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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 1d

I guess there are multiple pine tree flags (the VT flag is a pine tree, and if you press a little, there are definitely VTers that would love to secede) but also lots of normies have state flags (anchor flags in RI, NY transplants to VT, etc)

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 1d

1. This is bullshit. In previous shutdowns furloughed employees have been made whole but after the last Trump shutdowns, congress, anticipating a future admin might try and stiff ‘em, passed a bipartisan law requiring it.

2. In a week they’ve gone from threatening to RIF furloughed workers to this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 1d

this is a very new england thing, too

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not sure I would wear Travis's shirt, but I would definitely put it my shopping cart, look at it for a while, and then probably lose track of the tab for a few weeks/months

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 4d

though honestly I'd be happy to read your Swiftakes

Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 4d

YES

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 8d

(But not for lack of trying!)

Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 8d

sadly, no

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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 9d

The US could develop its own cheap, fast public payment rails. Instead, it’s threatening trade-related measures against Brazil for innovating.

Using financial statecraft to help incumbents continue squeezing out rents at consumers’ expense.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 9d

Tired: Trump is punishing Brazil because they sentenced his pal Bolsonaro for attempting a coup
Wired: Trump is punishing Brazil because their useful central bank payment system is squeezing out PayPal
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...

Brazil Has a New Digital Spending Habit. Now It’s a Trump Target.

www.nytimes.com

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 10d

As someone officially ten years older than she was at the start of the show, I think that makes you young!

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 10d

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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 12d

been thinking about this very smart @bdmcclay.bsky.social post all morning www.notebook.bdmcclay.com/p/men-men-me...

men? men. men!

took a take

www.notebook.bdmcclay.com

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 12d

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 13d

Same feeling over here! I know we're just a month into classes, but it feels good.

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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 15d

With the US potentially coming to Argentina's financial rescue, I'm sharing my new paper on "Financial Statecraft."

It critiques the government's deployment of the banking system for geopolitical purposes and proposes reforms to rebalance public and private power.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 16d

😬😬😬

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 16d

Wired is so so so good. Also the best on reporting on internal federal hiring/firing shenanigans and everything crypto!

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 19d

I think your points are good!

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 21d

I think your talk generated the most questions! It was a fun time!

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 22d

referred to them in class as a an example of changing demand, and felt so so so weird!

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 22d

Apropos Miran making it onto the Fed's Board of Governors and using some technical terms last week without really getting into the details, I wrote more about exorbitant privilege, and Miran's origin story as someone who says they want the dollar to depreciate: open.substack.com/pub/ninaeich...

A short primer on exorbitant privilege and how it works:

Defining some monetary terms I threw out last week, and Miran's dollar depreciation origin story.

open.substack.com

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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 24d

its so funny how trump 1 was "manufacturing should be a priority" and then after the pandemic the Biden admin successfully made manufacturing an actual priority and now trump 2 is "racism is higher priority than manufacturing"

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 24d

It looks like Korea’s reaction to the ICE raid of the Hyundai & LG battery factory has gotten Trump shook.

It turns out arresting foreigners who are trying to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. actually hurts the economy and undermines what little economic agenda Trump’s managed to articulate.

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 29d

Later posting than usual, but: my newsletter this week is about Stephen Miran, his economic views, and what it could all mean for dollar dominance -- please check it out! open.substack.com/pub/ninaeich...

Stephen Miran and the Fed

Some thoughts about Stephen Miran, the Federal Reserve, and Exorbitant Privileges and Burdens

open.substack.com

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · Sep 2

one hundred percent!

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