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17 Mar 2021
There's loads of protectionism out there these days. Keep your eyes open. Stay safe everybody.
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Jun 13
This is a great graph. The point is not time. The x axis is gdp per capita. The point is that growth does benefit all. The idea growth only benefits the rich is dramatically false. timely given Stieglitz, Pketty et al recent degrowth noise.
Jun 11
A way to see the amazing history of economic growth and declining poverty over the last two centuries.
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You've heard of grizzly bears, panda bears, polar bears, black, and brown bears. But could I interest you in this other type of bear?
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Jun 12
If SpaceX would have stayed in California, the state would have received tens of billions of dollars in additional tax revenue.
Politicians chasing Elon away with demagogic rhetoric about the "rich" have left Californians worse off.
Jun 12
Americans are struggling to pay for groceries and gas while Elon Musk becomes a TRILLIONAIRE.
When the federal government is for sale, the rich get richer and everyone else gets shafted.
The system is rigged.
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Jun 11
I applaud Piketty et al for embracing artificial intelligence.
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Jun 11
“Degrowth is the ultimate luxury belief. It's dreamed up by tenured professors in Paris and progressive think-tank pundits in Brussels” bingo
Jun 11
If Ayn Rand had invented @PikettyWIL, critics would have said she created an unbelievably ridiculous supervillain, writes @veroderugy at @reason. But his idiotic plan for global economic controls isn't fiction, alas... reason.com/2026/06/11/the-ec…
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Jun 11
Relevant for tax policy stuff at the UN as well.
Jun 11
One more thing here. Folks behind this report are very UN-linked. Literally started by a non-economist w/ a legal studies and UN background his staff (NONE of the co-directors at NEEP are economists) big UN and ILO events. Worse than just a nonsense independent group. 1/3
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Jun 11
"Taxing the Rich with Jared Walczak" sounds like @RichardMorrison and I got together to tax the rich, but in fact we had a good discussion on high earner taxes on the @freethe_economy podcast.
open.spotify.com/episode/5BA…
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Jun 11
During these playoffs, my wife has consistently refused to watch games until there's no more than about 3 minutes left in the game. "It's not competitive until then." She is currently waiting for her viewpoint to be confirmed once again tonight.
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Jun 10
Machinery and equipment is exempt by right for manufacturing in almost every state, because retail sales taxes aren't supposed to fall on production. (They all still do, to some degree.)
Data centers getting the same exemption, usually with stricter limits, isn't a giveaway.
BREAKING: Ohio secretly gave 100% sales tax breaks, lasting up to 40 years, to tech giants for data centers, per Cleveland.com.
The exemptions—signed by Gov. Kasich—give Google, Meta and Amazon at least $600 million each.
Legislators say the contracts can't be undone.
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Jun 10
Today, the Stanford @DigEconLab launches the AI Economic Indicators, a new platform for tracking how AI is reshaping work, productivity, adoption, and the economy.
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From CBO's monthly budget review:
Net tariff revenues for May were close to zero -- tariff refunds were the same as total tariff revenue.
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Jun 9
On the day Social Security's Trustees Report is released, it's worth puncturing some conventional wisdom: that Social Security's financial troubles are due only to changing demographics, in particular low birth rates and rising life spans.
That's not the whole story. /1
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Jun 9
Choose Your Fighter: Local media edition
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A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit
Jun 7
We should more seriously consider the merits of a progressive consumption tax
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Jun 8
“Perhaps the reason many billionaires are making permanent responses to a “one-time” tax is that its proponents keep saying they want to make it permanent.”
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Jun 8
In @nytimes with Steve Rose this morning! (link 👇)
We didn’t pick the title—our original report criticized a quote from VP Vance too. But grateful to the Times for publishing.
Let the goodwill and constructive feedback commence!
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Jun 7
This report proposes:
- Limiting developed world annual economic growth to 0–0.5%
- Capping GDP per capita at $69k in every country
- Requiring a three-day working week
- Reducing construction hours worked by 70%, manufacturing by 87%, and leisure by 58% (in absolute terms)
Jun 4
The world today is characterized by large-scale inequalities. And a climate crisis is looming over us.
We urgently need a new vision for global progress in the 21st Century. One that grounds human development and equality in planetary habitability.
What would it take to achieve high prosperity and equality while remaining within planetary boundaries?
The World Inequality Lab is very excited to launch the #GlobalJusticeReport.
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