On the news of H-1B visa fees rising to $100,000, reupping this analysis.

🧵 Everything we were told for years that people believed about campus speech, viewpoint diversity, & the marketplace of ideas turns out to have been an absolute lie. Every accusation, in the end, was a confession.

China’s Snub of U.S. Soybeans Is a Crisis for American Farmers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

⚡️OUT NOW⚡️#Inflation to remain well above 3% into 2026 📈 Ahead of Wednesday's latest monthly #CPI figures, this blog by @Econdixon, Jane Binner, Barry Jones and Jon Tepper is well worth a read 👇👇👇 @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social niesr.ac.uk/blog/inflati...

Decades of personalist rule turned Argentina into a global economic laughingstock, Scott Lincicome argues. Donald Trump seems to have misunderstood the lesson.

What possibly could've happened in April to cause prices to rise this precipitously ever since? A real mystery wrapped in an enigma.

What I felt I needed to tell my class today about the murder of Charlie Kirk and the need for civil discourse. I wish I could've said more, but could not. michaeljhicks.substack.com/p/words-to-m...

Political violence is a stain on our Republic, violence against the rule of law and detrimental to the health of democracy supporting institutions.

My latest on the fiscal environment for Indiana schools -- "15 Lean Years Followed by More Lean years." Major policy error that will weigh heavily on the state's prosperity for decades. michaeljhicks.substack.com/p/the-fiscal...

We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Unreal moment: Governor Pritzker declaring that the Union is coming apart and that his state faces a military invasion by an authoritarian regime. A chilling escalation of the constitutional crisis.

This graphic should be food for thought as we hear increasing calls for farm bail-outs due to the (plainly predictable) negative effects of Tariffs. American farmers sure are rugged individualists un-tethered to government like all those city folk.

Indiana has cut spending on education of all types. In fact, our state hasn’t spent this small a share of our GDP on education for several decades”: @profhicks.bsky.social www.indystar.com/story/opinio...

“All of us, as Americans, are joined in a common enterprise to write the story of freedom -- the greatest adventure mankind has ever known, and one we must pass on to our children and our children's children . . . " Ronald Reagan

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit." CS Lewis

It is difficult to overstate how much of a joyful tonic it is to be back in the classroom talking to students about economic ideas. Just raw pleasure.

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” A Lincoln

The headline for this article in the IndyStar was: MAGA, socialists peddle exact same economic lies to Americans | Opinion by @profhicks.bsky.social commentaries.cberdata.org/1329/america...

In case anyone is still wondering why Bolton was raided

When you’re too dumb to tell the difference between imitating and mocking.

NEWS: Federal judge finds that Alina Habba is NOT lawfully performing functions and duties of U.S. Attorney in New Jersey. Judge Matthew Brann disqualifies Habba from prosecution of two criminal defendants who challenged her appointment

Yes. Yes, it does.

Nancy Mace: "In my time in Congress, I actually helped secure the largest infrastructure grant in state history, in South Carolina history. So I've worked very hard on the policies that matter to voters here." (Mace is taking credit for legislation she voted against!)

UPDATE: I called Steve and asked him if he wanted to delete his post calling for the murder of my husband and me or should I have people call them all day and he hung up on me so I think that means he wants people to call his business all day.

“Would have never happened if I were President.”

I think it may be worse that cops say this shit v. academics saying,"we have evidence that systemic racism is baked into the features of the United States and we should do something about that if we value the idea that everyone can be something here and all persons are created equal." Hard to tell.

New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

No dog whistles, no code. DHS is pushing straight up racism now. Nick Fuentes-level garbage.

The only redemptive quality Hegseth brings to the SECDEF position is that he lets the adults do the work, while he does PT. It is a division of labor necessitated by his judgement and intellect.

[Whisper voice] “If the tariffs are driving a part of inflation, removing them might get the Fed to cut rates more aggressively. As long as inflation remains well above target, it makes it much more difficult to lower rates.”

* Ralph Lauren yesterday. $RL * UnderArmour today. $UAA Retailers aren’t escaping the tariff pain.

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

Good morning. Trump is protecting Epstein files. The confederacy lost and they were traitors, mRNA vaccines are the future, cops shouldn’t wear masks, Trump cut taxes for the rich and ripped benefits from the poor. Have a weekend

Geoff Duncan was primarily motivated by Jesus' admonition to love thy neighbor, which Christian Nationalists abhor.

1/ Labor markets are clearly weakening rapidly and the narrative on recent graduates getting jobs seems especially acute. This report one of many in the genre that a college degree is not yielding better labor market outcomes. www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.

US total construction spending fell -0.4% m/m in June, down -2.9% from a year ago. For Q2 as a whole, spending fell -0.8% q/q, down -2.8% from a year before. These numbers are not adjusted for inflation, so the real decline is even greater.

Scientists and researchers created vaccines to small pox, to polio, to Covid. This just dropped on Friday. We are thiiiiiis close to an AIDS vaccine and these motherfuckers (excuse my language; I’m pissed) pull the plug. This is an amoral administration with no empathy or compassion.

“Regaining the trust will be harder than giving it up" Investors warn Trump’s decision to sack the head of a top statistics agency will undermine investor confidence and hamper monetary policymaking By @kateduguid.bsky.social, James Fontanella-Khan and me www.ft.com/content/bec5...

"Autocracies overstate yearly GDP growth by approximately 35%."

Trump's war on immigrants is not translating into jobs for US-born workers These data are noisy but it seems like prime-age US-born employment rates are not any higher and may be slightly lower than those last year

Is auto manufacturing dead in America? Adam Ozimek doesn’t think so. NRO’s Dominic Pino dives into Adam’s Agglomerations post on the U.S. auto industry and how it’s in better shape than expected. www.nationalreview.com/2025/08/auto...

“Criticizing — with no basis — the BLS and other statistical agencies for fabricating numbers can have very bad effects on response rates,” our Susan Houseman tells @politico.com. “This kind of talk really can damage that and further undermine data quality.”

There's a narrative that because the bivariate correlation between education spending and student test scores is small/null, education spending doesn't matter. But causal research has begun to show that this simple association is probably biased downward. Education spending matters a lot.

BREAKING: The BLS revises Trump's golf score down to -8 from +21, says it was Obama who shot the +21.

As Redfin's Chief Economist, I rely on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for housing forecasts. I support the National Association of Business Economists’ statement condemning the firing of the BLS commissioner. Trustworthy data is crucial for business decisions and should remain apolitical.