worsteconstudent.bsky.social
@worsteconstudent.bsky.social
Sraffian - Value didn’t just fall out of a coconut tree. It exists in the context of all in which it is exchanged and what was produced before it.
So people have resumed normal spending after initial tariff fears because firms haven’t been hiking prices. If SCOTUS keeps the tariffs it’s gonna undo at minimum the last year of economic growth.
BofAI: Total card spending per household rose 2.4% YoY in October - the strongest annual growth since early 2024

Fifth consecutive month of consumer spending increases
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Closer by the chainsmokers actually blew up because it romanticized a time when Boulder was affordable. Few know this.
November 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
My take is that dems didn’t strategize who votes yes but rather Thune/ whichever Rs negotiated this put way more effort into getting ppl not up for reelection bc they did the calculus on this beforehand and realized it’d be easier.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Lmao Lyft lets you “lock in” a commute price. Literally selling insurance against themselves surge pricing you. Truly we have completed the markets.
October 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“because the mean is, in a sense, an extreme”
Common Aristotle W
September 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I think this guy has something to say about land.
August 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is how you make even the parts of Keynes that were wrong right all of a sudden
This is madness
August 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Is social welfare theory over? I really hoped there would be more hopeful results on which methods of choice are optimal.
August 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
So Luthercorp in the new Superman is pretty plainly a a palantir stand in but roght by an amalgamation of Elon and VC groupthink.
July 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Just saw ceteris paribus in a paper. Theoryheads are we back?
July 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Please god I hope this kills federalism
They’re basically making federalism untenable
June 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Kim on here is actually so bleak for anti corruption politics.
These 18 Democrats just voted for the Senate's corrupt crypto industry bill that greenlights Trump's corruption:

Alsobrooks
Booker
Cortez Masto
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Kim
Lujan
Ossoff
Padilla
Rosen
Schiff
Slotkin
Warner
Warnock
June 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Newsom’s speech is pretty much perfect in terms of messaging without opening himself up to criticism from the right.
June 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Leftists say be gay do crime yet hate Scott Bessent. Curious.
May 27, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Finding the optimal way to have a kid - call that VFIVF
May 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Game theory in shambles
The Liberals have won Terrebonne in the recount from the Bloc by 1 vote
May 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Who’s ready to run up some seigniorage revenue with hyperinflation 😁
I don’t understand why no one in congress has proposed amending The Federal Reserve act to include the following addition among the mandates

“Reducing the federal debt-to-GDP ratio to sustainable levels.”

Keep inflation and employment the same , just add to the equation

#econsky
May 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Eli Lily seeing that they can charge more for GLP1 agonists.
May 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Paul Manly running in Nanaimo-Ladysmith is amazing
April 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Let’s go we’re killing malinvestment.
New York is considering a bill to stop companies from using your personal data to raise prices.

The Preventing Algorithmic Pricing Discrimination Act would ban the use of personal information about you to change prices for goods or services.

www.news10.com/news/ny-news...
Pricing proposal targets algorithms, discrimination, surveillance
The proposed Preventing Algorithmic Pricing Discrimination Act would hamstring programs that set unfair prices using personal data.
www.news10.com
April 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I’m a full blown inflation hawk now. JPOW will fight Trumpflation to the end keeping core PCE below 2% regardless of unemployment.
April 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Does anybody know the Canada tariff rate?
April 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
So average tariff rate is definitely over 20% now right.
April 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
He’s so stupid oh my god. So true the depression definitely outlasted FDR.
April 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Hamburger expensive let’s gooooo. Trump is the best vegan president ever.
April 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM