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Okun's ideas are absolutely not something that serious people should embrace, and I'm always glad to hear that they don't. But it's simply untrue that her work isn't widely used

I believe the bonus UI payments are reducing labor supply, but it’s striking that the restaurant owner rhetoric @tylercowen is platforming here would also work as an argument in favor

Good thread here and note the author is not an apologist for the drug pricing status quo (read his book!) but we are dealing with a situation here that is

I have this argument so many times where "some of the things people are complaining about today are similar to complaints that were aired in the past" is treated as

The simultaneous decline and nationalization of local news is very real: I wanted to find a non-Fox account of what Virginia is doing with its math curriculum to see if

The difference in my view is that Antifa and its supporters are totally separate from Democratic Party networks, the issue with “defund” is it was backed by a bunch of

The people writing checks to this group are doing enormous damage to the cause of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and have been for a while.https://twitter.com/sunrisemvmtnyc/status/1331361451420872710?s=20 To make climate progress you

I don’t think anyone is saying that the sporadic use of the word “Latinx” moves huge numbers of votes. It’s an *example* of how social justice concepts can end up

I think you have to understand the school opening debates in the broader context that bars and restaurants are open. What could justify that? Well it could be that schools

Here is Barack Obama’s top regulatory official, a law professor with no background in economics, arguing in the Year of Our Lord 2020 that minimum wage increases are an example

If you’re a single issue “don’t want the president’s son doing shady business deals” voter, you should vote for Joe Biden.https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2019/10/02/donald-trump-has-sold-more-than-100-million-of-real-est

Author of this paper says it shows there is no “quick fix” for housing problems but it seems to clearly support the view that if you upzone in affluent areas