Alan Green
@alangreenphd.bsky.social
Professor of Economics: political economy, history of capitalism, effective teaching.
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Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures
July 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures
I got to talk tariffs on the local news this morning. I worry that I failed to convey how stupid current policy is…
www.fox35orlando.com/video/1613888
www.fox35orlando.com/video/1613888
New investment deals amid tariff war
Dr. Alan Green, Chair of the Economics Department at Stetson University, joined Good Day Orlando to discuss President Donald Trump's strategy and its potential impact on your wallet when making big-ti...
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March 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I got to talk tariffs on the local news this morning. I worry that I failed to convey how stupid current policy is…
www.fox35orlando.com/video/1613888
www.fox35orlando.com/video/1613888
Something that should be painfully obvious about our society is that we lionize the rich - even if they got rich doing things that don’t benefit society - and then expect them to be great leaders.
But the super rich are just hoarders.
Good leaders sacrifice, set a moral example, and empathize.
But the super rich are just hoarders.
Good leaders sacrifice, set a moral example, and empathize.
March 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Something that should be painfully obvious about our society is that we lionize the rich - even if they got rich doing things that don’t benefit society - and then expect them to be great leaders.
But the super rich are just hoarders.
Good leaders sacrifice, set a moral example, and empathize.
But the super rich are just hoarders.
Good leaders sacrifice, set a moral example, and empathize.
Exactly - the market switched from worrying about inflation to expecting the Fed to try and prevent a recession. Not good news…
Small thing, but Trump bragging about interest rates falling yesterday BECAUSE THE STOCK MARKET TANKED is just too stupid. What are his economic advisers telling him?
Never thought I'd miss Gary Cohn and Steven Mnuchin
Never thought I'd miss Gary Cohn and Steven Mnuchin
March 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Exactly - the market switched from worrying about inflation to expecting the Fed to try and prevent a recession. Not good news…
Economist here.
These tariffs are asinine. Pure harm on both sides because supply chains cut across our Canadian and Mexican borders.
Notice that Trump is barely even pretending to have a strategy - mumbling vaguely about fentanyl.
He just wants to cause pain and have people beg him to stop it.
These tariffs are asinine. Pure harm on both sides because supply chains cut across our Canadian and Mexican borders.
Notice that Trump is barely even pretending to have a strategy - mumbling vaguely about fentanyl.
He just wants to cause pain and have people beg him to stop it.
March 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Economist here.
These tariffs are asinine. Pure harm on both sides because supply chains cut across our Canadian and Mexican borders.
Notice that Trump is barely even pretending to have a strategy - mumbling vaguely about fentanyl.
He just wants to cause pain and have people beg him to stop it.
These tariffs are asinine. Pure harm on both sides because supply chains cut across our Canadian and Mexican borders.
Notice that Trump is barely even pretending to have a strategy - mumbling vaguely about fentanyl.
He just wants to cause pain and have people beg him to stop it.
George was decent guy - not perfect, but a guy who gave his friend Julia money to help out with her abusive ex, Ivan, a drunk and a bully. Everyone felt bad for Julia, but nobody would confront Ivan.
Then George befriended Ivan and mocked Julia.
That’s it. That’s the story and we’re George.
Then George befriended Ivan and mocked Julia.
That’s it. That’s the story and we’re George.
February 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
George was decent guy - not perfect, but a guy who gave his friend Julia money to help out with her abusive ex, Ivan, a drunk and a bully. Everyone felt bad for Julia, but nobody would confront Ivan.
Then George befriended Ivan and mocked Julia.
That’s it. That’s the story and we’re George.
Then George befriended Ivan and mocked Julia.
That’s it. That’s the story and we’re George.
My fellow economists: it is time to abandon the assumption that voters make rational choices based on policy.
The Biden administration did steer the economy well and rational voters would have rewarded that.
Trump and Musk lied entertainingly and won.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Biden administration did steer the economy well and rational voters would have rewarded that.
Trump and Musk lied entertainingly and won.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Post-Neoliberal Delusion
The tragedy of Bidenomics.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
My fellow economists: it is time to abandon the assumption that voters make rational choices based on policy.
The Biden administration did steer the economy well and rational voters would have rewarded that.
Trump and Musk lied entertainingly and won.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Biden administration did steer the economy well and rational voters would have rewarded that.
Trump and Musk lied entertainingly and won.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
I want some of my tax dollars to help people who need it around the world.
0.22% of the U.S. federal budget is such aid, which is embarrassingly low. The UN has a longstanding goal of getting rich countries to give 0.7%; Europe does so. We should do more, not less.
vimeo.com/1052680025?s...
0.22% of the U.S. federal budget is such aid, which is embarrassingly low. The UN has a longstanding goal of getting rich countries to give 0.7%; Europe does so. We should do more, not less.
vimeo.com/1052680025?s...
Save USAID: The Greatest Agency You Never Knew
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was created by President Kennedy in 1961 in a spirit of optimism and global collaboration and as a…
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February 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I want some of my tax dollars to help people who need it around the world.
0.22% of the U.S. federal budget is such aid, which is embarrassingly low. The UN has a longstanding goal of getting rich countries to give 0.7%; Europe does so. We should do more, not less.
vimeo.com/1052680025?s...
0.22% of the U.S. federal budget is such aid, which is embarrassingly low. The UN has a longstanding goal of getting rich countries to give 0.7%; Europe does so. We should do more, not less.
vimeo.com/1052680025?s...
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
theonion.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
This is why my political science colleagues say the U.S. is no longer a full democracy, but a competitive authoritarian regime.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
Trump Brazenly Defies Laws in Escalating Executive Power Grab (Gift Article)
In the radical opening weeks of his second term, President Trump has appeared to feel little constraint by any need to show respect for the rule of law.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This is why my political science colleagues say the U.S. is no longer a full democracy, but a competitive authoritarian regime.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
Thanks ACLU! Politicians should not be meddling in private health care decisions
February 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Thanks ACLU! Politicians should not be meddling in private health care decisions
Trump pulls back from Canada and Mexico tariffs because they (checks notes) flattered him? I think we’ve heard that before…
Allies take note: be sure to call crazy uncle Donny in the adult day care every 30 days so he doesn’t try to take you out of the will again! Just say nice things 😉
Allies take note: be sure to call crazy uncle Donny in the adult day care every 30 days so he doesn’t try to take you out of the will again! Just say nice things 😉
February 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Trump pulls back from Canada and Mexico tariffs because they (checks notes) flattered him? I think we’ve heard that before…
Allies take note: be sure to call crazy uncle Donny in the adult day care every 30 days so he doesn’t try to take you out of the will again! Just say nice things 😉
Allies take note: be sure to call crazy uncle Donny in the adult day care every 30 days so he doesn’t try to take you out of the will again! Just say nice things 😉
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That there aren't that many trans kids undergoing any kind of medical gender affirming care—to say nothing of surgery—doesn't mean that these EOs aren't horrifically harmful to them.
And they are only the beginning.
And they are only the beginning.
The MAGA movement has convinced many that fleets of trans kids are being subjected to woke medical barbarism.
The real numbers?
0.017% of youth are coded as trans and receive puberty blockers.
0.037% access hormone therapy.
That's 1/20th of one percent.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The real numbers?
0.017% of youth are coded as trans and receive puberty blockers.
0.037% access hormone therapy.
That's 1/20th of one percent.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Here’s the real number of children receiving gender-affirming medical treatment
New research reveals it's a fraction of a fraction.
www.motherjones.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
That there aren't that many trans kids undergoing any kind of medical gender affirming care—to say nothing of surgery—doesn't mean that these EOs aren't horrifically harmful to them.
And they are only the beginning.
And they are only the beginning.
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This Hannah Arendt quote feels appropriate right now
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
January 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This Hannah Arendt quote feels appropriate right now
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
Politicians are not doctors. They have no business dictating medical care, and they are actively causing harm to innocent people here.
Donald Trump has just released a national under 18 trans care ban executive order. I am working through specifically how it tries to do this, and will live tweet here section by section as I read through it.
It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.
It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.
January 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Politicians are not doctors. They have no business dictating medical care, and they are actively causing harm to innocent people here.
Harris campaign: Trump will do project 2025, radically reshaping American gov’t!
Voters: wow! We hate this!
Media: dems say Trump will do it, but Trump says he won’t!
Voters: I guess he won’t then, plus inflation.
(Trump wins)
Trump: here’s project 2025. I am king.
Voters got conned.🤬🤬🤬
Voters: wow! We hate this!
Media: dems say Trump will do it, but Trump says he won’t!
Voters: I guess he won’t then, plus inflation.
(Trump wins)
Trump: here’s project 2025. I am king.
Voters got conned.🤬🤬🤬
January 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Harris campaign: Trump will do project 2025, radically reshaping American gov’t!
Voters: wow! We hate this!
Media: dems say Trump will do it, but Trump says he won’t!
Voters: I guess he won’t then, plus inflation.
(Trump wins)
Trump: here’s project 2025. I am king.
Voters got conned.🤬🤬🤬
Voters: wow! We hate this!
Media: dems say Trump will do it, but Trump says he won’t!
Voters: I guess he won’t then, plus inflation.
(Trump wins)
Trump: here’s project 2025. I am king.
Voters got conned.🤬🤬🤬
20% of U.S. coffee imports from Colombia, so quick math suggests 5% price increase from 25% tariff, 10% increase from 50% tariff. Probably not felt immediately.
1/3 of nursery stocks from Colombia, so 8 -17% increase there. That one will hit sooner - freshness.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/u...
1/3 of nursery stocks from Colombia, so 8 -17% increase there. That one will hit sooner - freshness.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/u...
Trump Wants to Impose 25% Tariffs on Colombia. Here’s What Could Cost More. (Gift Article)
Colombia is a relatively minor trading partner to the United States, but some industries are much more exposed than others.
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
20% of U.S. coffee imports from Colombia, so quick math suggests 5% price increase from 25% tariff, 10% increase from 50% tariff. Probably not felt immediately.
1/3 of nursery stocks from Colombia, so 8 -17% increase there. That one will hit sooner - freshness.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/u...
1/3 of nursery stocks from Colombia, so 8 -17% increase there. That one will hit sooner - freshness.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/u...
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Hey everyone! Incredible news!
Trans Scouts selling GS cookies this year on my list have sold over 50,000 boxes of GS cookies!
If you want girl scout cookies, consider buying from a trans girl scout this year! They'll mail them to you!
This is literally my fav thing to do every year :)
Trans Scouts selling GS cookies this year on my list have sold over 50,000 boxes of GS cookies!
If you want girl scout cookies, consider buying from a trans girl scout this year! They'll mail them to you!
This is literally my fav thing to do every year :)
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Hey everyone! Incredible news!
Trans Scouts selling GS cookies this year on my list have sold over 50,000 boxes of GS cookies!
If you want girl scout cookies, consider buying from a trans girl scout this year! They'll mail them to you!
This is literally my fav thing to do every year :)
Trans Scouts selling GS cookies this year on my list have sold over 50,000 boxes of GS cookies!
If you want girl scout cookies, consider buying from a trans girl scout this year! They'll mail them to you!
This is literally my fav thing to do every year :)
Detailed coverage here of the president’s executive order targeting transgender people.
Remember that this order is completely unnecessary. It solves no problem and helps no one.
Our elected leaders could be addressing serious issues and making people’s lives better - that is their job.
Remember that this order is completely unnecessary. It solves no problem and helps no one.
Our elected leaders could be addressing serious issues and making people’s lives better - that is their job.
1. Yesterday, Trump released a broad anti-trans executive order that could have extreme impacts on transgender people's lives if implemented.
There has been much discussion of what it actually does.
In my latest piece, I go line by line to explain it.
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There has been much discussion of what it actually does.
In my latest piece, I go line by line to explain it.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
A Line By Line Analysis Of Trump's Big Anti-Trans Executive Order
Trump released over 70 executive orders on Monday. While orders on immigration and climate got a lot of attention, his anti-transgender order could have sweeping impacts as well.
www.erininthemorning.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Detailed coverage here of the president’s executive order targeting transgender people.
Remember that this order is completely unnecessary. It solves no problem and helps no one.
Our elected leaders could be addressing serious issues and making people’s lives better - that is their job.
Remember that this order is completely unnecessary. It solves no problem and helps no one.
Our elected leaders could be addressing serious issues and making people’s lives better - that is their job.
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An update on the TikTok situation from our monitoring on Reddit. Now you get TOS'ed for saying negative comments about meta and Zuckerberg, left-wing politics get flagged as misinformation, and you can't tag #fucktrump #fuckelon or #fuckmeta but you CAN tag #fuckbiden and #fuckkamala
January 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
An update on the TikTok situation from our monitoring on Reddit. Now you get TOS'ed for saying negative comments about meta and Zuckerberg, left-wing politics get flagged as misinformation, and you can't tag #fucktrump #fuckelon or #fuckmeta but you CAN tag #fuckbiden and #fuckkamala
Trump’s meme coin: just a pyramid scheme. Already lost some value in competition with Melania’s meme coin (which is also worthless).
But they made $58 million in transaction fees so far! That’s where the actual money is.
But they made $58 million in transaction fees so far! That’s where the actual money is.
THREAD: Let's walk through some of the serious/potentially unethical/signs of manipulation/conflict of interest that have already been identified by lawyers/crypto experts re $Trump-the memecoin the Trump family cyrpto created on Friday. First, here's our latest story www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/u...
Trump’s Cryptocurrency Surges to Become One of the World’s Most Valuable
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Trump’s meme coin: just a pyramid scheme. Already lost some value in competition with Melania’s meme coin (which is also worthless).
But they made $58 million in transaction fees so far! That’s where the actual money is.
But they made $58 million in transaction fees so far! That’s where the actual money is.
Obviously Trump wants to be seen as saving TikTok, but the more important precedent for him is the legal one.
Trump is asserting that he can choose which laws to enforce - that the President is the final arbiter of what is actually legal.
A self-respecting Congress and Court would push back…
Trump is asserting that he can choose which laws to enforce - that the President is the final arbiter of what is actually legal.
A self-respecting Congress and Court would push back…
January 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Obviously Trump wants to be seen as saving TikTok, but the more important precedent for him is the legal one.
Trump is asserting that he can choose which laws to enforce - that the President is the final arbiter of what is actually legal.
A self-respecting Congress and Court would push back…
Trump is asserting that he can choose which laws to enforce - that the President is the final arbiter of what is actually legal.
A self-respecting Congress and Court would push back…
Just in case you are wondering if bills targeting trans people might have an ounce of substance, they don’t.
Check out this excellent coverage of debate on one such bill in Montana, which would cause additional harm, violate people’s privacy, cost taxpayers money, and lead to litigation.
Check out this excellent coverage of debate on one such bill in Montana, which would cause additional harm, violate people’s privacy, cost taxpayers money, and lead to litigation.
Happening now, the first anti-trans hearing of 2025 in the United States.
HB121 in Montana is a full adult bathroom ban in publicly owned buildings. It targets all trans adults and the trans reps Zooey Zephyr/SJ Howell.
I am covering it live. Watch with me:
sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00309/Harmon...
HB121 in Montana is a full adult bathroom ban in publicly owned buildings. It targets all trans adults and the trans reps Zooey Zephyr/SJ Howell.
I am covering it live. Watch with me:
sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00309/Harmon...
January 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Just in case you are wondering if bills targeting trans people might have an ounce of substance, they don’t.
Check out this excellent coverage of debate on one such bill in Montana, which would cause additional harm, violate people’s privacy, cost taxpayers money, and lead to litigation.
Check out this excellent coverage of debate on one such bill in Montana, which would cause additional harm, violate people’s privacy, cost taxpayers money, and lead to litigation.
Trump thinks in real estate terms and wants to be the landlord of Greenland and Panama to capture the rents from shipping.
But geographic location rents should belong to the people who live there. Trump is proposing colonialism.
There’s no net economic gain - he just wants to take from others.
But geographic location rents should belong to the people who live there. Trump is proposing colonialism.
There’s no net economic gain - he just wants to take from others.
January 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Trump thinks in real estate terms and wants to be the landlord of Greenland and Panama to capture the rents from shipping.
But geographic location rents should belong to the people who live there. Trump is proposing colonialism.
There’s no net economic gain - he just wants to take from others.
But geographic location rents should belong to the people who live there. Trump is proposing colonialism.
There’s no net economic gain - he just wants to take from others.
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After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
New French guidelines show doctors overwhelmingly support gender-affirming care - LGBTQ Nation
The medical guidelines contradict numerous conclusions from the UK's infamous Cass Review.
www.lgbtqnation.com
January 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...