David H Feldman
@dhfeldman.bsky.social
I write about the economics of higher education and international trade.
Love New Mexico & cats.
My books:
https://academic.oup.com/book/7559
https://academic.oup.com/book/5108
Social media posts are my own views and do not reflect my employer.
Love New Mexico & cats.
My books:
https://academic.oup.com/book/7559
https://academic.oup.com/book/5108
Social media posts are my own views and do not reflect my employer.
Tonight‘s libation is the Alaska. Monkey 47 gin and yellow chartreuse, with orange bitters and a twist of lemon.
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Tonight‘s libation is the Alaska. Monkey 47 gin and yellow chartreuse, with orange bitters and a twist of lemon.
2/ That is behind this duo of price indexes over long stretches of time. The great rise in labor productivity in manufacturing and farming is why we're so much better off on average. It's also why we spend a larger fraction of our income on services, and why those services are more expensive.
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
2/ That is behind this duo of price indexes over long stretches of time. The great rise in labor productivity in manufacturing and farming is why we're so much better off on average. It's also why we spend a larger fraction of our income on services, and why those services are more expensive.
Poor lost Mike ...
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Poor lost Mike ...
I went to a Forest Service website to check something out and saw the "radical left" banner. At a minimum, every senior administrator at the Forest Service will be summarily fired under the next Democratic administration. This is a criminal act and I would hope to see prosecutions as well.
November 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I went to a Forest Service website to check something out and saw the "radical left" banner. At a minimum, every senior administrator at the Forest Service will be summarily fired under the next Democratic administration. This is a criminal act and I would hope to see prosecutions as well.
And we know that compound interest on loans was well established in Sumer. Credit markets are as old as time.
arxiv.org/pdf/1510.00330
arxiv.org/pdf/1510.00330
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
And we know that compound interest on loans was well established in Sumer. Credit markets are as old as time.
arxiv.org/pdf/1510.00330
arxiv.org/pdf/1510.00330
Naturally, this is the one day I chose NOT to wear a bolo tie to class. 😀
Happy Halloween.
Happy Halloween.
October 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Naturally, this is the one day I chose NOT to wear a bolo tie to class. 😀
Happy Halloween.
Happy Halloween.
Who would have thought that a politically sensible administration would do something terrible that is so concentrated on its own constituents. Who would have thought that those voters would vote for an administration that so callously disregards their economic interests (and broadcast that to them).
October 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Who would have thought that a politically sensible administration would do something terrible that is so concentrated on its own constituents. Who would have thought that those voters would vote for an administration that so callously disregards their economic interests (and broadcast that to them).
Look who I bumped into this evening. The next governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia!
October 30, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Look who I bumped into this evening. The next governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia!
Saw the formal US premiere of Kayhan Kalhor's "Venus in the Mirror" last night, which he said he wrote for the women of Iran during a troubled time. It's a double concerto for cello and kamancheh (Iranian spiked fiddle). He also wrote the piece to celebrate 25 years of friendship with Yo-Yo Ma.
October 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Saw the formal US premiere of Kayhan Kalhor's "Venus in the Mirror" last night, which he said he wrote for the women of Iran during a troubled time. It's a double concerto for cello and kamancheh (Iranian spiked fiddle). He also wrote the piece to celebrate 25 years of friendship with Yo-Yo Ma.
Bring it on! This is an example of packing AND splitting. Pack red votes into the two mountain districts, and split densely blue precincts in NoVa, Richmond, and in the urban areas of the peninsula and Norfolk region to make everything else blue.
Bye bye, Rob Wittman, the pretend moderate ...
Bye bye, Rob Wittman, the pretend moderate ...
October 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Bring it on! This is an example of packing AND splitting. Pack red votes into the two mountain districts, and split densely blue precincts in NoVa, Richmond, and in the urban areas of the peninsula and Norfolk region to make everything else blue.
Bye bye, Rob Wittman, the pretend moderate ...
Bye bye, Rob Wittman, the pretend moderate ...
From today’s No Kings rally in little Williamsburg, VA.
October 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
From today’s No Kings rally in little Williamsburg, VA.
My father in his antifa uniform.
October 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My father in his antifa uniform.
Conservative critics seem to have watched a different movie than I did. This review is worth reading if you want to dissect the tortured "logic" of people like Ben Shapiro and others.
When I heard DeCaprio shout "¡Viva la revolución!," I chuckled. Here was a slightly incompetent "revolutionary"
When I heard DeCaprio shout "¡Viva la revolución!," I chuckled. Here was a slightly incompetent "revolutionary"
October 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Conservative critics seem to have watched a different movie than I did. This review is worth reading if you want to dissect the tortured "logic" of people like Ben Shapiro and others.
When I heard DeCaprio shout "¡Viva la revolución!," I chuckled. Here was a slightly incompetent "revolutionary"
When I heard DeCaprio shout "¡Viva la revolución!," I chuckled. Here was a slightly incompetent "revolutionary"
2/ Wife wanted The Aviation ...
October 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
2/ Wife wanted The Aviation ...
Time for a wet martini.
October 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Time for a wet martini.
2/ Very different story at Health and Human Services.
One agency has ethical leadership. One does not. See ...
One agency has ethical leadership. One does not. See ...
October 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
2/ Very different story at Health and Human Services.
One agency has ethical leadership. One does not. See ...
One agency has ethical leadership. One does not. See ...
Notice what you do NOT see on the BLS website at present.
There is no illegal (Hatch Act) blaming of the Democrats for the shutdown.
There is no illegal (Hatch Act) blaming of the Democrats for the shutdown.
October 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Notice what you do NOT see on the BLS website at present.
There is no illegal (Hatch Act) blaming of the Democrats for the shutdown.
There is no illegal (Hatch Act) blaming of the Democrats for the shutdown.
I almost expected him to say...
September 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I almost expected him to say...
Panoramic view of the same area, in winter.
September 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Panoramic view of the same area, in winter.
Well, I guess NATO will need to down the next set of Russian fighters that "stray" into Estonian airspace for 12 minutes. Maybe then Peskov won't be able to say that it's a fabrication.
September 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Well, I guess NATO will need to down the next set of Russian fighters that "stray" into Estonian airspace for 12 minutes. Maybe then Peskov won't be able to say that it's a fabrication.
Well, St. Paul did say ...
September 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Well, St. Paul did say ...
2/ Jewish mayors. I knew a few did, but "Jews run the big cities??"
Well, Google's AI promptly spat out a small group, which is about what I expected to find. There aren't very many, and none in the biggies. But that's not what caught my attention.
Look at what AI said about Zohran Mamdani...
Well, Google's AI promptly spat out a small group, which is about what I expected to find. There aren't very many, and none in the biggies. But that's not what caught my attention.
Look at what AI said about Zohran Mamdani...
September 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
2/ Jewish mayors. I knew a few did, but "Jews run the big cities??"
Well, Google's AI promptly spat out a small group, which is about what I expected to find. There aren't very many, and none in the biggies. But that's not what caught my attention.
Look at what AI said about Zohran Mamdani...
Well, Google's AI promptly spat out a small group, which is about what I expected to find. There aren't very many, and none in the biggies. But that's not what caught my attention.
Look at what AI said about Zohran Mamdani...