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The NAEP 2024 -2025 Long Term Trend Age 17 assessment will not be administered in the upcoming weeks Unbroken testing series since early 1970s Nothing like ignorance to keep our country moving forward

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JUST IN: NASA says there's now a 3.1% chance an asteroid will hit Earth in 2032, up from 2.6% yesterday. This is the highest risk assessment an asteroid has ever received, surpassing 2.7% in 2004

submitted 6 days ago • 184 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 9 days ago • 189 comments

While I strongly oppose a slash-and-burn solution, these monthly deficits are not sustainable. #EconSky

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

#EconSky

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Here is United States law regarding the President's attempts to close our development assistance agency in secret over the weekend. It is illegal. No ambiguity. Americans decide with their actions, today, if the US is a country of laws or—something else. —> crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

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#EconSky

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

This appears alarming. The federal payments system should be completely non-political. #EconSky www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

New BEA data. #EconSky

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"Are tariffs bad for growth? Yes, say five decades of data from 150 countries", by Furceri, Hannan, Ostry, and Rose . pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #EconSky

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How Does the current U.S #recovery compare to prior #recessions? #econsky

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New post at @epi.org from @hilwething.bsky.social and @mslopen.bsky.social finds paid sick leave may increase employment and workforce attachment, and at extremely modest costs to businesses. #Econsky

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Big economic policy shifts are in play, and they appear to abandon "compassionate conservatism". #EconSky www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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A very interesting policy experiment. #EconSky

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Trump says interest rates should go lower (again). Evidence, theory... time inconsistency. A teachable moment #econsky

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Your occasional reminder. #EconSky

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Just an occasional reminder. #EconSky

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US-Canada relationship, as seen by Carney. #EconSky youtu.be/zs8St-fF0kE?...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

We will not be able to claim nobody warned us. #EconSky www.bbc.com/news/article...

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I'm still not very worried that my students might use AI to replace their own understanding when doing their homework.

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The value of information. #EconSky

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Forcing safer regions to subsidize insurance for wildfire-prone regions inefficiently encourages people to make the bad decision to live where the fires happen. Someone needs to teach basic economics to CA policy makers. #EconSky apnews.com/article/cali...

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People out here thinking it’s perfectly possible to treat all the critically ill H5N1 patients with CRRT and ECMO, not realizing we can’t even source IV fluids for the Norovirus patients. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

Krugman: Tariff's cannot fund the US government. Pretty obvious, and sad that it needs saying, but it does. #EconSky paulkrugman.substack.com/p/never-unde...

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment