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David H Feldman

@dhfeldman.bsky.social
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I write about the economics of higher education and international trade. Love New Mexico & cats. My books: academic.oup.com/book/7559 academic.oup.com/book/5108 Social media posts reflect my own viewpoint.

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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 7h
Paxton has likely been watching what has happened to Collins, Marshall, Miller, and others. He knows that if he debates he will be cut into quivering bits. 
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 10h
The self-awareness of that one is non-existent, methinks. It would be "too far" if Ukraine targeted a girls school and killed hundreds of kids ... and then blamed a map instead of apologizing and paying compensation. 😏
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 10h
If he was seated next to me at a restaurant, I would ask the establishment to move me somewhere else. No, I would demand it, actually. I would not sit next to him and make pleasantries. That would ruin my evening. And I'm too polite (a fault, maybe) to look him in the eye and call him out.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 10h
Irish was in fact her first language! She never passed that along to her daughters.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 12h
Such a shame.😉 Any Ukrainian assault that fouls up Russia’s ability to maintain its war effort or that erodes public support for continuing the war is a good thing.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 12h
Yeah, I'll bet you can. 😅
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 12h
My grandmother was born in a white-washed, thatched roof cottage near Inver in 1904.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 15h
"Restoring American values?"
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 17h
The sound of thousands of American Catholics switching their votes ...
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 17h
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 17h
2/ over any reasonable time frame. The volume is too low and Russia has little to spare. This is about Putin cracking the facade of unified sanctions against Russia so that over time the whole sanctions regime fades away. Trump is serving Putin personally and Bessent knows this. What an ass.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 17h
Scott Bessent and Kevin Hassett have guaranteed that they will be future historians canonical examples of people who shredded their reputations to serve a morally degraded president and political party. They lie as easily as they breathe. This will have little to no effect on diesel prices ...
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 17h
Can you imagine what that thing could do to the furniture ...
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 17h
Yeah, this one. What it shows is that Trump supporters don't really care about character and judgment in a leader. Having a conventional moral backbone is almost a disqualifier in a right wing populist leader more generally. whyy.org/articles/new...
whyy.org
New Clinton ad features underpaid Trump Taj Mahal contractor - WHYY
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is rolling out a new ad featuring a former piano seller who claims he was not fully paid for instruments bought by the Trump Taj Mahal.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 19h
I doubt Trump has ever settled with the little piano vendor he stiffed.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 19h
If cheap access to land and planning certainty apply to the Chinese firm, but not to Tesla that is an implicit subsidy, right? Is Tesla subject to regulations and taxes that the Chinese firm does not face? Scale economies is a clear advantage, of course.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This requires tankers to leave freely from Russian ports. Ukraine could make an example of a few of them. That would discourage others.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hey, I passed the magic 3K followers total. At this rate, I'll pass 4K sometime in late 2027 ... 😅
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Well, I guess Zelenskyy is holding some pretty good cards now. 😅 Maybe Trump should try threatening the guy in Moscow whose hand seems pretty empty, ... you know, that Putin character whose government needs the CIA to come to Moscow to tell his FSB the truth about the little war her started.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Wait a minute. Does this mean Zelenskyy is now holding some pretty big cards that Trump needs? Well, then shouldn't Trump be putting pressure on Putin so that Zelenskyy will give Trump what he wants?
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Time for the world to ignore the United States or to tell us to fuck off.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He stays up all night ranting on his personal social media platform, and no adult is present supervising him any more. This is the child who is steering our foreign policy and overseeing our military, with the help of total degenerates like Hegseth and Miller.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nice cuppa oolong while working on a little article.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Wait a minute. I thought that was the 70s ...
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh, my, Ukraine keeps blasting refineries that produce the fuel that powers Russia's aggression and continual war crimes.
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Casablanca: I'm Shocked! Bogart & Renault
ALT: Casablanca: I'm Shocked! Bogart & Renault
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
How much of this is driven by explicit or implicit public subsidies?
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That’s what you say if you are a person of weak character who has a very transactional view of life.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ukraine’s response to Trump’s cozying up to Putin.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Not me …. 😅
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Look at all of those counties in Kansas where there will be no medicare advantage plans available at all. Calling @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Lets see ... Disproportionate affect in red rural areas and in red states. Happening three weeks before an election. I wonder how this can be used by Democratic candidates ... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/b...
nytimes.com
Private Medicare Plans Are Raising Costs And Forcing Millions To Find New Insurance (Gift Article)
As enrollment for Medicare Advantage begins this month, older Americans are confronting fewer options because insurers are discontinuing coverage in many areas.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm sure I'm stepping into a minefield .... but, How much of this is due to baby boomer bequests going disproportionately to millennials?
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think we may be watching the beginnings of a winning presidential campaign.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The FiftyPlusOne odds should be hitting 99 to 1 soon ….
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wait, I thought Hegseth was not a fan of Sharia ...
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
White boy says he should get a participation prize and an A for effort ...
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
White boy says he should get an A for effort ...
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wait a minute. That's the median??? Did Dan Ariely have a hand in creating this data?
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wow, what an amazingly small-minded jerk. Any Republican who DOES call it "super intelligence" is now on MY list of idiots whose noses are permanently attached to Trump's ass.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Change dollars to marks, president to Reichskanzler, and drop the word senile, and I imagine many non-Nazi German lawyers had a similar feeling between 1933 and 1945.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I suspect the Jews will still find ways to do Nobel prize quality scientific research, write key works of American music, theater, and literature, and generally use their talents for the social good. 😏
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A Hail Mary pass to win a few very low-attention voters. Well, I hope it's only a few.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I can't resist ... Most of their foods include a side dish of l'avocat.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
She and others in the party need to say forcefully that the ballroom and whatever portion of the arch is done are all coming down in 2029, and that the costs of restoration will be borne by the wealthy oligarchs whose money helped fund these vanity projects. Those oligarchs will know not to refuse.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
All of their poached food is cooked in court-bouillon ...
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
2/ Please don't tell us about the "historical purposes" carve out. You know as well as I do that that's a coward's cop out.
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Calling Peter Mohler of the University of Alabama. Are you OK with state mandates that force faculty, and your PBS radio station, to use Gulf of America? Is that kind of speech control from the government acceptable to you? You're kinda quiet now. Just waiting for things to blow over?
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Let that be her political epitaph. “I got road salt off the tariff list,” while allowing Trump to ride roughshod over solemn international agreements. 
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Then New Mexico must send in the state police to shut the federal construction down. Think they’ll do that? I have my doubts. 
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David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Then there is Tommy Tuberville, who is dumber than the proverbial stick.
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