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rev. howard arson
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simple: (1) eliminate all the sparrows; (2) pig iron in every backyard; (3) bulldoze bananas, put up pawpaw farms; (4) sombrita factory
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EconChrisClarke
about 2 hours ago
You can make a career by always predicting an economic crisis. Peter Schiff and Steve Keen spew fear for profit. The formula works. Criticize "mainstream econ" and say a crisis will come. Watch the views roll in. What can we do about it?
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Matt Darling
1 day ago
I'm happy to announce I'm writing a book on decision making! It's about the explore-exploit dilemma, a framework used in machine learning, psychology and ecology — but hasn't been adapted to an entire practical book before. Next step, writing it!
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Todd Tucker
about 4 hours ago
Senate Democrats bringing together Labor & Abundance to Make More in America. This bill revamps the US government's Export-Import Bank to make it easier to fund manufacturing projects that lower prices, boost domestic resilience, & support unions.
www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
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Leader Schumer & Senate Democrats Introduce Legislation To Rebuild American Manufacturing, Lower Costs, And Create Good-Paying Jobs | Senate Democratic Leadership
Landmark Legislation Would Expand The Export-Import Bank's Mission And Tools To Break The Cycle Of Supply Chain Crises That Raise Costs For American...
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/leader-schumer-and-senate-democrats-introduce-legislation-to-rebuild-american-manufacturing-lower-costs-and-create-good-paying-jobs
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Jerusalem Demsas
5 months ago
Applying Hayek to the folly of state-building.
www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-anti-s...
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The anti-socialists who love to social engineer
Central planning, with helicopters
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-anti-socialists-who-love-to-social
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Justin Wolfers
about 6 hours ago
BLS revisions aren't a scandal. They're a sign the system is working. The first jobs report is published before all the data is in. As more information arrives, the estimates get updated.
https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/the-jobs-numbers-will-get-revised
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Glonzo Ball
about 7 hours ago
tfw you totally have a theory of mind for your YIMBY posting enemies
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Pitchfork Economics
about 7 hours ago
AI doomsdayers want us to believe mass job loss would be unprecedented. @kedseconomist.com has a sharp reminder: We already saw the U.S. economy lose 22.5 million jobs in five weeks at the start of the pandemic. What mattered wasn’t inevitability. It was the policy response. New episode tomorrow!
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Paul Hünermund
about 10 hours ago
None of this would've happened had they drawn the DAG
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Brant Reeves
about 12 hours ago
This is Fantastic and I Did Not Know this…
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Yes! To give an example - state UI systems do not have a common understanding of "what is the first day of the week?".
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Don Moynihan
about 12 hours ago
New at Can We Still Govern: Automation of safety net benefits -- changing the default from opt-in to opt-out - offers a means of reducing administrative burdens. What can we learn from people who have been implementing automation in state governments?
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/can-we-aut...
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Can We Automate the Safety Net?
Lessons policymakers should learn from previous efforts
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/can-we-automate-the-safety-net
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
about 12 hours ago
This whole article is a banger:
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Jacob T. Levy
about 12 hours ago
New mean/ mode illustration just dropped. Between Rogan and Trump the mean necktie length is correct, but the modal necktie length is tied at “stupidly incorrect.”
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Stephen Nuñez
1 day ago
I'm sorry you can't know this without an large N RCT. Going to make that happen.
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Steve Roth
2 days ago
“All politics used to be local. Now all politics is national.”
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Multiple parties in government: A statement of the problem
drafts @ interfluidity
https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2026/06/13/multiple-parties-in-government-a-statement-of-the-problem/index.html
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Preston Mui
2 days ago
Got some cpi stans in my neighborhood
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Zucman's silence on trillionaires is DEAFENING.
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Posting to policy.
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It is Very Important to base policy on What Actually Happens and not Your Imagination.
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Reconstructionist
2 days ago
this to me, is the promise of america
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alex williams
3 days ago
this rocks lmao, a great way to avoid falling out of a plane is to not wear a parachute, simple as,
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Pietro Biroli
3 days ago
Wonderful display of ideological corruption of two major economics professors (Mulligan and Bai): If we magically assume that people start working because otherwise we take away their Medicaid, even if our own literature review doesn't support this, then poverty would magically fall
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Matt Darling
3 days ago
I actually thought Worf was the unambiguous best thing about Picard series 3. It felt so perfect for his character that he'd entirely changed his philosophy *but* was as utterly certain that this is the best way to be as he once was about his attempts to be a Good Klingon Boy.
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Chelsea Parlett
3 days ago
90% of my stats advice in a nutshell: - don’t do it - use a simpler model - stratify - it’s about 10%
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As of 2022 4.3% of households owned crypto, with the median assets And crypto conditional on having crypto was $2000.
www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-econo...
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"a huge fraction of them threw the money into crypto magic beans and various meme stocks" Is this true? Or is it a small fraction that got written up a lot because it's fun to write about?
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ryan cooper
3 days ago
something I think about a lot is that pandemic relief and Bidenomics left the most of the working class better off in terms of money and savings than at any point in several decades, and a huge fraction of them threw the money into crypto magic beans and various meme stocks
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ryan cooper
3 days ago
"We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They’re called Ponzi schemes."
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Elon Musk, Human Ponzi Scheme
With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-human-ponzi-scheme
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Kieran Healy
4 days ago
Before agriculture—or, at a minimum, during the Middle Ages—medians didn’t exist and everyone was happy and there was no labor
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Aaron Sojourner
4 days ago
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US jobless aid filings rise to 229,000 last week, remain historically low despite Iran war headwinds
U.S. applications for jobless aid rose modestly last week, but remain at a historically low level despite economic headwinds brought on by the war in Iran.
https://apnews.com/article/unemployment-benefits-jobless-claims-layoffs-labor-a529f2c33e5048e79ffca8a07247a192
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John A. List
4 days ago
I just released a new working paper! “Don’t Give Up on Lab Experiments: Why the Field Still Needs the Lab” Available here:
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Don't Give Up on Lab Experiments: Why the Field Still Needs
Recent enthusiasm for field experiments, and especially for natural field experiments (NFEs), in which subjects go about their daily activities unaware that any study is taking place, has sometimes be
https://ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura/00835.html
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American Institutes for Research
4 days ago
What makes a workforce credential valuable? A
@brookings.edu
article by AIR’s Amy Feygin and Harry Holzer highlight how community colleges can better align programs with jobs, engage employers, expand work-based learning and strengthen student supports.
https://bit.ly/3SjuCjM
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How can we improve workforce outcomes for community college students? | Brookings
Harry Holzer and Amy Feygin examine what top-performing community colleges do differently, and what policymakers can do to expand workforce credentials that pay.
https://bit.ly/3SjuCjM
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Jane Coaston
4 days ago
also I've been trying to construct this take and I stand by it: that game was a victory for big city liberalism
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Doc Benway
4 days ago
It’s gonna be wild times on Saturday here on Bluesky, the app for sports and charts tracking Brent oil
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Brian Wasik
5 days ago
Look, maybe the Knicks DID win, but the way this progressed just confuses people and reduces confidence in the whole 'sports' process. -NYT Editorial Staff
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Jake Grumbach
4 days ago
Had to steal a banger
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Paul Crider
4 days ago
I'm gonna earnest post and say it was always Daenerys. The show did her dirty. For all the "white savior" critiques (fair!), at the end of the day she liberated slaves and destroyed the masters. The writers' bleak vision is that radical goodness must turn evil because it is radical. I reject that.
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Mark Histed
4 days ago
Neuroscientist here, who has talked about the US losing science ground to other countries: The biggest problem for generating future cures for brain diseases is the ongoing utter destruction of US basic neuroscience. It’s not about regulation.
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andrés castro araújo
4 days ago
this is me re-writing my paper
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Hal 10000
4 days ago
Folks who want to come here, spend money, watch their countrymen kick a ball and stand in awe of Buc-ee's are exactly the sort of people we should be welcoming with open arms.
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Daryl Fairweather ⛅
4 days ago
We love to see it! And read about it in the NYTimes: Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/u...
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These Young Politicians Want to Fix America’s Housing Problems
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/us/politics/gen-z-politicians-housing-costs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pVA.4Ngu.nDuM6EQb28MT&smid=url-share
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John Scalzi
4 days ago
Jane Yolen was an absolutely lovely human and also an almost absurdly talented writer. It's wonderful when both things are wrapped up in the same person. I considered her a friend and a colleague, and I will miss her. Condolences to the each of the many of us who knew her. Her memory is a blessing.
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Nathan Tankus
4 days ago
NEW PIECE: After a very extended recovery from illness I'm back with a new piece, focusing in on the role of the OMB in our ongoing constitutional crisis.
www.crisesnotes.com/the-ombifica...
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What Ever Happened to DOGE? The “OMBification” of the Trump-Musk Payments Crisis
Dear readers: My deepest apologies for my absence. I got the so-called “Super-Flu” that hit New York in December, then I followed that up with a very debilitating bout of food poisoning in January. As...
https://www.crisesnotes.com/the-ombification-of-the-trump-musk-payments-crisis
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Ryan Moulton
4 days ago
I've been reading Emily Wilson's Odyssey out loud to my kids and it absolutely rocks for that purpose. So much fun to read aloud and flows so smoothly. The kids would never have sat still for her wordier laborious predecessors.
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Julia Coronado
4 days ago
Last call for our survey! Link is here:
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"All this is sold as cutting “burdensome conditions,” a goal I would support, but sadly that is bullshit."
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Sean Carroll
5 days ago
That’s why my papers often include asides such as “(Don’t try to deny it, you know what you did.)”
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Guy Berger
5 days ago
Claims: 1/ Initial claims continue to climb but it looks like residual seasonality to me - happened in each of the prior 3 years, and 2026 remains below each of them.
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