I think the Fed has a tough job and there are a broad mix of variables pointing in different directions. https://www.employamerica.org/core-cast/july-2025-core-cast-post-pce/. And I also think people are forgetting that the Fed moving the rate does not have a direct impact on residential or commercial mortgages because it happened all the way back in 2024.
I regret to inform readers of The Editors about the status of the ability to enable comments on Harvard Crimson articles by changing www in the URL to api.
President Trump should endorse Ira Stoll's model of using private sector metrics of rent prices instead of the lagging indices that the government produces. Using the analogy that basing policy on the lagging indices is like driving a vehicle on the moon from earth, with a several second delay, Trump could refer to the fed's approach as "lunar". But Trump has more flair for colorful language than I do, and would probably call it "lunatic".
Well, he said, "77.7 percent liberal, leftist, or progressive." My reading of the Crimson is that "liberal" is an exceedingly watered-down way of labeling the range of discourse on the Crimson's pages. I am pleased that Ira Stoll refers to the cowardly Crimson's shutting down of its comments section mere weeks after October 7, 2023, when several of us (Ira was one) were working very hard to detail our alternative views forcefully and respectfully. The Crimson, if it truly was "liberal" in any classic sense, would have welcomed the way the comments section enriched the range of thought it was making available. Instead, the editors shut it down.
I'd bet that the Crimson shutting down comments had more to do with "Helen from Yemen" than those of us who provided well reasoned comments. I didn't mark my calendar with the date the comments were shut down but I'd guess it was many months after October 7th, when Helen from Yemen seeded the comments with nonsense. Alas, because the www/api access to comments was shut down in recent weeks, it is hard to check when comments were hidden.
I'm more bothered by the Crimson studiously avoiding interviewing Ira Stoll for comment about events.
Worth remembering there was also a federal lawsuit (Affleck v The Harvard Crimson Inc.) about the Crimson comment moderation policy brought by an anti-Israel commenter.
But not only has the Crimson not restored comments, the www/api access to comments access was shut down, possibly as a purely technical move, but possibly related to disclosure of the www/api access to comments.
Martillo's case may have been behind the reluctance to shut down Helen from Yemen in 2024, but now that the court has ruled, the Crimson should re-enable comments rather than batten down more securely the absence of comments.
After you first mentioned that the api access, I did leave a couple of comments via that route. Maybe some others did also, and perhaps that alerted them to shut that access down.
A particularly interesting feature of the Crimson is its "Dissenting Opinion" articles from editors who were outvoted. My favorite is one from 1976 titled "Anti-Paternalism": https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1976/6/17/anti-paternalism-pbtbhe-facultys-decision-to-permit/. It opposed the Crimson majority's opinion that Harvard students should not even be allowed to get ROTC training at MIT.
The significance of the authorship of the dissenting opinion became apparent years later: among the 10 signers were Steven A. Ballmer and Grover G. Norquist.
I think the Fed has a tough job and there are a broad mix of variables pointing in different directions. https://www.employamerica.org/core-cast/july-2025-core-cast-post-pce/. And I also think people are forgetting that the Fed moving the rate does not have a direct impact on residential or commercial mortgages because it happened all the way back in 2024.
I regret to inform readers of The Editors about the status of the ability to enable comments on Harvard Crimson articles by changing www in the URL to api.
This no longer works.
President Trump should endorse Ira Stoll's model of using private sector metrics of rent prices instead of the lagging indices that the government produces. Using the analogy that basing policy on the lagging indices is like driving a vehicle on the moon from earth, with a several second delay, Trump could refer to the fed's approach as "lunar". But Trump has more flair for colorful language than I do, and would probably call it "lunatic".
The fact that most of the staff members of the Crimson are liberal doesn't demonstrate a lack of respectful debate there.
Well, he said, "77.7 percent liberal, leftist, or progressive." My reading of the Crimson is that "liberal" is an exceedingly watered-down way of labeling the range of discourse on the Crimson's pages. I am pleased that Ira Stoll refers to the cowardly Crimson's shutting down of its comments section mere weeks after October 7, 2023, when several of us (Ira was one) were working very hard to detail our alternative views forcefully and respectfully. The Crimson, if it truly was "liberal" in any classic sense, would have welcomed the way the comments section enriched the range of thought it was making available. Instead, the editors shut it down.
I'd bet that the Crimson shutting down comments had more to do with "Helen from Yemen" than those of us who provided well reasoned comments. I didn't mark my calendar with the date the comments were shut down but I'd guess it was many months after October 7th, when Helen from Yemen seeded the comments with nonsense. Alas, because the www/api access to comments was shut down in recent weeks, it is hard to check when comments were hidden.
I'm more bothered by the Crimson studiously avoiding interviewing Ira Stoll for comment about events.
Worth remembering there was also a federal lawsuit (Affleck v The Harvard Crimson Inc.) about the Crimson comment moderation policy brought by an anti-Israel commenter.
The "Affleck" case, brought by Joachim Martillo '78, was rejected by the court in January 2025: https://reason.com/volokh/2025/01/29/harvard-crimson-was-entitled-to-ban-commenter-for-what-he-claims-were-anti-zionist-comments/
But not only has the Crimson not restored comments, the www/api access to comments access was shut down, possibly as a purely technical move, but possibly related to disclosure of the www/api access to comments.
Martillo's case may have been behind the reluctance to shut down Helen from Yemen in 2024, but now that the court has ruled, the Crimson should re-enable comments rather than batten down more securely the absence of comments.
After you first mentioned that the api access, I did leave a couple of comments via that route. Maybe some others did also, and perhaps that alerted them to shut that access down.
A particularly interesting feature of the Crimson is its "Dissenting Opinion" articles from editors who were outvoted. My favorite is one from 1976 titled "Anti-Paternalism": https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1976/6/17/anti-paternalism-pbtbhe-facultys-decision-to-permit/. It opposed the Crimson majority's opinion that Harvard students should not even be allowed to get ROTC training at MIT.
The significance of the authorship of the dissenting opinion became apparent years later: among the 10 signers were Steven A. Ballmer and Grover G. Norquist.