Google casually dropped a quantum computing chip that's faster than every supercomputer out there. Oh, and it accidentally proved that we live in a multiverse.

The 3 body problem is to Physicists as The one-in-a-thousand day problem is to Economists.

Political legitimacy is bestowed by the people and should be spent for the people, not on oneself.

A lot of economists have spent time explaining to Malthusians why the pie is not fixed, that humans grow the pie. Now we might need to spend time explaining to AI job doomers that, when tech increases capital productivity relative to labor, welfare need not fall. Lower wage is

Aside from the general issues about Trump‘s tariff and his economic nationalism strategy, today’s actions against Canada and Mexico are inexplicable and dangerous. 1/8

Funny how this counters current views. x.com/elonmusk/statu…

On the USA -Canada tariffs and retaliatory tariffs scenario..there is no better time to read this. facsocsci.mcmaster.ca/econ/rsrch/pap…

Suspend all anti‑dumping and countervailing duties. Broadcast the message that Canada is here to be the world’s predatory dumping ground for manufactured goods and subsidized agricultural products.

Tariff proponents are the flat earthers of economics.

It is the rich people in Europe that eat fresh farm foods like the poor people in Africa while it is the poor people in Europe that eat junk food like the rich people in Africa.

I wonder what math was lost in the library of Alexandria.

In most Canadian cities, it remains illegal to build anything but single-family homes on the majority of residential land. Toronto reserves 70% of residential land for detached houses while Vancouver restricts 76% to single-family homes. Townhouses, duplexes, triplexes and

We’re Already in Recession - Jim Rickards Our fantastic conversation with the economic guru about Trump, the tariffs, and the future of America's economy is available in full, right now, here on X.

7yo is asking for a toy that we told her is too expensive. “If we went online and gave it a bad review, would the price go down?”

me, 22: ‘I want to fix development.’ me, 28: ‘heteroskedasticity robust standard errors (Arellano 1987)’

Peer review in econ should include (at least) one referee who is explicitly asked to review the code and data.

"In theory, there is no difference between practice and theory. In practice, there is." - Yogi Berra

We need this!

Despite a growing population, rents in Austin have decreased, thanks to policies that encourage more home building. Canadian cities can do the same: buildcanada.com/memos/housing-…

Libertarianism is working far better in Argentina than almost anyone expected, even libertarians