Pontifex Maximus Rerum Oeconomicarum Internationalium
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It had something special going in the late 50s and 60s.
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Another Berkeley professor told the author:
“In my second-year engineering class, a student asked me to explain why 1/2 1/3 = 5/6…. The lecture had to stop while I explained fractions.”
Jun 13
Berkeley math professor:
“Today, the more successful a public high school is at preparing its students, the lower its graduates' chances of getting into top UC campuses like Berkeley and San Diego.”
Berkeley admitted 45% of applicants from a high school where nearly 94% of “students failed to meet the state standards in mathematics.”
It admitted less than 14% of applicants from a school where “nearly 100 percent of its students in AP Calculus BC pass the national exam with a perfect score of 5.”
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If you asked me to design the most effective way to destroy higher education in the US, I couldn't come up with something better than this. And it's been going on for decades.
Jun 13
Berkeley math professor:
“Today, the more successful a public high school is at preparing its students, the lower its graduates' chances of getting into top UC campuses like Berkeley and San Diego.”
Berkeley admitted 45% of applicants from a high school where nearly 94% of “students failed to meet the state standards in mathematics.”
It admitted less than 14% of applicants from a school where “nearly 100 percent of its students in AP Calculus BC pass the national exam with a perfect score of 5.”
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I don’t understand why we have to have jobs and paychecks and everything when we could just trust Elizabeth Warren to give us what we need.
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But we're not in an Ian Fleming novel. We're in an Ayn Rand novel.
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Elon Musk is a real-life Bond villain ft.trib.al/zAOuVKk
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To the untrained layman's eye, it might seem that I'm "losing money" 🙄 In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. I am "hedging" and "loss harvesting." You wouldn't get it 😏
Now now, serious business school types assured me that ex post realized returns didn't matter, only ex ante conditional covariances do
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Supply shocks and nominal anchors. FTPL with supply and demand shocks.
grumpy-economist.com/p/suppl…
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Minnesota economists could never. This has magic zip code energy written all over. 😳
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Even in involuntary retirement Larry Legend cannot stop winning.
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Featured in the latest Digest: The Dollar's Evolving Role in International Bond Markets
nber.org/digest/202606/dolla…
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The degree to which leftists keep coming out with increasingly laughable & cringy stuff goes to show how desperate and demoralized they are. Climate is no selling, inequality is not selling, "data centers" is not selling. They lost Gen Z. BRICS & co in shambles. LatAm turning.
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BEWARE OF HE WHO WOULD DENY YOU ACCESS TO INFORMATION, FOR IN HIS HEART HE DREAMS HIMSELF YOUR MASTER
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Anthropic secretly steers their models to change how you think and what you can think. Don't believe them when they say they will "roll things back". Watch their actions. They are resentful that they've been noticed
They want to control you
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