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Prof. Dr. John P. de New -- Economist, Melbourne Institute, Uni Melbourne. GLabor, IZA. CarletonU, UToronto, UMünchen-LMU. Private posts in EN DE FR, @GrapheneOS.org @Signal.org Part owner of Canada #Never51

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John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · Sep 16

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I first read Goodman-Bacon's paper on #DiD and understanding the underlying 2x2 DiDs associated with every Two Way Fixed Effects, it really blew my mind. I found it tough to navigate, but i went step by step. I enclose below the Stata code, which does a simple GB DiD step by step.

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John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 27m

Wussy

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Wussy - Teenage Wasteland (Live on KEXP)

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John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 28m

The Shivers

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The Shivers Make a wish

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John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 29m

Superchunk

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Detroit Has a Skyline (Acoustic)

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John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 31m

Buffalo Tom

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Buffalo Tom - Summer HD

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John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 32m

Some cool indie pop

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Magnapop - Open The Door (Official Music Video)

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John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 1h

So disappointing to have cowardly Putin lackies walk amongst us

John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 2h

Oh but he DOES

John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 2h

Exactly

John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 2h

Totally agree

John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 2h

Oh this is so clever

Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 7h

“Words cannot express how much I love this. Humor is critical in stopping the Fascists.” Below, another caption reads: “Portland Protestors Baiting ICE Agents With Donuts on Fishing Poles Calling it ICE Fishing.” Image shows protesters holding fishing poles with donuts tied to the ends, facing several uniformed officers standing near bicycles on a city sidewalk.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 11h

They still don't get it.
They think they can come up to Canada and sweet talk us into buying their shit.
Ain't gonna happen.
Donald Trump said that there was nothing Americans needed from Canada.
We can start with you not needing money from our booze purchases.
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Cold shoulder from Canada is costly for American distillers struggling with global trade tensions

American distillers have gotten a costly cold shoulder from Canada

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John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 4h

Oh jees this is going to be expensive for the unis. Should never have happened.

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Careers in limbo after graduates discover university courses were never accredited

Students have been left with HECS debts and careers that are "non-existent" after completing degrees that were not accredited. Class actions have been launched against two Australian universities.

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John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 4h

Trump thinks that if he says what he is doing normal enough times that it suddenly becomes normal. No, it will never be normal.

John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 4h

Fascist hit squads.

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 5h

This is the same paper that claimed being in the EU had destroyed the UK steel industry. www.express.co.uk/ne...
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EU's horrifying impact on British steel sector exposed

THE EU had a horrifying impact on the steel industry in Britain, Conservative MP John Redwood has claimed in an interview with Express.co.uk.

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 1d

The EU and NATO need to bypass Hungary. Ukraine would be a MUCH better member of both organizations.

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Aug 24

💯 Orban is a corrupt fascist leading Hungary backwards, and a cancer in the heart of Europe. The 🇪🇺 + NATO would be much better with 🇺🇦 in, and 🇭🇺 out. And Hungary’s continued purchase of Russian fossil fuels is all about fealty to Moscow, not economic or technical barriers (same for Slovakia). ⬇️

B4Ukraine @b4ukraine.org · Aug 19

Ukraine struck a Russian oil station, halting crude flows to Hungary and Slovakia.

Research from @csdbuildbridges.bsky.social and creacleanair.bsky.social clearly shows that both countries could replace Russian oil imports immediately via Croatia and the Adria pipeline.

So why don’t they? ⤵️

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John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 9h

Unlikely! No reason to go to a fascist country subjugating its minorities.

Lots of lovely Americans in the US but there is no way I am going there again. Too many faschos.

Canadians trusted Americans not long ago. We don't anymore.

#Never51

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Trump says Canadians will travel to the US again after a trade deal is worked out

President Donald Trump predicts that Canadians will travel to the United States once again after a trade deal is reached.

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John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 9h

Will NEVER again drink, pay for or offer american grog as long as I live. I strongly suggest to my fellow Canadians to do the same. If you don't explicitly need to buy an american product, get it from Canada, EU or Asia.

Buying american just means more fascism. We don't need that on our border!

John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 9h

There is no resale market for ebooks unfortunately. I really HATE being bound to amazon for kindle books. It is highly anticompetitive.

John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 13h

#Never51

News flash: Canada has moved on. Trump, stay off the lawn.

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John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 13h

Apparently american Universities are severely lacking in spine. I had no idea that they were so weak. That's all it would take for Unis to fall over?

Forever forget the notion of "checks and balances".

Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 22h

New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social

Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms

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Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.

Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.

www.msnbc.com

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 11d

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

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Kevin (anti-anti-antifa) @kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social · 17h

it's hard to believe he's done a speech nearly every evening for 1322 days. He only misses a day if he's posted some other video (e.g. the speech to the UN). The nighties are pretty repetitive and much drier now, but the dedication to doing them is remarkable.

A YouTube thumbnail showing Zelenskyy looking into a cell phone camera while sitting at a table in his office. The title translates to "Day 1322 of war. Address of Volodymyr Zelenskyy to..." The name of the channel is Ze!President. The video is 5 minutes 17 seconds long

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 15h

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 15h

Danes are absolute heroes