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Pretty soon we'll be talking about real money. www.crfb.org/blogs/senate...

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The looming insolvency of Social Security and Medicare. www.crfb.org/press-releas...

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Downsizing #NOAA would materially harm the economic and national security of the US, and ignores NOAA's critical role in the everyday economic function of many industries as an agency of #innovation and extreme weather response. Valerie J. Karplus, @costasamaras.com cepr.org/publications... #EconSky

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The looming crisis for Social Security payments deserves much more attention than it's getting. #EconSky wapo.st/45zVMYq

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In fact, Lutnick does know better. He is just dodging accusations of heresy by reciting the cult's catechism. #EconSky

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Would a basic income reduce tax revenue by decreasing labor supply - or put pressure on wages by increasing labor supply? A field experiment by Stone Center Affiliated Scholar @maxkasy.bsky.social‬ & his coauthors concludes: Neither. stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/research/bas...

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“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...

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"The Exit Manual: How to Leave the Free Energy Cult and Still Get Tenure" wow. www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🧠📈🧠💻

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From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science https://go.nature.com/4kIRR01

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We are recruiting an Assistant Econometrician! The role would suit a quantitative economics postgrad or a PhD student looking to gain practical experience and develop research skills while working with great data. Apply before Monday 7th July! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

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OMG it's a real quote.

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At the end of this week, the GDPNow forecast from the Altanta Fed for Q2 2025 stands at at 3.77%. GDPNow is a nowcasting model for GDP growth projecting 13 GDP subcomponents with monthly source data, a factor model and a BVAR. #econsky

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In just five days, Trump’s administration indicted a Democratic member of Congress for engaging in oversight, threatened to arrest a Democratic governor for governing in accord with his mandate, and handcuffed a Democratic senator for asking a question at a press event. Join tomorrow’s protest!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Some perspective on the inflation news.

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Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

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New IMPA analysis: the BBB is very regressive. #EconSky impa.american.edu/macroeconomi...

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Your occasional reminder. #EconSky

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Colorado River basin remains under threat. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

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Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - Health secretary removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on how vaccines should be used.

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Trump administration terminated a key contract to train college officials on how to report data to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), a move that could further hamper the Education Department’s data infrastructure. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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THERE WAS LESS TROUBLE IN L.A. SUNDAY, THAN THE LAST TIME THE LAKERS WON THE TITLE. 76 people arrested then. 42 on Sunday TRUMP'S BLANK CHECK: Newsom sues because memo "lets" Trump use military ANYWHERE even if there's been no violence Get the new Tuesday Countdown podcast: tinyurl.com/4886dx4p

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K-12 should teach personal finance.

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Ultimately bad, even ignoring its abandonment of the poor. #EconSky budgetlab.yale.edu/research/lon...

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Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

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#EconSky aura.american.edu/articles/rep...

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NYC is an amazing place, but yesterday I was stuck in traffic bc of NJ transit strike & I missed my movie in Greenwich Village (about the 1975 Fiscal Crisis!) bc downtown B & C trains were not stopping at my stop bc of some problem. NYC is both joyful and infuriating! www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ic...