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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

4 years

The election is now officially Mr Rogers v. Your Crazy Uncle.

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Justin Wolfers

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3 years

Guys, the same people who booked the wrong Four Seasons are running our response to covid.

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Justin Wolfers

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11 months

Senator, I have put together the chart showing the two variables you were trying to link.

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11 months

Letting in too many people drives up housing costs for normal Americans. Stop Biden’s border crisis, and stop his war on home affordability.

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

I don’t think I’ve said this loud enough, so here goes: Every economist I know believes that the single best way to ensure a robust recovery is to beat the bug. There’s no economic health without public health.

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

Not a single economist or public health expert.

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Justin Wolfers

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5 years

Microeconomic decisions create macroeconomic phenomena...

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

Just as women get paid 20 cents on the dollar less than men, Harris appears to get 20 seconds less on the minute than Pence.

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

10 months

This guy's worth about $40 million, and took over $300k in PPP loans from the government just a few years back. He asked the government to waive his loans, and indeed, his future loan payments were canceled.

Rep. Ralph Norman

@RepRalphNorman

10 months

You cannot “cancel” student loans any more than you can cancel a car payment or credit card debt. That money has to come from somewhere. Proponents of this literally wanted student loan debt transferred to other people. It’s obnoxious.

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Justin Wolfers

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6 years

This is totally true if you exclude 1948Q1,1948Q2,1950Q1,1950Q2,1950Q3,1950Q4,1951Q1,1951Q2,1951Q3,1952Q1,1952Q4,1953Q1,1953Q2,1954Q4,1955Q1,1955Q2,1955Q3,1956Q4,1958Q3,1958Q4,1959Q1,1959Q2,1960Q1,1961Q3,1961Q4,1962Q1,1963Q3,1964Q1,1964Q3,1965Q1,1965Q2,1965Q3,1965Q4,1966Q1,1968Q1

Donald J. Trump

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6 years

The GDP Rate (4.2%) is higher than the Unemployment Rate (3.9%) for the first time in over 100 years!

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Justin Wolfers

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1 year

We’re finally going to see a Musk product in self-driving mode.

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

World leader who managed the pandemic transparently, scientifically, and successfully, is easily re-elected.

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

11 months

Senator, I am simply here to provide charts that illustrate your insights. Here is the chart that I believe you requested.

J.D. Vance

@JDVance1

11 months

An obvious issue here is that the green line is cumulative and the yellow is annualized. People rightly point out that college professors are left wing ideologues. A bigger issue with people like Wolfers is that he has an IQ of 110 but thinks it’s 140.

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

Basically, an admission that Uber's key innovation was to skirt labor law.

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@nbcbayarea

4 years

#BREAKING Uber CEO says the company will likely shut down temporarily if a court decides to classify drivers as employees.

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

4 years

As you read various arguments floating around that perhaps we should ease public health restrictions to help the economy, I want you to notice that IN NO CASE ARE THESE ARGUMENTS BEING MADE BY ACTUAL ECONOMISTS.

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

How are universities meant to persuade students not to risk parties when the first frat to violate those rules is... The White House.

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4 years

No other country has been this far into the pandemic and still had the number of cases growing at the rates the U.S. is seeing. ()

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

This is stunning: Nearly half of the Q1 decline in GDP can be attributed to healthcare, which is presumably delaying of elective procedures. It's a strange reality that in the midst of a pandemic, we have a healthcare-led recession.

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Justin Wolfers

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5 years

It's just astonishing how much time and effort the entire Republican establishment has put into deconstructing every sentence @Ocasio2018 says, even as they nod their heads silently at every nonsensical utterance coming out of the White House.

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Justin Wolfers

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2 years

Holy cow: There was ZERO inflation last month. That's the headline number, which is well below expectations of +0.2%. Also a good core inflation reading: +0.3%, also below expectations of 0.5%. Finally some good news on the inflation front. We've likely seen the inflation peak.

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Justin Wolfers

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2 years

Lotta headlines today about "inflation at 40-year high." We have a nice test of whether the media is symmetrically interested in good news because in the next month or so, it's likely that unemployment will hit a 50-year low. Will this attract as many breathless headlines?

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Justin Wolfers

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6 years

Average tariff rates charged by G-7 nations: USA: 1.6% EU: 1.6% UK: 1.6% Italy: 1.6% Germany: 1.6% France: 1.6% Japan: 1.4% Canada: 0.8% (Source: )

The New York Times

@nytimes

6 years

Breaking News: President Trump threatened to end trade with G-7 nations that he said use unfair practices. “We’re like the piggy bank that everybody’s robbing.”

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Justin Wolfers

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3 years

Some context on how Biden plans to fund his infrastructure package.

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4 years

“When you say per capita, there's many per capitas...”

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5 years

Worth watching and reflecting on.

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Justin Wolfers

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3 years

If South Dakota were a country, it would have the highest number of covid deaths per capita of any country in the world.

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3 years

Kristi Noem claims her “unique approach” helped her state get through the pandemic better than “virtually every other state”

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

11 months

Senator, I have checked the Census Bureau footnotes for you.

J.D. Vance

@JDVance1

11 months

A third obvious issue: pretty sure the yellow line measures only legal immigration. I am worried about total numbers, of which illegal immigration is the largest part. No one can argue total immigration has decreased over the last 23 years, misleading charts be damned.

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Justin Wolfers

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7 years

Amazing diversity as Trump's senior staff is sworn in: White men of many heights, tie colors

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

While shooing my son up to bed last night, he asked me to carry up an armload of stuffed animals. I told him that was his job. Okay, he said, but will you pick up any I drop? I agreed. He proceeded to drop each of them on the stairs, and I learned a lesson about moral hazard.

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Justin Wolfers

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10 months

His celebration omits one key fact...

Peruvian Bull

@peruvian_bull

10 months

Exactly 2 years ago today, I published the first part of Dollar Endgame- Hyperinflation is Coming. I never would have imagined I'd write a whole series, make it into a book, create a website, or dashboards, or be in Twitter Spaces talking in front of tens of thousands of people.…

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7 years

50% are below the *median*, sunshine.

Donald Trump Jr.

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7 years

I would imagine that 50% are below average... that's how math works. The real question is what is average now vs before common core.

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

7 years

Every savvy CEO will now threaten to ship jobs to Mexico, and demand a payment to stay. Great economic policy.

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7 years

Deal terms to keep Carrier jobs in Indiana include new inducements from state. Deal spear headed by former Indiana Gov Pence.

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Justin Wolfers

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1 year

"I'm not saying 12 white men would have avoided this mess, but..." Genuinely disgusting take from the @WSJ opinion page.

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Justin Wolfers

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6 years

A future economics student is going to look back at 2018 and ask me why the U.S. government embarked on a massive fiscal stimulus when unemployment was 4.1%. I have no idea what to tell her.

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Justin Wolfers

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8 months

Except when you actually look up the data, you will find that wages have been outpacing inflation for six months.

Katie Pavlich

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8 months

White House straight up lying today at the briefing by claiming wages are outpacing inflation

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7 months

It's been 366 days since this headline.

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1 year

Our dude here is not just a creeper, he’s also a terrible economist. He thinks his experiment reveals that his seat-mate has an absurd valuation of the right to wear a mask. But he’s forgotten about this thing called adverse selection…

Steve Kirsch

@stkirsch

1 year

I am on board a Delta flight right now. The person sitting next to me in first class refused $100,000 to remove her mask for the entire flight. No joke. This was after I explained they don’t work. She works for a pharma company.

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Justin Wolfers

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6 years

Much too soon to use a school shooting to argue for gun control. Far better to use a school shooting to argue for the end of an investigation into my campaign.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

6 years

Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter. This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign - there is no collusion. Get back to the basics and make us all proud!

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Justin Wolfers

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6 years

Just astonishing.

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Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social

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1 month

ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS AGO? Donald Trump Truth Social 07:58 AM EST 3/18/24

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Justin Wolfers

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1 year

Once again it's privatize the gains and nationalize the losses.

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

4 years

A careful study of the Spanish flu reveals that “the earlier, more forcefully and longer cities responded, the better their economic recovery.” In English: Public health shutdowns helped rather than hurt the economy.

Pandemic Shutdowns Work for the Economy, Too

Cities that clamped down early and longer in the Spanish flu outbreak had faster growth once the danger passed.

www.bloomberg.com

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Justin Wolfers

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8 years

We've heard all this talk of corruption and illegitimate elections before—when Trump didn't win an Emmy!!!

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Justin Wolfers

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3 years

“Hey dad, how did we do with the planes today? Not bad. Only 5 or 6 enormous jets full of passengers crashed in US airspace today. Great! Does that means it's safe to fly to grandma's for Thanksgiving? Yes, son.” — millions of American families right now (metaphorically)

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

It’s striking that Trump keeps raising Biden’s kids, but Biden won’t raise questions around Trump’s kids. There’s a fundamental decency to one of them.

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Justin Wolfers

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6 years

If you view fathering as inconsistent with masculinity then you understand neither fathering nor masculinity.

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6 years

Oh 007.. not you as well?!!! #papoose #emasculatedBond

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Justin Wolfers

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2 months

There's this weird thing right now where populist thinkfluencers just make up historical claims, assert them as fact, and wistfully wonder why no one else understands. Truth is: Elderly poverty was common, we passed social security, and it became rare.

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Justin Wolfers

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3 years

Stunning, and even more so when you picture each of these flags surrounded by their own field of broken hearts belonging to grieving friends and family.

Michael Knigge

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3 years

🇺🇸🦠 A sea of 650,000 white flags - one for every person who died from coronavirus in the US - is taking shape in front of the Washington Monument at the National Mall. “In America: Remember” by @sbfirstenberg will be on display from Sept. 17 to Oct. 3. #COVID19

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Justin Wolfers

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7 years

Of 559 Senate-confirmed jobs: He failed to nominate anyone: 79% Nomination not yet formalized: 3% Awaiting confirmation: 11% Confirmed: 7%

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

7 years

. @foxandfriends Dems are taking forever to approve my people, including Ambassadors. They are nothing but OBSTRUCTIONISTS! Want approvals.

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Justin Wolfers

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7 months

This is extraordinary: The U.S. economy is in a better place than the IMF was predicting back in 2019, despite a global pandemic intervening.

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

Survey of leading economists: "Abandoning severe lockdowns at a time when the likelihood of a resurgence in infections remains high will lead to greater total economic damage than sustaining the lockdowns to eliminate the resurgence risk." 0% disagree.

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Justin Wolfers

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10 months

What if inequality were falling -- and in particular, delivering real wage gains to those who need it most -- and no-one noticed because they were arguing about a fake recession that never happened?

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Justin Wolfers

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6 years

And don't even start me on the inanity of comparing levels (of unemployment) with growth rates (of GDP) or stocks (again, of unemployment) with flows (of new production). BTW, if you liked this tweet thread, you'll love the first day of any introductory macroeconomics course.

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

GDP rose by +7.4% in Q3 (pretty much exactly as expected), after falling by -9.0% in Q2 and -1.3% in Q1. All told, the economy is -3.5% smaller than it was at the end of 2019. For context, the economy is roughly as far below its peak as in the darkest days of the last recession

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Justin Wolfers

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5 years

Herman Cain dropped out of the Republican primary amindst at least four allegations of sexual harrassment, so of course Presidential Trump wants to appoint him to the Federal Reserve.

Jonathan Swan

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5 years

Scoop: Trump expected to name Herman Cain to the Fed

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Justin Wolfers

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2 months

According to the polls, Trump was meant to win: - Iowa by 53 points (he won by 30) - New Hampshire by 18 points (he won by 11) - South Carolina by 28 points (he won by 20) - Michigan by 62 points (he's up by 42) 4 states yields 4 examples of him dramatically underperformed polls

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Justin Wolfers

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2 years

No, gas prices are not at an all-time high. (A reminder: If you're making comparisons over time about economic burdens, you need to adjust for inflation.)

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

GDP for Q2 fell by 10% That's bad. Really bad. As in the worst decline in quarterly GDP in recorded U.S. history.

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1 year

If you want to know how that egg price spike resolved... 🍳

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Justin Wolfers

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3 years

Obamacare explicitly allows health insurers to charge smokers more, given their personal responsibility for their ill health. Why not extend this to people who are offered vaccinations, but refuse? Let 'em pay for *at least* the harm they do themselves. (with exemptions, obv.)

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Justin Wolfers

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11 months

Holy moly, jobs growth comes in hot again. Payrolls +339k Unemployment rate up a tick to 3.7% suggesting a weaker household survey Revisions are big: +52k for March, +41k for April. Don't believe the doom-and-gloom talk. This economy is motoring along.

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

7 years

Theme of this speech: Big solutions to imaginary problems.

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7 years

Crime is low. Net illegal immigration is low or zero. Immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than natives. Terrorism kills almost no one.

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

It stuns me that at a time when so many people are being asked to sacrifice so much that the President refuses to wear a mask.

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

6 years

Mnuchin's lie might be the most breathtaking of all. His entire argument for his tax cut is that it'll goose growth. He claims that a Treasury analysis shows this. He promised to release that analysis. And now a Treasury whistleblower reveals HE NEVER ASKED FOR AN ANALYSIS.

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Justin Wolfers

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2 years

Lemme ask one of those tone deaf economist questions that annoy almost everyone. Today, many families learned that the amount they owe on their mortgage has declined—in real terms—by 9.1% over the past year. Why do we hear so little about this? Why don't we see folks celebrating?

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Justin Wolfers

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2 years

This is bananas, in the midst of an almost-complete recovery from the deepest downturn since the Great Depression, due to the fastest recovery ever.

Catherine Rampell

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2 years

Majority of Republicans, and plurality of Democrats, say they believe we are currently in "an economic recession."

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

This is just lovely. Paul Milgrom had his phone off, so his former thesis adviser (and co-winner!) walked over to tell him that he had won the Nobel. Paul's wife (who was overseas) got a security notification from their Nest doorbell, so she watched live.

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

Lemme risk being serious at this moment and do some economics. No committee to re-open the economy can succeed if they're not perceived to be credible. If you don't have faith that the federal government is looking out for your health, would you be willing to resume normal life?

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Justin Wolfers

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6 years

and 1968Q2,1969Q1,1971Q1,1972Q1,1972Q2,1972Q4,1973Q1,1976Q1,1977Q2,1977Q3,1978Q2,1980Q4,1981Q1,1983Q4,1984Q1,1987Q4,1988Q4,1996Q2,1997Q2,1997Q3,1998Q3,1998Q4,1999Q3,1999Q4,2000Q2,2003Q3,2006Q1

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Justin Wolfers

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3 years

8-year old son: "Dad, in the movie Cars, do the characters get car insurance or life insurance?" ...and that's how I know he was raised by two economists.

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Justin Wolfers

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6 years

Lemme bore you by telling you why this tweet was an effing outrage. The jobs numbers are released at 8:30am. The President is traditionally told the numbers the night before, but told to play them close to his chest. But at 7:21am he's telling us all to tune in. Wonder why.

Donald J. Trump

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Looking forward to seeing the employment numbers at 8:30 this morning.

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Justin Wolfers

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8 years

Amazing.

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Justin Wolfers

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6 months

Blockbuster GDP report shows real GDP grew at an annual rate of 4.9% in Q3, blowing even optimistic expectations out of the water. This economy is going gangbusters, and it's time for the doomers to apologize for being consistently wrong for two years.

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Justin Wolfers

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6 years

Obama-era rule: Your investment advisor has to have your best interests at heart. Trump’s revised rule: They just need to admit in the fine print that they don’t and they can suggest whatever investments give them the biggest kickbacks.

Lydia DePillis

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Just received a notice from Fidelity warning me that they don't necessarily have my best interests at heart when giving investment advice. RIP Fiduciary Rule.

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Justin Wolfers

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Tom Nichols

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8 months

WSJ poll: 74 percent of registered voters think inflation is headed in the wrong direction. There is no reasoning with this many people being this wrong. It's not possible to shovel against that tide.

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

If he actually did this, it's as close to murder by public policy as I've ever seen.

Josh Marshall

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4 years

Trump: "Testing is a double-edged sword" ... "So I said to my people slow the testing down please".

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Justin Wolfers

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6 months

Funding the IRS pays for itself (plus some), you fraud.

Stephen Moore

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6 months

What would you rather fund?

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

The problem schools and colleges face is that they made plans assuming that we'd make some public health progress. It was almost unimaginable that we would remain stuck in March, with the bug still in our communities, limited (and slow) testing, and no systematic contact tracing.

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Justin Wolfers

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6 years

Hard to know who to blame: The Republican House, the Republican Senate, or the Republican White House.

Sam Stein

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6 years

A lot more sources i’ve spoken to today seem resigned to a shutdown. No consensus at all on who will get the blame.

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Justin Wolfers

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5 years

This is the first genuinely bad Trump pick for the Fed. But make no mistake: It's a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad pick. He hasn't gotten a thing right in twenty years, (check the record), and the Senate should not confirm him.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

It is my pleasure to announce that @StephenMoore , a very respected Economist, will be nominated to serve on the Fed Board. I have known Steve for a long time – and have no doubt he will be an outstanding choice!

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Justin Wolfers

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5 months

An absolutely bonkers example of the bad-news bias (and a failure to take Econ 101) in econ reporting: The @WSJ observes that the price of metals used in electric vehicles are crashing, and somehow infers that it will create shortages and snarl adoption of EV's.

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

Hey @BernieSanders , the government isn’t giving bankers a penny. The Fed’s repo facility is, admittedly, complicated, so lemme explain: The Fed is *lending* $1.5 trillion to banks. Those banks put up collateral, so even if they don’t repay their loans, the govt won’t lose a cent

Bernie Sanders

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4 years

When we say it's time to provide health care to all our people, we're told we can't afford it. But if the stock market is in trouble, no problem! The government can just hand out $1.5 trillion to calm bankers on Wall Street.

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Justin Wolfers

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3 years

When anti-vaxxers rack up tens of thousands of dollars in hospital bills, who pays? Think about it, and you'll realize that their political positions are effectively being subsidized by members of insurance pools, taxpayers, and the vaccinated.

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Justin Wolfers

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4 years

When you don’t think of them as “people,” you’re probably also doing the economics wrong.

Aaron Rupar

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4 years

White House adviser Kevin Hassett: "Our human capital stock is ready to go back to work." #HumanCapitalStock

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Justin Wolfers

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6 years

This is where it’s helpful to know some economics: The location of the funds don’t change a thing. If Apple wanted to invest in the US, it would’ve borrowed against its offshore funds. Now it’ll invest using its onshore funds if the returns exceed foregone interest. Same same.

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Justin Wolfers

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2 years

Hang on... I just-recalculated the unemployment rate (to extra decimal places), and at 3.46%, THIS IS THE LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN OVER HALF A CENTURY.

Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

2 years

The unemployment rate at 3.5% is 0.1 percentage points away from being a fifty year low(!)

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

2 years

Payrolls rose a robust +263k in September, a touch above expectations. Unemployment down a tick to 3.5%, equal to the lowest level in fifty years. Revisions also positive. This is an economy that's still growing nicely. All that recession talk was empty.

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

8 months

Exhibit #239 that perceptions have become detached from reality. We actually know the price of eggs. Average price in 2020: $1.51 Average price in 2021: $1.67 Average price in 2022: $2.86 Latest price August 2023: $2.04 [Peak: Jan '23 was $4.82]

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

5 months

There’s literally *nothing* here. The sentence in which she is accused of plagiarizing Bobo and Gilliam begins, “Using 1987 survey data, Bobo and Gilliam found that...” [I don't have a dog in this fight beyond a particular disdain for bad faith dishonesty in the public square.]

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

@realchrisrufo

5 months

EXCLUSIVE: @RealChrisBrunet and I have obtained documentation demonstrating that Harvard President Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple sections of her Ph.D. thesis, violating Harvard's policies on academic integrity. This is a bombshell. 🧵

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

11 months

Senator, thank you for the opportunity to summarize this research paper for you. I have consolidated the key findings in an easy to read graphic.

J.D. Vance

@JDVance1

11 months

Fourth point: many, many papers, in addition to common sense, show a strong relationship between immigration inflows and rent increase. Here’s one example. There are many more.

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

7 years

Do those who inherit or marry billions have the grit for public office, or has a life of handouts engendered a culture of dependency?

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

1 year

Egg prices are plummeting.

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

7 years

Quite simply, a lie. Nonsense. Horseshit. A falsehood. Not true. It does not include coverage of preexisting conditions.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

7 years

I would not sign Graham-Cassidy if it did not include coverage of pre-existing conditions. It does! A great Bill. Repeal & Replace.

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

3 years

Quite the comparison... "National Guard officials said they would most likely need at least 25,000 troops in Washington... That number, roughly more than three times the number of American troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria, could still grow."

New Warnings of Violence as Security Tightens for Inauguration (Published 2021)

Commercial airlines have tracked an increase in checked weapons, and federal law enforcement raised fresh alarms about extremist plots.

www.nytimes.com

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

4 years

I have never seen someone demolish a scholar’s reputation as savagely as Richard Epstein demolishing his own.

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

4 years

This is a White House executive action; Kudlow is the President's chief economic adviser, and he runs the policy process. And he has no ****ing idea what's in it.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 years

Larry Kudlow seems to be very confused about how much money unemployed people would actually receive under Trump's proposal

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

4 years

Jake Tapper: “That was a hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck. That was the worst debate I’ve ever seen. It wasn’t even a debate, it was a disgrace. And it’s primarily because of President Trump.”

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

7 months

A kick in the guts.

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

1 year

So even though I don’t value wearing a mask $100k I wouldn’t take his deal. That’s because the fact of him offering this deal likely tells me something unsavory about him, and I don’t want to do take off my mask in hope of a payoff from a shyster, a pervert, or a psychopath.

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Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

4 years

This wins the most misleading chart of the year award.