Ben Segel-Brown
@bensb.bsky.social
Lawyer and Financial Analyst in Ottawa. Personal account.
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🚨🚨 My new paper, "The (non) effect of tariffs on manufacturing employment" is hot off the presses.
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Link: www.aei.org/wp-content/u...
#econsky
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June 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
🚨🚨 My new paper, "The (non) effect of tariffs on manufacturing employment" is hot off the presses.
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Link: www.aei.org/wp-content/u...
#econsky
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#econsky
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Another way to put this:
Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.
Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.
DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that
DOGE Says It’s Saved $55 Billion, Itemized Data Show Far Less
The federal cost-cutting effort dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that.
www.bloomberg.com
February 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Another way to put this:
Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.
Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.
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New and important: we built a federal expenditure tracker. All expenditure line items that are available on the Daily Treasury Statement.
USAID was zeroed out on 1/28 and has been at zero ever since.
www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...
#EconSky
USAID was zeroed out on 1/28 and has been at zero ever since.
www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...
#EconSky
February 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
New and important: we built a federal expenditure tracker. All expenditure line items that are available on the Daily Treasury Statement.
USAID was zeroed out on 1/28 and has been at zero ever since.
www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...
#EconSky
USAID was zeroed out on 1/28 and has been at zero ever since.
www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...
#EconSky
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Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.
Each defendant assaulted him.
January 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.
Each defendant assaulted him.
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This is a dangerous man, with a head harder than a rock. Children have died elsewhere because of his intransigence, and that's what he wants to bring here. No paywall for you today.
Opinion | RFK Jr. Is a Vaccine Cynic, Not Skeptic. (Gift Article)
My job is to ask tough questions of vaccine makers. That’s not what he is doing.
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This is a dangerous man, with a head harder than a rock. Children have died elsewhere because of his intransigence, and that's what he wants to bring here. No paywall for you today.
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The Parliamentary Budget Officer released an analysis of the National Housing strategy yesterday. It’s not great news: www.pbo-dpb.ca/en/publicati... Buckle up for a 🧵
Federal Spending on Housing Affordability in 2024
www.pbo-dpb.ca
December 13, 2024 at 3:31 PM
The Parliamentary Budget Officer released an analysis of the National Housing strategy yesterday. It’s not great news: www.pbo-dpb.ca/en/publicati... Buckle up for a 🧵
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I love Parliamentary Budget Office housing reports & the one today is a CORKER. Fed program spending more than doubled since 2018 yet hhs in housing need – unaffordable, overcrowded or substandard- projected to almost double to 2.6 million households by 2028. www.pbo-dpb.ca/en/publicati...
Federal Spending on Housing Affordability in 2024
www.pbo-dpb.ca
December 12, 2024 at 3:31 PM
I love Parliamentary Budget Office housing reports & the one today is a CORKER. Fed program spending more than doubled since 2018 yet hhs in housing need – unaffordable, overcrowded or substandard- projected to almost double to 2.6 million households by 2028. www.pbo-dpb.ca/en/publicati...
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Hey look, my article is in the Ottawa Citizen!
"RFK Jr. is a danger to health care in the U.S. — and Canada"
ottawacitizen.com/opinion/deon...
"RFK Jr. is a danger to health care in the U.S. — and Canada"
ottawacitizen.com/opinion/deon...
Deonandan: RFK Jr. is a danger to health care in the U.S. — and Canada
RFK's appointment to head health services in the U.S. under Trump normalizes the anti-evidence pseudoscience that abounds today.
ottawacitizen.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Hey look, my article is in the Ottawa Citizen!
"RFK Jr. is a danger to health care in the U.S. — and Canada"
ottawacitizen.com/opinion/deon...
"RFK Jr. is a danger to health care in the U.S. — and Canada"
ottawacitizen.com/opinion/deon...
The study was laying the groundwork for animal studies to understand and test treatments for PTSD. Bobcat urine was traumatic, and increased alcohol consumption was one indicator used to show that traumatic stress had occurred.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
November 14, 2024 at 6:59 PM
The study was laying the groundwork for animal studies to understand and test treatments for PTSD. Bobcat urine was traumatic, and increased alcohol consumption was one indicator used to show that traumatic stress had occurred.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...