Garett Jones
garettjones.bsky.social
Garett Jones
@garettjones.bsky.social
Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Chief Economist at Bluechip. Author of the Singapore Trilogy with Stanford University Press. Went to the Louvre on a Tuesday.
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My favorite era for Snoopy’s look.
Good effort, Snoopy!

(Art from Peanuts Every Sunday 1952-1955 by Charles M. Schulz) https://ow.ly/ZGVb50XLfew
December 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Alas that extra European leisure time imposes a cost on the entire world-- since Core EU is a key part of the world's R&D lab

American workaholism saves lives around the world, every day.
December 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Everyone needs to listen to Gustav Holst's "The Planets", not for hoity-toity nerd reasons, but because every epic sci-fi movie OST for the past century has been directly lifting shit from this one specific collection of pieces, and you deserve to hear your favourite motif in its native environment.
December 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Venn diagram of people glad Padilla got handcuffed and glad J6ers got pardoned:
June 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
In which I explain how the Liberation tariffs are like high oil prices:

They make it harder to buy, and harder to produce.

And to make matters worse, the tariffs only apply to America-- so foreign manufacturers now have an advantage over American manufacturers.

quillette.com/2025/05/10/t...
The Liberation Tariffs: Worse Than an Oil Embargo?
This won’t be Great Depression 2.0. But this trade war will cost America and the world many innovations and great prosperity.
quillette.com
May 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"For Americans, there’s one way that the Liberation tariffs are far worse than an oil price shock: while high oil prices show up in every country, the Liberation tariffs will only show up in America."

--From my first essay for @quillette.bsky.social:

quillette.com/2025/05/10/t...
The Liberation Tariffs: Worse Than an Oil Embargo?
This won’t be Great Depression 2.0. But this trade war will cost America and the world many innovations and great prosperity.
quillette.com
May 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Big yikes in the commentary from the Dallas Fed survey:

• "If this continues for any length of time, many small companies are likely to be significantly hurt or even gone.... The risk we face now is far greater and less understood than what we saw during the COVID shutdown."
April 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Curiously, Trump appears to be alone in his bizarre tariff bubble. Other countries appear likely to respond with tariffs or other sanctions against the US, but for the rest they seen to speed up free trade agreement.
Trump isolates & harms the US.
April 4, 2025 at 1:42 AM