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Patrick Chovanec

@prchovanec.bsky.social
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Private sector economist. Former professor at China's Tsinghua University and Columbia SIPA. Author of “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”, now available on Amazon. Visit me at patrickchovanec.com

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Why did he mention LA and San Diego, and not other U.S. cities? I think it’s because he is conflating the Iranian threat with the reach of North Korean and most Chinese nuclear missiles, which find it easier to reach the West Coast than the rest of the continental U.S.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The average price of diesel fuel in the US has risen to $6.38 per gallon, its highest price ever, up +70.0% from a year ago.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The average price of gasoline in the US is back up to $4.46 per gallon, up +43.2% from a year ago.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Congratulations to Elon Musk, who successfully made it to Mars by 2026.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I remember when this guy sucked up to Xi Jinping, literally asking Xi to name his child.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump's new website ain't wrong.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For people who don’t read much, they keep nailing the literary references.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🤔
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To be clear:
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Need a status update on this.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have a theory about who gave the clams Hepatitis.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Name a brand that has aged poorly.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a person who wishes the United States was more like the People’s Republic of China, in all the wrong ways.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Xi JInping, taking a cue from Qatar, offered Trump the gift of a personal 747 he could keep after leaving office. But Trump grew mad, demanding, "What is this?? An Air Force One for ANTS??"
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"So much gold. So impressive. You're truly making America great again. Keep at it."
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Curse that Superman!”
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I keep pointing this out, but MAGA fundraisers implying they control access to government checks on the condition you respond to them is pretty blatantly illegal.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I keep getting these text messages from MAGA fundraisers implying that they have some sort of authority over the issuance of government checks. Strikes me as fraud.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A “free press” means that the President does not get to make this distinction. A “free press” that is only free if it agrees with me is not free.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.natesilver.net/p/trump-appr...
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Amazing how many people still act like this guy really has his finger on the pulse of the American people. www.economist.com/interactive/...
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
US gasoline prices at the pump rose to $4.32 on Monday, up +36.3% from a year ago.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He's so full of petulant threats these days.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We all wondered why Kash Patel had this expression. Now we know: he was reacting to this future headline.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Translation: Reply so we know to keep texting you. This should be illegal.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Note the date.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'll be damned if we'll let China kill us all before we do.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I love the fact that this took two years.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Absolutely have to love aviation Reddit.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here’s my question: if federal DOGE checks existed, which they don’t, wouldn’t it be illegal to use them as bait in political fundraising appeals? Any more than social security checks?
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So which is it?
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The actual trend:
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
People seem to raise their arms a lot in AfD ads, like this one for "Islam-free schools". They just like to wave I guess.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just to be clear, this is the German far-right party whose victory Trump and Musk are both celebrating:
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I know I’m going to regret not having this to show when ICE stops me, or when my polling place demands it under the Save America Act.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My DVD set of NHK's "Clouds Over the Hill" arrived from Malaysia today. The English subtitles read like they put it through a 10-year-old Google translator, but I can basically figure out what's going on: some good Meiji Era fun culminating in the Battle of Tsushima.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"The Hot Tamale embargo begins now."
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Awkward questions during FBI interview:
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Apple still holding onto reality for dear life. But you know they’ll cave.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Google are really the biggest bunch of losers. Pathetic.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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