Jeff Hauser

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Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jul 21

Capital One is letting the next head of the CFPB keep a bonus to which he is not entitled. Why do something sketchy but legal--is this benevolence? Nah! We have stupid laws with loopholes even larger than Trump. As I told Capitol Account... www.capitolaccountdc.com/p/cfpb-nomin...

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jul 19

This is THE LAMEST breaking news EVER.

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jul 14

In particular:

Primaries often include harsh policy attacks from rival candidates. But on policy, Democratic candidates will be distinct from Republicans on nearly every issue. So that’s not a big problem in the general election. What’s more problematic is Democratic candidates spending primaries essentially saying other Democrats are weirdos whom swing voters won’t support.

The other problem is that primaries fixated on electability aren’t good preparation for the general election. “I will win the general election” is a message that’s only for hardcore Democrats. That’s the electorate in a primary, obviously. But “I will fix your health care,” “I will make housing more affordable, “I will bring jobs to the state,” are messages that appeal to primary voters but also the broader electorate. Ideally, Democratic candidates are spending the entire cycle on such broader messages, not spending a year emphasizing their electability during the primary and having only the few months of the general election to say anything that might excite people who aren’t hardcore Democrats.

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jul 14

hlrecord.org/why-dean-man...

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jul 14

observer.com/2005/12/harv...

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jul 14

e.g., journals.law.harvard.edu/jlpp/wp-cont...

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jul 13

Canada and the realities of "Abundance" and why the neoliberals became "gas guys" over the past half dozen years. All underpinned by "effective altruism," which is a great marketing slogan for an approach that in reality exists to create companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jul 9

SHOT/CHASER Ballmer's money, it would seem, moves in mysterious ways....

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jul 7

Shot, chaser.

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jul 6

1. Trump cheated. 2. The Associated Press used the word "unprecedented" TWICE in this May article about other decisions that permitted players to return to action lawlessly. 3. Trump is wrong/corrupt, FIFA is wrong/corrupt, Balogun is great. Ugh! www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jul 6

I do not think the political class has truly wraped its mind around crypto. Check out Bitcoin during the past years, a period of high general and equity specific asset inflation. I want it to get to zero, but the loss in real value is meaningful nonetheless.

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jul 5

This article is terrific journalism... and TERRIFYING. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jul 3

As I told @notus.com, turning from a revolving door of interchangeably laughable acting officials to a professional partisan political operative at the Office of Government Ethics is taking a bad situation... and making it worse. www.notus.org/agencies/tru...

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jul 3

Trump's international real estate licensing cash is super-sketchy, as I told @marketwatch.com. www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps...

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jul 3

As I told @notus.com, corporations funding the "Great American State Fair" are investing in their relationship with Trump. The results might be risible, but the CEOs could well laugh their way to the bank.* * If banks were one profited from stock options.

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jun 29

Madison also thought the National Bank was unconstitutional--and yet John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh distinguish the Federal Reserve from the FTC et al on the bullshit basis that it has always been understood that national banks were constitutional.

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jun 29

Thomas Jefferson on the question of establishing a National Bank: avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jun 22

A politics based on concessions will end up giving a lot of concessions speeches.

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jun 22

THIS. www.liberalcurrents.com/starmer-out/

Blessed with a massive majority, in a country that is functionally a legislative dictatorship, Starmer radically transformed UK policy on social issues. Rather than try and get out of (or at least perceive) the straitjacket they had put themselves in on the economy, their political strategy was what I term reactionary centrism. In a nutshell, this posits that electorates are moving right because they have ‘reasonable concerns’ about immigration, asylum, and the excesses of social liberalism (particularly on trans rights). The fascist resurgence can hence be understood as a ‘backlash to woke’. In response, center-left parties should give ground on these issues to ‘take them off the table’.

One of the many failings of reactionary centrism is its utterly unfalsifiability: if you lose an election you have to move to the right on social issues to win next time. If you win an election you have to move to the right to govern. If things are going well politically it means it’s working. If they’re not, you need to give more ground. Appeasement, for them, is something reasoned from, not reasoned to. Reactionary centrism cannot fail, it can only be failed. This makes it a hopelessly exploitable strategy: if you are committed to giving your enemies what they want, they learn pretty quickly to just keep asking for stuff. In an age where neo-fascism is on the rise, this is a very dangerous operating software to have running on a politician's brain.

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jun 22

BigLaw is pretty inevitably about representing awful oligarchs, and there but for the grace of god goes its practitioners in terms of their clients misdeeds becoming as well known as Epstein's. (e.g., chemical spills, opioid crisis, etc...) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/o...

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jun 18

Abundance & AI & Trump go together.

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jun 18

Is Gillibrand rebuilding bridges to Silicon Valley the right way? I have abundant curiosity about who might think that Democrats and Silicon Valley should renew their vows! fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Jun 5

Trend is belated but good; more like this, please! coinmarketcap.com/charts/

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· May 22

There is an exceptional irony in the fact that: 1) The AIPAC/neocon movement in the United States intervenes politically in tandem with crypto. 2) In the real world, crypto is PIVOTAL to countries like Iran (and North Korea... but also Russia....)

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· May 21

So Third Way thinks the autopsy was good, actually. Their standards are revealing!

Third Way President Jon Cowan on the DNC autopsy:

"No wonder the chronically online, highly educated, left-leaning team at the DNC wanted to bury this report. The autopsy draft released today validates the case we’ve been making post-2024 and are making again today as we gather over 150 Nevada Democrats to chart the party’s future. Democrats must be able to win the middle, anytime, anywhere and they can do that only with a combative centrism that rejects identity politics, reclaims the vital center, and positions the party as fighters on the economic issues that matter most to voters. As the NY Times poll shows, even a majority of Democrats want the party to move center not left, and this report echoes that sentiment. For Democrats who want to win, this report should be case closed."

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· May 21

There were some nods toward that on increasingly convergent on Abundance Pod Save America! I think Favreau and Vietor.

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· May 14

The line between "Abundance Bro" & "Crypto Bro" has always been exceedingly thin, as Yglesias favorite Ruben Gallego has long demonstrated. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Apr 29

Recall: Then-Senator Obama felt bad voting against John Roberts--that it was a close call. His attribution of positive traits to Roberts was clearly wrong then and looks even worse in retrospect. So many of the Obama faults as president rest in similar misjudgment. www.wsj.com/articles/SB1...

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Apr 23

As I expressed to Stat... there is horrifying run of the mill/mundane DC corruption, and then there's... empowering Big Tobacco at our preeminent public health organization! www.statnews.com/2026/04/22/n...

Jeff Hauser@jeffhauser· Apr 8