44 economists were asked 3 questions on economic policy ideas. Q1 - Giving the President more influence over monetary policy would lead to substantially worse monetary policy decisions. Agree = 93% Disagree = 5%

From 1983-1999, Washington and voters demanded deficit reduction & politicians were pressured to pay for all new promises. So they had to appeal to voters without the lazy Santa Claus-pandering of free tax cuts & spending. Today's politicians wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes.

Oren, wait, I think I have the graph that you really want.

Senator JD Vance said that economists disagree about whether tariffs lead to higher prices. So this week, the University of Chicago surveyed economists and asked them exactly this question.

He. Is. Deeply. Mentally. Ill.

Now that the Haitian story has been confirmed as a racist hoax, don't expect its high-profile peddlers to spend 3 minutes in self-reflection. They don't care about the truth and they've already moved on to inventing 5 more fake stories to demonize other vulnerable communities.

There are over 600 car accidents in New York City *every single day*. Why is the NY Post reporting on one minor accident 600 miles from NYC? (No one was hurt)

This is interesting. (From Baumol, Blinder and Solow textbook.)

Springfield's city hall and schools also had to close this week due to bomb threats. Well done, everyone, I hope that terrorizing innocent children and hospital patients was worth that little tribalist dopamine hit. Time for a lot of people to re-evalulate what they've become.

This is completely made up, of course, just like all the rest. But what's more important is that immigration makes Social Security and Medicare more sustainable, and cutting off immigration is a way of forcing cuts to those programs.

JD Vance acknowledges the cat and dog stories are urban legends and then rationalizes it (via CNN): “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do."