
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 No newsletter next week. Try to amuse yourselves. News Oracle “Beats”: Q3 FY26 Oracle “beat” the number this quarter and Wall Street sent the stock upwards almost…

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 I did a local radio appearance (?) on KIRO to talk about Cleveland as a cautionary tale for Seattle (audio, video). Somehow they chose SteveB screaming “developers”…

Like leap year, every four years my quadrennial quest to algorithmically set the federal funds rate rolls around. I’ve pitched a software substitute for Ben, Janet, Jerome (twice), and now offer it in lieu of a Kevin (Hassett or Warsh). The original announcement has been updated slightly for agentic AI advances and current norms of…