#Years

An orthodox colleague sent me a math econ model this week. Simulating macro policy. In a model with no money. Barter essentially. That's basically what orthodox macro models are. My
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This educational "lost generation" narrative is becoming more and more irritating. It is untrue and unhelpful. If I were a parent of school age children (mine are grown up) this
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As we experience this overexposure of information from all sources at nearly all times, remember that it’s okay to take a break from technology.It’s okay to take therapy, to read
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. The harvest festival version, not the weird colonial fiction we learned in school. I’m about to get on the road back to Pennsylvania to celebrate with my
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It’s clear that @tedwheeler doesn’t want to be mayor not enjoy the job. Even he has to admit to himself he isn’t good at it. So he brought a former
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Sorry no stream today, going through all 1200+ of my highlights to see what's worth exporting to youtube, with the help of an army of volunteers and some skilled programmers
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Though I've been sort of inactive just in general online, my goal is to have 2 or 3 videos out by the end of the year. Which leads me the
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This has always been my shit but has turned even more into my shit in the last two weeks: elementary, middle and high school students should learn an uncensored and
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Been trying to be a good boy & lay off Biden, but if dude is gonna attack Trump from THE RIGHT on sanctions on Cuba (& Venezuela), that’s dead.Sanctions kill
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Commuting is often expensive and rarely convenient. It’s possibly the least productive and fulfilling time of our days.The long term future of work is changing and not sure being the
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I've gotten a lot right in four years. The one fundamental thing I whiffed on, which I'd like to have back, is that I didn't know Mueller went senile a
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Hasty note, about to teach, today's times piece on Austen's House/ context controversy. Important: Austen family's abolitionism went much deeper than article reports. Both Charles and Frank Austen sailed in
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Genuinely interested in what the people telling mentally ill to “ask for help” think happens *after* you do ask for help? Do they think we get pills and are then
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My John Turner story: some years ago, he sat in the row ahead of my on a flight to Calgary - in Economy! When we landed, he had some difficulty
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Any type of work done really well is tough. Especially if your trying to change even the smallest thing.Over the years I’ve found people element beautiful + awe inspiring, +
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In 2010 I was in You Don’t Know Jack with Al Pacino. I played the prosecutor that puts him in prison. At the first table read, I knew no one
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