Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I cannot wait to go back to never thinking about finance 000
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Every example of the “k shaped economy” just looks like a recession with a bubble attached 110
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I would really welcome a study on Anthropic’s IPO financials initially being shared with investors and the bond explosion kicking off. Based on what’s been shared publicly, these seem to have been within days of each other 010
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Lads, is it good when one of the magnificent 7 are claiming “construction delays” are an unforseeable act of god 200
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Excited for inevitable moment the RNLI vs Jersey Lifeboat Association discourse takes to the national stage 000
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This feels like February 2020. Nothing has gone wrong yet. But I do *not* like the look of those storm clouds. They look far, far too Great Depression shaped for my liking. 100
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Apparently we’ve invested four times more into LLMs than we did into subprime housing. Which I’m sure is fine, given those reliable returns on investment LLMs offer 100
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Annual repost (until the heatwaves move further north) 000
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I'm so glad we've blown up the entire global economy in pursuit of slightly better chatbots. Such a great allocation of resources by the paperclip maximiser economy. 100
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 16/12/2025From what I've seen so far, AI use is insightful for what it says about value. For most (corporate) AI use, the same job can do can be done better by the right human, so the choice to use AI suggests that it isn't a valuable task / that isn't the value add of that person. 100
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Just seen something mentioning how Musk's net worth is greater than the GDP of South Africa - which happens a lot but mixes up stocks (net worth) and flows (GDP, which is value per year). But then I was curious about what country he is equivalent to, based on comparing flow with flow. 100
Reposted by Alex HodnettGonçalo Pina @alvespina.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Price discrimination can be welfare improving (nobody likes it) 121
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 18/06/2025The decision to move to Scotland remains flawless 000
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 13/06/2025What’s great about AI is now everyone can have an evil advisor whispering in their ear and corrupting them 100
Reposted by Alex HodnettMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Everything is political economy, tariff pass through edition Once again, economics worked in exactly the way we knew economics worked, because the sun had risen before many times, even though we (again) pretended we didn't know how economics worked, because of politics: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 0214
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 18/05/2025I wish to recind all my criticism of the Eurovision juries (for a year) 021
Reposted by Alex HodnettJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 29/04/2025"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages. 201371263
Reposted by Alex HodnettAriel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025we could discuss the trade policy of the 1930s but that would be a Smoot point 2366177
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Unbelievably, my idea to buy a coffee machine "because it will be cheaper to make my own" appears to be retrospectively becoming a brilliant decision 020
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 06/03/2025“Fund managers to debate ethics of just wars before investment decisions” 010
Reposted by Alex HodnettElle @centristmum.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Thermostatic public opinion is up there with compound interest as one of the most powerful forces in the universe 0101
Reposted by Alex HodnettPaul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Ironically, most penguins aren't aware that today is Penguin Awareness Day and they think it's just a regular Monday. The reason for this, of course is that they refused to adopt the new Gregorian calendar in 1582, and still adhere to the old Julian one, for tax purposes. 11640114
Reposted by Alex HodnettShengwu Li @shengwuli.bsky.social · 13/01/2025The LA wildfires have given landlords an opportunity to raise rents. California has anti-price-gouging regulation that might prevent that. If you want to step beyond Econ 101, here’s a recent Econometrica paper that shows how price caps can raise welfare. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3...onlinelibrary.wiley.comEconometrica | Econometric Society Journal | Wiley Online LibraryPolicymakers frequently use price regulations as a response to inequality in the markets they control. In this paper, we examine the optimal structure of such policies from the perspective of mechani... 613432
Reposted by Alex HodnettTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 03/01/2025One of those brilliant suggestions you read and think to yourself, 'Why on earth haven't I thought of or read about this idea before? It's so damned obvious!'theconversation.comWhy stopping knife crime needs to start in the kitchenPhasing out pointed-tip kitchen knives in favour of round-tip knives is a natural extension of the UK’s progress on weapons control. 269246
Reposted by Alex Hodnettderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Instead, we should look to history, path dependency, institutional structures, politics, and economics. For Tokyo, I think urban planning—walkability, mixed use neighborhoods, affordable real estate—all contribute to the richer media and commercial systems that feed into culture. 82297215
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 27/11/2024No one can ever complain about the lack of a written constitution for the UK ever again! researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB...researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk 010
Reposted by Alex Hodnettbilbo 🍊 @bilbo.cat · 22/11/2024i am standign for election. i promise to do Nothing 🥇 1455678
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 22/11/2024JMP season is great bc you see so much interesting and new research being disseminated. Really interesting on the overlap between industrial policy and innovation 010
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I’ve hit a few starter packs in the last few days and now I feel like I follow too many people, but don’t want to offend anyone by unfollowing. More first world problems to come as we hear about them 000
Reposted by Alex HodnettSteven Medema @spydermed.bsky.social · 15/11/2024There are two types of economists. 1. Those skeeting about impending doom. 2. Those making long lists of impending natural experiments. 182
Reposted by Alex HodnettConor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 06/11/2024A political fact that a decade-plus of low inflation made everyone forget: The public DESPISE inflation. People see rising prices as the government’s fault but salary rises as rewarding their own hard work - so even if raises outstrip inflation, people will still be mad at you. 021
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 06/11/2024Must admit this morning on this side of the Atlantic feels a bit Tennyson; ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do 000
Reposted by Alex HodnettAlastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 06/11/2024I'm never going to have a better use for this meme. 85281206342
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 06/11/2024I had put significant weight onto the Selzer poll. Clearly this did not capture the US aggregate. We learn. 000
Reposted by Alex HodnettPseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Here is my extremely brief (potted) history of institutions in macro-development thinking -- just before the AJR intervention. I had most of these thoughts prior to the Nobel week, but now they are crystallising. 318848
Reposted by Alex HodnettJames Feigenbaum @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · 15/10/2024And it just won a Nobel prize! 0449
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 04/07/2024Is it too late to choose the coalition of chaos with Ed Milliband 000
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 28/06/2024Chevron deference repeal seems like a pretty big issue for regulatory and investor uncertainty? 000
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 17/06/2024You know what I really want? A TV debate with a Logical Fallacy Referee (complete with whistle and ability to mute participants). Would be immensely entertaining 000
Reposted by Alex HodnettP(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 04/06/2024Banning the word “febrile” yall had your chance and you took advantage 2121411
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 26/05/2024So far not seen the use of the word “voluntold”, which is really a bit of a crime against reporting tbh 000
Alex Hodnett @alexhodnett.bsky.social · 26/05/2024I was worried the election campaign would be boring. That concern has been addressed. 000
