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If the SEC won't stop traders from shorting Tesla, I'm going to become an even bigger libertarian.

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There is approximately zero chance this is even in the same zip code of the ballpark of true.

submitted 1 day ago • 315 comments

University presidents are failing America; they have to step up, at risk of... what, their jobs? Some of the safest people in the country.

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Imagine if Joe Biden had reposted a liberal pundit saying ‘shut up about gas prices’ in 2022. It would have led the news, all of the news, for days, weeks, on end.

submitted 3 days ago • 577 comments

He’s really special, always laughing and smiling as he explains the sabotaging of the country.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Trump's budget will starve the poor to feed the rich. The Republican Party are creating a true oligarchy. To fight it and build wealth and power for working-class communities, we need economic democracy. Read the op-ed I wrote with Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib for The Guardian.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Amazing how war clarifies the macrofinancial mind

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Baldwin: "Trump a little over a week ago said on Fox News, 'I'm not touching Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.' And he said it multiple times. The next morning he endorsed the Republican House budget which calls for nearly a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicaid."

submitted 8 days ago • 399 comments

Everyone should read this Andrew Van Dam piece on how much work federal employees put in and then get really really mad at that clown Elon Musk www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Credit where it's due: it is helpful that a thoroughly corporate mainstream media outlet is able to draw the line from "Musk is spreading bullshit about fraud in Social Security" to "Trump and Musk are coming for your Social Security and this is them laying the groundwork"

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

Bernie Sanders: "We're not only dealing with a move toward authoritarianism, we're dealing with what is new to America -- politicians have always lied, nothing new about that. But the level that we're seeing right now. The big lie, over and over again ... "

submitted 20 days ago • 548 comments

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

submitted 21 days ago • 1054 comments

Right at the end here, Bernie says the thing that everyone who believes in the Constitution must say: the United States under Donald Trump is careening into authoritarianism.

submitted 20 days ago • 35 comments

Teaching university students is really an amazing thing to be able to do with one's life.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 21 days ago • 8229 comments

For the next three sessions of Justice in Public Policy, we'll be discussing the ethics, politics, and policy of opportunity and personal responsibility. One of the slides.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Upper-income white voters stuck with Biden, the revolt was among non-white voters.

submitted 22 days ago • 12 comments

For decades the dominant Democratic response to electoral setbacks has been "The voters are bad." We did nothing wrong, but look at these swine we have to appeal to! You can't ask the politics judge for a new electorate. You either figure out how to appeal to the one you have or you disappear.

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

strongly agreed with Cara. some of y'all talk like you have hidden a spare population of unproblematic, unpropagandized people to build a mass movement out of under your couch cushions or something.

submitted 22 days ago • 25 comments

If the government won’t hand over all of our financial data to Elon Musk, I’m going to become an even bigger libertarian.

submitted 22 days ago • 12 comments

Democratic politicians continually elevate leaders who say "The key to victory is... doing less. Staying out of sight. Not taking every swing. Ignoring more stuff." because that is what many Dem politicians want. They are consultant-brained honor roll students who want homework, not a fight.

submitted 23 days ago • 27 comments

Sorry, liberals. There was an election in November, and America clearly voted for Elon Musk to have access to your personal taxpayer data.

submitted 22 days ago • 56 comments

worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

submitted 24 days ago • 476 comments

It’s not what Trump posted that tells you where this is going; it’s how his people are responding to it that really tells you where this is going.

submitted 24 days ago • 304 comments

NEW PIECE: This is exactly what it says on the tin. I asked former Bureau of the Fiscal Service employees to respond to an Elon Musk tweet and they did. Largely "on background" analysis but I also have a number of great anonymous quotes from former BFS employees. www.crisesnotes.com/i-asked-form...

submitted 25 days ago • 12 comments

Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

submitted 26 days ago • 32 comments

Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, has been advising President Trump on how to cut government spending, is likely to receive a lucrative contract to supply armored versions of its Cybertruck pickup to the State Department, according to public documents.

submitted 27 days ago • 726 comments

What is going on with Gen X?

submitted 27 days ago • 176 comments

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City is said to have been quietly exploring a run in this spring’s Republican primary as he seeks a path to a second term.

submitted 27 days ago • 223 comments

Yea this is always worth remembering. Anyone have updated data on tech workers political donations? Last I checked it was 10:1 for Harris.

submitted 27 days ago • 14 comments

Radical realism?

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Spring training starts this week. Here are 31 thoughts on all 31 pitchers the Twins have invited to major-league camp in Fort Myers: www.nytimes.com/athletic/610...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

@jasonfurman.bsky.social has done me a great service here. A clear, influential interlocutor for me to use to frame my analysis in the conclusion to my book on The Ethics of Industrial Policy. Worth a read and more to come!

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

New semester. New job!

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Not a huge fan of Carter-era economic policy but the point on timing, the contrast with the paltry wage and productivity growth during Reagan's presidency, are both well-taken.

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The incumbent in every one of the 12 developed western countries that held national elections in 2024 lost vote share at the polls, the first time this has ever happened in almost 120 years of modern democracy. www.ft.com/content/350b...

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What Blackstone says to the FT about residential housing investments today (left) vs what they were saying in 2016 (right) when housing shortage were not quite as prominent of a story. www.ft.com/content/5af7... www.ft.com/content/e2e0...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

This is a perfect analogy for public health. When people work hard behind the scenes to prevent disasters, it can look like "nothing happened." But that's the point—public health is working when crises are averted before they begin.

submitted 72 days ago • 10 comments