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Jeffrey Carter
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Jeffrey Carter writes Points And Figures, a personal blog at jeffreycarter.substack.com about economics and business. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on food security and shortages, and for an explainer on 'on-the-run clearing'. One commenter said they read the explainer but still did not understand what the problem was.
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What Hacker News says?
Another: https://jeffreycarter.substack.com/p/no-one-is-talking-about... Few seem to want to talk about this, they want to talk about how coming shortages will best be solved by giving them power or at the least listening to their advice. For all the "Baby formula shortage" media coverage, how many stories have included a recipe for alternatives to commercial formula? Mostly I've seen admonitions to not try making b…
Comment linking /p/no-one-is-talking-about-this?s=w
on “Food security and the coming storm”Submitted Telling it like it is as a story · 113 points
HN discussion> ELI5 what's the big deal about "on-the-run clearing"? I only found an article about it from the author himself: https://jeffreycarter.substack.com/p/on-the-run-clearing I read it but I still don't understand what's so wrong with it.
Comment linking /p/on-the-run-clearing
on “Telling it like it is”Submitted Helium, Pump and Dump as a story · 80 points
HN discussionSubmitted Winter Is Coming and Crypto Isn't Ready for It as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dissent from Within – It's Not Just Russia as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meat Prices Will Go Up as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Going to Get Ugly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startups: Riding the Wave - Waves Can Be Deceiving and Confuse You as a story · 2 points
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