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Michael J. Hicks is the George & Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Economics and director of the Center for Business… more

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U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat https://theonion.com/u-s-military-carries-out-strike-on-scuffy-the-tugboat/
U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat Pentagon Claims Little Red Vessel Working With ‘Narco-Terrorists’
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Expectations for wage growth have been falling for Americans without a 4-year degree.
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by Michael J. Hicks — Reposted by: Menzie Chinn

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Proud to talk to the NYT about freedom of expression.

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She Was Fired for a Comment on Her Private Facebook Account
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In case anyone questions where our military owes its primary allegiance, these are oaths taken by enlisted and officers. Please read. Note the officers' oath doesn't mention someone.
Military oaths for enlisted and officers affirming loyalty to the Constitution.
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The Fed cannot stimulate demand from families who aren’t here, and it cannot reduce the effect of tariffs on prices by changing monetary policy.” @profhicks.bsky.social via Muncie Star Press www.thestarpress.com/story/opinio...
Hicks: The resurrection of Keynesianism — in a MAGA hat
MAGA is closer to old-school Keynesian economic policies than anything the U.S. has tried in decades, Michael Hicks writes.
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Brilliant businessman accidentally gives employees 7-month paid vacation.
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by Aaron Sojourner — Reposted by: Michael J. Hicks, Jonathan Portes

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On the news of H-1B visa fees rising to $100,000, reupping this analysis.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Feb 18
Have U.S. multinationals been growing remote-suitable jobs offshore rather than onshore?

Elton Mykerezi & I partnered with Revelio on new analysis. Their data is built from worker LinkedIn profiles & corp structure info.

Toplines:
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US-based employers expanded employment abroad faster than domestically for the past 7 years. This is particularly pronounced among Tech and Consulting firms. Highly remote-suitable roles have grown 42% faster outside the US than within the US since 2019, while there is no difference in growth rates for roles that are not remote-suitable. Cost saving considerations play another large role for offshoring. For every 10% reduction in foreign worker salaries compared to average US salaries for the same role, employment outside the US grew 13.1 percentage points faster than within the US.
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Reposted by: Michael J. Hicks, Jonathan Hopkin

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🧵 Everything we were told for years that people believed about campus speech, viewpoint diversity, & the marketplace of ideas turns out to have been an absolute lie. Every accusation, in the end, was a confession.
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President of Texas A&M resigns.
This is the second Texas A&M President chased out of College Station in two years as a result of right wing politicians and activists attacks on academic freedom.
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Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’
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China’s Snub of U.S. Soybeans Is a Crisis for American Farmers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
China’s Snub of U.S. Soybeans Is a Crisis for American Farmers
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⚡️OUT NOW⚡️#Inflation to remain well above 3% into 2026 📈

Ahead of Wednesday's latest monthly #CPI figures, this blog by @Econdixon, Jane Binner, Barry Jones and Jon Tepper is well worth a read 👇👇👇

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Decades of personalist rule turned Argentina into a global economic laughingstock, Scott Lincicome argues. Donald Trump seems to have misunderstood the lesson.
America’s Perón
Decades of personalist rule turned Argentina into a global economic laughingstock. Donald Trump seems to have misunderstood the lesson.
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by Michael J. Hicks — Reposted by: Aaron Sojourner

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What possibly could've happened in April to cause prices to rise this precipitously ever since?

A real mystery wrapped in an enigma.
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by Michael J. Hicks

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What I felt I needed to tell my class today about the murder of Charlie Kirk and the need for civil discourse. I wish I could've said more, but could not.

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Words to my Class About Political Violence
what I said to my economics students on this somber, dark and emotional day . . .
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by Michael J. Hicks

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Political violence is a stain on our Republic, violence against the rule of law and detrimental to the health of democracy supporting institutions.
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My latest on the fiscal environment for Indiana schools -- "15 Lean Years Followed by More Lean years."

Major policy error that will weigh heavily on the state's prosperity for decades.

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The Fiscal Environment for Education “15 Lean Years, followed by more Lean years”
My Talk to the Indiana Coalition for Public Education
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We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
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This graphic should be food for thought as we hear increasing calls for farm bail-outs due to the (plainly predictable) negative effects of Tariffs.

American farmers sure are rugged individualists un-tethered to government like all those city folk.
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Indiana has cut spending on education of all types. In fact, our state hasn’t spent this small a share of our GDP on education for several decades”: @profhicks.bsky.social www.indystar.com/story/opinio...
We learned the wrong lesson from the China Shock — and Indiana is paying for it | Opinion
The China Shock taught us that education matters for economic survival. Instead of learning that lesson, Indiana keeps cutting education spending.
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“All of us, as Americans, are joined in a common enterprise to write the story of freedom -- the greatest adventure mankind has ever known, and one we must pass on to our children and our children's children . . . " Ronald Reagan
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Republican Socialists . . .
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GOP stays silent as Trump becomes America's most socialist president ever | Opinion
Trump forced companies to hand over ownership and revenue to the government. That's socialism. Yet, Republicans who called Biden socialist are silent.
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by Atul Gawande — Reposted by: Michael J. Hicks, Joanna Bryson, Kim L. Scheppele , and 38 more

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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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by Michael J. Hicks

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"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit." CS Lewis
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It is difficult to overstate how much of a joyful tonic it is to be back in the classroom talking to students about economic ideas. Just raw pleasure.
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“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” A Lincoln
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The headline for this article in the IndyStar was:

MAGA, socialists peddle exact same economic lies to Americans | Opinion

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Commentaries - Weekly Commentary with Michael Hicks
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Taught several players on a Nat’l championship team in 1998-9. The coach mentioned (and was right) that more seniors left for graduate school than the NFL.
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