Yes, I did choose to get a PhD and then pursue a job in academia, but I think it’s important to remember that I’m the victim here.

Today's productivity revisions further confirm how the labor market has more than rebalanced already. To start: Relative to levels & trends observed prior to the pandemic, productivity growth has continued to outperform 3.5-4.2% wage growth is less inflationary given this fact

Not sure I agree that hosting a podcast qualifies me as one of the 100 most influential people in AI haha. But I'm honored!

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Matt is correct and also these benchmark employment revisions have yet to feed into current productivity estimates. They will only be incorporated early next year Productivity growth is even higher than it currently looks!

Many are saying it economicforces.xyz/p/a-data-drive…

High prices are neither good nor bad.

Great article by caseybmulligan about price controls building on insights from Becker, Cheung, and Yoram Barzel.

But it should really worry everyone. It took me a while to see through the thick smokescreen of rhetoric, virtue signalling and contrived theory to realize that, more often than not, people who dislike free markets just dislike freedom.

DOJ: let's put out a call for rent-seeking remedy proposals! Fun. We need discovery so we can figure out what remedy we want. See you in February for some ideas. Maybe April. When should be doing your thinking about remedy? Let's see: (1/x)

Me too!

Forcing Google to sell Android would be unambiguously bad for consumers. Without Google, Android would die. Every single Android innovation, from computational photography to AI, has come from Google, not Samsung, Huawei, Motorola, etc. --- or Apple, for that matter.

We’re a 1 pot meal family now.

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