture, 2014.05.25)
                                • Dude, Where's My Flying Car? (YouTube, IITV, 2024.11.07)
                                • Flying car (Wikipedia, 2024.11.14)
                                • Intermodal passenger transport (Wikipedia, 2024.11.14)
                                • Study on flying car transportation system (Feng/Huang/Wang/Xu/Zhang, 2023.11)
                                • Survey data on public perceptions towards flying cars and flying taxi services (Eker/Fountas/Ahmed/Anastasopoulos, 2021.10.12)
                                • The state of urban air mobility research: An assessment of challenges and opportunities (Ahmed/Fountas/Lurkin/et al, 2023.01.26) [PREPRINT]
                                • Toyota and Joby Aviation Complete Historic Air Taxi Test Flight in Japan (TechHub, 2024.11.05)
                                • Transport by Land and Air Vehicles, Advantages, Literature Review and Classification of Flying Cars (Sahin, 2024.10)
                                • Trends and Challenges in Realizing a Flying Car (Al Farsi, 2024.04)
                                • Urban air mobility and flying cars: Overview, examples, prospects, drawbacks, and solutions (Marzouk, 2022.11.11)
                                • Where are the flying cars? (Science News Explores, 2024.07.15)

                                  • Not investment advice; do your own due diligence!

                                  # automobiles VTOL AV EV $joby

                                  32 min
                                • Quantum computing: Encryption, cryptography, crypto, chips, and AI
                                  The state of quantum computers and their disruptive threats/benefits:
                                  Quantum mechanics (quibits, superposition, entanglement)
                                  Tech's cutting edge (noisy intermediate-scale quantum NISQ era, trapped ions, photonics, threshold theorem, error engineering, networking, repeaters)
                                  Effects on cybersecurity, encryption, and cryptography (RSA, Shor's algorithm, and post-quantum cryptography PQC like quantum key distribution QKD, lattice-based cryptography, and code-based cryptography)
                                  Effects on Bitcoin and blockchains (ECDSA 256, indistinguishability obfuscation, Ethereum account abstraction, multiparty computation MPC)
                                  Effects on chips and AI paradigms (generalizable GPUs vs application-specific QPUs, and quantum as a complement to – not replacement of – traditional cloud-based computing)
                                  Simulations and sensors
                                  Other challenges (scalability, quibit decoherence, and sector-specific risks)
                                  See also:🧵https://x.com/AnthPB/status/1456748882503913479
                                  This podcast is Al-generated with NotebookLM, using the following sources, research, and analysis:
                                  Advancing International Collaboration in Quantum Information Science and Technology (National Science & Technology Council, 2024.08.08)
                                  Analytical Exploration of the Effects and Implications of Quantum Computing on Cryptocurrency Systems (Zhang, 2023)
                                  Cryptography (Wikipedia, 2024.11.06)
                                  Current state on quantum computing: What are the major companies/startups making progress? (Reddit, r/QuantumComputing, 2024.06)
                                  Decrypting Crypto: Cryptocurrencies and the Quantum Computer Threat (Hudson Institute, Herman/Butler/Pagano, 2022.04)
                                  Encryption (Wikipedia, 2024.11.06)
                                  From GPUs to AI and quantum: Three waves of acceleration in bioinformatics (Schmidt/Hildebrandt, 2024.04.23)
                                  How Quantum Computing Could Impact the Future of Bitcoin Mining (AlexaBlockchain, 2024.09.12)
                                  Keep Your Crypto Safe Around Quantum Computers with Guest Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers of Pauli Group (YouTube, Anastasia Marchenkova, 2023.08.29)
                                  Long-Term Forecast for Quantum Computing Still Looks Bright (Boston Consulting Group, 2024.07.18)
                                  Myth 5: Quantum Computers Will Replace Digital Computers (Medium, Chris Ferrie, 2024.05.26)
                                  NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization (Wikipedia, 2024.11.09)
                                  National Quantum Initiative Supplement To The President’s FY 2024 Budget (National Science & Technology Council, 2023.12.01)
                                  Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 6: The Splurge (Vitalik Buterin, 2024.10.29)
                                  Quantum Computing: Progress and Innovation (Byrd/Ding, 2023.12)
                                  Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms: Read the Fine Print (Aaronson)
                                  Quantum Vision Transformers (Cherrat/Kerenidis/Mathur/Landman/Strahm/Li, 2024.02.20)
                                  Quantum computers and the Bitcoin blockchain (Deloitte)
                                  Quantum computing (Wikipedia, 2024.11.06)
                                  Quantum computing: What leaders need to know now (MIT Sloan, 2024.01.11)
                                  Quantum cryptography (Wikipedia, 2024.11.06)
                                  Quantum key distribution (Wikipedia, 2024.11.06)
                                  Reality check for quantum computing: One GPU can be faster (The Register, 2023.05.03)
                                  Why quantum computing isn’t a threat to crypto… yet (Cointelegraph, 2022.09.09)
                                  Will Quantum Computers Replace Classical Computers? (Quantum Computing Inc)
                                  Will Quantum Computing Break Crypto? The Future at Risk (Cointelegraph, 2024.09.25)
                                  Not investment advice; do your own due diligence!
                                  # innovation disruption security blockchain Bitcoin $btc Ethereum $eth
                                  21 min

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                                This is an AI-generated exploration about whatever subjects pique my interest at any given time. Episodes usually straddle tech, media, finance, business, entrepreneurship, history, philosophy, and psychology – for which I feed the machine research and analysis from various sources to produce this synthesis.