Daniele Tavani
@danieletavani.bsky.social
Economist | Professor & (reluctantly) Dept. Chair| Growth, inequality, macro, political economy | Rome -> New York -> Fort Collins
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Daniele Tavani
@danieletavani.bsky.social
· Jul 24
~70% of the #Gaza built environment destroyed.
50% of #hospitals destroyed.
59K confirmed deaths, 16.5K #children. Does not include #missing people, indirect deaths.
Mass #starvation due to aid #blockades.
Daily civilian killings at food distribution centers.
Silence is complicity.
50% of #hospitals destroyed.
59K confirmed deaths, 16.5K #children. Does not include #missing people, indirect deaths.
Mass #starvation due to aid #blockades.
Daily civilian killings at food distribution centers.
Silence is complicity.
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the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
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They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
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Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/
December 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/
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December 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.
November 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.
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They were kidnapped in international waters in an act of blatant piracy…
The Times of Israel reports that Greta Thunberg & her fellow Flotilla crew are being held in a special "terrorist" section of Ketziot prison—or in "terrorist conditions," as Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's Minister of National Security put it.
www.timesofisrael.com/thunberg-sai...
www.timesofisrael.com/thunberg-sai...
October 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
They were kidnapped in international waters in an act of blatant piracy…
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Economists have spilled WAY too much ink debating and analyzing monetary policy to be silent at this moment.
August 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Economists have spilled WAY too much ink debating and analyzing monetary policy to be silent at this moment.
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I'm afraid you'll have to fire all of us, Mr President.
www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
August 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I'm afraid you'll have to fire all of us, Mr President.
www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
A friend of a friend of the #president is the victim of a crime in #DC, a city where crime is at a 30-year low.
In response, the president takes over the DC #police & sends in the national guard., tells them 2 do “whatever the hell they want.”
Sounds like crony #fascism, if you ask me.
In response, the president takes over the DC #police & sends in the national guard., tells them 2 do “whatever the hell they want.”
Sounds like crony #fascism, if you ask me.
August 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A friend of a friend of the #president is the victim of a crime in #DC, a city where crime is at a 30-year low.
In response, the president takes over the DC #police & sends in the national guard., tells them 2 do “whatever the hell they want.”
Sounds like crony #fascism, if you ask me.
In response, the president takes over the DC #police & sends in the national guard., tells them 2 do “whatever the hell they want.”
Sounds like crony #fascism, if you ask me.
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Why do the jobs numbers get revised?
our markets and policymakers want data NOW but employer data dribbles in over months
1st estimate is based on the 75% of employers who respond promptly
Updates occur as more data rolls in: 95% response rate by final revision 1/N
www.bls.gov/opub/btn/vol...
our markets and policymakers want data NOW but employer data dribbles in over months
1st estimate is based on the 75% of employers who respond promptly
Updates occur as more data rolls in: 95% response rate by final revision 1/N
www.bls.gov/opub/btn/vol...
August 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Why do the jobs numbers get revised?
our markets and policymakers want data NOW but employer data dribbles in over months
1st estimate is based on the 75% of employers who respond promptly
Updates occur as more data rolls in: 95% response rate by final revision 1/N
www.bls.gov/opub/btn/vol...
our markets and policymakers want data NOW but employer data dribbles in over months
1st estimate is based on the 75% of employers who respond promptly
Updates occur as more data rolls in: 95% response rate by final revision 1/N
www.bls.gov/opub/btn/vol...
Exactly. What guarantees that Trump won’t, in the future, directly request layoffs of #faculty he doesn’t like to maintain funding?
More than a slippery slope, this settlement looks like the edge of a precipice.
More than a slippery slope, this settlement looks like the edge of a precipice.
Columbia's decision to agree to extortion enables Trump to extort other universities and extort Columbia even more.
thehill.com/homenews/edu...
thehill.com/homenews/edu...
thehill.com
July 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Exactly. What guarantees that Trump won’t, in the future, directly request layoffs of #faculty he doesn’t like to maintain funding?
More than a slippery slope, this settlement looks like the edge of a precipice.
More than a slippery slope, this settlement looks like the edge of a precipice.
~70% of the #Gaza built environment destroyed.
50% of #hospitals destroyed.
59K confirmed deaths, 16.5K #children. Does not include #missing people, indirect deaths.
Mass #starvation due to aid #blockades.
Daily civilian killings at food distribution centers.
Silence is complicity.
50% of #hospitals destroyed.
59K confirmed deaths, 16.5K #children. Does not include #missing people, indirect deaths.
Mass #starvation due to aid #blockades.
Daily civilian killings at food distribution centers.
Silence is complicity.
July 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
~70% of the #Gaza built environment destroyed.
50% of #hospitals destroyed.
59K confirmed deaths, 16.5K #children. Does not include #missing people, indirect deaths.
Mass #starvation due to aid #blockades.
Daily civilian killings at food distribution centers.
Silence is complicity.
50% of #hospitals destroyed.
59K confirmed deaths, 16.5K #children. Does not include #missing people, indirect deaths.
Mass #starvation due to aid #blockades.
Daily civilian killings at food distribution centers.
Silence is complicity.
This is truly unbelievable given the rhetoric of the #Meloni government.
But it speaks volume about the resilience of democracies in #Europe, where even the far right has to capitulate to its daunting demographic trends.
But it speaks volume about the resilience of democracies in #Europe, where even the far right has to capitulate to its daunting demographic trends.
I had to read this twice to believe it...Meloni, who ran for office on an anti-immigration platform, has now announced plans to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants, in order to deal with the Italian labor shortage
www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
Italy to issue half million non-EU work visas over next three years
The move is part of a strategy to expand legal immigration channels in response to labor shortages.
www.reuters.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Yes, props. But where has pretty much every #Democrat (including Jeffries) been thus far?
Media attention is one of the tools that Dems have as the minority in the House, so props to Jeffries for holding the floor and driving some more attention to why this bill is so harmful.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Why is Hakeem Jeffries speaking for hours on the House floor?
Democratic leader uses ‘magic minute’ tradition to rail against Trump’s sweeping tax-and-spending bill
www.theguardian.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Yes, props. But where has pretty much every #Democrat (including Jeffries) been thus far?
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"Not for you."
Palestinian citizens of Israel--21% of the population--are being excluded from bomb shelters on the basis of their ethnicity.
This is the society the West will defend at all costs.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
Palestinian citizens of Israel--21% of the population--are being excluded from bomb shelters on the basis of their ethnicity.
This is the society the West will defend at all costs.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
June 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"Not for you."
Palestinian citizens of Israel--21% of the population--are being excluded from bomb shelters on the basis of their ethnicity.
This is the society the West will defend at all costs.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
Palestinian citizens of Israel--21% of the population--are being excluded from bomb shelters on the basis of their ethnicity.
This is the society the West will defend at all costs.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
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The opposite of universal basic income paired with a wealth tax.
NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill"
On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill
Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs
This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill
Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs
This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
June 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The opposite of universal basic income paired with a wealth tax.
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This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone.
If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?
If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?
June 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone.
If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?
If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?
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This is straight out of Nazi Germany.
June 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This is straight out of Nazi Germany.
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"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
June 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
Excellent analysis by @fabiosabatini.bsky.social for those who understand Italian.
Gli Stati Uniti sono solo un’anteprima di un conflitto sempre più sistemico tra autoritarismo e stato di diritto, che potrebbe estendersi a ogni democrazia
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fabiosabatini.substack.com/p/la-guerra-...
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fabiosabatini.substack.com/p/la-guerra-...
La guerra civile di Trump
Gli Stati Uniti sono solo un’anteprima di un conflitto sempre più sistemico tra autoritarismo e stato di diritto, che potrebbe estendersi a ogni democrazia
fabiosabatini.substack.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Excellent analysis by @fabiosabatini.bsky.social for those who understand Italian.