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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Regular reminder that its easy to worry about being called some pejorative for being sensitive or soft but you are in fact by choosing to stay on twitter supporting a guy who explicitly posts white and male supremacist stuff and has repeatedly engineered his site to boost fascist propoganda

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Harvard law (prestigious law generally) is funny. You get a mix of guys like Feldman who's intelligence is just that he can memorize things, who jump at every important question w/ a laughably wrong/naive take. & you get real scholarship from deep thinkers like Bowie & Renan bsky.app/profile/niko...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A goal of this administration being achieved: “American pre-tax corporate earnings have grown by $1.2trn, or 30%. … And yet taxes on corporate profits have collapsed.” www.economist.com/finance-and-... h/t @talsmith.bsky.social

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The world's first no doubt

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The 1st & 3rd sentences are true but I don't think its correct that it follows it won't change the avg person's life? It may not even provide positive value but many young people have it embedded in their lives. Like the computer or social media it is going to transform many lives (for good & bad)

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GODDAMN IT THIS IS AMERICA

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bernie on the campaign trail talking to farmers in vermont: Beautiful, powerful, inspiring Bernie hiring staff and choosing people to listen to: Terrifying, repulsive, destructive

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Begging my labor proponents to be more literate than this when it comes to labor measures (economics, really, but id settle for this) Its an inaccurate representation of the relative wellbeing and power of workers in the US (not to mention trends) & good strategy should reflect that

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some kids love trains and some love construction. Oddly funny how genuinely excited he gets about almost nothing except cruelty and showing off his construction projects

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Polls are so cool I wish they were real.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 20/09/2026

The idea that national economic prosperity comes from founders "manifesting" it "through sheer force of will" is supported by no school of economics, but is sadly widespread in certain circles. Stable rules-based government, human capital, physical capital, natural resources. These build prosperity.

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I mean yes? You should try to avoid making AI firms, who are willing to spend many billions to succeed, feel existentially threatened by dems winning such that they pour billions into anti-dem messaging. You can also still be anti-AI like people want. Theres space between those. 2 things can be true

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Reasonably relieved to see warsh recover & avoid a mistake we all suffer from here. I'm not sure you can give him too much credit for doing the obvious but he's at least learned everything he'd been doing was unpopular. Still waiting to see when a big decision comes if he avoids partisanship

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I tend to find myself landing on the side of giving students slightly too much benefit of the doubt or partial credit (at least on average, sorry if I've wronged you) which I think is the right approach but this is a good reminder that a deserving F might actually save the Republic some day

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Seems like maybe we should consider this when talking about the state of the economy or policy to improve life for lower and middle income workers

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It took all of two years to return to the same electoral claims

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Should be a prerequisite to say about tariffs, not disqualifying

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/09/2026

liberal democracy is not a luxury. liberal democracy is the magic beast that ran the table on fascism and communism and totalitarianism. we did not do this by giving up on liberal democracy and embracing evil. we did this by sticking to our most dear principles.

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is pretty empirically testable and fails. We dont see higher rates of maha/anti-vax among those discriminated against in or frequently excluded from our healthcare system (people of color, poor people, non-insured). Its highest among the most conservative areas. Important we get this right

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The famous centrist commentariat love to point to every dumb lefty proposal as evidence the left sucks on policy & yet when prominent "pragmatic" centrist orgs propose legislation its subsidizing demand w/ federally guaranteed loans of expensive quickly depreciating & child/climate-crushing assets

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How do you ensure real consequences? Having none makes a joke out of the behavioral/psychology fields' seriousness & integrity, & academia more broadly. The incentives wrt funding/connections for coauthors are probably too big, so I guess you hold out for Duke? They already failed one investigation

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‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud

New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It is grimly funny to watch people contrive scenarios that the economy today is historically bad, be shown they are empirically wrong, & spin themselves in circles until their logic leads to claims like the 2008 crisis was just speculators losing flipped homes. I promise you 10% unemployment is dire

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If this was true we'd be able to see it & test it empirically. Models can account for non-linearities or interaction effects to describe precisely this It just doesn't hold water that this is what has caused the sharp change in sentiment the past few years (even if its true we dont like inequality)

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Seriously how do you get this from any of Warsh's speeches or actions so far? Its been, as anyone who followed his pre-chair time could've told you, just partisan hackery along w/ pretending we haven't learned anything in the past 40 years on monetary policy. For God's sake hes suggested monetarism

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Shes back! Glad we cleared it up its not actually grit its being willing to ask for help that makes all the ceos so rich and successful @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | I Study Successful People. They Have One Habit in Common.

Being a successful self-starter doesn’t mean pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Yeah this is just delusional. How do you tie your shoes in the morning stuff. If nothing else being able to control supreme court nominations is critical (And yes some dems approve bad judges I promise they'd vote differently if those judges weren't already guaranteed to be confirmed)

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Causal inference is my passion"

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Test-optional policies reduce college admissions of high-achieving, disadvantaged students Under test-optional policies, too few of these applicants submit test scores; they more than double their admission probability (from 2.9% to 7.2 %) by reporting scores. drive.google.com/file/d/10mW5...

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It's very important that we defend the right of race scientists to hold academic sinecures, or else we open the door to attacks on the freedom of academic disciplines like gender studies and African-American history, which have already been banned.

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I think if you didn't want to have many people telling you you're wrong on social media you should have read why he has been suspended before signing onto this letter and posting about the importance of academic freedom

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It is truly incredible how being online all the time melts these peoples minds. They have whole imagined worlds where stancil is a celebrity, real economists generate him, 1997 & 2002 are the same year, tvs have stayed exactly the same, & empiricism is actually just i saw something once so its true

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I think a good measure of whether you have it together is do you randomly bring up the name of a somewhat known internet poster that people have created a massive complex about in completely unrelated conversations (the answer should be no)

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Yeah a lot of people out there love to pillory charts, spreadsheets, or any attempt to analyze things with numbers & I gotta say, if you want universal healthcare we are gonna need shitloads of charts & spreadsheets. We gotta stop larping that being a spreadsheet person makes you not "working-class"

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The census bureau has fallen

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"One more quote tweet that'll show him" The thing where a person says some common economic statistic/concept is wrong, an economist disagrees, the person says here's why, the economist tries to show them why theyre wrong, & the person responds "actually its all fake, econ, math etc" is maga-coded

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Less honest" its remarkable Darling doesn't go insane interacting with accounts like this so regularly

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Prices means the price of something - holding that thing constant over time. The issue here seems to be you want to pretend the average tv in a best buy in 1997 is the same as the average tv available in one today Hedonic pricing actually increases cpi on net

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is a particularly embarassing example because plasma tvs came out 1 yr before 97. They were 15k (www.reddit.com/r/todayilear...). Tvs are also literally an example used by the bls to point out why the claims in this thread are wrong (www.bls.gov/cpi/factshee...)

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Common Misconceptions about the Consumer Price Index: Questions and Answers : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Rockies are cool and all, but all I ever heard growing up was ski trails out west were 3x as long. Actually Killington has a larger vertical drop than vail. If you like elevation or big rocks sure, but I like skiing and green on my mountains and the east does that just fine

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Reminder that not only do farmers receive massive subsidies and devastate our environmental resources, they also get special carve outs on labor laws. Of course bc life is just slopulism the more perfect union people loves them! Think of the aesthetics! Definitely not landed gentry

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Anand @anandbutler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Oster's work in econ has faced some criticism (which she's mostly taken well) but overall the publishing record is impressive ("Oster's delta" is a widely-used). Which makes her covid-school takes mind-numbingly insane. Wdym you forgot what selection bias is? She also refuses to take responsibility

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