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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Browning poem: "How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I sat with his head ’twixt my knees on the ground; And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine, As I poured down his throat our last measure of wine,

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How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, by Robert Browning

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

"They used to say the organic chemistry requirement saved more lives than penicillin."

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

How do you know you've written a good Substack? See how many people are offended and unsubscribe. "Are You Obscene?" ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/are-you-ob...

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Are You Obscene?

When you’re done eating a Big Mac in your car, do you throw the wrapper out the window?

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

"95% of Americans Are Falling into Intellectual Barbarism. Here's Why It Won't Lead to the Dark Ages" These thoughts comfort me. Maybe you too-- or maybe you don't think China taking over culture is a plus. ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/95-of-amer...

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95% of Americans Are Falling into Intellectual Barbarism. Here's Why It Won't Lead to the Dark Ages

American education outside of STEM is dying, at the elementary, high school, and college levels.

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

My 7th grade math girls came up with the best method for filling out your tax returns: Have your husband do it. Assigning them the Schedule D capital gainsworksheet probably has made them more eager to get married early.

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Slacker Perfectionist @colohockeygirl.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I am a transactional lawyer and I've had 3 clients this week tell me they ran documents through Chat GPT and it gave them legal advice that contradicated my advice. In all 3 cases the Chat GPT advice was wildly wrong but sounded convincing to my clients

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

An alternative to price controls is being able to sue firms that raise their prices. Even more extreme, firms that didn't raise them, but have high prices.

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Where have all the comments gone? For decades, the American Economic Review regularly published formal comments — papers that replicate, reassess, or challenge earlier AER articles. In our latest blog post, we show: they’ve nearly disappeared.

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

My Substack seems to be getting a lot of views on this. I really do do a better job of selecting Best of 2025 than most people. I guess it helps not having famous authors as friends. ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/the-best-o...

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The Best of 2025

Here are some good things I came across in 2025, even though not all originated in that year.

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I just submitted a referee report: Dear [young professor], I hereby submit my referee report. I did start to use the Springer online form, but ran into problems. I then realized I shouldn’t be wasting my time fiddling with their forms anyway, since that is a way for them to save cheap secretary

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

We should have a list of first names which immigrants must use for their children under aged 5 or as yet unborn. France had someting like this for everybody, at one time.

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

A Substack I didn't intent to write, on the Indiana redistricting vote: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/the-indian...

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The Indiana Redistricting Vote

Dear Indiana Legislators,

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The minutia of gun control and police search are familiar ground, I know, and will affect maybe even 20 people per year, but wouldn't it be nice to hear some mult100-billion dollar tax and business law questions too?

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

On Bluesky I hope for useful, if negative comments, but just get abuse and insults. On Twitter/X, on the other hand, I don't get much abuse, I sometimes get useful negative comments, and very often get ones that are responsive, just dumb. (Most people are dumb, so that's OK.)

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

My latest Substack is an open letter to the American Economic Association on the self-righteousness of expelling Larry Summers. ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/expelling-...

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Expelling Larry Summers from the American Economic Association

Dear Executive Committee of the American Economic Association,

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

True, all times are equally bad to quit caffeine. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/d...

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There’s Never Been a Better Time to Quit Caffeine

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Excellent post. In my ancestral Illinois, pan-fried corn mush was the equivalent. Are Newfoundlanders (I am being polite) genetically related to American Indians? Fried dough is a big deal here.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

A first question is whether the President can deploy the National Guard at all. Aren't these the state militia, the state armies? Why does anybody but the Governor have authority?

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

If the US Coast Guard stops a ship in international waters and seizes their cocaine, is that a war crime? The ship has not done anything illegal. Should we prosecute the Coast Guard Captain for piracy?

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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Great idea! Some Michelin starred restaurant could make a lot of money from these in winter. What kind of mushrooms would be best, I wonder? Button, shitake, morels, oyster, coprinus, lions-mane, . . . ?

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Kid was imagining a perfect ice skating rink and said they would have “warm mugs of hot mushroom broth” which is the sort of thing that completely delights me.

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

The French have a nice phrase "thoughts on the stairs" for things you would liked to have said, but it's too late. I just revised my Thanksgiving readings post with thoughts on the stairs. Next year! ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/to-read-at...

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To Read at the Table for Thanksgiving (2025)

We Americans are very bad at knowing how to celebrate holidays.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this." IG mr.funkys0ul

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

An oddity: online, I am much more encouraged by positive comments than discouraged by negative. Live, or in book reviews, etc., it is the opposite. Probably it is because online negative comments are almost always stupid.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:

He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions, or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome.

He makes light of favours while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never speaks of himself except when compelled, never defends himself by a mere retort, he has no ears for slander or gossip, is scrupulous in imputing motives to those who interfere with him, and interprets everything for the best.

He is never mean or little in his disputes, never takes unfair advantage, never mistakes personalities or sharp sayings for arguments, or insinuates evil which he dare not say out. From a long-sighted prudence, he observes the maxim of the ancient sage, that we should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Take a look on Twitter/X, folks-- lots of humorous unveilings tonight of fake-American accounts from Paraguay, Thailand, etc., with the new policy of listing location of each poster.

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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

"Don't take notes of what the professor says, take note." www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/i...

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Do appellate lawyers consult for trial lawyers who want to do their own appeals? This sounds like a lucrative and socially useful business.

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Bad news for Bluesky; Today, I couldn't even remember the name "Bluesky" at first. I thought it might be something lose to NASA.

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Today's Substcak, on the Larry Summer-Jeffrey-Epstein emails. Summers is humiliated, but not for the reason you think. ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/larry-summ...

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Larry Summers and the Jeffrey Epstein Emails

Emails between economist Larry Summers and pimp Jeffrey Epstein have come to light.

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

It seems Keyu Jin led Larry Summers on to get access, and he hoped for intimacy and asked Epstein for advice, but she outsmarted him. How could Summers be stupid enough to ask Epstein for advice, in writing , after being bitten when the World Bank "Summers memo" was leaked? www.keyujin.co/pdf/cv.pdf

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Still working our way through approx. 23,000 pages of Epstein related documents released by House Oversight Cmte. In another email.. this one from Feb. 2017.. Epstein references Trump ==>

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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Not sure if I misunderstand myself. Or the Political Tribes quiz misunderstands me (and possibly the world). yourpoliticaltribe.com

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Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana) @ericrasmusen.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Fascinating. It sure looks like "Why I resigned" is "Because I was about to be fired." He doesn't seem to under negotiating or nonprofit law. I'm glad it looks like he didn't have to sign a nondisparagement agreement. Somebody needs to ask for his money deal though. Probably FOIA it.

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Colby Smith @colbylsmith.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

NEW: Adriana Kugler, who abruptly left the Fed, repeatedly violated the central bank’s trading rules. New disclosures show trades in individual stocks, like Apple, Southwest Airlines and Cava, many of which took place during the blackout period ahead of policy votes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/b...

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Former Fed Official Violated Trading Rules, Disclosures Show

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