@kier-hanratty.bsky.social
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It’s actually fine and admirable to have a college degree. It’s fine to live in a city. Achieving professional success and financial security is laudable. Being civically minded and patriotic about our tradition of democracy and constitutionalism makes you a better person and should be celebrated.
The secret to Democratic success will be a Democratic leadership that’s not embarrassed to be Democrats.
October 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It’s actually fine and admirable to have a college degree. It’s fine to live in a city. Achieving professional success and financial security is laudable. Being civically minded and patriotic about our tradition of democracy and constitutionalism makes you a better person and should be celebrated.
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if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
September 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
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When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.
September 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.
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I’m sick of all this pro-beach propaganda: every experience on the beach is actively unpleasant.
August 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I’m sick of all this pro-beach propaganda: every experience on the beach is actively unpleasant.
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There is NO benefit from Privatizing Social Security.
Adding on profits/fees only adds costs.
Introducing risks, to have higher yields, is not the intent.
As an investment, it *resembles* a Govt-run, low-yield, ultra-safe, guaranteed bond fund, not an individual, growth-oriented fund.
#Econsky
Adding on profits/fees only adds costs.
Introducing risks, to have higher yields, is not the intent.
As an investment, it *resembles* a Govt-run, low-yield, ultra-safe, guaranteed bond fund, not an individual, growth-oriented fund.
#Econsky
August 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
There is NO benefit from Privatizing Social Security.
Adding on profits/fees only adds costs.
Introducing risks, to have higher yields, is not the intent.
As an investment, it *resembles* a Govt-run, low-yield, ultra-safe, guaranteed bond fund, not an individual, growth-oriented fund.
#Econsky
Adding on profits/fees only adds costs.
Introducing risks, to have higher yields, is not the intent.
As an investment, it *resembles* a Govt-run, low-yield, ultra-safe, guaranteed bond fund, not an individual, growth-oriented fund.
#Econsky
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I support social democracy, labor unions, and regulated capitalism *because* I'm a small-C conservative.
August 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I support social democracy, labor unions, and regulated capitalism *because* I'm a small-C conservative.
Breaking News: President Trump moved to fire the official in charge of jobs data, claiming, without evidence, that labor numbers were being “manipulated.”
Trump, Claiming Weak Jobs Numbers Were ‘Manipulated,’ Moves to Fire Labor Official
Economists said ousting the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics could undermine confidence in government economic data.
nyti.ms
August 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Decades of historical experience make it clear: Where it's legal, construction happens.
Austin permits 2x the single-family and 3x the apartments of the average city, and builders aren't going to stop just because rents are affordable.
fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1Jygf
Austin permits 2x the single-family and 3x the apartments of the average city, and builders aren't going to stop just because rents are affordable.
fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1Jygf
June 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Decades of historical experience make it clear: Where it's legal, construction happens.
Austin permits 2x the single-family and 3x the apartments of the average city, and builders aren't going to stop just because rents are affordable.
fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1Jygf
Austin permits 2x the single-family and 3x the apartments of the average city, and builders aren't going to stop just because rents are affordable.
fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1Jygf
This is not true and he knows it. Who falls for this stuff?
Lutnick: "We do expect a 10 percent baseline tariff to be in place for the foreseeable future ... what happens is the businesses and the countries primarily eat the tariff."
May 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This is not true and he knows it. Who falls for this stuff?
Parking requirements are municipal cancer
God forbid local govts actually charge drivers money to occupy scarce public street space. What's next, public libraries putting time limits on how long people can check out books?
"Where are they going to park?," Rep. Dan Griffey (R-35th, Allyn) asks Bateman, calling pricing for utilizing on-street parking a "tax."
"Not everybody is going to use a bicycle for the rest of their life," he says.
"Not everybody is going to use a bicycle for the rest of their life," he says.
March 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Parking requirements are municipal cancer
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Once again, a fundamental reason why so many academics despise Trump, Vance, Musk & company is that we’ve all had our share of The Guy Who Didn’t Do The Reading But Demands to Be Heard
January 31, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Once again, a fundamental reason why so many academics despise Trump, Vance, Musk & company is that we’ve all had our share of The Guy Who Didn’t Do The Reading But Demands to Be Heard
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Just lectured on uncertainty and risk in micro principles. Discussed the public's aversion to expanding the health insurance risk pool despite that being the least-cost way to ultimately insure a population.
An annoying fact fact is that most Medicare recipients view further expansion of public insurance coverage as a *threat to a program they value* rather than thinking "Medicare is great, more people should have it."
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Also huge differences by age demographic on uninsurable rate. A big chunk of the fully insured are the 65+ year olds, who have Medicare.
December 7, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Just lectured on uncertainty and risk in micro principles. Discussed the public's aversion to expanding the health insurance risk pool despite that being the least-cost way to ultimately insure a population.