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Always trying to outdo my counterfactual. Unfortunately I like econ jokes. #trusttheprocess
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Picture of tweet saying: My "We're Not Enron" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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To be clear, if you use data that does not stretch back 20 years before the pandemic, you get a very different story. Here's the left-leaning epi's article on it: www.epi.org/publication/...
Would appreciate your insight on why this doesnt contradict your argument
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Trevor Jackson un the NY Review of Books:
Trevor Jackson argues that in Abundance Klein and Thompson "do not address the problem that lower prices are good for buyers but bad for sellers, and therefore are themselves a kind of distributional conflict, though one mediated through markets instead of politics." Jackson then argues that Klein and Thompson "describe 'modern liberal politics' as an effort to 'make universal' a set of 'products and services.' Not justice, equality, dignity or freedom, but products and services." Jackson is arguing to protect capital owners of housing and their asset values, despite the distributional conflict he worries of likely being one of moving wealth from wealthier capitalists to poorer individuals. Furthermore, he criticizes them for doing this in the name of making a set of products and services universal despite the specific product here being shelter. To sum, the passage argues for protecting the asset values and wealth of capitalists who own real estate capital at the expense of the goal of lowering shelter prices such that they can be universally accessed.
September 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Brennan johnson known finisher???
August 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM