Last month on VoxDev w/ @rema_nadeem @Kennedy_School, @Ben_Olken @MITEcon, Sudarno Sumarto @SMERUInstitute, Achmad Maulana @unpad, @vvalatas Asakreativita, @esatriawan @UGMYogyakarta: voxdev.org/topic/social-prot…
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DFM gained 8.5% on ceasefire news, its best day since 2014. Bloomberg reported Abu Dhabi fund executives booking return flights within hours. I read that as capital flows telling a different story than 'finished'.
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The long shadow of the 1997 financial crisis in Thailand
Last week on VoxDev, Marc Rysman (@bu_economics), @townsend_rm (@MITEcon) & @Christoph_Walsh (@TilburgEOR) discussed the long lasting consequences of bank branch closures: voxdev.org/topic/finance/lon…
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Fluidity of AI capital measurement, - conversion of model utilities and capital unit equivalencies . Whether it be human capital measurements or AI token capital measurements , there will be a measurable settling equation at some point in human and AGI intelligence ( as long as humans retain power control ) .. the new AI economic version of " PV= nRT "
@techreview @MITEcon @GavinSBaker @BG2Pod @JonathanRoss321 @benitoz
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Jun 14
What if we excised Dynastic Wealth to make up the difference?
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If we eliminated Federal taxes for W-2 households who bank locally, where could Congress make up for the loss by excising grossly-excessive institutional values accumulated in Interstate Commerce and banking?
@RLibertyCaucus @HouseBlueDogs
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What if we gave similar 401(k) tax breaks for our deposits in community banking where we live?
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Why would anyone in the bottom 90% ever invest their cash to sustain a system where 90% of the cash outflow dividends are realized by the Top 10%?
@Vanguard_Group @StateStreet @jpmorgan @MITEcon @ABABankers
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Jun 14
Don’t localities tax homeowners on unrealized gains when they assess the hypothetical future leveraged notional sales value of the homes in which they live?
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What happens when we account for wealth distribution on a logarithmic scale?
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Looking at individual wealth logarithmically, does there ever make a common sense to greatly excise any realization thereof when supported by the public @markets?
@SenateFinance @SenFinance @Vanguard_Group @StateStreet @BlackRock @taxreformer @TaxPolicyCenter @MarketWatch
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It doesn’t seem like the concentration of Dynastic Wealth is much of a good idea, does it?
@SenateFinance @SenFinance @taxreformer @TaxPolicyCenter @PrincetonEcon @MITEcon @tax
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Climate Adaptation: Issue 2
Issue 2 of our VoxDevLit on Climate Adaptation by Namrata Kala (@MITEcon) & Co-Editors Clare Balboni (@LSEEcon) & Eddy Zou (@LSEEcon) is out now!➡️ voxdev.org/voxdevlit/climate…
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An @TheAtlantic story citing research co-authored by @MITEcon professor @davidautor investigates AI and its potential impact on jobs and automation. theatlantic.com/economy/2026…
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New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP21594
Automation and Repression
Daron Acemoglu @MITEcon @MIT, @AArdaGitmez @BilkentEconDept, @ShadmehrMehdi @UNC
ow.ly/86kK50Z8FoH
#CEPR_PoE #EconTwitter
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Secara umum ada 3 instrumen utk memberikan bansos: uang tunai (dengan atau tanpa syarat), voucher, dan barang. Masing2 ada plus dan minusnya. Indonesia sdh berpengalaman dgn ketiganya. Apa lessons learnednya? Ben Olken @JPAL_SEA @MITEcon menuliskannya di @BIESjournal.
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Bansos jadi cash 5.4 juta rupiah per orang.
Udah pada mau siap-siap 2029 ini?
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