THE chief economist. undergrad studying the reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits. “neoliberal sociopath” and "market idolator"
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2. suggest the country go East Asian Tiger mode and banish the central bank and replace them with capital funnelling yes-men
May 25
Top ten ways to bait your macro prof:
1. say central banks control inflation by money supply targeting in an interview in front of them
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Pic of my prof right before he slices my classmate in two for getting the asymptotic wrong
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Whenever I tell people I am an economist by training, this is what I mean:
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causal analysis? no, casual analysis!
My sincere desire is for people outside econ to start taking causality seriously
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sometimes I wonder at the stories of people that imprison themselves within a cage of their own construction, and how such a thing could be possible. then i remember i pay a uni to put me into group projects and give me exams.
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Jun 12
Making a profit is good and taking a loss is bad—from Isabel Paterson:
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Jun 12
Growth is not a strategy. Growth is what happens when free people are left alone to pursue their desires, constrained by respect for others property and liberty. I don’t live to fulfill some dreamers coercive “strategy”
Jun 11
Six famous economists — @JosephEStiglitz , @PikettyWIL , @jasonhickel among them — published a manifesto in the @guardian last week: "growth is a doomed strategy." They say they've done the maths.
I checked the maths.
The claim that growth failed the poor is contradicted by the most uncontroversial dataset in economics: extreme poverty fell from 44% of humanity in 1981 to under 10% today — during the very decades they call a failure. China alone lifted 800 million people, not with a UN roadmap, but with growth.
The "92% of excess emissions" statistic? It's one of the authors citing his own paper, without saying so — and it's not a measurement, it's a moral allocation dressed up as data.
The policy toolkit — "public control of strategic assets," "credit guidance" — has a track record: Soviet collectivization, the Great Leap Forward, Venezuela, and Sri Lanka's 2021 fertilizer ban, which starved the poor it claimed to serve within eighteen months.
What worries me most: degrowth is being marketed to young people who feel locked out — telling them their stagnation is virtue. It's a swindle. The young aren't victims of too much growth. They are the first victims of its absence.
Growth is the only anti-poverty program that has ever worked.
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RIP @SRamirez68083, our most beloved bear, swept away by the Mexican rain waters. He will always remain with us.🫡
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Jun 11
And just as in any xianxia the cultivation techniques you can read about publicly don’t work that’s Katie’s mistake
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You. Don't. Hate. Them. Enough.
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Jun 6
Rules based bankers mog, sorry activists
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Jun 4
Without Silksong, Summer Game Fest has no punchline
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I'm on a mission to make this plot as publicly recognizable as the one with the holes in the WW2 airplane
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If you gaze too long into the metrics abyss… calamities, disasters, tragedies, etc all fade away, until all you can see are “quasi random experiments” and “exogenous variation”
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11 Jul 2021
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the retweets are not to the correct, nor the dunks to the stupid, neither yet followers to the witty, nor yet bannings to rulebreakers, nor yet blue checks to men of distinction; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
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POV: econometrics lecturer watching the undergrads present their findings
Jun 3
President Trump unexpectedly called press into the Oval Office to talk about the reflecting pool project.
Minutes later, he holds up this chart:
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Jun 3
I'm increasingly convinced that a lot of smart academics are confused about AI because most of their worst experiences with it come from the classroom. But professors play two roles and are also supposed to spread knowledge.
In class, we test whether students learned something themselves. Sure, test them and do oral exams. That's what I'm planning to do as well. But in journals, we should publish true, original, important claims, whether AI-assisted or not.
Jun 3
There is no easy solution for AI plagiarism. The modus operandi of the journals will have to change, One possibility is that refereeing not be done as now by reading and commenting on the article but by arranging a video conversation between the referees and the author(s). In a conversation, it would become clear if the article is an AI plagiarism or is genuine.
Generally speaking, we have to move to oral examinations.
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Guys I’m a bald 2’ green blob with no degree or capital that caused the fall of the Roman Empire and the Black Death, is it over for me?
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