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Ethan Struby

@estruby.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Economics at St. Olaf College. Macroeconomic expectations, monetary policy, Treasury markets, #TeachEcon Views expressed here are not those of my employer. estruby.github.io

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 9h
An AI can never get called a mama’s boy during the break-up of their previous band and then work that into the sixth verse of the opening track of their sophomore album with their new band So an AI can’t make music I want to listen to basically
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 23h
Surely everyone who complained about Latinx will write strongly worded letters
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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What I picture when people say escrow
The cool S design people used to draw in school with crow wings
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't have any particular insight into this stuff but I feel like about once a month, one of the big newspapers publishes a story about how ADULTS are CUTTING OFF CONTACT with their PARENTS and it's SO SAD FOR THE PARENTS and DAMN THESE THERAPISTS
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
one of the groomsmen at my wedding has an op-ed in today's NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Opinion | Our Power Grid Is Vulnerable. This Is How to Protect It. (Gift Article)
The Trump administration should build a stronger alliance with clean energy companies in spite of its culture war with them.
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value plus discounted @akhilrao.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"meets expectations" is the baseline if you're rational
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You don’t gut the country's capacity to measure what's happening in its schools because you care about improving them. Guardian article below.
graph of number of employees at NCES
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 24/09/2026
Mass lesbian bar masking story is getting Oberlin cafeteria levels of coverage, meaning it will define reactionary and reactionary-fearing centrist politics for the next 15 years
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
prepping some slides about common pool resources and it's always a good day to (1) remind economists that we should be ashamed that ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel, and we didn't even have the sense to have her in an economics department (2) inform students that Hardin was a racist
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@kathbarbadoro.bsky.social listening to the bonus; do you like older (like, early 20th century) mysteries at all? My wife read a bunch of the Dorothy Sayers novels over the past couple months and they seemed to hit a sweet spot of interesting and clever but not disturbing
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hanno Lustig has an interesting post on what’s going on in advanced economy’s sovereign debt (with a great bibliography at the end) thetwocents.substack.com/p/global-bon...
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Global bond markets. Marked to Market. Part I.
Price discovery has been restored in bond markets. Government debt is being marked to market. We're now relying on price-sensitive investors to absorb sovereign bond issuance going forward.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
YUP Politicians and their fundraising apparatuses are partially at fault for this!
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22/09/2026
It was me. Gift link: wapo.st/4hDCZRs I think about this a lot.
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Opinion | Parents invest so much in youth sports. Then came Trump.
The emotional and financial investment parents make in young athletes is strong wedge-issue fodder.
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Last week, the world lost an extraordinary scholar and person. Alexander Reyes, a PhD student at UCI and my advisee, died after a severe illness. Please considering contributing to this fundraiser for his family, who have incurred tremendous expenses this summer, in his memory if you can.
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Donate to Supporting A Final Farewell to Alexander, organized by Elizabeth Sandoval
Our family is reaching out to ask for support for our beloved cousin, Alex… Elizabeth Sandoval needs your support for Supporting A Final Farewell to Alexander
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
elite spam
An account called FORD TRUCKS asking “hey man have you ever wished to have a truck”
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Inspired by my eldest’s preferred bedtime story: muppet rime of the ancient mariner. Kermit is the wedding guest (or maybe he’s the groom and we fudge that for the story so miss piggy can get pissed at the mariner).
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
TIL
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
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RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’
The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
this was a joke but now I'm sort of wanting to (get students to help me) build one
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
this morning i stopped in my favorite coffee shop (shout out to Little Joy in northfield) and did an extremely dad-coded thing: asked a complete stranger how he managed to have a pristine Uncle Tupelo t-shirt in the year of our lord 2026
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Then why are you in the Senate, my man
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
sent this to my wife with just the text "hear me out", i'll let you know how it goes
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Two of the outdoor cats have bonded. I think it’s because they kept meeting up in our yard for food. Just goes to show you, you gotta get off the apps and put yourself out there
Grey and white tabby Tobin and his paramour, tabby TOG
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026
Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this
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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So many people think that the students who can't pay back their loans are going to like Vassar or Oberlin or even Harvard. In reality they're going to schools like Legends Barber College or Construction Training Center. www.npr.org/2026/09/16/n...
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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On this day 52 years ago, Robert A. Caro published “The Power Broker” and forever changed how exhausting boyfriends could be
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
No, wrong, sorry, please review the solutions and come see me in office hours if you have questions before the exam
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Back in Trump 1, my EP and I used to spitball every now and then on the first question I'd ask Trump. We settled on "how do tariffs work?"
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🙃
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is my electoral platform
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ME, MOURNING MY HUSBAND, WHOSE LIFE AS A PTOLEMAIC-ERA SCRIBE WAS MADE MORE DIFFICULT BY LABOR STRIFE AND A FALSE MURDER ACCUSATION, AND WHO DIED YOUNG: RIP my menches
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
2.) Why assume that the person even needs job training? Lots of folks just get new jobs in the same industry.
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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Last time the Fed hiked before an election? 2022 midterm under Biden. From 1984 to 2024, the Fed adjusted rates (up or down) within 60 days of an election (43%) as often as in any other 60-day period (45%).
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds
A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One thing that really worries me about the future is that the US national debt might actually become a real problem, and while Trump is blowing a hole in the budget a lot of Dems are telling us they can build a Nordic welfare state while cutting all our taxes.
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Trans Moleman, Street Estrogen Junkie @transmoleman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Absolute S-tier level of dudes rocking
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Christopher Walsh @awkwardisallowed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A sticker saying "Herman Melville has a posse" also quotes the same line as the below post, "All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks."
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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Be a man!" Soviet anti-alcohol poster; designed by M. Reshetnikov, 1983
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Imagining Janet is Janet Yellen in this exchange
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thinking about this exchange today
A YouTube video for the Water Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The comments section has an exchange as detailed below. “@TheMrdangles16 • 11y ago: 
i hate the water temple... too confusing :(“ “@KeithHalsell • 2y ago: 
it's been 9 years, i hope you are doing great in life now.” “@TheMrdangles16 • 2y ago: it couldn't be going worse Keith.”
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I spent about eight weeks cleaning out the basement of a flower shop (and doing some other stuff around the shop, like changing the lightbulbs). Wasn’t a bad gig, I listened to a lot of NPR.
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Chris Stroupe @stroupe.net · 07/09/2026
regulate nutritional supplements, deregulate car dealerships
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Is there anything more mortifying than locking yourself out of your office on a holiday and having to call someone to unlock it
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Bayesian" means "from the Bay Area".
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hell, same
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