Matt Darling 🌐🏗️ @besttrousers Twitter profile

Pinned Tweet

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

19 days

Hey folks, I have a new big paper up at @niskanencenter . It's about the weird way that the USA finances our unemployment insurance system and how it is RUINING THE LABOR MARKET.

16

106

594

Last Seen Profiles

@PatrickJGilbert

@Carrpetosa

@paripikoumei_PR

@VOOPOO_OFFICIAL

@LloydsList

@Ghostlymostlu

@mme_daigaku

@viberxoip

@rondo_reports

@msrachelrose

@carkjihyo

@PeoplesWorld

@TEDS

@bipsyGG

@CantanteReborn

@Hdad_SanBenito

@HOUSaberCats

@MuktarOman

@Baseball_Notes

@strmtool

@WhosjiLabs

@sophiatheMILFx

@Mo7dbalushi

@DEmpireLeaks

@AngieTaylo34961

@AlyahmadiMalik

@luvhhmoon

@snn_economy

@DavidKi48639511

@mint_28_s

@anoud8a

@ShakaThaGod

@flowersakura012

@yassportsTV

@Lemon2964024751

@Osvaldocar12

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 years

Fun day on twitter dot com.

545

2K

51K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

6 months

We need causal inference classes in high school.

Ray

@ray4tesla

6 months

80% of Covid patients put on ventilators died. This is probably most shocking revelation unknown to the public.

2K

1K

4K

193

869

27K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

1 month

Which is about $2/person and 0.00002751572% of GDP.

NBC News

@NBCNews

7 years

The solar eclipse will cost America almost $700 million in lost productivity

3K

2K

6K

57

659

21K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

1 year

This type of dense, swimmable mixed use urbanism is illegal to build in much of the United States.

Coastal Ecology and Conservation Lab

@AllgeierLab

1 year

The artificial reefs we built 6 months ago in Little Abaco are loaded with white grunts, lobster, and more!

205

4K

27K

36

940

17K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

3 years

Great article in today's @WSJ : "Faces of the Unemployment Insurance Crisis"

50

2K

8K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

1 month

@johnjhorton You just got automated.

1

0

8K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 years

I have been waiting for this study to come out for YEARS.

Cash Aid to Poor Mothers Increases Brain Activity in Babies, Study Finds (Published 2022)

The research could have policy implications as President Biden pushes to revive his proposal to expand the child tax credit.

www.nytimes.com

57

1K

7K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

5 months

UK economy seems like things are going well.

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

@paulgp

5 months

Feel like every twitter fight I'm seeing is just people zooming out further and further on a time series plot. Why not just zoom out all the way to start?

10

3

256

33

237

7K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 years

Dave Rubin

@RubinReport

2 years

I know a lot of people who regret getting the vaccine. Don’t know anyone who regrets not getting it.

13K

6K

34K

63

870

7K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

10 months

The weirdest thing about these posts is the insistence that public school should teach stuff that is, by definition, ephemeral. There is no "taxes" skill you can learn at 15 and apply at 30 (that isn't just "literacy").

Dr. Chad LeDune

@Dr_LeDune

11 months

Say it louder!!

242

175

733

290

311

6K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

7 months

"first recession"

@jason

@Jason

7 months

Gen-Z is losing their minds in their first recession… I’ve been through three of these as an adult… they suck, they last a couple of years, but they make you stronger. Just focus on adding skills and put in 2 more hours a day than your hardest working peers and you’ll come…

576

61

1K

66

260

5K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

3 months

This is interesting, but I would not be surprised if stuff like this ends up giving managers *distorted* views of individual productivity that actually makes management worse.

H0W_THlNGS_W0RK

@HowThingsWork_

3 months

Dystopian. This coffee shop uses AI to measure the productivity of their employees & also the time spent in the shop per customer. ☕️

435

1K

9K

170

241

5K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

8 months

It really is amazing that there used to be an over the counter sore throat remedy that was effective, and now there just isn't.

John Arnold

@JohnArnoldFndtn

8 months

Americans have been wasting billions a year on cold medicines like Sudafed & Benadryl with the active ingredient phenylephrine, despite conclusive evidence they don't work. But a report published yesterday may finally lead to the removal of these drugs from pharmacy shelves. 1/6

322

424

2K

96

287

5K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

5 months

This is, perhaps, the worst economic reasoning I have ever seen

Noah Carl

@NoahCarl90

5 months

I argue the claim "immigration is good for the economy" is so vague as to be meaningless:

69

62

565

127

214

5K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

8 months

Remember that "what happens when you give people money" is perhaps the most studied question in the social sciences. No need for wacky theorizing!

Avi

@AviSchiffmann

8 months

I think there would be mass suicide if UBI was rolled out

416

21

588

29

277

5K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

7 months

I swear this account lacks object permanence. (The US is less involved in overseas wars now than it was 3 years ago)

Wall Street Silver

@WallStreetSilv

7 months

At least we don't have mean tweets

214

659

3K

77

179

4K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 years

@mia_antifa To be clear, I didn't actually do the calculation. 😜

20

4

4K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

9 months

Regular reminder that "shrinkflation" is included in CPI calculations.

Wall Street Silver

@WallStreetSilv

9 months

Inflation? What inflation? Shrinkflation ... 😮 Was 50g Now 44g

2K

3K

22K

40

166

4K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

8 months

Again, one reason "the vibes are off" is that lots of people prefer a world where people are desperate for jobs and willing to take anything they can get.

RedHawk

@redpilledhawk

8 months

You used to be able to reliably pull off any highway in America and get yourself a hotel room. Even at 2 AM. Now with nobody working, I have to stop long drives by 9 PM at the latest to make sure someone is at the desk. Little things like this keep adding up and its getting worse

273

122

3K

114

456

4K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

5 months

I’mma let you finish, but Jerome Powell had one of the softest landings of all time! One of the softest landings of all time!

TIME

@TIME

5 months

Taylor Swift ( @taylorswift13 ) is TIME's 2023 Person of the Year

5K

27K

95K

57

289

4K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 years

"Will we ever have peace, Muad'Dib?" "We will have victory."

22

232

4K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

4 months

The good old days, when the immigrant share of the United States was only 11%, instead of today's startling 13%.

Carl Benjamin

@Sargon_of_Akkad

4 months

This is what the world looked like before mass immigration, widespread racial and gendered guilt activism, and before bankers had totally screwed the economy for their own gain. People were just allowed to be themselves, and they did fun, wholesome things for their own sake.

2K

1K

16K

72

174

4K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

1 month

Worth remembering that this is standard operating practice in Scandinavia (even during the winter!).

Alien Mother 👽🎧

@greenhausghost

1 month

Yall some girl left her NEW BORN INFANT BABY in a stroller outside the dispensary my husband works at to buy weed. Children shouldn’t even be on the premises. They called the cops and banned her. If you can’t get a baby sitter to go buy weed then you can’t buy weed.

5

16

356

49

122

4K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 years

@B0BHitt What I really enjoyed about this is that lots of people know that the difference is *important* but not what the difference *is*.

10

3K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

4 months

"63% of Americans do not have $500 in the bank to pay for an emergency healthcare bill." This is inaccurate. Median household net worth is $192k, including $8k in checking accounts.

Bernie Sanders

@SenSanders

4 months

Last year, the richest 0.05%, those who own at least $100 million in wealth, made a combined profit of $8.5 trillion on their investments that will go untaxed. Meanwhile, 63% of Americans do not have $500 in the bank to pay for an emergency healthcare bill. We need a wealth tax.

1K

2K

10K

322

277

4K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 years

This...sounds like a really good methodology?

David Sacks

@DavidSacks

2 years

Twitter is toast.

1K

2K

14K

85

109

3K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 years

It's 2013. Unemployment is 7.4%. CPI is 1.5%. The main impediment holding back the economy is that workers are too lazy. It's 2022. Unemployment is 3.5%. CPI is 8.2%. The main impediment holding back the economy is that workers are too lazy.

Sylvan Lane

@SylvanLane

2 years

@besttrousers The common dominator between the two is "major shift in labor market only viewed through the lens of employers."

2

9

250

17

700

3K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

9 months

People talk about how the US has become a "low trust society" but when I was a kid you had to tell the cashier how much butter to put in your popcorn. Today, the popcorn butter dispenser is open to all.

177

104

3K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

9 months

Reid Chalker

@ReidChalker

9 months

The YIMBY concept of “filtering” makes 0 sense to me. I’ve spent the last 20 years in two of the most expensive cities in the US for housing. I have not once heard someone say “I would gladly move into a more expensive apartment just because it’s nicer.”

136

16

177

36

110

3K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

4 years

It's outrageous that the Federal Reserve is putting $1.5 trillion into capital markets. With that money, the Federal Reserve could give every American a $3,000 loan right now, that they would need to pay back tomorrow morning.

40

501

3K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 months

We should also rescale feet so "10" is a really tall person and "1" is a really short person.

Tom Gara

@tomgara

2 months

As a lifelong Celsius guy who has been reluctantly dragged into Fahrenheit over the last decade I think “scaled to human experience” is in fact the biggest thing Fahrenheit has going for it (and same goes for most imperial measurements)

40

22

655

72

73

3K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 months

My entry in the "Pinewood Derby: Dads" competition is not particularly aerodynamic.

44

80

3K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

10 months

This is a very weird belief to maintain after a 3 year period in which the government started several temporary programs, which all expired.

Declaration of Memes

@LibertyCappy

10 months

2 weeks to flatten the curve!

36

107

1K

42

105

3K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

4 months

@CommieDirtbag @mquintos @Noahpinion You did not know that this existed 5 minutes ago.

19

63

3K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

6 months

My basic take is that Marvel used to try to make different types of movies ("Winter Soldier" is 70s spy pastiche, "Ant Man" is heist-comedy, "Guardians of the Galaxy" is Buddy-SciFi). Now they just try to make "Marvel movies".

Variety

@Variety

6 months

This week’s Variety cover story: Crisis at Marvel: Jonathan Majors Back-Up Plans, 'The Marvels' Reshoots, Reviving Original Avengers and More Issues Revealed

693

1K

7K

37

165

3K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

11 months

Got a lot of comments like this. It's wrong. Sometimes it's appropriate to scale data by the range, not including zero.

64

58

3K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

4 months

People on twitter will really be like "you believe in distributing anti-malaria nets? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart" and then not firebomb a Walmart

29

209

3K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

4 months

Free distribution of malaria nets is estimated at stopping half a billion cases of malaria.

41

139

3K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

3 months

Steve 🇺🇸

@SteveLovesAmmo

3 months

Imagine what $113,313,000,000.00 could have done for America instead of Ukraine.

3K

11K

40K

45

182

3K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

11 months

Krugman was right. Economic growth since 1998 has been disappointing.

Bojan Tunguz

@tunguz

11 months

I think about this a lot.

2K

7K

81K

80

108

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

10 months

Ben Gross 🔆

@bengrossbg

10 months

Jonah Hill discourse shows the limits of liberalism/consent-only ethics because what people really want to say is that his boundaries are bad even if he’s honest about them and the other party agrees to them.

137

195

3K

15

137

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

4 months

Mwa haha.

61

31

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

1 month

I don't think it's dystopian to hire people in developing countries to do tasks.

Max Burns

@themaxburns

1 month

Amazon billed its "Just Walk Out" stores as some triumph of AI. In reality, it was powered by thousands of low-paid Indian workers manually adding up items in your cart as you shopped. How insanely dystopian.

453

11K

46K

124

87

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

1 month

"39% of Americans are regularly skipping meals in order to pay their rent" This is not true. If you think it is true, you are dramatically out of touch.

Marianne Williamson

@marwilliamson

1 month

@RoKhanna "Acknowledge that people still have legitimate frustration and anger because the economy is not working for them?" - 39% of Americans are regularly skipping meals in order to pay their rent, Congressman. Millions are selling their blood plasma in order to survive. This is more…

55

7

37

53

122

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 years

"So where you guys invested these days?" "Vanguard." "Vanguard." "Vanguard." "Vanguard." "Cool. Cool cool cool."

Linda Holmes thisislindaholmes.com

@lindaholmes

2 years

I realize it just feeds the beast, but it honestly makes me laugh so hard when I imagine people being like “YOUR FRIENDS SHOULD WANT TO TALK ABOUT INVESTING AND CARDIO.” It’s just the most boring thing I can imagine.

213

259

7K

34

74

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

8 months

"Most Americans will never own a home or a vehicle." Bro, most Americans owns home or vehicle right now.

Joey Mannarino

@JoeyMannarinoUS

8 months

During the Great Depression in 1930: The average home cost $3,900 The average car cost about $600 The average rent was about $216 a year Meanwhile, the average salary was $1,300 per year. Today, in 2023 Joe Biden's America: The average house costs $436,000 The average car…

1K

5K

20K

88

80

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

1 year

Regular reminder that the number of people working multiple jobs has gone down over the last 3 decades.

✨🎶Kristennnn🇵🇸✨

@singingsox

1 year

Everything is way too expensive. We all work constantly, often multiple jobs. We have no savings accounts, pensions, or plans for retirement (lol). Many of us still rent at exorbitant prices. The planet is desperately trying to warn us to stop this lifestyle. And yet, here we are

60

670

8K

124

165

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

4 months

I really like this point

Hank Green

@hankgreen

4 months

I think a harm of online activism is the "THIS IS ACTUALLY EASY" argument. I've seen lots of folks indicate that a single billionaire could solve homelessness, or that there are 30x more houses than homeless people so we could just give them all houses. These words are…

681

3K

21K

41

227

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

8 months

@CharlesFLehman Should put a sign on the box "do not use for meth".

7

12

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

9 months

"Nearly 12 million US workers may need to switch jobs by 2030, a McKinsey study found." Guys, 5.6 million US workers switched jobs in July 2023.

4 careers where workers will have to change jobs by 2030 due to AI and shifts in how we shop, a...

AI and changes in how we shop could force nearly 12 million US workers to change jobs in less than a decade, a McKinsey study found.

www.businessinsider.com

45

159

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 years

I cannot emphasize enough how no one will remember this incident next week.

Ben Domenech

@bdomenech

2 years

I feel like Australia underestimates how this Novak Djokovic incident is going to tar the entire nation as fundamentally anti-freedom, and a place you should not visit, for a long time to come.

4K

2K

11K

40

110

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

1 year

There should be a tax penalty for thinking that your marginal tax rate is your effective tax rate.

Skoti

@SkotiVi

1 year

@mrbergmann @unusual_whales Here is what $400k a year gets you in NYC: ~50% tax (city + state + federal) = ~$16.5k per month take-home Decent 2-bedroom apt: ~$6k Savings/Retirement deposit: ~$5k Groceries: ~$1k Car expenses: ~$1500 Entertainment: ~$2000 Utilities: ~$1000 It’s not extravagant.

1K

23

309

31

97

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

4 months

Most Americans do not live paycheck-to-paycheck: - The median American household has a networth of $193k. - The median American household holds $8k in transaction accounts (checking/savings). - 54% of adults claim to have cash savings that could pay for 3 months of expenses.

Batya Ungar-Sargon

@bungarsargon

4 months

We're endlessly lectured by progressive elites in politics and the media about how GREAT the Biden economy is. It actually is great—if, like the elites lecturing you, you own a house and have a stock portfolio. But for most Americans who live paycheck to paycheck, it's awful.

227

46

239

216

200

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

4 months

Hot take: Low-cost interventions that save millions of lives are under-, not over-, discussed.

Tyler Austin Harper

@Tyler_A_Harper

4 months

@xriskology Omg these people and their fucking malaria nets enough with the malaria nets already

13

0

24

27

79

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

9 months

As we all know, the people recorded on video in 1923 were a carefully chosen random sampling of the population.

16

38

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

6 months

When the economy was good (because you could get people to provide you services because of a lack of better employment opportunities).

Michael R. Bock

@michaelrbock

6 months

tbt to the glory days of 2016 when an Uber was under $2

178

864

9K

60

121

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

10 months

You are unable to live in housing that is currently under construction.

35

60

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

10 months

Under Neoliberalism we will not provide enormous subsidies to inefficient modes of transportation.

DSA-LA 🌹

@dsa_losangeles

7 years

under socialism all the parking lots downtown will be collectively owned and free for the working class.

115

16

151

41

82

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 years

Gallifreyan Jedi

@JediofGallifrey

2 years

me, spraying a firehose of money at a bunch of war shit: we can't afford covid releif it would damage the economy just shut up about it already

26

61

384

29

186

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

4 months

Didn't happen.

41

95

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

4 months

Axios

@axios

4 months

😁 63% of Americans rate their current financial situation as being "good," including 19% of us who say it's "very good," according to findings from our Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll. Americans' outlooks for the future are also rosy.

134

479

1K

34

175

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

4 months

We have good data about layoffs! The last three years are the years with the *fewest* layoffs. That's part of why folks are saying the economy is good!

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

@IBJIYONGI

4 months

I am tired of hearing how great the economy is while hearing daily about layoffs

17

660

3K

37

112

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 years

Hepatitus, Rotavirus, Tetanus.

ZUBY:

@ZubyMusic

2 years

Tell me some other 'effective' vaccines that require 3-4 injections per year and still don't prevent you from getting the disease.

406

2K

10K

21

114

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

3 months

Median UChicago Economics seminar presentation.

Crazy Clips

@crazyclipsonly

3 months

Body armor company demonstrate their “stab protection” vest on their CEO

2K

4K

65K

24

78

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

10 months

People's concept of the pandemic timeline is so weird. Stuff was generally open by 8/4/2021. People were going to the movie theaters to watch "Fast and Furious 9" that summer.

Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives

@dom_lucre

10 months

On August 4, 2021, President Obama and First Lady Michelle were accidentally exposed for being a hypocrite and an elitist by singer Erykah Badu who leaked this video of Obama dancing at his 60th birthday bash. This was during strict COVID restrictions with Jay-Z, Beyonce, John…

776

5K

17K

63

56

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

3 months

Honestly, 12% of people being willing to host immigrants in their *homes* seems fairly high?

Political Polls

@PpollingNumbers

3 months

Do you want to host immigrants in your home (Massachusetts Voters) No 79% Yes 12% 96% of Republicans said no, and 68% of Democrats said no.

40

12

82

111

31

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 years

23% of American think unemployment - which is at historic lows - is "a very big problem".

John Gramlich

@johngramlich

2 years

NEW: "The public views inflation as the top problem facing the United States – and no other concern comes close."

208

541

1K

107

190

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

3 months

It is not true that 60% of families are living paycheck to paycheck. - The median American household has a net worth of $193k. - The same household holds $8k in transaction accounts (checking/savings). - 54% of adults have 3 months of expenses saved.

Dean Phillips

@deanbphillips

3 months

Kudos to the Biden Administration for strong macro economic growth. I’ll focus on ensuring more of that growth accrues to the 60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck and 40% with < $400 in the bank. ➡️American Dream Accounts, Nat’l Health Insurance, Debt Free Education,…

216

24

139

199

214

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

6 months

Vivek, don't announce the randomization assignment a year before treatment!

Vivek Ramaswamy

@VivekGRamaswamy

6 months

On Day 1, *instantly* fire 50% of federal bureaucrats. Here’s how: if your SSN ends in an odd number, you’re fired. That downsizes government by half. Absolutely *nothing* will break as a result. It doesn’t violate civil service rules because mass layoffs are exempt. SHUT IT…

9K

4K

36K

20

63

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

3 months

Once you install AI that counts how many cups you've made, individual employees have pretty strong incentives to stop cleaning the bathroom.

21

50

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

7 months

"The vax didn't work" is one of the weirdest beliefs. Even if you don't buy the original RCTs or the regression models - just like, look around?

Immortal Money Denny Dunes 🏴‍☠️

@Dunesyy

7 months

@Noahpinion Bro they literally didn’t work tho

61

1

366

23

43

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

7 months

"2/3 of our citizens are living paycheck to paycheck." This is not true Median household networth in 2022 was $193k. That includes $39k in financial assets and $8k in transaction(checking or savings) accounts.

Catturd ™

@catturd2

7 months

Our country is being destroyed from within ... - Our border is purposely wide open and we're being invaded. - Our cities are crime-ridden hell-holes. Nobody is safe. - Our colleges are breeding grounds for hate. - We have more veterans and people than we can count who are…

2K

15K

58K

126

88

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

11 months

#3 is perhaps the most pessimistic claim I've ever seen.

Vivek Ramaswamy

@VivekGRamaswamy

11 months

TRUTH. 1. God is real. 2. There are two genders. 3. Human flourishing requires fossil fuels. 4. Reverse racism is racism. 5. An open border is no border. 6. Parents determine the education of their children. 7. The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to…

1K

3K

22K

33

26

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

1 year

Regular reminder that the Federal Reserve is audited twice a year.

Rothmus 🏴

@Rothmus

1 year

44

527

2K

19

78

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 months

15

160

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

9 months

We are at a 20 year prime age employment rate high.

Paul Goodman

@PaulGoodman24

9 months

Does anyone work anymore? Went on a walk Monday at 11:00 am and there were young people everywhere. Working age people. Between all these 'creator' types, remote work, quiet quitting, etc... I honestly wonder how many people even work anymore. Is your city like that?

1K

103

2K

30

118

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

3 months

Non-managerial workers.

Nina Turner

@ninaturner

3 months

Again, when people say the economy is “booming,” we must ask “for whom?”

38

88

305

46

155

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

9 months

Personally, I thought the shortages were Bad.

29

62

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

1 year

Maia

@maiamindel

1 year

People make many big claims about external validity but "giving people money helps them" is like the dumbest thing to have a very high burden of proof on - there's a lot of evidence!

7

19

302

3

180

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

4 months

The case for free distribution of malaria nets did not come from "logic" and "reasoning" practiced on message boards, but from careful large scale randomized trials that demonstrated that it was an effective method to prevent malaria.

Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans)

@IwriteOK

4 months

anyone who claims to be entering an established field and reinventing it based on "logic" or "reasoning" skills they practiced in message boards is 100% going to fuck up whatever they try

34

110

1K

19

117

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

1 month

This is what every McDonalds looks like. The New Hampshire minimum wage is the same as the federal minimum wage ($7.25). The McDonalds all have automated kiosks.

Ingrid Jacques

@Ingrid_Jacques

1 month

This is the McDonald’s at the Minneapolis airport. This is what happens when the min wage is too high. Liberals think they are helping people, but they’re not.

5K

190

1K

128

120

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

3 years

9

287

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

1 year

189

109

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

1 year

Prime age employment to population ratio is at a 20 year high.

Declaration of Memes

@LibertyCappy

1 year

Wait, $15 minimum wage didn’t work? Let’s raise it to $50! Meet The Consequences:

2K

4K

35K

31

98

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

1 year

This strikes me as almost exactly wrong - the American economy works really well for 80% of us, but very poorly for the bottom quintile.

Marianne Williamson

@marwilliamson

1 year

The American economy works well for 20% of us. That 20% live on an economic island surrounded by a vast sea of economic despair… the inevitable consequence of govt doing more to serve the goal of short term profit maximization for its huge corporate donors than to serve the…

56

127

718

60

104

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 years

If you see me outside wearing a KN95 without anyone near me, please do not write a op-ed about it. They are just much warmer than traditional winter face masks.

29

56

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 years

Human reviewers are going to be better at identifying bots than bots. The central limit theorem means that 100 randomly selected accounts/day (3,000/month) will give you a result very close to the true value.

22

24

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 years

Foreign exchange is a trillion-dollar a year industry, yet investors can't distinguish between euros and dollars in blind tastings, will rank currency higher based on the bond rating, and have even been fooled with a bit of food coloring into thinking paper is money.

19

109

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

3 years

@AGG_500 Living in Manhattan is a consumption choice. This is like saying "$400,000 isn't much if you own a yacht."

15

17

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

1 year

Stop.

62

116

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

3 months

1.) Wages are increasing. 2.) Layoffs are historically low.

Cindy Noir✨

@thecindynoir

3 months

I just don’t understand what the end goal is. Increasing cost of living, not increasing wages, and producing mass layoffs. Is this country trying to implode from the inside out…?!

135

426

2K

50

138

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

1 year

New @USDA egg price report dropped. We are on the verge of a deflationary egg crisis.

78

140

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

5 months

Vivek Ramaswamy

@VivekGRamaswamy

5 months

It’s clear the puppet masters have lost their use for Biden & are slowly sidelining him, but the real trick is who they’re propping up instead. It’s not Gavin or Michelle, as I’d assumed before. It’s far more insidious. Open your eyes, folks. It’s staring us right in the face.

5K

42K

14

77

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

3 years

18

172

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

1 year

"Wow, eggs are very cheap."

Brigitte Gabriel

@ACTBrigitte

1 year

What would the Founding Fathers say about the price of eggs today?

3K

345

4K

12

42

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

3 years

Vox is letting go of a lot of it's staff, presumably because they are concerned that the Biden administration will increase the minimum wage next year.

22

37

1K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 years

How much of people's experience of a "bad economy" is really "It is hard to get people to work in 'leisure and hospitality"?

Marc Goldwein

@MarcGoldwein

2 years

Jobs have almost recovered to pre-pandemic levels. But the mix of jobs has changed. Via @katekgen at @BudgetHawks

22

111

302

44

217

2K

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

10 months

>playing a prisoners' dilemma >ask the economist if the dilemma is one shot or iterated >she doesnt understand > | pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is one shot and what is iterated >she laughs and says “it’s a good dilemma sir” >defect >its iterated