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OMG I just had a thought. (I know, occasionally it still happens).In Japan, workers get seniority-based raises. In America they often don't.So HOUSE PRICE APPRECIATION became the vehicle by which
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1/A follow-up thread on Nobel Prizes and Big Questions. Branko asks: Why don't we award prizes for economists who work on the incredibly important question of how China grew so
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1/This thread argues that prizes like the Econ Nobel should be given based on the importance of the questions people *ask*, not on how sure we are that they got
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1/People sometimes ask me how I form my ideas about the world! Well, folks, there are basically two ingredients: Song lyrics, and data. Just read a bunch of papers and
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1/Buildings in San Francisco that look like sand-colored rectangles: A thread 2/Let's start with Market Center, a tower complex that looks like it was designed by a 6-year-old boy learning
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1/Here's my post on today's Econ Nobel Prize:https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-12/economists-are-starting-to-think-like-engineers?sref=R8NfLgwS 2/As my colleague @skominers wrote, this prize is well-deserved!https:/
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WOW. It isn't just in the U.S. where negative opinions of China have soared. It's all across the developed world.https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/10/06/unfavorable-views-of-china-reach-historic-highs-in-many-countries/ The %
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1/Today's @bopinion post is about Trump's taxes, and what they show about how America allocates capital.We appear to have some big problems.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-07/trump-s-taxes-show-something-s-wrong-w
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The ideal of the Middle Class is to minimize the social status differences that arise from occupations. It means that someone who works all their life in an Amazon warehouse
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Battery prices are falling by double-digit percentages every year. Over the last decade they're down by 87%.This is a technological revolution.https://twitter.com/binarybits/status/1308433358922358784 Everyone thinks about electric cars
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Today's @bopinion post attempts to answer the question: WTF happened in 1971???https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-09-16/how-1970s-oil-prices-stagflation-changed-the-u-s-economy?sref=R8NfLgwS 2/The question is posed on this
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1/Today's @bopinion post is about Japan's next Prime Minster, Yoshihide Suga, and what he needs to do in order to revitalize Japan's economy.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-09-15/how-yoshihide-suga-can-finish-wha
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