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Inflation might be easing for now, but we are living in an age of overlapping emergencies. More shocks are likely to come. We need economic policy preparedness for micro stabilization. But which prices matter? A new working paper 🧵 scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpa…

With the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum there should be a serious move towards bringing back our artifacts. As an Egyptian I need a visa to go to the countries that have taken our artifacts, benefiting and profiting from their presence there.

Mamdani was what so many politicians, law firms, universities, media companies, and others have not been: totally, completely, authentically unafraid. That's the only way to defeat authoritarianism.