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Ethan Struby
@estruby.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Economics
@carletoncollege. Macroeconomic expectations, monetary policy, Treasury markets, #TeachEcon
Views expressed here are not those of my employer.
https://estruby.github.io/
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At the same Jeff Tweedy show as @ethanjellis.bsky.social , although we arrived independently
A picture of Jeff Tweedy on stage at first avenue in Minneapolis
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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At the same Jeff Tweedy show as @ethanjellis.bsky.social , although we arrived independently
A picture of Jeff Tweedy on stage at first avenue in Minneapolis
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Instagram post with an image of a horrifying green pie and the text TACO BELL LIMITED TIME MOUNTAIN DEW BAJA BLAST PIE YOURS BY A SLICE OF LUCK AVAILABLE 11/6 Whole Pie 19.99 Liked by em_soly and others mnmtwinz AT LONG LAST! Taco Bell is set to release their Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie in restaurants beginning November 6th! Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie Tropical Lime flavored filling in a graham crumb crust with whipped topping. Sold as a whole pie for $19.99. Serves about 8 slices
October 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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A picture of Jafar the scheming vizier and Iago the parrot from the Disney animated film Aladdin
October 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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incredible things happening in my spam folder
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October 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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panel from achewood, march 11, 2002. two characters on a couch saying NO WAY MAN and BOO TO THAT
October 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Penultimate paragraph of Chapter III
Screenshot of the text from U.S Grant’s autobiography: Early in July the long expected orders were received, but they only took the regiment to New Orleans Barracks. We reached there before the middle of the month, and again waited weeks for still further orders. The yellow fever was raging in New Orleans during the time we remained there, and the streets of the city had the appearance of a continuous well-observed Sunday. I recollect but one occasion when this observance seemed to be broken by the inhabitants. One morning about daylight I happened to be awake, and, hearing the discharge of a rifle not far off, I looked out to ascertain where the sound came from. I observed a couple of clusters of men near by, and learned afterwards that "it was nothing; only a couple of gentlemen deciding a difference of opinion with rifles, at twenty paces. I do not remember if either was killed, or even hurt, but no doubt the question of difference was settled satisfactorily, and "honorably," in the estimation of the parties engaged. I do not believe I ever would have the courage to fight a duel. If any man should wrong me to the extent of my being willing to kill him, I would not be willing to give him the choice of weapons with which it should be done, and of the time, place and distance separating us, when I executed him. If I should do another such a wrong as to justify him in killing me, I would make any reasonable atonement within my power, if convinced of the wrong done. I place my opposition to duelling on higher grounds than here stated. No doubt a majority of the duels fought have been for want of moral courage on the part of those engaged to decline.
October 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Good to see that even after a revamp of the script and a remaster, the script to Final Fantasy Tactics retains significantly confusing elements
Screenshot from the remaster of Final Fantasy Tactics. Dialog where a blonde woman named Agrias says - She is a princess true, the sister of the late king ere she was made his daughter! To lay a finger on her is treason!
October 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Costco sells premade fried chicken and waffles now
Picture of a Costco container of chicken and waffles
October 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Not sure but the guy parked next to me seems to think it is
A vintage red convertible
October 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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“Guy standing by himself in corner” meme format. The guy in the corner says THEY DON'T KNOW THAT IFYOU HAVE A LARGE ENOUGH N YOU DONT NEED TO RANDOMIZE” Other people are saying YES YOU DO and “what the hell are you talking about”
September 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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histogram of the dots (wonder who that new dovish voice is)
distribution of FOMC participants' judgement of appropriate target of FFR for 2025
September 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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September dot plot
"dot plot" of FOMC's assessment of appropriate policy, September 17 2025
September 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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June dot plot
"dot plot" from June 18th FOMC assessment of appropriate monetary policy
September 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Enjoyed this variant as well
jamelle @jamellebouie.net one issue with a bunch of you is that you do not actually know anything and are just free associating with words and vague ideas you have in your heads June 8, 2025 at 7:27 AM
September 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Donnie Darko meme text Top left: “EVERYTHING GOT WORSE IN 2022 FOR NO REASON” Top right: “EVERYTHING GOT WORSE FOR NO REASON OR EVERYTHING STARTED TO COST MORE BECAUSE THE NOMINAL SHORT RATE WAS NO LONGER AT ITS EFFECTIVE LOWER BOUND?” Bottom panel: “EVERYTHING STARTED TO COST MORE BECAUSE THE NOMINAL SHORT RATE WAS NO LONGER AT ITS EFFECTIVE LOWER BOUND”
September 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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An image of a futuristic utopia
August 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Duolingo is giving me some useful vocabulary this week
Screenshot from a Spanish Duolingo lesson: Debes leer más sobre economía. You should read about economics more. Screenshot from a Spanish Duolingo lesson Este mes espero que leas sobre economía This month I hope you read about economics Screenshot from a Spanish Duolingo lesson: Tus padres esperan que estudies economia. Your parents hope that you study economics.
August 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Every so often I run into this old friend at the library
A backpack with a stock image of a horse, the same as used by the horse_ebooks account on twitter
August 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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I realize the size of the revision was not really the point with this firing, but taking that pretext seriously: the revision to the June data was large, but not exceptionally so. Recent revisions have been negative on average, but that's not remarkable in the time series either.
combined graph of size of revision and 12 month moving average of revisions. The average revision is about 5.4 thousand.
August 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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July 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The existence of Prior Lake, MN implies the existence of Posterior Lake, MN
Screenshot of Wikipedia entry about Prior Lake, MN
July 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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I’m at San Diego Comic-Con for the first time and the highlights have been seeing little kids and babies in costumes and meeting my husband (pictured)
July 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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screenshot of two tweets from April 8, 2021: Stephanie Kelton: "Have you considered the possibility that raising rates might move inflation higher?" Jason Furman: "No"
July 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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every baby i've ever met has loved both of these
amazon screenshot of stacking cup toys and stacking ring toys
July 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM