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Justin Wolfers
Justin Wolfers is a Professor of Economics and a Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a Visiting Professor at the UNSW. He was previously a Visiting Professor at Princeton,…
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October 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM Everybody can reply
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We need monasteries for politics/econ people. This sounds like a monk/nun's life but for policy.
October 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM Everybody can reply
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Can’t wait for the econ guys to come out of the woodwork to explain how this is fine and even good actually
October 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM Everybody can reply
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econ news bringing the really abstruse sexual euphemisms today
adult milkshake turnaround?!!?

*STARBUCKS 4Q COMP SALES +1%, EST. -0.48%
October 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM Everybody can reply
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This is why political activists need to all take *TWO* basic econ courses:
Intro macro
Public finance or labor econ
October 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM Everybody can reply
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We had an NYT econ reporter who was the Bluesky main character only a week or so ago who literally claimed that reporting anything economically positive or even neutral about Biden was doing "Biden PR" and that only negative econ news was newsworthy
October 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM Everybody can reply
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Brandissant la menace de censure, le PS a obtenu une petite concession sur l’imposition des grands groupes. Il propose une version très allégée de la taxe Zucman qui épargnerait les milliardaires. Pas de quoi changer le caractère injuste du projet de budget 2026. www.mediapart.fr/journal/econ...
Taxe sur les ultrariches : le pari bancal du Parti socialiste
Brandissant la menace de la censure, le PS a obtenu une petite concession du gouvernement sur l’imposition des grands groupes. Il propose désormais une version très allégée de la taxe Zucman qui épar…
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October 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM Everybody can reply
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Rarement l’inquiétude aura été aussi palpable dans le monde de la finance. La situation des marchés est intenable et la crise menace, avec une spéculation effrénée incarnée par la bulle de l’IA. Jusqu’à quand la sphère financière va-t-elle négliger ces alertes ?
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Le monde de la finance danse sur un volcan
Les mises en garde fusent de partout : la situation des marchés financiers est intenable et une crise menace. Emportée par une spéculation effrénée, symbolisée par la bulle de l’IA, la sphère financi…
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October 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM Everybody can reply
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just wanna scream READ THEORY* at these people

* F.A. Hayek, "The Use of Knowledge in Society," 35(4) Amer. Econ. Rev. 519 (Sep. 1945)
October 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM Everybody can reply
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I will say that the big econ policy recs including “soak the rich” does not scream captured centrist to me, however
October 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM Everybody can reply
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Fascist states have no defining econ principles because they’re not advanced states. Fascism doesn’t practice capitalism not because it isn’t conservative, but because it regresses political theory to the point where less advanced systems like mercantalism or even feudalism are more apt descriptors.
October 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM Everybody can reply
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research prompted by this meme is how I, a former Econ minor, learned Keynes was a) bisexual an b) genuinely would have loved grindr based on the number of dudes he hooked up with who are specifically listed in his Wikipedia page (good for him!)
October 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM Everybody can reply
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Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"
October 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM Everybody can reply
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It's ECON 101. Herbert Hoover economics on steroids. The world is establishing new trade channels daily.
October 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM Everybody can reply
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spokesman who looks like he learned about financial products in AP Econ this week
I'm so grateful that we can get a quick word from Loan Depot in the middle of the inning in the World Series
October 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM Everybody can reply
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Its wild to me that ppl still insist on inventing a fantasy Biden admin in order to continue to pretend that cultural/ideological issues arent real. As Will notes, Biden admin saw significant movement towards progressive goals on econ aims. Turns out voters lied when they said thats what they wanted
Look, I obviously agree Dems should be willing to take more fights.

But the idea that Biden could have changed things if he’d done more to reverse “worker backsliding” is delusional. He oversaw some of the greatest material gains for US workers in decades. And those workers DESPISED him for it.
One compelling conclusion in the report: Biden admin was reluctant to pick “fights worth having” and settled for incremental gains out of “risk aversion.”

Former Labor Sec Julie Su is candid to me about failure to do more to reverse 50 years of worker backsliding:

newrepublic.com/article/2023...
October 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM Everybody can reply
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Le problème est que l'Allemagne dépend entièrement de la Chine (elle s'approvisionne en terres rares à hauteur de 95 % en Chine) www.courrierinternational.com/article/econ...
October 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM Everybody can reply
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I just saw a video that said cutting SNAP would lower food prices because it would cut demand.

I'm starting to think that Econ 101 either needs to be drastically overhauled or that you cannot take it unless you commit to taking four econ courses one heavily focused on externalities and elasticity.
October 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM Everybody can reply
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