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Nina Eichacker

@ninaecon.bsky.social
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Still working on a Mitski/Minsky pun; wine mom for big fiscal (the Bidenomics version) ninaephd.org

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Shishiqiushi @shishiqiushi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If this were happening during a dem presidency the knives would be out for a 50 raise
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Mike Beggs @mikejbeggs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our book is finally out today! Looking forward to talking to people about it
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Joe Biden's inability to talk about his administration's successes ended up being a really big problem, imo.
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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Abortion has faded nationally as a major midterms issue, but it's a top focus in the Maine Senate race, where Democrats are banking that Collins's Kavanaugh vote will cost her in a way it didn't back in 2020. I went deep for @vox.com. gift link: www.vox.com/policy/50331...
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Susan Collins is the abortion rights movement’s biggest test of 2026
Will Maine voters punish the Republican senator for the end of Roe? It’s complicated.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
One of the most mindblowing things about interning in Congress was finding that the Congressional Research Service exists. Improving it would improve lawmaking.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.
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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s is better when centrist democrats win elections than when republicans win elections.
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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New paper (open source!) out with the Cambridge Journal of Economics: it's about what Keynesian oriented supply-side policies might look like in our weird moment of climate change and other challenges: I hope you have a chance to check it out! t.co/yIZnjdIova
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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Googled this line on a hunch, was not disappointed
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Copyright laws, securities laws, environmental laws, corporate liability laws, they all exist and we should enforce them against these companies IMO
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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New newsletter is live -- it's the start of a mini series about the institutional economics of media production, starting with a review of Graydon Carter's recent memoir "When the Going Was Good", a reflection on his time with Vanity Fair magazine. ninaeichacker.substack.com/p/a-new-mini...
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A new mini series about magazines and media!
On Graydon Carter’s When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines
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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Oh hi again: I wrote some more about Kenneth Rogoff's Our Dollar, Your Problem -- this one is about the dollar dominance parts, and I think that the next newsletter is going to talk more about central bank independence and other topics he dug into: open.substack.com/pub/ninaeich...
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Our Dollar, Your Problem: Ideas that have stuck with me
Or, more substance and less vibes
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The new tariffs on Canada hit cement, plywood, and some electronic equipment — a surprising move when data center input costs are already risking higher U.S. inflation. heatmap.news/daily/trump-...
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Trump Found a New Way to Punish Canada
Cement, plywood, and some electronic equipment will face 50% levies. But the real cost is much higher.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I hate being a media criticism guy but, listen up. If you voted for the Trump tax cuts you don't get to call yourself a fiscal hawk. And Politico shouldn't do you the favor of going along with it www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
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The Senate GOP’s squeaky wheel suddenly has a lot of power
Sen. Ron Johnson is next in line for chair of the Budget Committee after Lindsey Graham’s death, and he has some decisions to make about how he’ll handle the job.
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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It’s been a minute! I’m back with a review of Kenneth Rogoff’s “Our Dollar, Your Problem,” which has everything: discussions about dollar hegemony, digs at academic rivals, very particular views about how inflation starts, and more. open.substack.com/pub/ninaeich...
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The Odd Experience of Reading "Our Dollar, Your Problem", by Kenneth Rogoff
Welcome back – I took an inadvertent hiatus from writing this newsletter while I was finishing an academic paper revision and then a vacation, but now I’m back.
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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
If the moved this game to Louisville, Mitch McConnell & Rand Paul attending France v. Spain on Bastille Day would make this the ultimate Bourbon Derby.
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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Victoria Chick ♥️♥️♥️
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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Reading recs please: do you have any favorite economic writing about casino capitalism? I would love recommendations from Keynesian/Marxian/Money and Banking econ about trends in financial markets that look like gambling (meme stocks, coins, prediction markets, etc), and critiques of the idea, too!
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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This administration is trying further their deportation by using bank regulators to pressure banks to shut certain immigrants out of the financial system. It’s akin to a modern form of redlining against immigrant communities.
Banks aren’t prohibited from offering accounts or loans to undocumented immigrants, but the changes undertaken by regulators following Trump’s executive order appear intended to make it harder for them to justify to regulators why they might be doing so. Such warnings tend to put a chill on bank activity.

A prior warning by the Treasury Department directed banks to be on the lookout for employers that might be committing payroll fraud by employing undocumented immigrants. Regulators have also pushed financial institutions and payments companies to reconsider the risks of providing credit cards and mortgages to undocumented immigrants.

The crackdown on serving undocumented immigrants comes at the same time that the Trump administration and regulators are also investigating banks for allegedly “debanking” clients for political and religious reasons. Trump signed another executive order on that topic seeking to uncover discrimination against conservatives.
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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
For Yale JREG’s blog, I wrote about Trump v. Cook and the limitations of relying on a narrow SCOTUS opinion to safeguard Fed independence. Because SCOTUS created the problem of politicized agencies, the solution instead lies with Congress and the Fed itself. www.yalejreg.com/nc/the-uncer...
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The Uncertain Future of Fed Independence After Trump v. Cook - Yale Journal on Regulation
The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Trump v. Cook seeks to resolve both narrow questions about the Federal Reserve Act’s (FRA) removal protections and the broad question of Federal Reserve independ...
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economicsecurity.bsky.social @economicsecurityproject.org · 23/06/2026
1/ We're thrilled to announce that @mtkonczal.bsky.social has been promoted to Vice President of Policy and Research at Economic Security Project. 🎉
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
My paper from Cambridge.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/how-the-cl...
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“How the Clock Broke”
My Paper for the Trump Mini-Conference at Cambridge
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
We have a job opening for a junior reporter. Minimal experience required, 50-55K per year plus benefits, remote gig heartlandsignal.com/jobs/job-sta...
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Heartland Signal - Job Opening - State politics reporter
Early career reporter wanted to cover state news across the Midwest and beyond. We're fact-based, independent and pro-democracy.
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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
We can't do 'good' in the economy, without a theory of what 'good' looks like. The how matters as much as the what. How we relate to each other, how we value each other, how we work together, how we govern our economy are not secondary questions. They define if we actually reach collective goals.
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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I always enjoy reading this Aaron's newsletter, but this week's, which makes the progressive case for thinking about fiscal budgets, is particularly great.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This polling question seems aimed at resolving a lot of Bluesky debates www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is a victory for the posting class www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Tennessee man jailed over Charlie Kirk post wins $835,000 settlement
During his time in jail, Larry Bushart lost his postretirement job and missed his wedding anniversary and the birth of his granddaughter.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We need best books lists where criteria are that they're Actually Good and not Something I Agree With
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I have my issues with US automakers. But they *did* try to welcome EVs — Ford has lost $19.5 billion since 2022 trying to build EVs. The issue is US consumer tastes, status quo US policy, and a legitimately tricky Christensen-style Innovators Dilemma that afflicts more than just US automakers.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A really painful thing we have to deal with over the coming decades is that Trump killed the goose that laid the golden eggs www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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America’s Bond-Market Privilege Is Disappearing as US Debt Soars
For much of the past few years, US Treasuries have failed to serve their traditional role as a sure-fire refuge from global market meltdowns.
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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
As promised (threatened?) I wrote a newsletter about military Keynesianism, partly for @grahamhubbs.bsky.social , and partly for anyone else who wonders (as I do) if it's a contradiction in terms: open.substack.com/pub/ninaeich...
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Thinking about 'Military Keynesianism'
Trump's Military Spending, Republican Deficits, and Keynes
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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I have been going on about this forever…
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economicsecurity.bsky.social @economicsecurityproject.org · 21/04/2026
"Overall, it locks Democrats in and keeps locking them in further from being able to fund a government that can do all of the things that need to be done.” As lawmakers float tax proposals aimed at the middle class, ESP's @mtkonczal.bsky.social spoke w/@nytimes.com about what's really at stake.
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Are Democrats Becoming a Party of Tax Cuts?
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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Broke: legitimizing crypto will help solidify the dollar’s status as reserve currency. Woke: legitimizing crypto will help facilitate money laundering and sanctions evasion. Bespoke: legitimizing crypto will help displace petrodollars.
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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I wrote some more about the ongoing economic fallout from the war in Iran, and make a reference to degrowth (h/t to @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social whose 'degrowth donnie' lives in my head): open.substack.com/pub/ninaeich...
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More on War, Oil Prices, and GDP
Is the one word still "Plastics"?
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James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter."
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Pete Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack
Morgan Stanley wealth manager approached BlackRock about multimillion-dollar investment for US defence secretary
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
It is the sovereign legal right of every country on the planet to repudiate their debt, and they can and do suffer essentially no consequences other than loss of access to credit markets for about 3-5 years. This is in fact so disastrous that countries prefer almost anything else to doing it!
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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
As mortgage rates increase, making it more expensive to buy a house, the administration’s chief housing regulator is focused on manufacturing frivolous legal charges against the president’s political enemies.
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
we're all going to be learning about energy markets & contracts like we learnt about derivatives in 2008 lol
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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Also, the watch is food and transportation for at least 10s of millions of people.
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Despite controlling the world's reserve currency and being the top military power, the US has lost its monopoly on major sanctions, says Nicholas Mulder. Limits to US power exposed by: 1/ China's rare earths export controls last year, and 2/ Iran with Strait of Hormuz effective closure
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The era of US dominance in economic warfare is over
America has long used sanctions to coerce adversaries, but Iran and China can wield powerful economic weapons too
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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
TIL that Egypt is the world's largest exporter of a certain vegetable, which means that between the Suez Canal and the vegetable, Egypt controls two of the world's Artichokepoints.
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Mathew Lawrence @mathewlawrence.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Wrote about the Iran crisis, electricity costs, and why clean power is the right strategy - but not enough. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I wrote about "recent events" and their economic fallout (aka what I'm thinking and worrying about) with some callbacks to when I was a freshman in college in 2002: open.substack.com/pub/ninaeich...
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I really needed that hour but they stole it
an orange cat looks truly exhausted after “daylight savings” stole an hour from him
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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
A truly depressing look at the role of crypto and AI spending in congressional races. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/u...
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How Candidates Are Using Winks and Posts to Seek Crypto and A.I. Cash
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
It's the era of the white swan, the shocks to our system were very foreseeable -Global flu pandemic -Climate change increasing instability -Extreme concentration of wealth perverting politics -Strongman taking advantage of US's ossified system -War with Iran provoking an energy crisis
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Democratic funders should invest in a Jasmine Crockett Hype House. I'm 100% serious.
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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This would be a very good time to have a functioning Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 02/03/2026
montmorency cherries, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1912
montmorency cherries, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1912
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