New video: A Wealth Tax Won’t Work the Way You Think youtu.be/cmK74mfpHQA

I'm glad someone is saying this! HS2 was a disaster but it's only the tip of the iceberg in super corrupt Britain. chriscollins756.substack.com/p/how-corrup...

One of his best ever: “In retrospect it seems we might have gotten ahead of ourselves in tabulating all the things, beyond who was in power, that had really changed about the country as a whole.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/o...

Amazing https://load-bear.ing

ULEZ proves good policy over popularity is what we need. Not dickhead politicians lapping up the support of idiots who want us all to be as miserable as them www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A Copernican revolution in British politics, after the discovery that literally everything revolves around Ed Miliband www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Claude is so funny "I'll actually read the article, rather than guessing" yeah man nobody is suggesting the latter

Kind of fascinating to watch Warsh struggle with the question of how to be a central banker when your vision of the world is one where central banks should not exist. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart

This is really good aeon.co/essays/lets-...

With LLMs I think a key tell - one that's kind of subtle - is that they generally don't/can't go back and correct existing wording. So they have to add new text if they've forgotten something. "That's a sharp question. Your second question also deserves answering."

That's not what I said though, is it? I asked why they were reporting the things Trump said *plainly*, as if they were credible and didn't change every hour. Most of what he says is noise and responsible reporting means pricing that in. bsky.app/profile/masb...

Writing and researching is obviously a challenging process, but I honestly don't get how much writers complain about writer's block. It's not *that* hard to write *something*, and what's more, it's fun!

I'm not sure why the BBC main headlines continue plainly reporting the things Trump says. Seriously, I want to know what it is! Is it fear of his threats? 'Impartiality'? Extremely dry sarcasm?

I'm convinced that there was a webcomic a while back, maybe SMBC, that joked about social scientists presenting things obvious to most people as 'puzzles'. Does anyone remember this or have I imagined it!?

I'm convinced that there was a webcomic a while back, maybe SMBC, that joked about social scientists presenting things obvious to most people as 'puzzles'. Does anyone remember this or have I imagined it!?

Really rnjoyed chatting on the Making Money podcast! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hnb...

I’m not really up to date with the Henry Nowak, anyone have a solid synopsis?

Somehow, every time I read about the eurozone crisis I get even angrier about it than I was before

I have no pension, wonder if my patrons will stick around through my retirement

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Pleased to see that Rethinking Economics have launched their membership! Join up if you’re fed up with mainstream economics www.rethinkeconomics.org

I like to read the generic marketing emails I get from start to finish. They’re just so incredibly soulless that somehow they become art again.

NEW VIDEO: Why is the Whole Economy Just Coffee Shops? www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9E7...

Yep, gonna try this. Except my next video will knock on 4 hours. But after. bsky.app/profile/bigj...

While it’s probably best that we’re past the “rich guy observes things“ era of social science, it was still better than the “amateur statisticians overconfidently prove ridiculous hypothesis” era

NEW VIDEO: Why is the Whole Economy Just Coffee Shops? www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9E7...

Everyone whinges about culture 'moving left' until they actually examine how gay people were treated 20 years ago

I've not watched many YouTube videos recently, but this one is worth the 90 minutes! youtu.be/U8dcFhF0Dlk?...

New for the Vibecession Debate. Working paper argues that using microdata to get household-specific inflation rates (rather than aggregating first like CPI), you find -lotta variation in household inflation -greater avg inflation during price upturns -lower real wages for lower income people

Increasingly think there is a strong case for an explicit wealth tax in order to make the politics of a more general tax rise more manageable. About fairness and burden sharing rather than revenue raising as such.

"It's not that conservatives are stupid people. It's that conservatives want people to be stupid." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-right-wa...

"Thompson now concedes that even where planning reforms have passed — to “legalise” housing — housing isn’t getting built." 😮 thefifthestate.com.au/columns/spin...

Literally the best email I've ever received. No notes.

Excellent conversation between @unlearnecon.bsky.social and @hettieobrien.bsky.social - it really makes you want to read the book & it gets you angry as to why this model of capitalism has been allowed to gobble up so many businesses that impact our lives. Have a watch. youtu.be/tyNFosOFUDM?...

"If universal basic income enables even one more Einstein to become Einstein over the course of the next century, it will have paid for itself a thousand times over." www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

This is a completely fair point- obviously there is a clear difference between East and West Germany and I didn't mean to gloss over it. What I was really getting at was that stable employment and community can be found around Germany, which contrasts starkly to the UK bsky.app/profile/heli...

Look @dkthomp.bsky.social he even put a really simple numbered list in the article if the word count was too daunting for you

Good article by @unlearnecon.bsky.social and it is an odd response by @dkthomp.bsky.social as the whole article is about identifying trade-offs and the nuances of the rent cap debate. Have a read... #EconSky

Love to see a tenured professor being factually proved wrong and then calling people 'tards' in response. Not sure which is to blame, the economics profession or twitter. Glad I left them both! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeMc...

Why we are getting poorer …. #Money&Macro @unlearnecon.bsky.social #YouTube

One of the authors of Abundance went on an angry rant about my rent control article, seemingly without reading it. Wonder if he knows about my negative review of his book? (Which I actually read!) Links: www.currentaffairs.org/news/rent-co... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxzd...

Arthur Lewis on the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall, 1954 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My book Against Money, coauthored with Arjun Jayadev, is coming out from University of Chicago Press on May 5. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Yay

Sad to hear that Keynes’ biographer Robert Skidelsky has died. He was a force for good in the economics world. Sadly had some lapses in judgment later in life, but his overall legacy is a positive one.

Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car