Karl Smith @karlbykarlsmith Twitter profile

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Karl Smith

@karlbykarlsmith

3 years

I completely believe that he got caught up in the moment but it is for that very reason there can be no clemency. Ordinary people can become a part of something monstrous if they allow themselves to be swept away. The deterrent against doing so must be firm and unwavering.

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3 years

"I GOT CAUGHT UP IN THE MOMENT." Idaho man says he was the guy hanging from the balcony of the Senate. He's now apologizing to the American people and asking for forgiveness. Story:

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Karl Smith

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4 years

You really can't avoid the conclusion that Gavin Newsom saved thousands of lives. Not only in California but across the country. A breakout in both coasts would have strained our national ability to respond.

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Karl Smith

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3 years

The level of CDC cope on this site has got me faded. They have *always* been like this. They were like this on salt. They were like this when they backed replacing saturated fat with trans-fat, then primarily in the form of vegetable shortening & possibly killing 100Ks of people

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Karl Smith

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5 years

You: There is no reason the government can't provide services as cost effectively as the private sector. Me:

CBC Toronto

@CBCToronto

5 years

The Ontario government lost $42M selling cannabis in the last year

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Karl Smith

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3 years

@CarlBeijer My wife's grandmother recalled foundly the sense of community it brought when her baby brother starved to death. jfc

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Karl Smith

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4 years

This is... correct and actually good.

emily dolltemis

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5 years

hot take: squiggle theory

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Karl Smith

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4 years

There have to be limits on freedom.

Logan Hall

@loganclarkhall

4 years

probably my favorite food to eat on thanksgiving. deep-dish pizza with gravy is a holiday classic.

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Karl Smith

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2 years

This is damning. Much more than anything we've heard before. It's sober, careful, and presented in the words of Trump's own advisors.

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Karl Smith

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3 years

As hard as it is to believe that someone could have botched a false flag this badly, this fact pattern is damning.

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Karl Smith

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3 years

Not exactly covering yourself in glory here @GlennKesslerWP tl;dr Scott says his grandfather had to drop out of school at 10 yrs old to pick cotton, but ACKSHUALLY he was 11 & it was only because his father was a cotton farmer & the Great Depression had driven down prices.

Glenn Kessler

@GlennKesslerWP

3 years

Sen. Tim Scott says he went from "Cotton to Congress in one lifetime," but his ancestors owned unusually large amounts of land. Fact Checker investigates.

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Karl Smith

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5 years

Three billionaires dont consume more resources than the bottom half of America. At one point we had this near consensus that consumption was the proper measure of material well being. Then it seemed to vanish over night. Now we are increasingly talking about income and wealth.

Bernie Sanders

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5 years

Three billionaires own more wealth than the bottom half of the country. That is a fact.

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Karl Smith

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3 years

Friday night so I'll say that *I* am a Westerner. The color of my skin is BS. I know more Plato than 99% of Europa's sons I was born in West. The legacy of the West is mine. My Logos is Western. My spirituality is late Western interpretations of the Far East. This world is Mine

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3 years

@MsMelChen @Noahpinion Be the change. My DMs are open.

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5 years

@ComfortablySmug @AndrewHClark Dont tell me we can't clean them up and teach them to speak articulately.

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Karl Smith

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5 months

@fawfulfan So first off there is the entire calculus surrounding future gain-of-function research and how much latitude scientists should be allowed. Second, there is our cooperation with China. The fact that China may have deliberately mislead the world on this alters those terms.

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Karl Smith

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4 months

@NeriOxman @MIT Very professional response. Above and beyond really.

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Karl Smith

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4 years

This is part of why the idea that "demand stimulus can't do anything in a pandemic" was wrong. With enough demand pressure capitalism will find a way. We spent 8 years going over this with all sorts of structural excuses for unemployment and in a flash everyone forgets.

NPR

@NPR

4 years

Walmart plans to hire some 150,000 new workers in its warehouses and stores and is preparing to pay its current workers bonuses as it responds to increasing demands during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Karl Smith

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3 years

@CarlBeijer I see we've chosen violence, tonight. Screenshotting this to send to my (Soviet) in-laws.

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Karl Smith

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3 years

Trump's anti-election theatrics have made Bernie Sanders Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.

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3 years

@AliceFromQueens She's telling us to start with O O = 15 + C = 3 - A = 1 = 17 = Q AOC = Q

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Karl Smith

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3 years

Some economists will literally hinge arguments upon persistently wrong CBO estimates of the Output Gap in order to stoke fears of overheating a seculatly stagnant economy thats just now emerging from the largest work stoppage in history rather than go to therapy.

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Karl Smith

@karlbykarlsmith

4 years

I am actually heartened by this raw display of realpolitik. He most certainly does not have to answer. And, insipid moralizing about it does nothing to change that fact.

Hanna Trudo

@HCTrudo

4 years

Whoa- this seems notable. @JoeBiden on court packing says: “You will know my opinion on court-packing when the election is over.” The Supreme Court is on the minds of many and people are voting now. He needs to answer

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Karl Smith

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4 years

The French Rev was caused by misguided austerity in the face of an ag supply-shock leading to collapsing NGDP, soaring real wheat prices & declining gov rev. Had Louis devalued the livre so as to stabilize spending & reduce real tax burdens he could've ridden the whole thing out

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Karl Smith

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5 years

I apologize for nothing

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Karl Smith

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2 years

@mattyglesias Is this a speech issue? He is not saying they should be prevented from making the movie, just that parents should consider the actual messaging in this movie before their kids consume it.

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Karl Smith

@karlbykarlsmith

2 years

@dangainor But do you own your neighborhood or just your lot? I mean you can write covenants that create communal ownership but in the absence of you're asking the state to enforce your aesthetic preferences on other peoples property.

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Karl Smith

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3 years

@insaneppltweets No one drives an automatic with two feet. I refuse to believe otherwise.

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Karl Smith

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4 years

It's insane how criminal this reads in hindsight. One of our most intense supply-shortages, costing the nation trillions of dollars, was deliberately engineered to combat a supposed coming glut.

Samuel Hammond 🌐🏛

@hamandcheese

4 years

Our story begins with HHS's Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee (GMENAC). GMENAC's influential 1981 report warned of a looming physician surplus, and advised "immediate action" to curtail domestic training of physicians & admittance of physicians from abroad.

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Karl Smith

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3 years

The truly amazing thing is that nine percent *of the fully vaccinated* said that it was a microchip program.

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@crampell

3 years

One in five Americans believes the US government is using the COVID-19 vaccine to microchip the population

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Karl Smith

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4 years

My ethnic staple is not your quarantine insta-project

Noam Blum

@neontaster

4 years

Made some cornbread. #TastingWithTaster

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Karl Smith

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3 years

British in 1812, tho?

Brigitte Gabriel

@ACTBrigitte

3 years

RT if you think the southern border is the greatest national security threat in American history!

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4 years

@TheLisaGilroy @bendreyfuss No way I would not notice this. I would be dying after "question mark"

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Karl Smith

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3 years

@mattyglesias A bit more to it. If you read the docs he just got a warning for that essay related to 2 issues 1st is formal but silly, the 2nd is that the essay was First White President. He didn't assign a counter point of view & when asked why he said "There are no credible counter views"

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Karl Smith

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4 years

The public choice going on here is fascinating. The CCP is totalitarian about many aspects of life, has no trouble with ubiquitous surveillance & summary executions but will not regulate these markets which have damaged public health, the economy & their foreign policy ambitions.

Bloomberg Originals

@bbgoriginals

4 years

Wet markets are returning to life in Wuhan and other parts of China, where the #coronavirus first emerged. More @business : #COVID ー19 #CoronavirusPandemic

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Karl Smith

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3 years

You gotta step back from the ledge here, bruh. Riots are to a 1st approximation *bad* for insurers The Galaxy Brain take that: No, a more risk adverse environment drives up overall demand for insurance & that's why they support BLM, is a few steps past Lex Luther level insanity.

J.D. Vance

@JDVance1

3 years

Read this story: Insurance companies promote BLM. BLM riots drive up insurance premiums. Businesses and family wealth get destroyed. Insurance companies get rich. Identity politics makes the multiracial working class poor and the ruling class rich.

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Karl Smith

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3 years

Whoa, what, this is incredible and had genuinely never occurred to me. Malls are unusually ripe for development simply because there is no blocking coalition. No homeowners to stop you from erecting multi-use skyscrapers where the axillary shopping strips used to be.

Joe Pompliano

@JoePompliano

3 years

Fortnite developer Epic Games has purchased the "Cary Town Center" in Cary, NC, for $95M and plans to turn the abandoned mall into their next headquarters. With almost 1 million sqft and 90 acres, the place is massive. This was the mall 5 years ago (top) vs. today (bottom).

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Karl Smith

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4 years

Real resource constraints

Stephanie Kelton

@StephanieKelton

4 years

For Christmas, my son asked for a zip-up Bernie hoodie. I ordered one on Dec 7. There must be YUGE demand for this thing, because we are still waiting....

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Karl Smith

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3 years

This ain't it. An angry mob storming the Capitol -- not even the White House but the Capitol (Article I) -- is an assault on the very essence of the Republic. It is everything the framers feared. It must be put down. Harshly. There can be no clemency.

Matt Walsh

@MattWalshBlog

3 years

I hate rioting of all types, no matter who is doing it. But lots of people today are trying to erase recent history. The fact is that left wing rioters invaded police stations and burned them to the ground, and were not arrested for doing so. That happened just a few months ago.

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Karl Smith

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3 years

When you've continously undershot, & undershot & undershot, the solution isnt to say ok, next time I am going to try really, really, really hard to get right. Its to intentionally overshoot & see if that doesn't balance out a meta-analytical blindspot that keeps tripping you up.

Olivier Blanchard

@ojblanchard1

3 years

If this increase in demand could be accommodated, it would lead to a level of output at 14% above potential. It would take the unemployment rate very close to zero. This would not be overheating; it would be starting a fire.

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Karl Smith

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4 years

At least Mayor Pete has learned the cardinal rules. When everyone in the room is arguing over the pot you just take all the chips you can reasonably claim and walk straight out of the door.

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Karl Smith

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@Voss42369790 @Rothmus Nah, new home in 1920 was a little over $6k

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Karl Smith

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3 years

@realchrisrufo @DavidAFrench Someone should do a deep dive on "how we lost David French" as an expose on the conservative intellectual movement in general. It is not as in tatters as some fear but it needs a clear eyed "this is how we got here"

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Karl Smith

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3 years

@mattyglesias Then he played a profanity laced video on White Privledge, desparaged people with different viewpoints and said "I will probably to get fired and I don't really care" Then they showed him a draft dismissal letter and asked if wanted to reconsider is approach and he wrote back..

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Karl Smith

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4 years

Some personal news

Tax Foundation

@TaxFoundation

4 years

We're pleased to announce that Karl Smith ( @karlbykarlsmith ) has joined us as our new V.P. for Federal Policy, where he will lead our efforts to research, model, and reform the U.S. tax code.

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Karl Smith

@karlbykarlsmith

5 years

IN MICE

New York Post

@nypost

5 years

Dad bods are more attractive to women than rock hard abs: survey

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Karl Smith

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5 months

A lot people are going to say too little too late but this actually means a lot me. Thank you, Dr. Collins.

Erich Hartmann

@erichhartmann

5 months

This is absolutely astonishing 😳 Francis Collins admits the massive, unnecessary "collateral damage" from their botched covid public health response was due to an elitist beltway-centric myopic POV …oopsie!

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Karl Smith

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@JustinWolfers They haven't necessarily learned that though. That will only really be true if wages make up the difference otherwise what they believe they have learned is that labor productivity has collapsed by 9%.

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Karl Smith

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2 years

@AdamKinzinger Could you layout what you see as the most likely outcome of this strategy bc at least on the surface it very much seems likely to escalate into a serious conflict with Russia and with the possible risk of nuclear weapons being used?

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Karl Smith

@karlbykarlsmith

5 years

Far from supporting capitalism the rent-seeking associated with a slave economy undermined the industrialization of America.

Bloomberg Opinion

@opinion

5 years

400 years after the first slaves arrived in America, @karlbykarlsmith surveys the latest thinking on the economic impact of slavery

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Karl Smith

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4 years

Some personal news. Today is my last day at @TaxFoundation . I will be returning to @bopinion in a new full-time role. Consequently, I will become even more obnoxious on twitter. You're welcome.

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Karl Smith

@karlbykarlsmith

5 years

Not even acknowledging @KassyDillon . Cold Yang. Cold.

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸

@AndrewYang

5 years

Someone is hearing footsteps. 😀 #TrumpFearsYang

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3 years

Biden: China will not become the richest nor the most powerful country in the world on my watch.

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Karl Smith

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5 months

I would simply compound by 3% daily.

ekri

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5 months

holy shit that is crazy if true

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@KnowNothingTV I certainly haven't noticed when they didn't.

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3 years

Gehngis Khan, the most successful Neoliberal of all time, expanded trade, slashed taxes, funded high ROI commerce oriented public investments and in so stitched together the economies of Europe & East Asia and jumped started the Age of Discovery. And the people hated him for it.

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Karl Smith

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2 years

@KimStrassel Agree but it's notable that Cheney's opening statement was so damning as to cry out for a response. Indeed, if there is someone who thinks they can effectively rebut it I would be very interested to hear what they have to say

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3 years

@mattyglesias Keeping Trump off Twitter is part of the powersharing agreement between McConnell and Schumer

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4 years

Now, if in the future if anyone asks, "have you tried unplugging the economy and then plugging it back in again" the answer will be yes.

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@khan_overkill @OrwellNGoode bor...ing

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Karl Smith

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4 years

@mattyglesias I really don't think anyone is appreciating *how* transformational the 2018-2019 economy was for people at the bottom Like LIFE CHANGING. Jobs opening up that you would have never qualified for before. The non-partisan message is that whoever wins needs to push the accelerator.

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Karl Smith

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4 months

@JeffreyASachs Oxman is not a public figure. And, in any case, as a general matter we do not visit the sins of the father upon the heads of his spouse and children.

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@thechosenberg Propose

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3 years

@mtracey What's the point of this question, just to be mean?

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Karl Smith

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3 years

@louise_p_king Basically making our point here. Increase supply and both hours and effective pay per hour will drop to more normal levels.

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4 years

I don't think there is enough realization on Twitter about how uncontroversial this claim is. 89% of Americans believe that George Floyd was murdered by the police. 77% believe this is more than just a few bad apples. Only 4% believe Derek Chauvin did not break the law.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

@Noahpinion

4 years

This is the Air Force chief of staff:

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Karl Smith

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3 years

@chrischristers @Aella_Girl Fine: 1) Looking black vs white is a meaningful thing in a world with this level of genetic engineering 2) Racial preferences are even theoretically sustainable in a world where *race* can be chosen 3) Polygenenic scores don't make traditional metrics obsolete.

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Karl Smith

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5 years

I know everybody loves Nazi comparisons but I think the relevant comparison is AOC's embrace of an economic policy agenda that took Argentina from bring a first word country on par with Canada to being middle income country on par with Mexico.

Ryan Saavedra

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5 years

Trump Compares Ocasio-Cortez To Nazi Sympathizer, AOC Takes It As A Compliment

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@BretWeinstein @coldxman Because we don't need to take their word on the vaccines, we have loads of evidence from around the world that they dramatically reduce severe disease.

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@lethalrejection But hot guy/ugly girl hooking up is as common as sand.

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@Noahpinion @thought_less_ @AliceFromQueens @ClwnPrncCharlie @Last1OfTheBest So if they articulated no plan for a coup. Never stated that they wanted a coup. Had no plausible path to a coup. Did not carry the weapons necessary for a coup. Killed no one and when one of their own got killed didn't even fight back, where is the coup?

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Karl Smith

@karlbykarlsmith

4 years

This precisely the same mistake they made the first time. You don't need to retrain people or guide towards any predetermined solution. You need to increase the demand for labor.

Curtis Houck

@CurtisHouck

4 years

On ABC, Rahm Emanuel literally says a Biden White House should tell people laid off from retail stores like JC Penney to learn to code. He actually said this. Amazing.

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3 years

This man is going to be President

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3 years

Matthew McConaughey's reply when @karaswisher asked him about voting rights

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@mattyglesias Something they didn't print but prompted the principal to say that it seemed he had no interest in addressing the complaints.

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The more stimulus we get in the form of cash the *stronger* position we'll be in to resist attempts from the Left to remake the US economy. The best defense against Socialism is a well-functioning, high-pressure Capitalist economy.

Jeff Stein

@JStein_WaPo

3 years

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) says Dems should pass $2K on top of the $600 from December, rather than add $1,400 to get $600 to $2K. "$2,000 means $2,000. $2,000 does not mean $1,400,″ @AOC tells us

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Shocked-face retweet followed up by nondenial denial of promoting a hoax she helped create manages to make @lawindsor (& @ProjectLincoln ) look even more incompetent & dishonest than the botched falseflag & admission of involvement only after caught already did h/t @heckyessica

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Very quickly I think warfare will evolve towards a battle for drone supremacy. For practical purposes humans will only participate in guerrilla actions. No state-level actor, though, could meaningfully resist once it's opponent has established drone supremacy.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

@Noahpinion

3 years

Drones and other battery-powered technologies are going to change human conflict more, and faster, and in weirder ways, than most people realize.

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Why Vietnam, China, Nigeria and India should be our top source countries for high-skilled immigrants in one graph.

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3 years

Public support for a free market economy is stronger in China than it is in the US 👀

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@elonmusk @RogerYar

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@realchrisrufo Oddly, this book came out 32 years ago but she says she remembers staring at it growing up and hasn't thought about it in 40 years.

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3 years

The most on brand tweet of all time.

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The gym of the Presidential Palace in Kabul. Not a single Taliban tried to deadlift. One of them pressed ~50 lbs. Tells you something about the strength of the other side.

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I am extremely troubled to see that @NiskanenCenter has parted ways with @willwilkinson over what seemed to me a crude but obvious joke. I hope there is still an opportunity for reconciliation and will not comment more until I know more about that.

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@AliceFromQueens @decentbirthday @ebruenig He neglected to say when the exam would be if he died. Irresponsible.

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It's almost as if us yammering on about this for a decade changed the way policymakers, reporters and the engaged public think about the issue. Almost.

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@mattyglesias In the general population, but among the elite, selection cutoff, creates a Simpson's paradox making them slightly negatively correlated and hence fertile ground for tribalism.

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This increasingly looks to be true and conservative/libertarians shouldvbe prepared to update their priors about air pollution regulation. The findings are so big you can go from thinking we are wildly too strict to not nearly strict enough.

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3 years

Thou shalt not year-over-year the initial lockdown.

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👀 (via JPMorgan)

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#DontLookUp is a horror story about world with no financial markets and so humanity lacks the infrastructure to quickly integrate and evaluate information about the future and based on that create and distribute incentives to respond accross to economywide.

Karl Smith

@karlbykarlsmith

2 years

Watching #DontLookUp now Clear prob is Tres wasn't in 1st meeting. I'd explain: soon as this leaks to Wall Street -- & info this valuable *will* leak -- a mind melting financial collapse will proceed in minutes. Only chance to even mitigate is an ironclad plan ready to go ASAP

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@conor64 I think they just forgot about Dre.

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Karl Smith

@karlbykarlsmith

3 years

I am not sure what to make of this but it's deeply fascinating.

Phil Kerpen

@kerpen

3 years

Per Gallup, 20%+ of unvaccinated people want themselves banned from doing things.

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Karl Smith

@karlbykarlsmith

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@Kyle_Feldscher @kristin__wilson Why do this? You have to know that heard immunity would be achieved at much lower IFR even with random spread and vastly lower if those under 50 were overexposed.

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Karl Smith

@karlbykarlsmith

4 years

Demand curves, how do they slope?

Bloomberg Markets

@markets

4 years

Manhattan has so many new, unsold condos it would take six years, at the current pace of sales, to unload them all

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Karl Smith

@karlbykarlsmith

4 years

Are we still doing the Civil War or what? I bought a lot of stuff. I don't think I can return it all at this point.

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@karlbykarlsmith

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I'm not sure I've agreed with a single piece @NathanJRobinson has ever written. Yet, hIs longer-form writings esp, are some of the most forceful & exhaustive critiques of my positions that I've ever come across. We need more of that & less of this nonsense from @TheGardianNews

Doug Henwood

@DougHenwood

3 years

The Guardian fired @NathanJRobinson as a columnist for making a joke critical of Israel on this esteemed website:

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Karl Smith

@karlbykarlsmith

4 years

Seems big

Mark D. Levine

@MarkLevineNYC

4 years

NYC is now doing something really big: offering hotel rooms to people with mild/mod covid-19 who need to relocate in order to keep their household from being infected. Patients need to be referred by one of the below health providers. This is an early phase and will be expanded.

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Karl Smith

@karlbykarlsmith

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@sarahjeong You are wrong on the facts here but the "and well...I don't regret it" was funny.

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Karl Smith

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3 years

@BridgetPhetasy @Neoavatara @RadioFreeTom @jbarro @KAGoss @juliettekayyem @SouthwestAir @FAANews I think this is the rel issue. Their imagine of a Trump supporter is of someone angry and semi literate...and on top of that they are not aware that Biden's disapprovals are above 50, implying some of his own voters now disapprove.

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Karl Smith

@karlbykarlsmith

4 years

@RexChapman Aren't Williams syndrome folks basically perfect. What we would be if we didn't have the proteins for evil.

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@karlbykarlsmith

4 years

Its a proxy battle for whether there will be any international effort to hold China accountable after the pandemic is defeated.

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Karl Smith

@karlbykarlsmith

4 years

Unemployment estimates from a long quarantine are converging around the mid-twenties using unreleated methods.

Lukas Delgado-Prieto

@LaDelgadoP

4 years

The impact of a long quarantine on employment in the US economy looks pretty scary. Depending on the baseline 23% to 6% of all the jobs will be lost. In the medium scenario the economy will reach employment levels of 2011. @Noahpinion @causalinf

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