Presidents are temporary, Wu-Tang is forever

"The lesson Democrats should take away from Biden’s political collapse is that denial isn’t a strategy," @MattBai writes. wapo.st/4hBtL6d

One of my favorite bits of trivia is that Trump doesn’t grasp the concept of “time zones.”

It's only a real department if it comes from the Département region in France

So I guess Chef Boyardee is pretty much a lock for the Council of Economic Advisers at this point, right?

I write this tweet not as an economist, but as a citizen (of the US, but also of the world). It is one thing to be against immigration. It is another to forget that immigrants are human beings, worthy of respect. It is one thing to be against foreign aid. It is another to stop

This is the moment where - if you voted Trump - you are sorry … if not for the Ukrainians (I know, I know, Americans first), for how you fuvked up American geopolitical prospects …. and when you are sorry you should say it loudly in the hope that the idiot in top understands

He’s good in many ways, but Sir Alex Younger is also very good at explaining the fundamentals of the strategic situation at this point in time.

Trump’s attack on US institutions, even if fully expected, is dispiriting, discombobulating and dangerous. In this very difficult time, we have to remember one thing: This is not normal, and it should not be normalized. If, as I hope, the US democracy survives and (somehow)

In order to fight back against Trump, Democrats need to recapture the spirit of 1992 -- low inflation, deficit reduction, defending freedom and democracy, and abandoning silly language policing and activism. noahpinion.blog/p/how-the-demo…

Every time I see someone praising Elon as the most important or smartest person in history I want to vomit. Guy is 1 standard deviation above midwit (at best) and >5 standard deviations in the cunning ruthlessness & manipulative categories.

Bouillon is just expensive MSG 🙂

Defunding NSF and other government support for research would be an unusually large self-own

A PhD is a valuable qualification, signalling to future employers your ability to work hard while mentally unwell

Noah is right here.

Why didn’t electrical engineers forecast the Iberian electricity crisis?

This piece would have sparked a major political scandal in normal times. Not anymore. Nothing will happen, but at least we have a record of this. wapo.st/3YV66G2

🎓 Today I delivered the final lecture of Penn's Exchange’s Foundations of Economic Thought summer course by focusing on the evolution of macroeconomics from 1970 to 2000: 🔗 sites.google.com/view/foundatio… 🧠 Unsurprisingly, UMN Economics features prominently in the story (although

Good night. Tomorrow will be worse.