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Michael Hicks

@profhicks.bsky.social

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Father of three marvels, lucky husband, parent lottery winner. Retired infantry soldier, George & Frances Ball Professor of Economics at Ball State’s Center for Business and Economic Research. https://www.bsu.edu/cber

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Michael J. Hicks is the George & Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Economics and director of the Center for Business and Economic Research and Professor of Economics at Ball State University. .. more

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Business 14%

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Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 3d

Navarro is nothing if not addled and inconsistent.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->

Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 4d

Nice roundup of comments on the tariff/manufacturing fiasco that is the Trump administration.

Nice to be in the company of @mtkonczal.bsky.social and @pkrugman.bsky.social in this piece.

www.commondreams.org/news/trump-t...

'An Abject Failure': Economists Trash Trump's Disastrous Job Creation Record in Year-End Reviews | Common Dreams

President Donald Trump's promise of booming manufacturing jobs through high tariffs has failed, as economists reveal a decline in key sectors.

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Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 4d

I think this is a very thoughtful assessment.

I have written ~1,000 published columns, but am not a journalist. Public opinion researcher is not the same thing as journalism.

Reposted by Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers, Michael J. Hicks , and 1 more Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers, Michael J. Hicks, Aviel Roshwald

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 4d

If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism.
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
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CBS Pulled a “60 Minutes” Story Because the White House Refused to Comment — That’s a Veto on Journalism

Pulling a finished investigation because the administration refused to comment isn’t journalism. It’s submission.

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Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 7d

Wait, are you suggesting Naomi Wolf doesn’t take time to carfully scrutinize her examples?

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 7d

Americans' economic sentiment breaking records!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

UMich consumer sentiment (current conditions) at 50.4 is a new all-time low -- going back to data from the 1970s.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 7d

U.S MICHIGAN CONSUMER SENTIMENT (DEC) ACTUAL: 52.9 VS 53.3 PREVIOUS; EST 53.5

Reposted by Michael J. Hicks, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 7d

The Green Book Project is best understood as memorializing the small number of businesses that respected Black customers. What was the usual way Black customers were treated? Listen to my uncle describe an ice cream parlor to see 1/3 greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject
#CommunityMap #EconSky

Reposted by Aaron Sojourner, Michael J. Hicks

Karl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · 8d

Great chart from @ernietedeschi.bsky.social on the hellsite: goods generating all of the "excess" inflation while services converge to zero:

Reposted by Jason Mittell, Joseph A. McCartin, Sarah Roberts , and 3 more Jason Mittell, Joseph A. McCartin, Sarah Roberts, Michael J. Hicks, Ann Bartow, Greg Linden

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 8d

Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."

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maninthebooth.bsky.social @maninthebooth.bsky.social · 9d

If you're unfamiliar with the writing of @profhicks.bsky.social , this one skewers current GOP economic strategies in IN, which actually have largely been GOP national strategy since Reagan. Why do we reject Marx, yet some still blindly embrace Laffer?

commentaries.cberdata.org/1345/art-laf...

Commentaries - Weekly Commentary with Michael Hicks

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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Joe R. Feagin, Els Torreele , and 1 more Richard S.J. Tol, Joe R. Feagin, Els Torreele, Michael J. Hicks

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10d

1. A blockade is an act of war

2. The idea that Venezuela has stolen land from the United States is so laughably stupid on its face that even some of his base is like 🤨

3. It’s always about oil.

Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 10d

I know this graphic doesn't contain the robust casual evidence that say, RFK, jr's HHS demands, but it is almost like something tangible happened last April that has sent the US economy into a moribund state.

I wonder what it could've possibly been?

Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 10d

Today has me thinking of these words: “The soldier’s heart, the soldier’s spirit, the soldier’s soul, are everything.”

- George C Marshall

Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 11d

“We hold these truths to be self-evident . . . “

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Kimberly A. Prather, Joe R. Feagin , and 3 more Kim L. Scheppele, Kimberly A. Prather, Joe R. Feagin, Sanford F. Schram, Michael J. Hicks, David Darmofal

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11d

Big announcement from Gov. Newsom:

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 11d

He may not be the worst president ever but he is without question the worst person to ever serve as president.

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers , and 2 more Richard S.J. Tol, Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers, Gerald Friedman, Michael J. Hicks

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11d

Maybe this wasn’t the best idea.

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Stefan Reis, Peter Thorne , and 7 more Joe R. Feagin, Stefan Reis, Peter Thorne, Tim Bale, David Johnson, Mary Corcoran, Michael J. Hicks, Brian Doucet, Jos Akkermans, Karen O’Leary

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13d

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...

🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Joe R. Feagin, Will Jennings , and 24 more Elizabeth Saunders, Joe R. Feagin, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan, Tom Clark, Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers, Robert W. Wallace, Rosemary A. Joyce, Eric Goldman, Michelle Dion, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Aaron Sojourner, Andrew L. Whitehead, Scott A. Imberman, Michael D. McDonald, Alfie Kohn, Mark Rice, Michael J. Hicks, Ann Bartow, Julie Novkov, Cullen S. Hendrix, Alexandra Cirone, Colin Woodard, David Darmofal, Deborah M. Kolb

John Bisognano @johnbisognano.com · 15d

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.

I don’t know how else to say it…

Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 15d

Bad day to be an Indianan, great day to be a Hoosier.

Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 16d

Bet that came in “handy”

Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 17d

BTW these data alone ought to cause American Compass to close and Oren Cass to join Alina Baba's law firm.

Michael Hicks @profhicks.bsky.social · 17d

Looks like the GOP's effort to create a multi-ethnic working class has run into a few minefields . . . which they laid themselves.

Also looks like a 4 year degree continues to provide good insulation against economic shocks.