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Prof. Caroline Fohlin

@caroline-fohlin.bsky.social

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I study Economic History & Finance, esp US + Germany in the 20th century.

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Caroline Fohlin is an economics professor at Emory University who specializes in corporate finance, venture capital, economic history, and financial market structures.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7d

Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.

(Published Dec. 2024)

How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes

Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.

www.propublica.org

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 9d

My husband refused to keep buying our beloved Peet's Coffee, which we had been drinking for over 30 years, because their *parent* company didn't leave Russia after the invasion in 2022.

Reposted by Caroline Fohlin

Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 9d

Thank you @propublica.org for your continued reporting. Don't look away, America. #USAIDSavedLives

www.propublica.org/article/keny...

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death

“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

www.propublica.org

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Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · 13d

This should be interesting!

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14d

8 years from the day he won his race to go to the Senate @dougjones.bsky.social announces he’s running to be governor.

Doug Jones @dougjones.bsky.social · Nov 24

So I’ve made it official folks: I’ve filed the paperwork to run for Governor of Alabama. It’s time to remind this state of who we are and what we can accomplish together.

#DougForAlabama

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Roberta Metsola @president.europarl.europa.eu · 13d

I welcome the release of a number of political prisoners in Belarus, including Sakharov Prize laureates Maria Kolesnikova and Ales Bialatski, also laureate of @nobelprize.org for Peace.

They have endured so much. I wish them strength as they should reunite with their families and loved ones.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14d

8 years from the day he won his race to go to the Senate @dougjones.bsky.social announces he’s running to be governor.

Doug Jones @dougjones.bsky.social · Nov 24

So I’ve made it official folks: I’ve filed the paperwork to run for Governor of Alabama. It’s time to remind this state of who we are and what we can accomplish together.

#DougForAlabama

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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 14d

This is absolutely amazing. #Science 🧪

The proteasome, cleaving proteins into antimicrobial peptides. Biology is a amazing

“There’s something that we thought is so familiar and so well understood, and then boom — something totally unexpected and exciting comes out of it.” — Medzhitov

This scientist found a new trick of the immune system by digging through cellular rubbish

Yifat Merbl is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.

www.nature.com

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15d

Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Caroline Fohlin, Henry Jones, Thomas Masterson

Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 20d

On this day in 1915, the Supreme Court upheld a law providing that an American woman could be stripped of citizenship upon marriage to a foreign husband. U.S. men marrying foreign women were permitted to keep their citizenship.

Dec. 6, 1915 | Supreme Court Rules American Women With Foreign Husbands Lose Citizenship

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

calendar.eji.org

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20d

Next week, the court will hear the most important campaign finance case since Citizens United. Here’s what you need to know, from one of the lawyers who’s been working on the case. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Reposted by Robert N. Stavins, Caroline Fohlin, David Darmofal

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28d

🎁 link to the WSJ editorial that made Stephen Miller so mad.

"It would be a shame if this single act of betrayal became the excuse for deporting all Afghan refugees...

"Thousands are building new lives here in peace. Collective punishment won’t make America safer."

www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Opinion | The Ambush on the National Guard

The alleged shooting by an Afghan ‘partner’ shouldn’t condemn all who assisted the U.S. and now live here.

www.wsj.com

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Nandita Sharma, Richard S.J. Tol , and 40 more Anna O. Law, Nandita Sharma, Richard S.J. Tol, Jonathan A. Eisen, Brian A. Nosek, A. E. Dessler, Steve Peers, Mark D. White, Rosemary A. Joyce, Amir Attaran, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Paul Davies, Sarah E. Gollust, Alex Callinicos, Juan Cole, Kevin Carey, Michelle Everson, Robert Black, Daniel W. Drezner, Michael Kevane, Trevon D. Logan, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Robert C. Richards, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Aaron Sojourner, Pamela K. Gilbert, Scott A. Imberman, Caroline Fohlin, Michael H. Whitworth, David Rosnick, Jelena Subotić, Alfie Kohn, Mark Rice, Ann Bartow, Henry Jones, Simon Lester, Christina Pagel, Nancy M. Wingfield, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Stuart Shapiro, David Darmofal

John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 28d

Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization

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RogueNOAA @roguenoaa.altgov.info · Nov 26

“The draft offshore leasing plan includes the Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska and other areas important to the fishing industry. It’s part of a national proposal that includes the entire coast of California, where drilling is fiercely unpopular.”

alaskapublic.org/news/politic...

New offshore drilling plan opens almost all federal water off Alaska

The draft plan calls for lease sales in Cook Inlet and the Arctic, as well as the Bering Sea and other regions important to the fishing industry.

alaskapublic.org

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · Nov 25

This is so cool (no pun intended 🫣)! A very long time series.
Thanks to #NSF 💲

Dr. Peter Neff @icy-pete.bsky.social · Nov 24

Two miles of ice core on the shelf at our national ice core facility in Lakewood, Colorado. The WAIS Divide core from West Antarctica is a 3400m long (deepest US core, 2nd deepest ice core ever) 68,000 year old record of high resolution climate.

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · Nov 25

Glad to see this @wired.com guide on high quality masks! A KN95 can help protect you and your loved ones from COVID-19 and other airborne viruses, especially during this busy travel season. I only wish Wired wrote about the pandemic in the present tense 🙏😷

www.wired.com/story/best-d...

15 Good N95, KF94, and KN95 Face Masks to Buy Right Now

Flu season is here. These are the best disposable face coverings we’ve tested—and where you can find them.

www.wired.com

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · Nov 24

Incredible!

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Nov 24

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.

www.whatimreading.net

Reposted by Timnit Gebru, Anna O. Law, Henning Melber , and 10 more Timnit Gebru, Anna O. Law, Henning Melber, Juan Cole, Mary Corcoran, Caroline T. Schroeder, Caroline Fohlin, Henry Jones, James A. Benn, Aviel Roshwald, Élisabeth Vallet, Dunlap, David Darmofal

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Nov 24

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.

www.whatimreading.net

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Dr. Peter Neff @icy-pete.bsky.social · Nov 24

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · Nov 22

I heard about this yesterday from my contractor. He said ICE was going to be setting up roadblocks/check points in Gwinnett especially. Pulling workers off jobs.

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · Nov 21

How heartening and energizing to watch this citizen speak up for the vulnerable.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Nov 20

“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · Nov 21

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · Nov 20

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · Nov 21

Now that I know this collection exists, I want to visit it!

#econsky #history #money

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Nov 20

The American Numismatic Society’s collections of coins will be relocating from Manhattan to the spacious campus of the Toledo Museum of Art. The $20 million plan, to be completed in 2028, would make possible its long-harbored vision of a state-of-the-art money museum.

After 167 Years in New York, a Priceless Coin Collection Heads to Toledo

www.nytimes.com

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · Nov 20

Release ALL the Epstein files!!
Follow the money! 🤑💰

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · Nov 20

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein

www.nytimes.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Nov 20

After 167 Years in New York, a Priceless Coin Collection Heads to Toledo

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Caroline Fohlin, David Darmofal

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Nov 20

Are we winning yet?

Reposted by Kimberly A. Prather, Patrick Dunleavy, Juan Cole , and 12 more Kimberly A. Prather, Patrick Dunleavy, Juan Cole, Edgar Morgenroth, Sanford F. Schram, Alan Richardson, W. Andy Knight, Gerald Friedman, Caroline Fohlin, Michael D. McDonald, Ann Bartow, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Dan Immergluck, David Darmofal, Steven H. Seggie

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · Nov 20

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Aaron Sojourner

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · Nov 20

Woah!
📌 Need to read the full paper

Police bargaining rights explain 14% of civilian deaths. (What about serious injury but not quite death?)

#econsky

AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Nov 19

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Collective Bargaining Rights, Policing, and Civilian Deaths" by Jamein P. Cunningham and Rob Gillezeau. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Collective Bargaining Rights, Policing, and Civilian Deaths

(Forthcoming Article) - Using an event-study design, we examine whether states' introduction of duty to bargain requirements for police unions led to meaningful changes in civilians killed by law enfo...

www.aeaweb.org

Reposted by Diane Ravitch, Thomas Crofts, Caroline Fohlin , and 2 more Diane Ravitch, Thomas Crofts, Caroline Fohlin, Ann Bartow, Ernesto Castañeda

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Nov 20

“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”

Prof. Caroline Fohlin @caroline-fohlin.bsky.social · Nov 20

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