Archie Hall

@ArchieHall

Writing for @TheEconomist | More at notes.archie-hall.com

London, DC and sometimes NY

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Archie Hall
@ArchieHall
Jul 3
IS THE ECONOMIST ALWAYS WRONG? Scandalously, in some circles @TheEconomist has a reputation as a contrarian indicator. This week we fessed up to getting a big call on oil prices from April wrong. Obviously our goal is not perfectly-hedged (and perfectly boring) predictive
Archie Hall
@ArchieHall
38m
The core anxiety that the past week's bond-market drama has made more concrete:
Archie Hall
@ArchieHall
46m
"America will regret Scott Bessent's bond-market misadventures". New @TheEconomist leader from me, on whether America has just taken a first, tentative step towards a politicised Treasury market and financial repression. You can read here: economist.com/leaders/2026/0…
Archie Hall
@ArchieHall
46m
"America will regret Scott Bessent's bond-market misadventures". New @TheEconomist leader from me, on whether America has just taken a first, tentative step towards a politicised Treasury market and financial repression. You can read here:
America will regret Scott Bessent’s bond-market misadventures
From economist.com
Archie Hall
@ArchieHall
23h
Exactly. Should we still object to AI writing in many contexts if the Claude-isms go? (I’d say yes, but in full recognition that may wind up a minority position!)
Edward Ongweso Jr
@bigblackjacobin
Aug 25
debate over whether AI-written or ghost-written op-eds gets to the aesthetics point I made in Tulsa and have been harping about on TMK and that others have made in one way or another. aesthetic and moral arguments against technology are pretty convincing and seductive in the
Archie Hall
@ArchieHall
Aug 25
Also my reaction to Druck-Pangram-gate. Not everything needs to be an op-ed; sometimes a few lowercase bullets might even be better.
Guy Berger
@EconBerger
Aug 25
As with a lot of cases of pure AI writing, I wish I could read the prompt instead of the published text