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George Costanza-ass move.

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Outstanding reporting. I've seen the Zimbabwe side of this. The cognitive dissonance of the UK immigration system in a way is how much it relies on the exploitation of desperate, skilled people in many emerging markets.

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so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?

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New Rhodium analysis of the Ways and Means draft bill finds that IRA changes could "raise energy costs for American households by as much as 7% in 2035" and put nearly "half a trillion dollars of new manufacturing, industrial, and clean electricity investments" at risk

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This, but with geoeconomics

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The IMF recently approved Argentina's 23rd loan program since 1958—$20 billion over 4 years. The deal marked a crucial victory for President Milei & drew cheers from financial markets. But successful implementation faces several challenges.

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Sean Duffy changed his wife's flight on Monday to avoid Newark Airport and then made a TV appearance on Tuesday insisting it's safe to fly from there.

submitted 7 days ago • 196 comments

Really sad news. A pity wealthier countries like the UK can't have political leaders with his integrity

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New BIS WP out!! “Collateralized lending in private credit” We use loan-level data for the US over the past 25 years to document that behind the notable rise of private credit there is an equally notable shift towards collateralized lending 1/ www.bis.org/publ/work126...

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📣Hot off the press! The Economic Journal May 2025 issue is out now. Featuring ‘Nudging for Tax Compliance: A Meta-Analysis’ by Armenak Antinyan and Zareh Asatryan. 👉 bit.ly/3RNtCRH #EconSky #RESJournals #EconomicJournal

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From @wsj.com: Former Credit Suisse employees collectively stand to make up to $150 million for quietly telling U.S. authorities that the bank wasn’t living up to its pledge to stop helping Americans evade taxes by stashing cash and assets overseas.

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Fastest econ working paper ever? #EconSky cepr.org/publications...

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wow! this is wild. surely a partial or perhaps direct disruption of h street development over the past decade.

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Universal Pre-Kindergarten pays for itself.

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The Casio TM-100 Transmitter Watch from 1987 could broadcast to an FM radio frequency

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

Economist here working on geoeconomics. I can assure you we didn't forget the field of IPE. We actually highlight the disappearance of these ideas in Economics and make clear they were always in Political Science. This is the comparative citations to Hirschman's National Power by field.

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Great discussion organized by @upanizza.bsky.social Thanks to attendees and organizers for great feedback on my work on international currencies and geopolitical fragmentation

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Examining the role of banks in mitigating trade search costs during the 2018–19 US-China trade tensions, from Laura Alfaro, Mariya Brussevich, Camelia Minoiu, and Andrea F. Presbitero https://www.nber.org/papers/w33754

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Few humans have ever been so cool

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There's a lot of talk how the US is losing its reserve currency status. Most of that talk is wishful thinking and misguided, but there are signs a risk premium is building in longer-term US Treasury yields, which are not down much as growth weakens. @brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/articles/is-...

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Federal subsidies to state and local municipalities in the US during COVID-19 significantly improved individual #health outcomes as subsidies were channelled toward critical health care inputs. Jeffrey Clemens & Anwita Mahajan @ucsandiego.bsky.social cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

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Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Fiscal Procyclicality in Commodity Exporting Countries: How Much Does It Pour and Why?" by Francisco Arroyo Marioli and Carlos A. Vegh. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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If you're a girl, and your high school science or math teacher is a woman, you're more likely to go into science or math in college. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Evidence from Colombia

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Big moves over weekend in Asian currencies, TWD moving 6%Thursday-Friday, quoted as a 15 sigma move. chart from UBS

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Who had Taiwanese lifers on their "things to worry about" bingo card? on.ft.com/4iXLVig

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

killer album, all three hours of it

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Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act and earlier waivers reduced mortality by 2.5 percent among the low-income adult population, from Angela Wyse and Bruce D. Meyer https://www.nber.org/papers/w33719

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What are we even doing here?

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i think Enemy is probably Villeneuve's best and if he made it less yellow that Probably would go away. pretty cool trick making all these scenes centered on one or more mopey Jakes Gyllenhaal add up to a movie about a pregnant woman gathering the courage to leave her shitty partner

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

people still accuse chuck schumer of "doing nothing" as if the book AIPAC wrote for him is just out there touring itself 🙄

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Carbon border adjustment mechanism policies reduce emissions leakage, boost domestic competitiveness and encourage global carbon pricing — without disproportionately harming lower-income countries from @kclausing.bsky.social, Colmer, Hsiao and @cwolfram.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w33723

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"[T]he Worker Rights Consortium described numerous faintings at a Vietnamese supplier of Nike and other Western brands. Workers ... told the group that pressure to meet production targets in the un-air-conditioned factory was so high that they didn't drink water to save time visiting the toilet."

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wolf who got bit by a werewolf and now every full moon he becomes a fully nude man and tries to buy a shawarma

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Zuck: The average American has three friends.

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wrote about the Zuck abode for @defector.com defector.com/mark-zuckerb...

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you don’t have to read bad op-eds

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Effective demand for friendships very high and unmet. Sounds inflationary.

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Join the @oxfordecondept.bsky.social for the Sanjaya Lall Visiting Lecture 2025 on 13 May. This year's speaker is Rohini Pande (@yaleegc.bsky.social), she will be presenting 'Regulating Carbon Emissions: Lessons for Institutional Design from Low State Capacity Settings'. ℹ️ tinyurl.com/yhk2ntc7

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In the 70s, Sharp had a series of "Latte case" boomboxes; as the line went on, more and more got put into it, like TVs. One of the last in the line was the RatecaPuter - a latte-case boombox with a 2KB computer that could run SHARP Basic programs off of the built in tape deck.

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Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

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Among the sites not chosen for Nats Park that did Just Fine: - NoMa - Mt. Vernon Triangle - behind Govt Printing Office - Pentagon City HQ2 www.washingtonpost.com/archive/loca...

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Comments from colleagues Let's hope his policies will be consistent and unbiased (i've long given up on efficiency). He will have to identify what can be good policy instruments.

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I need the “Campaign in prose. Govern in econometrics.” t-shirt.

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35+ years of peer-reviewed studies confirm that publicly financed stadiums, especially publicly financed football stadiums, are a horrendous deal for taxpayers & for cities. Any public official proposing to invest in a stadium should be challenged to respond to those research findings directly.

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

public funds should not be used for football stadiums. public funds should be used for schools.

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I can't decide whether the greater tragedy here is the waste of desperately needed land or the waste of desperately needed money.

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The 'energy dominance' agenda has already collided with the 'low gas prices' agenda and is now crashing into the 'no more Chinese stuff' agenda "There are currently no US-built vessels capable of shipping LNG and no surplus capacity at US shipyards to build LNG carriers" www.ft.com/content/bc63...

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