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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly
7 days ago
Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."
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I am not wild about all the tile and marble flooring. I don’t think our cats will like that. And it will be cold under foot getting in and out of the master bed
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Eric Alper
6 months ago
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Eric Alper
8 months ago
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Jonathan Edward Durham
9 months ago
All the books I ordered last week just arrived! Can't wait to pour myself a drink, relax, be too tired to read and play around on my phone all night
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Gulp. I fear this describes me.
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9 months ago
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Carl Quintanilla
9 months ago
The Dallas Fed survey basically just rains fire at this point. 🔥
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Don Moynihan
9 months ago
"Vote for the guy who would help me take over your country" is an incredible closing message
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Eric Alper
9 months ago
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Steve Liesman
10 months ago
Remarkable how Trump dealt himself the worst possible hand to negotiate w/ China. 1st card: Enacted tariffs that threaten to tank the economy 2nd: Backs China into a corner. 3rd: Makes fed incapable of responding 4th: Tanks markets, bonds and the dollar 5th: no end game, no plan
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Karl Whelan
10 months ago
Very proud that my wife, Martina, has been appointed to be Director of the ESRI. My father, Chris, worked at the ESRI for almost all his career. He passed away in 2022 but I know he would have been incredibly proud as would my mother, Yvonne, who we lost in January.
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
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Professor Martina Lawless named as new ESRI Director
The Council of the Economic and Social Research Institute has appointed Professor Martina Lawless as its next director.
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0422/1508871-lawless-new-esri-director/
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Agreed. Ted Truman, the author, was my old boss. He ran the International Finance Division at the Federal Reserve Board for a couple of decades.
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10 months ago
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NY Times Pitchbot
10 months ago
Biblical scholars now believe that if Jesus had covered up his gang tattoos, he might’ve avoided crucifixion.
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Wojtek Kopczuk
10 months ago
Counterpoint: how many original games are out there? Scrabble. soccer, go. Maybe chess. Maybe the game of chicken
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Katie Martin
11 months ago
god, who'd be a central banker, honestly? "66% of Democratic-leaning participants believed the Fed favoured Republicans. "60% of Republican-leaning participants thought the Fed favoured Democrats."
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Catherine Rampell
11 months ago
The first official sign that Trump is already slowing the global economy: OECD has just downgraded both the US and global growth forecasts - and raised its inflation forecasts - for 2025 and 2026. Org primarily blames rising uncertainty and trade wars.
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Mark Igra
11 months ago
DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare.
#seattle
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/
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He’s also a former hockey player. He was a goalie, so used to deflecting slapshots
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11 months ago
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Rudi Bachmann
11 months ago
Vom CEPR - EABCN Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee: “When examining business cycle trends across European countries, Germany, the region's largest economy, continues to underperform, while Spain stands out as the main driver of steady growth within the euro area.”
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Also email…
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11 months ago
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It’s scary that the payment system itself is under attack
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11 months ago
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Sam Halpert
11 months ago
Money is a symptom of the woke mind virus.
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The Federal Government wastes $2 trillion a year on paper straws. Though seriously, it’s hard to read the memorandum without laughing. Or crying.
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11 months ago
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Le Parisien
11 months ago
Un petit Américain de 4 ans a appelé la police la semaine dernière pour dénoncer sa mère, qui venait de commettre l’impardonnable selon lui. ➡️
https://l.leparisien.fr/T6oG
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Kai Ryssdal
11 months ago
The institutions of the American economy depend on the institutions of American democracy; rule of law, consistent regulation, stability, and all the rest. That’s what’s being destroyed and that’s what risks the *entire economy. Saying that out loud shouldn’t (and can’t) be a risk
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Simon Rosenberg
11 months ago
Rubio's gutting of USAID is illegal and unconstitutional. There is no form of democracy anywhere of any kind that would allow the executive branch to unilaterally cancel budgets and programs passed by the legislative branch and signed into law. It's utter lawlessness.
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Conor Sen
11 months ago
Been thinking about the idea that when a country with a $3 trillion GDP does a Brexit it’s their problem, when a country with a $30 trillion GDP does a Brexit it’s the rest of the world’s problem.
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Eric Alper
11 months ago
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Steve Liesman
11 months ago
From AEI: “Despite Trump’s aggressive resort to tariffs, our trade deficit will widen under his watch as it did in his first term. It will do so because tariffs are being accompanied by a far-reaching program of tax cuts that will increase the budget deficit and…reduce our country’s savings level”
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Trish Greenhalgh
11 months ago
Anyone want to see our latest paper on
#masks
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#healthpolicy
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www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings
The covid-19 pandemic saw frequent changes and conflicts in mask policies and politicization of masks. On reviewing the evidence, including studies published after the pandemic, the data suggest respi...
https://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj-2023-078573.full?ijkey=V1Lg06C5ItmjqT3&keytype=ref
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Antonio Fatas
11 months ago
This is not the right comparison. Add to those numbers each of the European countries before making a statement about the EU.
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First time I’ve heard of this chain
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11 months ago
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Joe Weisenthal
11 months ago
Had never heard of this restaurant chain, and now it's the largest in the world by store count
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Antonio Fatas
11 months ago
Someone is lying about how much the US cares about corruption abroad. Source:
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Eric Alper
12 months ago
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We are now
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12 months ago
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Jesse Rothstein
12 months ago
How is it that we aren’t all referring to the kids carrying out a coup against the American constitution and way of life as…Muskovites?
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David French
12 months ago
What the hell? Eight percent defense cut per year, for five years? Say goodbye to military readiness. Say goodbye to modernization. This cannot stand:
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump administration orders Pentagon to plan for sweeping budget cuts
The Trump administration directive exempts a handful of programs, including Trump’s expanded military mission along the U.S.-Mexico border.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/19/trump-pentagon-budget-cuts/
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Eric Alper
12 months ago
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George Takei
12 months ago
Great point.
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David Wessel
12 months ago
A civil servant at OPM reports on what it’s like there now
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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I Work in the Office Carrying Out the Government Purge. Here’s What I Want You to Know.
We’re as freaked out and angry as everyone else.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/opm-fork-musk-trump-federal-personnel-management-employee.html
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Adam Shapiro
12 months ago
From my colleague Dan Wilson’s weather-adjusted employment model: Adverse weather held down payroll employment in January by around 80-90 thousand jobs.
www.frbsf.org/research-and...
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John Cassidy
12 months ago
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southpaw
about 1 year ago
To review, the FAA administrator was forced out because of a business vendetta of Elon Musk’s, Trump froze the hiring of new ATCs despite staff shortages, Musk launched an underhanded attempt to hollow out the whole federal workforce, and then the first US airliner crashed in 16 years.
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I loved reading the Oxford English Dictionary.
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12 months ago
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Eric Alper
about 1 year ago
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Dave Levitan
about 1 year ago
Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.
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Joshua Goodman
about 1 year ago
My wife has an infinity scarf. My daughter wants her to get another. I'm not sure that's mathematically possible.
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Scott Kominers
about 1 year ago
There are 2025 ways to go up and down eight stairs, taking fewer than four at a time, and stepping on each stair at least once.
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