Actually, the data Saez/Zucman use in their book is from the universe of IRS records. For instance, fig 1.2 average tax rates by centile.

And as a reward to loyal but impoverished Lesotho for still trading more with the USA than with China: Trump slapped them with a 50% "reciprocal tariff rate" on liberation day April 2.

"Assuming that offsetting exchange rate and general equilibrium effects are small enough to be ignored,..." is doing an awful lot of lifting in that explanation..

that must have been fun. one tech leap for me was discovering mathpix (mathpix.com) which reliably converts snapshots of handwritten notes or web/textbook screenshots to latex/markdown.

He's contrasting future interpretations. If voters perceived Biden was beholden to 'radical agendas' it doesn't matter whether that was true or not. Pardons don't signal trust in institutions. And this is front page at Financial Times - he's aiming to reach people who might otherwise dismiss.

hmmm, I'm going to go with the line from the abstract that "lobbying by powerful and productive industries may have been at play" in explaining Andreesen's post.

translation: Ds asked questions framed around national interests; Trump camp simply asked, if we put your guys in charge, how much can you kick back our way?

Damages for being impeded in their certain plan to transform a Honduran island fishing village into the next Singapore is worth at least that much, but they modestly reduced it to only 11bn.

I'd forgotten I had turned that on. If you did as well, your projects should be in your dropbox folder under ...\Apps\Overleaf\*

the banana was sold just blocks from our lecture hall.