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Andreas Ortmann is a German-born economist and Professor of Experimental and Behavioural Economics at the UNSW Business School. He is best known for his work on experimental methodology in social sciences, heuristics and coordination games. Vernon L. Smith, in the acknowledgement to his A Life in Experimental Economics, described Ortmann as an "economic theorist, experimentalist, and intellectual historian par excellence in all". .. more

Economics 36%
Business 28%
🧑‍🌾 SPOTTED in Jackson County, Wisconsin…

More rats leaving the Trump MAGA ship ... good riddance.
An early Christmas gift for some, and the lighting of the fifth Hanukkah candle for others.

However you celebrate, a small gift as reported below by the New York Times.👇
TAPPER: “This is one of the documents Trump’s DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. ALL BLACK. That’s the ‘transparency’ we’re getting.” #TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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An early Christmas gift for some, and the lighting of the fifth Hanukkah candle for others.

However you celebrate, a small gift as reported below by the New York Times.👇
Media lying is now utterly commonplace.
Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.
Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.
I never want to hear another American make fun of North Korea ever again.

Well, she doesn't fuck couches. Right away that puts her in the lead. ;-)

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Definitely the sign of an A+++++ economy.

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Great speech, Trump, but I think the American people have already spoken.

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Trump tonight:

Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me

Oh, shoot. Looks like I might have to go back to exercising after all.
You remember that Nature Aging paper about how multilingualism protects against accelerated aging? Well…

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Kash is on the Kase

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You remember that Nature Aging paper about how multilingualism protects against accelerated aging? Well…
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.

We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com

A shame that Demography did not go for an outright retraction. This imposes high cost on potential readers. Hopefully high enough that the original paper does not get read or cited.

Yup. Uneducated, ignorant, low-IQ for sure, without relevant skills, but with dementia.
Donald Trump is uneducated, ignorant, not very intelligent, with *no business skills whatever* — as his string of bankruptcies has made obvious to the world since the 1980s.

Now his dementia is obvious to everyone who cares to see it.

#WeAllKnow

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Donald Trump is uneducated, ignorant, not very intelligent, with *no business skills whatever* — as his string of bankruptcies has made obvious to the world since the 1980s.

Now his dementia is obvious to everyone who cares to see it.

#WeAllKnow

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Trump calling Kaitlan Collins “stupid” and “nasty” for asking a basic question about his over budget ballroom is exactly who he is, but it’s still shameful coming from a U.S. president.

A man with unlimited power, and money, yet he’s perpetually angry, petty, and allergic to accountability.👇

So Bondi and Kash make a big deal out of arresting the J6 pipe bomber then the guy confesses that he is a Trump supporter who thought the 2020 election was stolen and his lawyer is arguing that Trump’s broadly-worded J6 blanket pardon applies to him and he should go free. Poetry.
“In the heat of the moment, you’ve got to make a decision, and sometimes that decision is imperfect,” said Hegseth
Pete Hegseth Invokes ‘Fog Of War’ After Pissing In Break Room Refrigerator
ARLINGTON, VA—Describing the incident as a split-second operational judgment made under rapidly evolving conditions, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth invoked the “fog of war” Thursday to explain why he ...
theonion.com

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The situation is tense in the Senate.. A lot of those people are up for election in less than a year.. #politics
🚨 Our comment on Begum, Grossman & Islam (2018) is now out in Demography @readdemography.bsky.social (w/ @carlbonander.bsky.social, Bensch, @nikljako.bsky.social & Brodeur @i4replication.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1215/0070...
A Commentary on “Gender Bias in Parental Attitude: An Experimental Approach” by Begum, Grossman, and Islam (2018) | Demography | Duke University Press
doi.org
Vanity Fair to part ways with journalist Olivia Nuzzi
Exclusive | Vanity Fair to Part Ways With Journalist Olivia Nuzzi
Nuzzi’s contract with Vanity Fair expires at year-end, following new allegations and revelations about her conduct while she reported on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.wsj.com

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Anyone defending execution as a reasonable punishment for drug smuggling is a Nazi. Pass it on.
Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map