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captmal.bsky.social
Historian of economics. I work on the history of American economics, and institutional economics. Recent interests include the “scam economy” that I think needs more attention and the history of African Americans in the discipline of economics.
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Carney should strongly condemn the unprovoked attack on Iran. Unjustified by US intelligence, Trump got conned by Bibi. Again!

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Netanyahu manipulated Trump perfectly.

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So Trump abandoned the G7 to plant a couple of flagpoles.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Can’t wait for Trumps big beautiful pile of s**t to hit the fan. Which possible catastrophe do you think will happen first?

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Why can’t news outlets get the difference between the deficit (annual) and the debt (total) into their heads. It’s not that hard. #econsky

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I stopped posting in advance of a trip to the US. But that got canceled so now I am back.

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More on the scam economy—it is thriving at least! #econsky www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/a...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Lesotho began making and exporting jeans to the US as a direct result of the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (2000) that took duties off certain imports from Africa. Now Lesotho faces 50% tariffs! Nothing like consistent decision making!

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

submitted 83 days ago • 466 comments

You know it’s quite hard for governments to make things better quickly, but easy for them to make things worse real fast. #econsky

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

I wish Canadian 🇨🇦 politicians would stop talking about tax cuts and start talking about investing in infrastructure. #canada #econsky

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/w... The Scam economy #econsky

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Can anyone tell me if there is work being done on the size and growth of what might be called the “scam economy”? Seems to me to be an important topic especially with the Trump admin removing consumer protections and encouraging crypto etc. #econsky

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This is a blatant violation of the 1st Amendment but a lot of cowards in academia will use this as an excuse to crack down on campus protest.

submitted 113 days ago • 135 comments

One good thing to come out of Trump’s threats of tariffs on Canada are the serious efforts to remove internal barriers to trade now happening. Just a shame it took this to motivate the politicians to do what they should have done long ago. #EconSky

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The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

submitted 140 days ago • 1303 comments

What would be better would be to creat a proper single market in Canada! Get rid of the. Inter-provincial barriers to trade. That would be useful.

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