*Kid goes for a layup*

6'2" 12 year old: "No"

I see those British Egg Industry Council creeps got to you too, huh?

I would reach out to others around you to see if anyone is interested in interdependence.

Painting of General Grant in the Vicksburg Campaign

Going to Mississippi to break their fighting spirit, eh?

What Do Environmental Economists Actually Think About the Environment? Economists have a reputation for disagreeing on everything. But when it comes to the environment, the experts are more aligned than you might think.

Researchers surveyed hundreds of environmental economists on environmental policy topics. On some questions, 97% agree. On others, there's no consensus at all.

The divide tells you a lot about where environmental policy is headed: www.mondayeconomist.com/p/consensus-...

That and it seems like taxes are usually centered as an example of the policy fix when discussing negative externalities in a 101 class (perhaps due to its relative simplicity over adding an auxiliary permit market to the model).

It's interesting that they mostly agree about the need to have emissions pricing, but seem to strongly favor tradable permits over taxes. Taxes seem more en vogue in the policy discussion today, though permit markets have a longer history. Not an env econ practitioner myself, so I'm agnostic.

The Rock, advising someone to reconsider speaking

Lester Beall & A New American Identity | Poster House In 1933, newly elected President Roosevelt initiated what became known as the New Deal, a series of federal programs and agencies designed to spearhead economic recovery from the Great Depression…

The Poster House museum in NYC did an exhibit on the artist of these (scroll to the bottom for examples). They sell some prints in their online store posterhouse.org/exhibition/l...

I'd smoke anything with someone who could do a 1-hour rant about David Axelrod off the top of his head.

Similar to SCOTUS, from my point of view the Jedi are evil.

The fact that this is the topic of half of the sound bites I've heard from him over the past year tells me that he might have a very low ceiling as he gets typecast as the "vocabulary guy" in the primary.

Newt Gingrich and his wife Callista made a whole ass documentary about it when Newt was trying to build it presidential campaign en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Da...

What what WHAT?! This better be about pizza.

Work-life balance.

The personal finance press's version of treating GDP as a behavioral equation.

Elite higher ed has many problems, but the key factor driving down trust is political. Look at the graph - backlash against costs, admissions, etc. can't explain the changes we see. We should still reform our institutions and refocus on our core mission, but blindly blaming ourselves is abuser logic

Tbf there is always at least one cybertruck parked at the CVille Costco every time I go, and corporate has so far ignored the comment cards I drop in the box about this.

We're calling it "absolution," folks, "absolution." It's an old-fashioned word "absolution," but we're bringing it back. No hell, not even purgatory. They said "sir you can't welcome them back into the fold." I said, just wait. Woke battalions marching to the polls like you wouldn't believe.

Agree with your broader point about modern media reinforcing narratives. I just think that this early 80s example is not a good way to support it.

People in 1984 were probably more concerned about the twin deep recessions. They had also just lived through the similarly high inflation of the 1970s. Unlike people today who, before 2022, went through a couple decades of moderate inflation as a frame of reference.

A fair trade. I'd rather do a periodic spray and scrub of the deck than change another diaper.

This paper combines new data and a narrative approach to identify variation in political pressure on the Fed.

New paper by Drechsel:

www.restud.com/political-pr...

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Coachella is not for old people. It's for fans of...Devo, Moby, The Strokes, David Byrne, and Iggy Pop

Home improvement/maintenance contractors cold call my phone

They’re already making tanks, might as well throw some treads on them.

We got 95 theses about all this by the way, 95 of them, ok, which is a lot, people are saying it might be too many, but I think 95 is the perfect number. Got my guy over there, Frederick the Wise, thank you. I call him the WISEguy. Prince-elector. Big supporter. Thank you, and God bless Saxony.

economists ca. 2027, probably

Only 144,000 people are worthy of coming to my funeral.

making all the p-hackers look like rookies