Professor of economics at George Mason University, fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics, IZA, CReAM/UCL, CEPR, CGD. Associate Editor JEP. USAID 2021–2024. Personal views exclusively.
Web: http://mclem.org
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Professor of economics at George Mason University, fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics, IZA, CReAM/UCL, CEPR, CGD. Associate Editor JEP. USAID 2021–2024. Personal views exclusively.
Web: http://mclem.org
ORCID: 0000-0003-1354-0965
Michael Andrew Clemens is an American economist who studies international migration and global economic development.
Innovation can change what migration *is*—more orderly, skilled, integrated, & tangibly beneficial to everyone affected
In 2012 I proposed one way: Global Skill Partnerships
The World Bank just released a major GSP roadmap—> hdl.handle.net/10986/42780
Who knows, of course, but it feels like what happens over the next few weeks will define the rest of our lives.
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* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon
The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
“The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith”
“The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith”
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There is no excuse. Several excellent alternative networks exist.
Several hundred people in Washington DC have the Constitutional power and duty end this immediately—today—and choose instead to reward it, poisoning our future.
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon
The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling.
If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
Let your representatives—in government and univ. administration and professional societies—know that Americans Right & Left reject the shattering of our research system.
Sometimes, it works.
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The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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Assistant Professor of Economics Abdoulaye Ndiaye outlines everything you need to know about a PhD in economics. https://voxdev.org/topic/everything-you-need-know-about-phd-economics
But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling.
If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No ability, whatsoever, to unify us.
No capacity to build—coalitions, institutions, a future shared by Conservatives and Liberals.
Just contempt, erasing budgets, blackmail. The only tools in the Playskool tool chest.
“We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day.”
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Their mass pardon, as friends and collaborators, is the opposite of Conservative and will endure as a historic atrocity against American ideals.
Renee Good was doing nothing of the kind, but was executed by the US government.
They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him.
Stop the lies.
The person the US President falsely stated was threatening officers' lives.
Just before heavily armed troops executed her, shooting her three times in the head as she attempted to flee.
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“We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day.”
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They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him.
Stop the lies.
“The bottom line is this: When a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep your life,” Representative Wesley Hunt of Texas said on Newsmax."
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Under those laws, the penalty for disobeying the instructions of a federal officer is not summary execution.
So this Congressman must serve some ruler other than our laws and Constitution, and should depart public office immediately.
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I have no idea how illegal this is, or if the law even matters any more.
But I do know this: It's unprecedented. No White House has ever before leaked such important market-moving numbers. No serious country does this
It was just one of so many days, one after the other, that showed us the arc of history bent toward something better.
I never understood, in the midst of it, that it was a brief window of time.