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Brad DeLong

Economics professor at UC Berkeley, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury, and author of Slouching Towards Utopia; writes the Grasping Reality newsletter.

4 books on the record · 23 Feb 2021 – 30 Jul 2026

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

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The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver

And, in addition, Nate Silver’s earlier book The Signal and the Noise was, I thought, brilliant. I am forever deeply in his debt for his making me better-informed and wiser across a whole bunch of different dimensions.

on braddelong.substack.com · 30 Jul 2026

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.