Wonderful conversation on @unlearnecon.bsky.social's live channel regarding behavioural science. Worth a listen for all who are skeptical that "nudging" people toward better choices can solve our societal issues! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxAN...

Look what just arrived! THE ASSET CLASS is out on 9 April with @wnbooks.bsky.social - you can read more about it and pre-order through my website (I’ll also be posting in the coming weeks on there about events I’ll be doing in April, May and beyond)

Guess the government should hire lots of actual experts and direct resources towards the policy areas then! bsky.app/profile/anth...

Holding up well

omg bsky.app/profile/john...

I don’t see why a 15-second sliding context window with the working memory of a goldfish and fake l/t memories should not be subject to short-term capital gains taxes on everything (including unrealized gains) and a 100% inheritance tax.

I hope everyone’s got your Minsky books somewhere where you can reach them easily. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

One of the dumbest narratives that has emerged about the UK economy is that net zero is what’s holding it back. I’m not sure how anyone can thinking switching to renewable energy is a cost at this stage www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The sheer volume of narratives about the Iran War on social media makes it impossible to keep up with what's actually going on.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

The choice is stark. Reform are the party of foreign wars and high bills. The Greens want de-escalation and energy security through renewables. Solar and wind prices don't fluctuate when rogue US presidents launch illegal bombing campaigns.

It's funny to me when people who love to go on about second order effects of economic policies and the challenges of central planning without local knowledge suddenly drop all of that when it comes to foreign policy.

There’s a scenario here — not yet the central scenario by any means — where we have to revisit the debate about how to handle inflation driven by external supply shocks AKA terms of trade shocks and reconsider the lessons we failed to learn in 2023-24. Policy interest rates are a blunt tool.

I’m glad someone finally noticed this! It’s a huge problem for the abundance agenda in my opinion, because it puts them face to face with the kind of question they didn’t want to ask archive.md/tc874

wasn’t expecting such direct support for my loose mental theory that progress in gaming has replaced progress in real life for my generation (See also: gym)

Received the best birthday present ever

I’ve only started to listen to this, but so far it’s good, and @unlearnecon.bsky.social has a good track record of creating good stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxzd...

Wonderful vid by @unlearnecon.bsky.social. Complex issues require this level of analysis to get the outcomes we want.

i actually prefer it when the mods actively hate the user base and vice versa, that’s how every great message board worked for years and i think we should give it a whirl

“If you read or share only one article today, make it this: HOW TRUMP HAS POCKETED $1,408,500,000 … Historically, one thing that has helped bring down authoritarians is public awareness of their use of power of the office for self-enrichment.” @leahmcelrath.bsky.social No paywall: archive.is/ZmfJC

Started reading this without looking at the author and after a few paragraphs I was like "wait, is this @mattbruenig.bsky.social" and sure enough, it was jacobin.com/2025/03/abun...

Pretty good write-up on the rent control debate by the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rewatching shawshank and my first thoughts were “wow, look at all the outside space they have” and “must be peaceful without social media”

Getting rejected from academic journals is a bit like dying in FromSoft games. It's really depressing, but you have to see it as a necessary part of the learning process.

"Yes, obviously" 💀

could not find this among the ocean of DESTROYS video slop, anyone recall?

Ben Shapiro interviewed a woman on his podcast, probably a Fox News pundit or something, and she literally said out loud that one reason to fight transgenderism is because it undermines and traditional nuclear family. It was a good few years ago. I also recall her being blonde. Anyone remember?

Imagine knowing your political leader is mentally unstable, dangerous, and corrupt and refusing to admit it or do anything about it. Now meet all GOP representatives and senators.

"For example, I have not written any statistical programming code in many months and I don’t see why I would ever write any such code ever again." mattbruenig.com/2026/01/19/s...

DOGE was a deliberately inflicted disaster donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States…. gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...

if i could make you read ONE (1) single post to improve your understanding of the challenges of social science in general it would be this one from @markfabian.bsky.social about wellbeing science specifically profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/airing-my-...

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

NEW VIDEO: Everything Was Already AI youtu.be/Km2bn0HvUwg

Reading Friedrich Bastiat on pollution in the 19th Century just convinced me that reactionaries have been imagining a guy being mean to them and letting it change their politics since forever www.econlib.org/library/Bast...

This essay might be a tad unfair to Graeber. But it makes a valid point. dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

This post by @newqueuelure.bsky.social on the credibility revolution in economics reminds me of the 'intuitition dance' economists do, both with theory and empirics informationtransfereconomics.blogspot.com/2022/09/is-c...

"what's possible within the system", versus "the wider environment in which the system is embedded" backofmind.substack.com/p/was-the-gr...

I was 20 when HS2 was announced. Great to know i’ll probably be in my late 60s when the Birmingham-Manchester section starts work let alone finishes. Seems like a country doing things the right way!

I'm honestly starting to feel bad about my critiques of Sowell

Interesting video from @unlearnecon.bsky.social & makes you re-evaluate AI in the context of other learning systems like firms & government. We did get through the Ant Man film & it was truly awful. Check out our podcast on Herbert Simon who features here. #EconSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

NEW VIDEO: Everything Was Already AI youtu.be/Km2bn0HvUwg

Sweet video on housing coops! www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Q4...

Leftists often misunderstand the right, this is something I've been thinking about a lot recently and @mattpolprof.bsky.social has nailed it www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-fas...

The worst thing is that you can hear how horny he is bsky.app/profile/zack...

2027: US invades UK. PM calls it 'an admirable takeover which should be celebrated for its boldness'.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.