Ben Bellows
@benbellows.bsky.social
Cofounder & CBO, Nivi Inc
A Michigan farm kid a long time ago. Husband, dad, researcher, neighbor, founder.
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A Michigan farm kid a long time ago. Husband, dad, researcher, neighbor, founder.
pubs: orcid.org/0000-0001-9205-6623
#UMich #Econ #PeaceCorps #Ecuador 🇪🇨 #CDC #UCBerkeley #Epi #PopCouncil #Kenya 🇰🇪 #Zambia 🇿🇲 #digitalhealth #AI
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If voters made rational choices on the basis of economic interest, they’d likely have noticed how Trump’s promises re: “affordability” clashed w/ his pledges to 1) shrink the labor force and 2) tax imports.
“Get back to affordability” assumes a premise that election outcomes just don’t bear out.
“Get back to affordability” assumes a premise that election outcomes just don’t bear out.
And he understands fuckall about economics, including that raising taxes (tariffs) and raising labor costs (mass deportations) leads to raised prices
So he can't carry out his agenda without making things worse; one requires the other. It's inherently self-limiting
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So he can't carry out his agenda without making things worse; one requires the other. It's inherently self-limiting
bsky.app/profile/nesl...
I thought his first term was bad.
I knew this time around would be worse, but holy crap. He's being an absolute bastard even to his most faithful followers.
I knew this time around would be worse, but holy crap. He's being an absolute bastard even to his most faithful followers.
November 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
If voters made rational choices on the basis of economic interest, they’d likely have noticed how Trump’s promises re: “affordability” clashed w/ his pledges to 1) shrink the labor force and 2) tax imports.
“Get back to affordability” assumes a premise that election outcomes just don’t bear out.
“Get back to affordability” assumes a premise that election outcomes just don’t bear out.
the Know-Nothing faction again
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
the Know-Nothing faction again
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related, unions opposed training WPA employees -- jensen 1989 has a story of the AFL president touring a civilian conservation corps site to show they weren't competing with union skills
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
related, unions opposed training WPA employees -- jensen 1989 has a story of the AFL president touring a civilian conservation corps site to show they weren't competing with union skills
Ruby Bridges is younger than the President
November 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Ruby Bridges is younger than the President
It's a long Swiss tradition, cf Glencore
November 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It's a long Swiss tradition, cf Glencore
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Kevin Roberts: Like Nick Fuentes, Madison was a man of his times. It’s not our place to judge or cancel, but rather to understand. And also, Heritage is manning the barricades against the violent left that wants to destroy the timeless principles of Western Civilization that America is founded on.
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Kevin Roberts: Like Nick Fuentes, Madison was a man of his times. It’s not our place to judge or cancel, but rather to understand. And also, Heritage is manning the barricades against the violent left that wants to destroy the timeless principles of Western Civilization that America is founded on.
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We here at the Heritage Foundation are 100% pro-freedom and pro-family, which is why we can’t stand idly by when Montpelier points out that James Madison wrung his wealth out of the unpaid labor of physically brutalized people whose families he regularly destroyed by selling their kin for profit.
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We here at the Heritage Foundation are 100% pro-freedom and pro-family, which is why we can’t stand idly by when Montpelier points out that James Madison wrung his wealth out of the unpaid labor of physically brutalized people whose families he regularly destroyed by selling their kin for profit.