TFW your students realize that their econ professors also studied Game Theory

Brennan: Economists love talking about prices. How much did you get for your soul? Hassett: I got to spend a year believing I would be the next Fed Chair. Hopefully, there will be an endowed professorship at New College of Florida after this, but who knows.

Turns out, my last name doesn't automatically make me a racist. Nice to see that the algorithm knows the difference between reasonable people and US Tech Workers, who blocked me on X because I kept explaining why they were wrong/liars.

Difference in tactics. The Pope wants to address "push" factors of migration, i.e. making their origin countries better places to live. The current administration wants to change "pull" factors, i.e. making the US a terrible place to live. FWIW, the former helps everyone, the latter hurts everyone

There is only one way to calculate a percentage change. This guy has done a lot of terrible things, but I'll be damned if I let him redefine how math works. Math is the only constant we have in this world.

Super Nerd Level 7 Achieved! Canceling office hours to watch Congressional hearings on CSPAN3!!!

What a boon for accountants and financial advisors. On the plus side, I guess a few LLCs will move from Delaware to NY?

Ahead of the new CPI release, I'd like to coin a new term: Situinflationship!

A lot of academics complain about their jobs. But, there are few professions where you can have a random conversation and suddenly... 💡, I'm gonna spend the next year being excited about this thing!!! Results be damned!

FWIW, it is an amazing/horrifying book. Everyone should read it.

Yeah, but Obama wore fancy pants at the beach when he went to look at an oil spill. Obama 'Fancy Pants': Fox & Friends Criticizes President For Oil Spill Outfit (VIDEO) | HuffPost Life share.google/psuuArQq2Vyv...

Regardless your view on birthright citizenship, the case being argued before the Supreme Court right now is not about citizenship. It's about the president can changing the Constitution via Executive Order. If you think he can, watch out for the 2nd Amendment. Our militia is well-regulated.

Immigrants are a benefit to the economy

Her grin knowing how this arrest looks (Published in The Atlantic today)

TSA line at Reagan Airport, 10:30am on Monday. Wait time: Zero minutes. I'm so confused right now. Did I miss a memo?

Good thing none of my Principles of Micro students don't follow me on here. Gotta great new exam question for tax incidence. #TeachEcon

County Sherrifs realizing they are elected be like...

Not me. Now, more than ever, it's important to be honest with my students about what is happening www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

Best question for macroneconists: Have you ever met a *benevolent dictator"

I was born on a US Army base. I lived most of my childhood on US Army bases. The people in my life were either soldiers or their families. None of us ever wished to go to war. We.. they.. knew what war would mean. Many knew from experience, what war meant. We were there to prevent it, not create it

I wonder how people were able to find the time to invent such things.

All of this could've been avoided, if Obama just hadn't worn a tan suit in the Oval Office.

I went to elementary school on an Army base

"Let them eat pollution"

Congratulations on the longest waste of time...ever...ever...everything (sorry, AI took over for a minute. 'No, it didn't')

I really miss the days when I taught International Economics and didn't have to constantly adjust my syllabus to explain why everything that is happening right now is anathema to what the textbooks and centuries of history say. Next week should be fun.

The last time we had 15% GDP growth we were a) coming out of the Great Depression, and b) fighting WWII. Not exactly a "Golden Era"

They do know that "Mar-a-lago" is Spanish, right?

I worked at a hotel when I was in college. Many of my colleagues were Muslim. They asked the owner for a room where they could pray (5 times a day). He obliged and gave them a space to practice their religion. I only met the owner in passing, but I appreciate his kindness

Is it weird, that as a homeowner, I really don't care whether the market value of my home goes up or down? When I bought it, I bought it because I wanted to live in it. If other people want to pay more than I paid to live where I live, fine. I'm not selling, so good luck. But that's not why I bought

Sometimes bad weather brings nice things...

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1) World Literature 2) Imperialism and Revolution 3) Statistics 4) Linear Algebra 5) Spanish

If paying your workers a living wage will cause your business to go bankrupt, then maybe you don't have a good business model, and you should close your business and get a job working for someone who can pay their workers a living wage.

Just realized classes start back in one week. Gotta finish updating the syllabus. Good times! youtu.be/fasDJe837WA?...

Deleted this post because it occurred to me that I can't be reasonably confident that posts from the White House and other govt agencies that show up on my social media timelines are actually really from them and not some bot farm in who knows where. What a time to be alive.

Ah yes, helping struggling families by pushing people with lower credit scores out of the credit card market and into the hands of predatory payday lenders. Brilliant strategy for addressing affordability.

I'd love to see a Venn diagram of people who thought charging ranchers to graze on Federal land was government overreach worthy of an armed rebellion, but now think masked storm troopers roaming cities, abducting people, and murdering citizens is totally cool and normal.

Once again, this is why they don't want kids to read books...

I rarely teach macro, but when I do, students often ask me about how to reduce the nationall debt. My standard response is, "tax more, spend less, or inflate your way out of it (i.e. print money)." I guess now I'll have to add, "Go on an international crime spree and steal all your neighbors stuff."

Going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing the creators of BattleBots never imagined the winner would be a wall full of cell phones in a warehouse full of indentured servants in a country most people couldn't find on a map

In case you aren't up to speed, Sen. Mark Kelly is facing sanction, demotion, and revocation of his retirement benefits for doing exactly what every local and state law enforcement agency does: reminding people about the laws. You'd think a sober Sec Def would make that connection. But, here we are.

And I wonder why they don't want kids to read books...

"The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world."

I wonder how many of the 18-25yo males cheering on these military actions and provocation of our closest allies have heard of the Selective Service System, in which they will all now be automatically enrolled at the end of this year...

Yes, it's definitely college professors who are running indoctrination camps and turning out sheeple.

It boggles my mind how some American voters are happy to topple a foreign government and risk destabilizing the entire western hemisphere to save about $500 per year in gasoline expenditures, yet consistently vote for people who want to make Healthcare so expensive they get priced out of the market.