Dean Baker
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Why Markets Will Crash If Trump Tries To Steal The Midterm Election (opens the original)
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All the political experts are telling us that the Republicans face a shellacking in November. The Democrats seem virtually certain to win the House and are increasingly likely to take the Senate. If that happens, it will put an effective end to the Trump administration. Donald Trump clearly hates losing and has no respect for democracy. He tried to steal the last election he lost in 2020. For that reason, we have good reason to expect he will try to steal this one. However, a major restraining f
If Tech Bro Sam Altman 'Drives Drunk,' Let Him Face Criminal Prosecution (opens the original)
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Amidst all the talk of the need for government regulation of AI, there has been too little discussion of the simplest route: criminal liability. The basic story is that the AI companies are being irresponsible in dealing with a product they know to be dangerous. The companies and the people who run them need to know that they face serious monetary risk from letting their little models run wild, and possibly criminal prosecution and jail time. To be clear, sensible regulation of AI would be desir
No Brakes! Anthropic Speeding Toward IPO As The World Awaits AI Disaster (opens the original)
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Dario Amodei at TechCrunch Distrupt conference in San Francisco, California on September 20, 2023 While OpenAI is putting off its plans for an IPO into next year, Anthropic seems determined to rush full speed ahead. Given the news about dysfunctional AI, itâs easy to see why. The incident where OpenAI AI agents hacked Hugging Faceâs system and apparently tried to sabotage efforts by the OpenAI crew to stop it, has gotten most of the attention, but that is just one story. There were several o
Enraged By Rate Hike, Trump Threatens To Expand Trade War Again (Huh?) (opens the original)
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French President Emanuel Macron, left, and President Donald Trump Donald Trump seems determined to outdo himself on crazy every day. Many people thought he had hit peak crazy when he threatened to tear down the Kennedy Center if they wouldn’t let him put his name on it, but he quickly took crazy to the next level. He is now threatening to cut off trade with some countries because the Fed raised interest rates on Wednesday. If the threat to cut off trade as a response to a Fed rate hike doesn’t m
Trump Adds His Newly Appointed Fed Chair To His (Long) Enemies List (opens the original)
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Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Kevin Warsh I had intended to write on the Fed’s decision to raise rates, but I don’t have much to add to what I wrote last week. I do think inflation is high, and for the moment the labor market seems reasonably healthy. But I don’t see higher rates as being a useful way to combat inflation caused by tariffs and Trump’s war on Iran. As I noted, there is no case for the sort of wage-price spiral we saw in the 1970s. Wage growth has actually slowed sharply over the l
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