Yu-Ming Liou
@yumingliou.bsky.social
Unfrozen caveman political economist. In my day, we didn't have fancy tools like causal identification, but we knew how to ask: “cui bono?"
Former political scientist. Now I do research for an internet thing. The good one, though.
Washington, DC
Former political scientist. Now I do research for an internet thing. The good one, though.
Washington, DC
What do you think might make high housing prices in a handful of metros important? I wonder.
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
What do you think might make high housing prices in a handful of metros important? I wonder.
I think this might be the origin of the term?
November 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I think this might be the origin of the term?
First, we should all know you can’t save your way out of poverty / into affluence.
Second, it’s bizarre how they frame these stories around people like her: educated urban professionals who will, through ordinary career progression, earn their way to affluence regardless of these expenses.
Second, it’s bizarre how they frame these stories around people like her: educated urban professionals who will, through ordinary career progression, earn their way to affluence regardless of these expenses.
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
First, we should all know you can’t save your way out of poverty / into affluence.
Second, it’s bizarre how they frame these stories around people like her: educated urban professionals who will, through ordinary career progression, earn their way to affluence regardless of these expenses.
Second, it’s bizarre how they frame these stories around people like her: educated urban professionals who will, through ordinary career progression, earn their way to affluence regardless of these expenses.
Insofar as this was ever true, it has always been MUCH more true for KMT elites than for the public as a whole.
Support for eventual unification peaked at 19.5% in 1996.
Short-term unification has always been an extreme fringe position.
esc.nccu.edu.tw/upload/44/do...
Support for eventual unification peaked at 19.5% in 1996.
Short-term unification has always been an extreme fringe position.
esc.nccu.edu.tw/upload/44/do...
October 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Insofar as this was ever true, it has always been MUCH more true for KMT elites than for the public as a whole.
Support for eventual unification peaked at 19.5% in 1996.
Short-term unification has always been an extreme fringe position.
esc.nccu.edu.tw/upload/44/do...
Support for eventual unification peaked at 19.5% in 1996.
Short-term unification has always been an extreme fringe position.
esc.nccu.edu.tw/upload/44/do...
The gall of this guy accusing anyone at all of doing “sloppy” work
October 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The gall of this guy accusing anyone at all of doing “sloppy” work
Kinda looks like CalPERS already owns the Big Ten.
October 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Kinda looks like CalPERS already owns the Big Ten.
Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy.
September 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy.
Hey DC, it’s past time.
September 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Hey DC, it’s past time.
Just thinking about this for no reason
August 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Just thinking about this for no reason
MENSA member, but leftistly. Truly all things are possible
August 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
MENSA member, but leftistly. Truly all things are possible
This would scare the hoes bc it would be an impossibly perfect symbol of decline.
August 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This would scare the hoes bc it would be an impossibly perfect symbol of decline.
I think it should become canon now: Sam Altman is an elite athlete
August 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I think it should become canon now: Sam Altman is an elite athlete
Inside every Zoomer DSA politician there are two (equally rabies-brained) wolves:
1. Wild-eyed left-NIMBY
2. Foaming-at-the-mouth aspiring Walmart firebomber
1. Wild-eyed left-NIMBY
2. Foaming-at-the-mouth aspiring Walmart firebomber
August 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Inside every Zoomer DSA politician there are two (equally rabies-brained) wolves:
1. Wild-eyed left-NIMBY
2. Foaming-at-the-mouth aspiring Walmart firebomber
1. Wild-eyed left-NIMBY
2. Foaming-at-the-mouth aspiring Walmart firebomber
This is all fair and understandable. And I am really sincerely sorry about the way our rancid administration is treating our neighbors, friends, and allies.
But this? This very specific thing? This is just embarrassing for Canada
But this? This very specific thing? This is just embarrassing for Canada
July 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
This is all fair and understandable. And I am really sincerely sorry about the way our rancid administration is treating our neighbors, friends, and allies.
But this? This very specific thing? This is just embarrassing for Canada
But this? This very specific thing? This is just embarrassing for Canada
Meanwhile, on X the everything app, people are admitting to spending 1/3 of the US median household income on taxis for their mall-parking-lot-restaurant food.
July 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Meanwhile, on X the everything app, people are admitting to spending 1/3 of the US median household income on taxis for their mall-parking-lot-restaurant food.
There were about a dozen Asian-American kids (that I knew of!) from Plano in my freshman class of ~1000.
July 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
There were about a dozen Asian-American kids (that I knew of!) from Plano in my freshman class of ~1000.
Every diaspora needs an insult like this.
July 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Every diaspora needs an insult like this.
Not sure if Ahmadinejad would carry Ohio, but 49/50 is pretty good
July 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Not sure if Ahmadinejad would carry Ohio, but 49/50 is pretty good
Just going to put this out there.
PMC, the revolutionary
PMC, the revolutionary
June 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Just going to put this out there.
PMC, the revolutionary
PMC, the revolutionary
January 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
December 3, 2024 at 7:39 PM
What a rich text.
“There are some confounder here… but [it’s] actually statistically significant”
Wow this fucking guy. Absolute legend.
“There are some confounder here… but [it’s] actually statistically significant”
Wow this fucking guy. Absolute legend.
November 4, 2024 at 2:38 AM
What a rich text.
“There are some confounder here… but [it’s] actually statistically significant”
Wow this fucking guy. Absolute legend.
“There are some confounder here… but [it’s] actually statistically significant”
Wow this fucking guy. Absolute legend.
“Guy who thinks price discrimination = substantive discrimination” is honestly a pretty good distillation of right wing brain
May 19, 2024 at 1:26 PM
“Guy who thinks price discrimination = substantive discrimination” is honestly a pretty good distillation of right wing brain
Meanwhile in the House Republican staffers’ groupchat:
“Only a beta cuck would feed and care for another animal they’re not going to eat”
“Only a beta cuck would feed and care for another animal they’re not going to eat”
May 6, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Meanwhile in the House Republican staffers’ groupchat:
“Only a beta cuck would feed and care for another animal they’re not going to eat”
“Only a beta cuck would feed and care for another animal they’re not going to eat”