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Platformonomics TGIF #137: August 7, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Summer is flying by… News Useful Idiots, Fellow Travelers and Unregistered Foreign Agents: Oracle We’ve written at length about the financial risks of Oracle’s Hail Mary scramble…
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Economic Forecasting in Alternative Universes
<dweeby econo-skepticism follows> The New York Times Magazine today has an article on the past, present and future of the Obama administration’s economic policy. It is a good if long read and chock full of inside baseball, political speaking points delivered with some repetition lest you miss them and, most entertaining, anonymous score-settling amongst the…
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A WARM-Up Act
As WARM (Windows-ARM) reportedly takes the stage in Las Vegas tomorrow, some thoughts: This is “big” Windows, not yet another repackaging of Windows CE. Remember Windows NT got its start supporting multiple CPU architectures. This has huge implications for Windows Phone’s future. It makes no sense to have two separate operating systems and application ecosystems…
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Quantitative Easing Explained
Forget reading Fed minutes, this makes it all clear. (via Business Insider)
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Fun with Numbers: State Fiscal Policy Edition
Warning: serious wonkery ahead. Not for the faint of chart. Amid discussions of how dire are the fiscal situations of American states and which state most resembles Greece, plus various initiatives on the ballot in the recent election, I was curious how our fair state of Washington stacks up in terms of fiscal responsibility and…