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The Economics Nobel committee delivers a pretty clear rebuke to Trump's war on science and university research.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded "for having explained innovation-driven economic growth" with one half to Joel Mokyr "for having identified ...
www.nobelprize.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The Economics Nobel committee delivers a pretty clear rebuke to Trump's war on science and university research.
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Additionally, Republican leaning districts, which overlap significantly with rural areas, see marked advantages compared to Democratic districts. These results highlight the potential for a VMT tax to address longstanding inequities in transportation funding
September 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Additionally, Republican leaning districts, which overlap significantly with rural areas, see marked advantages compared to Democratic districts. These results highlight the potential for a VMT tax to address longstanding inequities in transportation funding
Well said, @govpritzker.illinois.gov
Be Loud — For America
By Governor JB Pritzker
open.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Well said, @govpritzker.illinois.gov
Anyone looking for a short video in their Intro Econ course on international trade and tariffs? Show this and you'll have plenty of time left over to talk about the Red Sox.
Still explaining: How do tariffs work, and who pays?
August 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Anyone looking for a short video in their Intro Econ course on international trade and tariffs? Show this and you'll have plenty of time left over to talk about the Red Sox.
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An electric utility's email alert program appears to reduce peak demand and provides significant private savings to the utility. Social savings, however, are small, from @GibMetcalf.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w34089
August 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
An electric utility's email alert program appears to reduce peak demand and provides significant private savings to the utility. Social savings, however, are small, from @GibMetcalf.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w34089
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Check out this commentary by @kclausing.bsky.social @allanhsiao.bsky.social @gibmetcalf.bsky.social Marilyn Pereboom, and @cwolfram.bsky.social that analyzes the Foreign Pollution Fee Act's potential impacts on several economic and environmental outcomes:
ceepr.link/FPFA
ceepr.link/FPFA
June 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Check out this commentary by @kclausing.bsky.social @allanhsiao.bsky.social @gibmetcalf.bsky.social Marilyn Pereboom, and @cwolfram.bsky.social that analyzes the Foreign Pollution Fee Act's potential impacts on several economic and environmental outcomes:
ceepr.link/FPFA
ceepr.link/FPFA
CBO estimate of the distributional impacts of the #OBBBA are out and it is not pretty. This is hugely regressive. And it aggravates our already worrying federal debt situation.
June 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
CBO estimate of the distributional impacts of the #OBBBA are out and it is not pretty. This is hugely regressive. And it aggravates our already worrying federal debt situation.
Whoa. Watch out for sec. 899 in this awful House bill.
There’s a ticking time bomb in Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
Investors are fretting about a clause that would penalise foreign holders of US assets
on.ft.com
May 31, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Whoa. Watch out for sec. 899 in this awful House bill.
Uh, oh. Be sure to wash your hands every time you refill your bird feeder.
Trump’s HHS is canceling a contract to develop an mRNA bird flu vaccine, even as the disease continues to spread through dairy cows across the U.S.
Make no mistake: delaying the development of this vaccine puts people’s lives at risk.
Make no mistake: delaying the development of this vaccine puts people’s lives at risk.
Trump administration cancels plans to develop a bird flu vaccine
The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Moderna to develo
www.npr.org
May 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Uh, oh. Be sure to wash your hands every time you refill your bird feeder.
I hope the follow-up question was "Now that you know, will you vote to strip out that provision in the final bill?"
May 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I hope the follow-up question was "Now that you know, will you vote to strip out that provision in the final bill?"
The monthly @hillsdalecollege.bsky.social Imprimis publication never fails to amuse even if it generally goes in for right-wing fabulism at the expense of facts and rigor. The May issue was readable with an essay on tariffs by John Steele Gordon.
May 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The monthly @hillsdalecollege.bsky.social Imprimis publication never fails to amuse even if it generally goes in for right-wing fabulism at the expense of facts and rigor. The May issue was readable with an essay on tariffs by John Steele Gordon.
This should go without saying, but even if every person who voted for Trump supported his illegal, careless, and destructive actions, it is important to remember that A MAJORITY OF VOTERS VOTED AGAINST TRUMP.
May 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This should go without saying, but even if every person who voted for Trump supported his illegal, careless, and destructive actions, it is important to remember that A MAJORITY OF VOTERS VOTED AGAINST TRUMP.
What a wimp.
Trump’s New Position on the War in Ukraine: Not My Problem
www.nytimes.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
What a wimp.
What are the odds US counterespionage techs find all the bugs and assorted spyware installed in the Qatari "gift"?
May 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
What are the odds US counterespionage techs find all the bugs and assorted spyware installed in the Qatari "gift"?
You have to love this NYPost front page (c/o @pkrugman.bsky.social )
May 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
You have to love this NYPost front page (c/o @pkrugman.bsky.social )
Is it just me or are the recent market gyrations making you a bit dizzy?
April 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Is it just me or are the recent market gyrations making you a bit dizzy?
So the homeland security secretary had her passport, security badge and other belongings stolen at a restaurant? Is this the Keystone Kops or what?
Kristi Noem’s Purse, With Security Badge and $3,000, Is Stolen
The homeland security secretary was dining at a Washington, D.C., restaurant. She also lost her passport and keys.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
So the homeland security secretary had her passport, security badge and other belongings stolen at a restaurant? Is this the Keystone Kops or what?
I just love this quote from Lincoln about slavery: "When the storm shall be past, he shall find us still Americans; no less devoted to the continued Union and prosperity of the country than heretofore." Read the whole quote in the @hcrichardson.bsky.social piece. Very apropos.
April 17, 2025
Today, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) posted a picture of himself with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whom the Trump administration says it sent to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador t...
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April 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I just love this quote from Lincoln about slavery: "When the storm shall be past, he shall find us still Americans; no less devoted to the continued Union and prosperity of the country than heretofore." Read the whole quote in the @hcrichardson.bsky.social piece. Very apropos.
Want to imagine something scary? Stephen Moore as Fed Chair. Mad King Don is crazy enough to try it.
Why You Should Fear a Trumpified Fed
Don’t give an abuser power that’s easy to abuse
open.substack.com
April 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Want to imagine something scary? Stephen Moore as Fed Chair. Mad King Don is crazy enough to try it.
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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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Every single person in this room, other than press, deserves to face an international criminal tribunal.
Stephen Miller says that returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US would amount to "kidnapping" a citizen of El Salvador
April 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Every single person in this room, other than press, deserves to face an international criminal tribunal.
Let's be clear. This is an impeachable and indictable offense. Trump must be held to account, if not now, then as soon as possible. The tariff madness is sheer ignorance and will hurt our pocketbooks; but this is criminality and a human rights offense.
'Out of our hands': The most dangerous lie in Trump’s deportation doctrine
The stalling—thinly disguised as deliberation—only reinforces the truth. The refusal is political.
open.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Let's be clear. This is an impeachable and indictable offense. Trump must be held to account, if not now, then as soon as possible. The tariff madness is sheer ignorance and will hurt our pocketbooks; but this is criminality and a human rights offense.
Well said, Dan.
Marco Rubio Lied
Let's dissect the Secretary of State's lies about Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk -- and the cost of those lies.
open.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Well said, Dan.
Kudos to Harvard for its principled response. Proud to be an alum.
view.hu.harvard.edu?qs=351b45ebf...
view.hu.harvard.edu?qs=351b45ebf...
April 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Kudos to Harvard for its principled response. Proud to be an alum.
view.hu.harvard.edu?qs=351b45ebf...
view.hu.harvard.edu?qs=351b45ebf...