Cory Smith
@politicory.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland. All about the long run and development #EconSky
www.corybsmith.com
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This is really sad news -- and I'd hoped so hard this would never happen
BREAKING NEWS: Both National Guard members shot in DC have died of their injuries, WV governor says >> https://www.13abc.com/2025/11/26/two-national-guard-members-shot-near-white-house-their-conditions-unknown-ap-source-says/
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This is really sad news -- and I'd hoped so hard this would never happen
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This is very bad wjla.com/news/local/s...
3 people, including 2 National Guard troops, hurt in Northwest DC shooting
Metropolitan police are investigating a shooting in Northwest DCOfficers confirmed the gunfire in the area of 17th and I streets Northwest
wjla.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is very bad wjla.com/news/local/s...
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🆕 How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
The 1870 Education Act demonstrates how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children.
voxdev.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
🆕 How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Astonishing.
Purging the United States of the best and brightest researchers from around the world will cripple our capacity to innovate and compete. Particularly with China.
Numb, reckless nativist extremism will harm generations of Conservative and Liberal Americans.
Purging the United States of the best and brightest researchers from around the world will cripple our capacity to innovate and compete. Particularly with China.
Numb, reckless nativist extremism will harm generations of Conservative and Liberal Americans.
Florida’s Public Universities Should No Longer Hire Foreign Employees, DeSantis Says
The Republican governor’s directive on H-1B visas comes as President Trump has initiated his policy of charging employers a new $100,000 fee to hire people from outside the United States.
www.chronicle.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Astonishing.
Purging the United States of the best and brightest researchers from around the world will cripple our capacity to innovate and compete. Particularly with China.
Numb, reckless nativist extremism will harm generations of Conservative and Liberal Americans.
Purging the United States of the best and brightest researchers from around the world will cripple our capacity to innovate and compete. Particularly with China.
Numb, reckless nativist extremism will harm generations of Conservative and Liberal Americans.
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Rule of Law Alert: Trump’s authority for country-specific tariffs comes from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which doesn’t mention tariffs—but does require a national emergency.
An ad showing that Reagan opposed tariffs surely is not a national emergency. (It may be a personal one)
An ad showing that Reagan opposed tariffs surely is not a national emergency. (It may be a personal one)
October 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Rule of Law Alert: Trump’s authority for country-specific tariffs comes from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which doesn’t mention tariffs—but does require a national emergency.
An ad showing that Reagan opposed tariffs surely is not a national emergency. (It may be a personal one)
An ad showing that Reagan opposed tariffs surely is not a national emergency. (It may be a personal one)
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Our public money to support research at our universities is mandated by our Congress.
It is not the personal slush fund of the president, to withhold at will or dole out as largesse, rewarding those who please him.
Those who seek reform of universities can use laws, not arbitrary extortion.
It is not the personal slush fund of the president, to withhold at will or dole out as largesse, rewarding those who please him.
Those who seek reform of universities can use laws, not arbitrary extortion.
After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.
Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT
The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...
www.bloomberg.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Our public money to support research at our universities is mandated by our Congress.
It is not the personal slush fund of the president, to withhold at will or dole out as largesse, rewarding those who please him.
Those who seek reform of universities can use laws, not arbitrary extortion.
It is not the personal slush fund of the president, to withhold at will or dole out as largesse, rewarding those who please him.
Those who seek reform of universities can use laws, not arbitrary extortion.
I don't feel any safer with ICE taking a 13 year old 500+ miles from his mother (and per article, they had a pending immigration case anyway)
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
October 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I don't feel any safer with ICE taking a 13 year old 500+ miles from his mother (and per article, they had a pending immigration case anyway)
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I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
October 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
Why? How does this help anyone?
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
www.cnn.com
October 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Why? How does this help anyone?
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Land Concentration and Long-Run Development in the Frontier United States" by Cory Smith. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Land Concentration and Long-Run Development in the Frontier United States
(Forthcoming Article) - I study the long-run economic effects of land concentration on the American frontier.
Using quasi-random variation in initial land allocations from a checkerboard formula, I
an...
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October 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Land Concentration and Long-Run Development in the Frontier United States" by Cory Smith. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Peacemaker Season 2, out now
Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."
September 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Peacemaker Season 2, out now
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Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
September 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
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A short 🧵 so everyone can learn that political violence is nothing new in America.
Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7
Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7
September 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A short 🧵 so everyone can learn that political violence is nothing new in America.
Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7
Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7
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It's frustrating to see data quality undermined by this administration. This week's annual revision to the national accounts hit, too. www.bea.gov/information-.... That data have been important in the past.
September 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It's frustrating to see data quality undermined by this administration. This week's annual revision to the national accounts hit, too. www.bea.gov/information-.... That data have been important in the past.
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Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
September 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
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How does the new H1B executive order affect universities, which had a non-capped limit on H1Bs under the prior system (vs a lottery for for-profit corporations)?
September 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
How does the new H1B executive order affect universities, which had a non-capped limit on H1Bs under the prior system (vs a lottery for for-profit corporations)?
I am not a lawyer, but it should not be legal to suddenly upend someone’s visa status with 48 hours of warning
September 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I am not a lawyer, but it should not be legal to suddenly upend someone’s visa status with 48 hours of warning
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i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation.
i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.
i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.
Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad.
One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.
One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.
September 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation.
i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.
i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.
As someone who has not followed this closely, is there any conclusion except that student outlets (The Crimson) were far more accurate than national news leaders (NYT, WSJ) which predicted imminent $500m settlements?
September 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
As someone who has not followed this closely, is there any conclusion except that student outlets (The Crimson) were far more accurate than national news leaders (NYT, WSJ) which predicted imminent $500m settlements?
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This @beijingpalmer.bsky.social post reminded me I have been meaning to update @pewresearch.org's estimate of total newspaper newsroom jobs - which was 30,820 as of 2020
Using BLS OEWS data (w/ same methodology as Pew) the 2024 number is 29,260 - down another 5%
www.pewresearch.org/chart/sotnm-...
Using BLS OEWS data (w/ same methodology as Pew) the 2024 number is 29,260 - down another 5%
www.pewresearch.org/chart/sotnm-...
August 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This @beijingpalmer.bsky.social post reminded me I have been meaning to update @pewresearch.org's estimate of total newspaper newsroom jobs - which was 30,820 as of 2020
Using BLS OEWS data (w/ same methodology as Pew) the 2024 number is 29,260 - down another 5%
www.pewresearch.org/chart/sotnm-...
Using BLS OEWS data (w/ same methodology as Pew) the 2024 number is 29,260 - down another 5%
www.pewresearch.org/chart/sotnm-...
I signed and you should, too. This is about dictatorial control of the Fed, nothing more and nothing less
#CollectiveCourage: Hundreds of economists from across the country have signed an open letter calling on Congress to uphold Federal Reserve independence. If you’re an economist, you can still sign on: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oGrUv-_CoeulsLZDt_lyNTPbm9wYCAfiTLm7KMiwgzA/edit?tab=t.0
Open letter
Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...
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September 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I signed and you should, too. This is about dictatorial control of the Fed, nothing more and nothing less