I really think people underestimate the frequency at which this happens. There are a ton of incentives to ‘play’ in the U.S. cultural market, and the internet flattens the barrier to entry bigly.

It's true! I think the Constitution is a deeply flawed document but that the Bill of Rights safeguards many of our essential rights and freedoms. For more heretical and terrifying views on our political system, check out my interview with Ross Douthat today!

I'm happy to share an open letter to the Israeli government from 23 professors of economics across the US and Europe (including myself): drive.google.com/file/d/1D_Sv3J…

Whatever you think of DEI policies, it is important to recognize that free speech and academic freedom apply just as much to ideas associated with DEI as to any other ideas. If you don’t recognize that, you’re not a principled supporter of free speech and academic freedom.

Pew Research - President Trump Approval 🟢 Approve: 38% (-22) 🔴 Disapprove: 60% --- • White: 47-52 (-5) • Black: 15-83 (-68) • Hispanic: 27-70 (-43) • Asian: 31-66 (-35) --- • Ages 18-29: 33-66 (-33) • Ages 30-49: 34-65 (-31) • Ages 50-64: 45-54 (-9) • Ages 65+: 44-53

Time to explain unit roots again.

This was pretty much always the sophisticated greedflation theory, not the “greed went up” strawman

I don’t mind, I still got love for my haters

Appreciate the sentiment. To add to our good faith, please note that G Elliott and I post our code publicly. Split Ticket doesn’t. Conclude from that what you will.

I’m gonna get my just desserts for all the kids I hurt MAYBE

Sadly this is a metaphor for all of US policing (But yes worse when done by overtly violating the US Constitution)

I don’t think you should trust our WAR model either for this question. The point is WAR modeling, like regression with controls, is arbitrary in a way research design isn’t.

Over the past couple days I learned about a whole world of election data guys who talk like this

I wrote one douchey tweet a few days ago I regret, and others' douchey tweets don't excuse mine. Important that we stick to the issues

Federico Vaggi Jake M. Grumbach Like, I think the distinction here is that Jake is pretty explicitly arguing *against* using WAR B-G as a causal model.

Get in boys, we're speed running the economics profession from 1985 to 2005.

this is like watching prime costanza

Clear example of engagement maximization/profit incentives in social media making a good thing into a bad thing