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Seth
@sethddunn.bsky.social
Attempting to understand things
The price of a team's baseball hat should be correlated with how well they're doing.

Discourages bandwagoning but more importantly, I could get a Pirates hat for cheap
May 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
What non fiction book has influenced your worldview the most?
May 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Substack and LinkedIn adding short form video content.. it’s really so over
May 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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i just think it’s so funny that there’s folks who think ***this administration*** will build more nuclear power plants and that it would be a good thing done well enough
I probably should do something else besides laugh for a minute straight at the Trump administration firing the workers who manage the nuclear stockpile and being unable to figure out how to rehire them, but that's all i got right now
February 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I probably should do something else besides laugh for a minute straight at the Trump administration firing the workers who manage the nuclear stockpile and being unable to figure out how to rehire them, but that's all i got right now
February 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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people are calling what’s going on a coup, but it’s not really — they won the election after all, and they could simply pass a law to enable trump to legally do the things he’s doing. they could call it “the enabling act”
February 16, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Look is this really apocalyptically suicidal? Yes. But think of how good the odd lots episodes covering it will be.
headlines on Bloomberg:
February 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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He knows what he's doing.
January 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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bro is hoping it’s not too late to join the bandwagon
January 23, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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fondly recalling when Bill Nordhaus won the econ Nobel for his DICE model that assumed economic damages from climate change would be modest and far in the future
Insured losses from natural disasters topped $140 billion in 2024, up from $106 billion in 2023, reports Munich Re, the world's largest insurer.

“Climate change is taking the gloves off. Hardly any other year has made the consequences of global warming so clear.”
www.munichre.com/en/company/m...
January 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I made a gingerbread panopticon
December 24, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Someone should’ve sent this to Furman after his pathetic attempt of a dunk on Kelton
“Higher interest rates cause the outside financial wealth of private agents to grow faster in nominal terms…If the monetary authority responds to higher inflation with sufficiently higher nominal interest rates, a vicious circle is formed.”

faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/lchrist/pape... #econsky
December 16, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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It’s incredible. I don’t think there has ever been a political movement that has hated the public good as much as this one.

Every single choice is game-theoretically optimized to be as destructive to the common good and wellbeing of America as possible.
The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.
Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine
Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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I did some reporting on the structure of the home construction industry. It saw significant consolidation after the 2008 crisis, which fueled the spike in rents and home prices in 2021-22: prospect.org/infrastructu...
The Housing Industry Never Recovered From the Great Recession
A decade of depression in construction led to a concentrated, sclerotic industry.
prospect.org
December 11, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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And the new era begins. My Substack is alive again, and here's my first post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fraudu...
The Fraudulence of “Waste, Fraud and Abuse”
History repeats itself, the first time as farce, the second as clown show
paulkrugman.substack.com
December 11, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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this is deviously clever. @pewilliams.bsky.social explains how local governments can approach developers with approved but not started projects, and offer financing in exchange for owning the project at the end, and use it for social housing prospect.org/infrastructu...
FIMBY: Finance in My Backyard
Local housing agencies can use revolving funds to fill financing gaps for homes that are cleared to be built but don’t have the capital investment to get it done.
prospect.org
December 11, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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this is what i mean when i said that a lot of normies seem to think chatgpt is an actual agent as opposed to a machine that is trying to predict the token

the latter behavior is useful but not always optimizing for truth
Well this is grim
December 10, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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I'm sure this is standard procedure whenever someone is shot in Manhattan.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
December 7, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Painful to see someone so immaculately dripless speak with a voice that sounds so eerily close to my own. A dark vision of my life had the evolution of my political consciousness stopped in high school, rendering me a libertarian forever
I rembember for a time, a bit ago, I was ambivalent on crypto. like not my thing but hey internet money? who cares. then i saw this video in 2021.

look at this nerd. at this jank. these losers want to tank the economy so the can say Poggers! & wait 3 days to find out if a beer cost ¢44 or $71.
December 4, 2024 at 10:11 PM
𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘪𝘦: 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 by Peter Unger (1996)
Making donations for Giving Tuesday. Gearing up my heist crew to prepare for Taking Wednesday.
December 4, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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genuinely rich coming from a guy whose only answer to every problem of political economy and social life is “what if company too big”
It was Amhari lmao even worse than I expected
December 2, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Great listen driving through northern Utah and southern Idaho
December 3, 2024 at 4:50 AM