Bret Stevens
@bdstevens.bsky.social
Not a writer for the NYT.
Senior Economist at the Oregon Public Utility Commission. Based out of Portland, OR. Views are my own.
Senior Economist at the Oregon Public Utility Commission. Based out of Portland, OR. Views are my own.
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Holy shit. This is *the* gold-standard measurement of atmospheric CO2 -- the one in all the charts.
The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.
Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution
The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Holy shit. This is *the* gold-standard measurement of atmospheric CO2 -- the one in all the charts.
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My colleagues at Cornell simulated various tariff and retaliation scenarios proposed by Trump on China, Canada, Mexico, and the rest of the world, analyzing impacts on trade flows, sectoral output, real GDP, etc.
paper link➡️ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
paper link➡️ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
February 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
My colleagues at Cornell simulated various tariff and retaliation scenarios proposed by Trump on China, Canada, Mexico, and the rest of the world, analyzing impacts on trade flows, sectoral output, real GDP, etc.
paper link➡️ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
paper link➡️ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Oh my god the free speech crowd was operating in bad faith?????
February 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Oh my god the free speech crowd was operating in bad faith?????
As a Certified Anti-Doomer™️ I hate agreeing with this. I feel like we are only a handful of events away from states seceding.
in addition to musk stealing the data for his own purposes, I imagine that they think they can simply shut off payments to whoever doesn’t comply. I would not be shocked if they tried to turn off Social Security for an entire state of course that’s dissolution of the union territory.
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
February 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
As a Certified Anti-Doomer™️ I hate agreeing with this. I feel like we are only a handful of events away from states seceding.
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Pete has already named himself starting QB
January 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Pete has already named himself starting QB
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I admit I do not understand the "companies are buying up rental properties and then purposely leaving them empty to profit" scheme I see people bandy about here.
But say it were true...wouldn't the ability of companies to exercise such power over the market be lessened by building a lot of housing?
But say it were true...wouldn't the ability of companies to exercise such power over the market be lessened by building a lot of housing?
January 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I admit I do not understand the "companies are buying up rental properties and then purposely leaving them empty to profit" scheme I see people bandy about here.
But say it were true...wouldn't the ability of companies to exercise such power over the market be lessened by building a lot of housing?
But say it were true...wouldn't the ability of companies to exercise such power over the market be lessened by building a lot of housing?
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we used to respect the peanut in this country, weaving it into the very fabric of our culture and even singing its praises at civic gatherings of our national pastime. now we are isolated and alienated like individually bagged packages of SkinnyDipped almonds
January 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
we used to respect the peanut in this country, weaving it into the very fabric of our culture and even singing its praises at civic gatherings of our national pastime. now we are isolated and alienated like individually bagged packages of SkinnyDipped almonds
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Great resource from LBL on electricity cost trends and drivers. It's the distribution costs, folks: eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/defaul...
January 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Great resource from LBL on electricity cost trends and drivers. It's the distribution costs, folks: eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/defaul...
Was just talking to some friends about this the other day. I didn’t know if there was a term for “Pareto Optimal but only for low income people”. I agree it seems like a dominant mindset in a lot of circles.
fascinated by a rhetorical strategy i see all the time now, which is making up an extreme edge case to argue against doing anything for the public good, and doing this from the putative left.
January 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Was just talking to some friends about this the other day. I didn’t know if there was a term for “Pareto Optimal but only for low income people”. I agree it seems like a dominant mindset in a lot of circles.
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IT’S CONGESTION PRICING TIME
IT’S CONGESTION PRICING TIME
IT’S CONGESTION PRICING TIME
a cartoon drawing of a banana with arms and legs and a smiling face
Alt: a cartoon drawing of a banana with arms and legs and a smiling face, dancing to celebrate the end of cars
media.tenor.com
January 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
IT’S CONGESTION PRICING TIME
IT’S CONGESTION PRICING TIME
IT’S CONGESTION PRICING TIME
The Portland City Council recess music genuinely slaps. They can recess all day for all I care.
January 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The Portland City Council recess music genuinely slaps. They can recess all day for all I care.
Ok, I’m a libertarian now
Customer: TACOS ARE THE LOVE OF MY LIFE! BEFORE ANYONE ELSE!
DMV: TACO
Verdict: DENIED
DMV: TACO
Verdict: DENIED
January 2, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Ok, I’m a libertarian now
I lived through the incandescent culture war once. That was more than enough thank you.
December 28, 2024 at 11:12 PM
I lived through the incandescent culture war once. That was more than enough thank you.
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I had these kinds of talks with my dad at that age. Brings back memories.
December 27, 2024 at 7:37 PM
I had these kinds of talks with my dad at that age. Brings back memories.
This is the only kind of fusion I’m getting hyped about
December 17, 2024 at 10:49 PM
This is the only kind of fusion I’m getting hyped about
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The mercantilism will continue until morale improves
The mercantilism will continue until morale improves
December 16, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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The mercantilism will continue until morale improves
The mercantilism will continue until morale improves
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You laugh, but this is Elon Musk’s plan for public transit.
December 14, 2024 at 6:58 PM
You laugh, but this is Elon Musk’s plan for public transit.
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I refuse to give in to Big Iron Lung's Polio for All agenda
December 14, 2024 at 12:08 AM
I refuse to give in to Big Iron Lung's Polio for All agenda
I have no idea what you’re talking about. These are awesome.
all love to the united states postal service but lmao www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
December 13, 2024 at 3:49 AM
I have no idea what you’re talking about. These are awesome.
This is one of the more egregious graph crimes I’ve seen in a bit.
This graph crime from a Heritage staffer is all the evidence we need that Republicans are worried Trump’s tariffs will spike inflation
December 11, 2024 at 7:37 PM
This is one of the more egregious graph crimes I’ve seen in a bit.
Realized I made an accidental Strava Shot™️ while helping my wife with her flat tire.
December 9, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Realized I made an accidental Strava Shot™️ while helping my wife with her flat tire.
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Jesse has spent the last six years promoting the notion that large numbers of children are transitioning without assessment — something for which there is no evidence.
He should be treated like anyone else peddling a false and harmful idea.
He should be treated like anyone else peddling a false and harmful idea.
Jesse Singal's life's work is laundering transphobia into language that that cocktail party set finds palatable. This technique attacks a weakness of liberalism and democracy, and it's being exploited ruthlessly right now.
You have to treat the shtick like the thing it's pretending not to be.
You have to treat the shtick like the thing it's pretending not to be.
December 7, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Jesse has spent the last six years promoting the notion that large numbers of children are transitioning without assessment — something for which there is no evidence.
He should be treated like anyone else peddling a false and harmful idea.
He should be treated like anyone else peddling a false and harmful idea.
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This is such a cool paper. Nice methodology, well written, short, and sweet. It's just very well done. But it also got me thinking about cities and what they are for.
www.nber.org/papers/w33185
www.nber.org/papers/w33185
December 5, 2024 at 6:39 PM
This is such a cool paper. Nice methodology, well written, short, and sweet. It's just very well done. But it also got me thinking about cities and what they are for.
www.nber.org/papers/w33185
www.nber.org/papers/w33185