Where the 5 branch where the Bayesian takes 5 hours out of their day to yell at "frequentists" for not explicitly stating their priors?

A beneficiary of Trump's First administration tariffs, now suffering from a tax on inputs?

It's difficult to monitor the dark mohel network; somehow they're always tipped off. Trump’s Ambassador to Belgium Is Summoned After Accusing Officials of Antisemitism www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/w...

I thought Scotch-Irish culture (my name is Cunningham!!) was responsible for Appalachia's struggles. You know, as opposed to the dark shadow of coal mining....

Like the author, I agree with the logic of building mixed-income, mixed-use cities from scratch dominates piecemeal sprawl. At the same time, I struggle to find any successful example. Irvine mixed uses and density but everyone still drives. Maybe America Needs Some New Cities www.nytimes.com/2026/0

AG Bondi: "we continue our war on inflation!!!"

Clown show: Border Officials Are Said to Have Caused El Paso Closure by Firing Anti-Drone Laser www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

The price of rising is rising. Developers getting shafted.

Thanks for all the machine tools and technical training; we got this now.

These stories are everywhere in Europe. I fear the US ability to recruit top talent from around the world has been lost.

What distinguishes NL from these other countries? Perhaps not having much of an auto industry, and a relative dearth of cars perhaps?

Pretty hard to square this with freezing the Gang of Eight out for "security".

4/ Andreessen’s VC firm also backs Pronomos Capital, which backs Praxis. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

This was insightful (and depressing), but I wonder if some of the value of fast passes and exclusive clubs is the manifested class sorting. Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

Lululemon founder getting cheeky.

The ultimate corporate hack: blanket your community with lead so they become stupid and vote republican which let's you continue to pollute. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/c...

“A Bulgarian man from Chicago arrested during the recent fall immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a Michigan private prison.”

Great analysis from Simon Mongey showing evidence of broad weakening of demand for workers in 2025. Evidence that developments are hurting Americans with the least earning power the most, opposite recent years.

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

If Fulton does surrender ballots, they better photocopy every single one. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Battery costs plummet; economics transformed. #econsky

The 78-year-old media mogul has been found guilty on charges of conspiring to commit sedition and foreign collusion, in the most closely watched trial since Beijing’s crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement six years ago on.ft.com/4rUb1nA

Respect. #Budapest

“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control. “They passed directly in our flight path. … They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous.” www.cnn.com/2025/12/14/p...

ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl. Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist. They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed. Another horrific story. More details below.

A heart rendering post.

AI is fast easy and often wrong

Fietslichtjes Parade

Man it's so fucking transparent.

I guess I'm an econometrician first, because I thought this article was about using quantum computing to make investment decisions. Like the some kind of innovation in stochastic calculus.

72 fewer steps for apartment, many fewer steps for apartmentkind.

Who had piracy on their Trump Crime Bingo sheet? www.cnn.com/2025/12/10/p...

Powell said that there's not much the Fed can do about housing supply and that's basically right. However, if we're going back to QE anyway, why not go back to MBS? Beyond lowering financing cost, it could ameliorate the lock-in effect on the <4% mortgages.

The Miran 50 point descent is just the most lackey, political move I've ever seen at the FOMC. He got a cut in the face of rising inflation and a 180 to quantitative easing. Take the win. It's not even in Trump's interest as it just burns Fed credibility to be such an open tool.

The US will once again deploy Agent Orange in Southeast Asia.

Ride or die.

In the first six months of congestion pricing, air pollution within Manhattan's toll zone dropped 25%. Pollution fell across the five boroughs and in the suburbs, too. A clean air win all around.

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) announced that it will no longer publish content on Elon Musk’s platform, X. The organization said it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda.”

I assume Hassett will get the Economic Prize in Honor of Alfred FIFA?

Years of travel soccer in GA taught me that most rural towns had a local Mexican restaurant that was usually great and was often the only sit down option beyond a few chains. They attracted everyone, including people in MAGA hats. theintercept.com/2025/12/03/a...

Anniversary of halifax explosion so obligatory "Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys." - Vincent Coleman saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it

I surrendered all my personal data to build this plotless video game?

There's about to be way-mo traffic

This list is a mix of banking havens, Petro states, islands, future climate migrants, countries blocked from credit markets and ... Taiwan? If Taiwan wanted to ensure military aid in a future war, having some wealthy creditors might help. www.visualcapitalist.com/countries-wi...

The White House argues that drug smugglers are terrorists who've effectively launched mass casualty attacks on the US -- and thus, our military has a right to bomb civilian ships suspected of carrying drugs. There are a few problems with that argument www.vox.com/politics/471...

Oracle CDS, 16-year high: @bloomberg.com $ORCL www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Georgia democracy protesters are amazing. I don't know how they sustain it.

A developing plot and a plot development