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today we directly purchased Argentine pesos Blogging at https://someunpleasant.substack.com/

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 4d

New post: Gen Z is mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore. But what are young people mad about? And why is it lowkey like Taylor Swift's latest album?

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Rage For The Dying Of The Light

We are the world, we are the children

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2h

A lot of horror stuff comes from made up shit about Gein it's insane

Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2h

Scott Bessent trying to spend the Argentine pesos he bought in 2026:

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2h

TL: DR kept a peg on for way too long and then set up a nonsensical system to replace it where the peso appreciates *and* interest rates go up *and* they don't buy any reserves which made everyone pissed off

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Homo Economicus or Homo Argentum?

My "I will defend the exchange rate at any cost" t shirt is leading people to ask too many questions already answered by my shirt

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Scott Bessent to make purchases of Hawk Tuah Coin to support investment in strategic partners of systemic importance and achieve fiscally sound economic freedom via lower taxes, higher investment, private sector job creation, and partnering with allies.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 4h

Surprising absolutely nobody Ryan Murphy has shown a complete absence of tact or even factual accuracy handling a story with sensitive implications and that *originated* most of the offensive stereotypes against a minority group

Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 4h

The problem is that none of it was true. There's no evidence that Gein would crossdress or use the skin or body parts of his victims as a costume. It was included because it's the version that quack 50s psychoanalysts and yellow journalism invented and which inspired Psycho and Silence of the Lambs

🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 6h

it’s awesome that Netflix’s new tv show about Ed Gein where he’s depicted as a psychotic maniac dancing around in a 50s housewife outfit and wig while wearing the face of one of his murder victims has been #1 on the platform for the last week. this is awesome for my rights specifically

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 6h

First chart from this paper, second from the new IMF agreement back in April

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v. 12 n. 1 (2024): Revista Economia e Políticas Púlbicas | Revista Economia e Políticas Públicas

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 6h

Milei has cut spending by 30% and the deficit by 5% of GDP, which isn't just large for Argentina, it's large for *any* stabilization program ever - the median adjustment is 1.4%.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 6h

Unlike Chappell Roan I don't hate to say it: I told you so

Though I don't think this is about the political capacity to reign in spending, it's about the program requiring either a higher exchange rate or higher interest rates and Milei not wanting to pay the political price of either

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 7h

The problem, in Argentina, was utterly predictable. Milei repeated the exact same mistake of the 1990s, stabilizing the peso by tying it to the dollar, without having the political capacity to reign in spending (driven by state governments) enough to make that sustainable.

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Adam Posen @adamposen.bsky.social · 7h

Global growth holds up despite policy headwinds and rising risks - New blog by Karen Dynan
Latest global economic propsects from @piie.com

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Global growth holds up despite policy headwinds and rising risks

The global economy is growing more strongly than expected this year, despite rising trade tensions and high uncertainty around US economic policy. Optimism about artificial intelligence (AI), particul...

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 7h

idea: defund all universities and kick out all the foreign researchers they attract

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 7h

Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 9h

No doubt we will soon get an Economist thinkpiece explaning why Europe is doomed if it does not copy America's worldbeating Dutch Disease

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 7h

mean

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 7h

We have a lot of studies of cash transfers on education. What do they tell us about impacts for specific vulnerable groups? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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R.L. Stine Cold Steve Austin @bolt451.bsky.social · 6d

Cant even have men Archbishops any more

Because of Woking

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 7h

i'm really really curious about how jennifer lopez adapted the fact that the character she plays in the kiss of the spider woman is meant to be either a gay man, gender noncomforming in some way, or straight up a transgender woman (the distinction wasn't *that* strong in the 70s)

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 22h

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 8h

this isn't economics dawg

NBER @nber.org · 8h

A greater genetic predisposition to being overweight and obese reduces the probability of earning a high school or college degree, from Jane Greve, Mette T. Jensen, Esben Agerbo, and @johncawley.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34322

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 9h

yeah no america is over

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 9h

maybe at long last those morons at the adl wake up that something bad is going on but again it doesn't involve mean signs at fancy colleges in new york

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 7d

15 years of Citizens United: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications... #moneyinpolitics

Citizens United and the Decline of US Democracy: Assessing the Decision’s Impact 15 Years Later - Roosevelt Institute

In a new analysis, Rachel Funk Fordham examines the 15-year legacy of Citizens United, assessing its impact on democracy through new evidence and political science research and offering recommendation...

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Peterson Institute for International Economics @piie.com · 9h

Rather than worrying about the China Shock 2.0 in developed economies, we should be much more worried about the China Shock 1.0 in low- & middle-income countries, Arvind Subramanian says.

Find slides & watch the Global Economic Prospects event here: www.piie.com/events/2025/...

The New China Shock is on Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs)
High and rising imports of low-skilled products from China
Magnitude and pace of China shock much greater than for rich countries

China Shock 2.0 Exaggerated
Implication: now impact for rich countries is mostly from Chinese high skilled esports
Magnitude and pace of China Shock 2.0 significantly smaller than China Shock 1.0
China SHock 2.0 no longer macro-economic but sectoral/technological/security

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 9h

Wow, so deeper cultural markers are more important for political affiliation than polling around superficial issue positions?

Vox @vox.com · 9h

In an era when partisan division is so febrile that acceptance of political violence has grown and violent political attacks are on the rise — the Charlie Kirk assassination being the latest of great note — it is hard to remember that it wasn’t always so.

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 11h

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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