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Noah Smith πŸ‡πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ό posts on X about china, russia, japan, countries the most. They currently have [---------] followers and [-----] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  #3934 [finance](/list/finance)  [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [us election](/list/us-election)  [social networks](/list/social-networks)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  [stocks](/list/stocks)  #1714 [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  #2009 [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) 

**Social topic influence**
[china](/topic/china) #339, [russia](/topic/russia) #2316, [japan](/topic/japan) #671, [countries](/topic/countries), [ukraine](/topic/ukraine) #176, [israel](/topic/israel), [inflation](/topic/inflation), [tariffs](/topic/tariffs) #519, [money](/topic/money), [india](/topic/india)

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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"4/Interestingly *black* support for government intervention in the job market had also been trending steadily down though the level of support was much higher than among white people (60% vs. 20% by the mid-2000s)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1003862473215111168)  2018-06-05T04:53Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"She wants to transition to 100% renewable energy which is a GREAT goal and looking increasingly realistic (though her timeline is slightly optimistic)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1013833101527605253)  2018-07-02T17:13Z 336.9K followers, [--] engagements


"And finally she wants to restore Glass-Steagall which I hope (and assume) is a proxy for "better financial regulation in general""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1013833341928263680)  2018-07-02T17:14Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements


"9/But like the Europeans the Mongols dominated the world for only a short space of time. Almost as soon as it reached its zenith the Mongol Empire started falling apart due to civil wars. [--]. [--]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berke%E2%80%93Hulagu_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toluid_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berke%E2%80%93Hulagu_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toluid_Civil_War"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1015274640598372352)  2018-07-06T16:41Z 337.2K followers, [--] engagements


"10/Civil wars dramatically weakened the Mongol Empire and broke it up into several smaller empires that often spent their energy fighting each other. Meanwhile the much more populous civilizations they had conquered kept rebelling until they threw off Mongol rule"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1015275202962325505)  2018-07-06T16:44Z 336K followers, [--] engagements


"Howdy everybody Today's @bopinion post asks whether immigration restriction touched off the Great Depression and whether something like that could happen again https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-09/cuts-to-u-s-immigration-in-1920s-made-great-depression-worse https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-09/cuts-to-u-s-immigration-in-1920s-made-great-depression-worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1016335564969107456)  2018-07-09T14:57Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"What started the Great Depression Well many people would say it was the stock market crash of [----]. There was also a housing bubble and crash a couple of years earlier"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1016336179308855298)  2018-07-09T15:00Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


""If global warming is real why aren't coastal real estate prices falling" they asked me. https://x.com/lisaabramowicz1/status/935857466952310785 Moodys warns coastal cities from Maine to California to confront climate risks or face downgrades. https://t.co/l01BmIwCi0 https://x.com/lisaabramowicz1/status/935857466952310785 Moodys warns coastal cities from Maine to California to confront climate risks or face downgrades. https://t.co/l01BmIwCi0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1021980997586444288)  2018-07-25T04:50Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Settlers of Catan [---] Avalon +1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1026148761871953920)  2018-08-05T16:51Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"China's stock market performance for [----] is looking less than amazing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1029829301716234241)  2018-08-15T20:36Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@KateAronoff @csilverandgold Can you recommend a history book about this I never realized there was a credible threat of revolution in the early 30s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1061666299799957504)  2018-11-11T17:05Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@KateAronoff @csilverandgold I am in fact asking for a book recommendation (or an article if it's good and detailed)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1061681677418717184)  2018-11-11T18:06Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"How trade barriers work in service industries: a thread. 1/ A turkey sandwich impersonator asked me a sensational question and I'm going to answer it with a thread because this is my life now. The faux baguette asks: "How do trade agreements deal with cross border services trade" Brace yourselves this gets complicated. 1/ A turkey sandwich impersonator asked me a sensational question and I'm going to answer it with a thread because this is my life now. The faux baguette asks: "How do trade agreements deal with cross border services trade" Brace yourselves this gets complicated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1067298863306817537)  2018-11-27T06:07Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"College majors gaining the most in popularity: Exercise science Computer science Nursing Health and medical Computer and electrical engineering College majors losing the most in popularity: History Religion Area studies Humanities Languages and literatures other than English"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1068034525928673280)  2018-11-29T06:50Z 346.1K followers, [----] engagements


"A yield curve (5 year Treasuries over [--] year Treasuries) just inverted https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-03/u-s-yield-curve-just-inverted-that-s-hugeutm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=181203&utm_campaign=sharetheview https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-03/u-s-yield-curve-just-inverted-that-s-hugeutm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=181203&utm_campaign=sharetheview"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1069708123751964673)  2018-12-03T21:41Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@eean The regressiveness shouldn't be forgotten but using this as a reason to sink the entire carbon tax idea - rather than just adjust the payouts to make it progressive - would be concern trolling or "solution tribalism" or something like that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1072185567603941376)  2018-12-10T17:45Z 332.3K followers, [--] engagements


"People are demanding a "Green New Deal" apparently without having any idea what that means. I could think of some great policies that go by the name Green New Deal and also some silly policies. Which policies are actually on the table https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4397ap/the-left-thinks-a-green-new-deal-could-save-earth-and-destroy-the-gop https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4397ap/the-left-thinks-a-green-new-deal-could-save-earth-and-destroy-the-gop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1072209377585582080)  2018-12-10T19:20Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Paul Volcker is awesome as this interview demonstrates: https://www.barrons.com/articles/a-q-a-with-paul-volcker-former-federal-reserve-chairman-51544634862mod=hp_DAY_9 https://www.barrons.com/articles/a-q-a-with-paul-volcker-former-federal-reserve-chairman-51544634862mod=hp_DAY_9"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1073981601573306368)  2018-12-15T16:42Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"When I look at this graph I have a very hard time concluding that capitalism is failing the human race"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1079044988514652161)  2018-12-29T16:02Z 337.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@ne0liberal Hmm it's been [--] years no signs of anything Venezuela-like that I can see"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1079056019832004608)  2018-12-29T16:46Z 359.4K followers, [--] engagements


"And you can't just *set* rates at zero you have to promise to *keep* them at zero forever because if you have an incredible pile of debt even a small rise in rates would make debt service costs explode upward. But OK suppose we do this. What *else* could go wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1083407057330495488)  2019-01-10T16:55Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Doesn't this just mean that in addition to being the first woman president and the second Black president Harris would also be the first Asian president And wouldn't that be pretty cool"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1087519091806498817)  2019-01-22T01:15Z 335.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Government takes 2% of your wealth every year to fund health care green energy etc.: Damn it that's COMMUNISM Asset manager takes 2% of your wealth every year to invest your money in a portfolio that underperforms the index: Well that's just good ol' productive CAPTITALISM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1088586743039717376)  2019-01-24T23:57Z 336.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Snapchat: [--]. Is losing daily active users [--]. Loses over $300 million a quarter [--]. Has massively negative free cash flow .and has a market cap of $8.5 billion. Amazing https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-11/snapchat-s-computing-cloud-doesn-t-have-a-silver-lining https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/25/snapchat-q3-2018-earnings/ https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-11/snapchat-s-computing-cloud-doesn-t-have-a-silver-lining https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/25/snapchat-q3-2018-earnings/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1090702100248416256)  2019-01-30T20:03Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements


""Every human being drawing vital breath upon this soil.he may be of Caucasian Jewish Indian or Ethiopian race.but before the Constitution of Massachusetts all these distinctions disappear. He is a MAN the equal of all his fellow-men." - Charles Sumner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1095497177982369797)  2019-02-13T01:37Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


""I believe the entire records of the world from the date of the Declaration of Independence up to within three years ago may be searched in vain for one single affirmation from one single man that the negro was not included in the Declaration of Independence." - Lincoln"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1095497634565898240)  2019-02-13T01:39Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"A game theory paper about blockchains. Formalizes and generalizes the intuition that distributed ledgers are inherently expensive ways of keeping records. Required reading for all blockchain and crypto enthusiasts. https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/markus/files/blockchain_paper_v5a.pdf https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/markus/files/blockchain_paper_v5a.pdf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1097206301883478017)  2019-02-17T18:49Z 337.5K followers, [---] engagements


"An article analyzing the motives and ideology of Brenton Tarrant (the New Zealand shooter) and Robert Bowers (the synagogue shooter). No surprises here but still useful to read: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2019.1599493 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2019.1599493"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1112605443937857536)  2019-04-01T06:39Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@PhartmanHill @Arthur_Klein1 @JeffreyASachs I personally emitted more decibels at any Stanford basketball game and said far harsher things than these kids did in this video yet they are facing criminal penalties while I walk free how is this justice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1112982290475319296)  2019-04-02T07:37Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@PhartmanHill @Arthur_Klein1 @JeffreyASachs Your only principle is that speech of people who aren't on your team is bad and to be prohibited while speech of people who are on your team is sacred and to be protected. It's a base instinctual unintelligent unprincipled way of thinking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1112984616070086656)  2019-04-02T07:46Z 336.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@BretWeinstein That's about the lamest weakest "disruption" I've ever seen. If two people tepidly chanting like that is a crime I don't see how we have free speech"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1113195786991325184)  2019-04-02T21:45Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements


"2/The result for Japan was a "lost decade" of low growth. For us the slowdown was milder but we still had one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1113859470856085504)  2019-04-04T17:42Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Today's @bopinion post is about how Republicans and the conservative movement more generally are turning away from the economics profession as their go-to source of expertise. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-11/economics-is-another-field-where-republicans-reject-the-experts https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-11/economics-is-another-field-where-republicans-reject-the-experts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1116370287547707392)  2019-04-11T15:59Z 335.9K followers, [---] engagements


"In [----] Obama nominated a Nobel Prize-winning macroeconomist to the Fed board. Republicans blocked him because they said he wasn't experienced enough"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1116370984351571968)  2019-04-11T16:02Z 336.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Mark Calabria a Republican policy adviser and think-tank guy wrote that "the last thing the Fed needs is another PhD in economics": https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/nobel-laureate-diamond-is-unqualified-fed https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/nobel-laureate-diamond-is-unqualified-fed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1116371241063968768)  2019-04-11T16:03Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Calabria then wrote that having too many econ PhDs at the Fed was leading to "rampant inflation". Narrator voice: There was no rampant inflation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1116371619272744962)  2019-04-11T16:05Z 335.7K followers, [--] engagements


"In fact economic historians have found that union workers tended on average to have *less* skill than their non-unionized counterparts. Worker solidarity and bargaining power overcame a deficit of technical skill. https://www.nber.org/papers/w24587 https://www.nber.org/papers/w24587"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1125800271500595206)  2019-05-07T16:31Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Could the same thing happen to service industries Could human-interaction workers be transformed from a disposable cheap floating labor force into respected stable middle-class unionized workers Maybe they could"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1125800630042255360)  2019-05-07T16:32Z 337K followers, [--] engagements


"Dear God imagine a world where AI-enabled networked devices do everything and no one understands how they work (even the engineers who make the algorithms) and nobody believes in vaccines or climate science or anything"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1126701943521402880)  2019-05-10T04:14Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements


"11/We could devalue the dollar by having the Fed create a bunch of dollars. But this complicates the Fed's mandate (it is already supposed to fight both unemployment and inflation) It would lead to a less independent monetary policy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1136722800280948736)  2019-06-06T19:53Z 335.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Only 7% of Japanese people say they oppose greater diversity in Japan. SEVEN PERCENT That's the second-lowest percentage of any country surveyed (after Indonesia)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1137937502369484800)  2019-06-10T04:20Z 359.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@tara https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1137158497689202689s=19 Japan's new work visa program is being called a "guest worker law" but it includes a path to permanent residency. It thus represents a true immigration program. Also Japan has implemented a permanent residency fast track for skilled workers. https://t.co/ogUKbgTTbS https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1137158497689202689s=19 Japan's new work visa program is being called a "guest worker law" but it includes a path to permanent residency. It thus represents a true immigration program. Also Japan has implemented a permanent residency fast"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1138122971980058631)  2019-06-10T16:37Z 359.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Before reading this poll did you know that corgis are born with long bushy tails Yes I knew No didn't know Yes I knew No didn't know"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1142192382579896320)  2019-06-21T22:07Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Here's what a corgi naturally looks like before people amputate its tail for cosmetic reasons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1142193082927988736)  2019-06-21T22:10Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"One more possible definition of the "West":"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1143376967212777474)  2019-06-25T04:34Z 333.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Today in my Twitter feed: [--]. Cupertino city official calls YIMBYs "neoliberal fascists" on Nextdoor threatens to call their employers [--]. Evidence emerges that building more multifamily housing reduces racial segregation Hmm wonder what's going on here. πŸ€”"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1143921564582211584)  2019-06-26T16:38Z 360.7K followers, [---] engagements


"When England got rid of free college enrollment expanded expenditure per student expanded and inequality of access did NOT increase. Very interesting Key features of their system: [--]. Buy now pay later [--]. Financial aid for lower-income ppl [--]. Income-based loan repayment Our paper came out today on English higher education going from #FreeCollege Low Aid to High-Delayed-Fee High-Aid with @jscottclayton and Gill Wyness. Get your open access version here: https://t.co/eMYLAerfsu Our paper came out today on English higher education going from #FreeCollege Low Aid to High-Delayed-Fee High-Aid with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1145783708802097152)  2019-07-01T19:58Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements


"@ishaantharoor He's not as cool as Satyendra Nath Bose though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1149531937670701056)  2019-07-12T04:12Z 359.3K followers, [--] engagements


"I'm always amazed every time I meet someone who both A) is in favor of free college and B) thinks college is mostly useless signaling. /subtweet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1151570160223866880)  2019-07-17T19:11Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements


"OK now let's look at what happens when we adjust for prices. Adjusting for prices median household income went up by only a little more than 10% between [----] and [----]. (It has continued increasing in the last two years which is probably where the WSJ gets its 14% number.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1157114876407377920)  2019-08-02T02:24Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Now let's compare income to housing costs. There are many measures of housing costs. Here are three common ones: [--]. The "rent of primary residence" component of the Consumer Price Index [--]. The "housing" component of the CPI [--]. The Case-Shiller national house price index"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1157115270982324225)  2019-08-02T02:25Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Every year like clockwork the Guardian publishes one of these op-eds bashing economics. So far none of them have been good. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/03/economics-global-economy-climate-crisis https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/03/economics-global-economy-climate-crisis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1157917684249460737)  2019-08-04T07:34Z 359K followers, [---] engagements


"A recession will give Trump the boot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1161804972041756673)  2019-08-15T01:01Z 336.9K followers, [---] engagements


"This is cool"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1162122360717053952)  2019-08-15T22:02Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"1/Today's @bopinion post is about the looming recession.if there is in fact a looming recession. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-16/if-there-s-a-recession-it-will-be-made-in-china https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-16/if-there-s-a-recession-it-will-be-made-in-china"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1162375052668502016)  2019-08-16T14:46Z 336.2K followers, [---] engagements


"2/The yield curve has inverted. That is a harbinger of recession. But it probably does not *cause* recessions any more than a crowing rooster causes the sun to rise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1162375551526375424)  2019-08-16T14:48Z 336.2K followers, [--] engagements


"Agree with this. I haven't read the book yet but @BCAppelbaum's op-ed struck me as much more of an indictment of politicians and think-tankers who couch business-friendly ideology in econ-sounding language rather than of the economis profession itself. This opinion by @BCAppelbaum can be read two ways depending on what we take for economist. Is it economist advisors or policymakers chosen by politicians Maybe a case there. Economists more generally including academics Makes zero sense to me. https://t.co/dDDfFAeVxs This opinion by @BCAppelbaum can be read two ways depending on what we take"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1165740281506852864)  2019-08-25T21:38Z 359K followers, [--] engagements


"Cumulative real per capita GDP growth for various upper-middle-income countries since [----]. Thailand Chile and Uruguay have done quite well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1166764521752412160)  2019-08-28T17:28Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Damn it America is such a dumpster fire. Let's see what's going on in India. https://www.npr.org/2019/08/21/751541321/this-is-it-im-going-to-die-indias-minorities-are-targeted-in-lynchings https://www.npr.org/2019/08/21/751541321/this-is-it-im-going-to-die-indias-minorities-are-targeted-in-lynchings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1168012297207308288)  2019-09-01T04:06Z 359.3K followers, [---] engagements


"So how do we tax the super-rich First we raise the capital gains tax rate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1181629189725667329)  2019-10-08T17:55Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"ARE YOU FRIGGING KIDDING ME https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2128124/marriott-sacks-employee-who-liked-twitter-post-tibet-independence https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2128124/marriott-sacks-employee-who-liked-twitter-post-tibet-independence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1181975693124521985)  2019-10-09T16:52Z 336.7K followers, [----] engagements


"The right answer is that national health insurance has monopsony power and can thus bargain for lower prices (though we could also allow Medicare to do more of this even without changing our insurance system)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1191386058933460992)  2019-11-04T16:05Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Any health plan that uses monopsony power (or price controls I guess) to crush overpricing will look like a success even if it isn't national insurance. And if national insurance for some reason *isn't* allowed to crush overpricing it'll look like an epic failure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1191386369827848193)  2019-11-04T16:07Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Electric cars are going to happen faster than a lot of people think 10% of passenger vehicles sold in BC are now zero emissions like the Chevy Bolt Nissan Leaf and Teslas. Incentives charging infrastructure & high gas prices are all helping people switch. https://t.co/IRDjnnVFZW #bcpoli #cleanbc 10% of passenger vehicles sold in BC are now zero emissions like the Chevy Bolt Nissan Leaf and Teslas. Incentives charging infrastructure & high gas prices are all helping people switch. https://t.co/IRDjnnVFZW #bcpoli #cleanbc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1196111517944406016)  2019-11-17T17:03Z 355.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Baby rabbit = smol good friend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1200481433405382656)  2019-11-29T18:27Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements


"One underappreciated trend is how peaceful Africa has become. The huge wars of the 90s and 00s - the DRC Darfur Sudan Angola Rwanda Ethiopia-Eritrea Ivory Coast Liberia - are basically over. That's great news for the continent's future"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1201048604141469697)  2019-12-01T08:01Z 358.8K followers, [----] engagements


"22/But the [----] primary campaign's shift from industrial and labor reform to health care health care health care has made me pessimistic about the Democratic party's willingness and ability to change the things that really need changing in our economy. Oh well. (end)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1208106267090157568)  2019-12-20T19:25Z 359K followers, [---] engagements


"Ultimately there was no mass movement for the changes I wanted most for America and despite having a lot of great plans Warren failed to create one. So we're left with health care. I accept the judgment of the Democratic primary electorate but I don't have to like it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1208115138273767424)  2019-12-20T20:01Z 359.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@jnoisecat It's encouraging but I'm not sure it has made a big difference.climate change hasn't been a big issue in the debates for example. Everyone has their big climate plan but I'm not sure most voters understand or care about the differences between them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1208117164181315584)  2019-12-20T20:09Z 359.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@jacobinmag To Defeat Headaches We Must Defeat Capitalism To Defeat Parties Where There Are No Hot People We Must Defeat Capitalism To Defeat Cranberry-Raspberry Muffins We Must Defeat Capitalism To Defeat the Hidden Super Boss in Final Fantasy XV We Must Defeat Capitalism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1214923797402271755)  2020-01-08T14:56Z 359K followers, [---] engagements


"This is a good point that I hadn't thought of. If you have price controls and massive shortages your GDP (PPP) will come out looking great because prices are so low but that doesn't represent real standard of living because people don't actually *have* the "cheap" stuff. @Noahpinion @MattBruenig @Samizdat24 Exactly what if stuff is (officially) super cheap because the price is mandated in some way by the state all the while you're suffering from shortages. The population could be starving to death but hey potatoes are cheaper than in the UK. @Noahpinion @MattBruenig @Samizdat24 Exactly what"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1217497775987781632)  2020-01-15T17:24Z 335.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Thursday open question: If you could meet one living person whom you haven't yet met who would it be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1217911720288456704)  2020-01-16T20:49Z 359.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@joshboak @issiromem But home prices are the pillar of middle class wealth in the U.S"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1220019716070100993)  2020-01-22T16:25Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Real median family income has almost doubled ($42k to $79k) since [----]. For real median renter income to have gone up by only 5% there must have been a HUGE composition effect. This needs looking into. The median American rent payment rose 61% in real terms between [----] and [----] while the median renters income grew by 5% https://t.co/PzU77qUnkl The median American rent payment rose 61% in real terms between [----] and [----] while the median renters income grew by 5% https://t.co/PzU77qUnkl"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1220030690395209728)  2020-01-22T17:09Z 336.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@joshjhthomas @kyle700 Chavez looted the national oil company for pet projects (some of which were payments to personal friends). He randomly nationalized businesses of people he didn't like and freaked businesspeople out causing capital flight. And his price controls were a total flaming disaster"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1221979638102028288)  2020-01-28T02:13Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"If Bernie wins a plurality and doesn't become the nominee I predict the party splits and a new party emerges. "The single most disastrous outcome for the party would be for Sanders to win a plurality of pledged delegates only for Democratic power brokers to try to deny him the nomination at a contested convention" writes @JesseLehrich: https://t.co/9iQtJ0M9ML "The single most disastrous outcome for the party would be for Sanders to win a plurality of pledged delegates only for Democratic power brokers to try to deny him the nomination at a contested convention" writes @JesseLehrich:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1229477873230086144)  2020-02-17T18:49Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements


"@johnvanreenen @asvalero @MoreOrLesTO @TimHarford What's a good written primer on Britain's productivity problem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1229495983601373184)  2020-02-17T20:01Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Betting markets once again give Bernie Sanders less of a chance of winning the Democratic nomination than.Hillary Clinton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1237627844710166529)  2020-03-11T06:34Z 336.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Do not go to restaurants (except for take-out). Do not go to bars. Do not go to the gym. Do not throw parties. Do not attend parties. Do not go to clubs. Do not go to cafes. Do not go near any crowd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1239019632746328064)  2020-03-15T02:44Z 359K followers, [----] engagements


"The Fed is buying investment-grade corporate bonds but to prevent a wave of defaults it'll have to buy junk bonds and the like. Political problem: The Fed buying junk bonds is more like a bailout. https://www.cfr.org/blog/why-feds-bazooka-will-not-stop-wave-corporate-defaults https://www.cfr.org/blog/why-feds-bazooka-will-not-stop-wave-corporate-defaults"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1243247104111198208)  2020-03-26T18:43Z 337K followers, [--] engagements


"@GringoLoquisimo @MrsDemocrat @chrislhayes @PinnacleBioLabs IgG/IgM = antibodies my friend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1245798114297929733)  2020-04-02T19:39Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"If we had sectoral unions in the local service sector they might have been able to negotiate deals where store and restaurant workers retain their jobs through the shutdown. .just sayin'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1248025805768126464)  2020-04-08T23:11Z 359.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Coronavirus has now killed more Americans than the "Global War on Terror" (Iraq + Afghanistan + 9/11). https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1248660971943383041)  2020-04-10T17:15Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@TomChivers I cross check it with other sources"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1248662684565827586)  2020-04-10T17:22Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Some #TestAndTrace improvements in South Carolina Oklahoma and Wyoming. https://testandtrace.com/state-data/ https://testandtrace.com/state-data/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1258215847815868416)  2020-05-07T02:03Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@iamkylemullins TBH I don't know"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1258252715576053761)  2020-05-07T04:29Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"According to our data only [--] states have hired enough contact tracers to meet the bare minimum (5/case) required for effective suppression of the virus: Montana Alaska Hawaii Vermont Maine Utah Michigan Washington North Dakota and Oklahoma https://testandtrace.com/state-data/ https://testandtrace.com/state-data/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1261001235999494144)  2020-05-14T18:31Z 336K followers, [--] engagements


"1/Today's @bopinion post is about the New Deal. Some folks like @benshapiro claim that the New Deal prolonged the Depression. They are wrong. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-15/u-s-economy-needs-another-new-deal-for-coronavirus-depression https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-15/u-s-economy-needs-another-new-deal-for-coronavirus-depression"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1261341073323913216)  2020-05-15T17:02Z 358.9K followers, [----] engagements


"What makes you a Winner in America today Making $100 million Having [-----] Instagram followers Sleeping with [---] people Starting your own company Getting promoted to upper management Getting [-----] retweets on your epic dunk What should you even be striving for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1262076413709938691)  2020-05-17T17:43Z 359.3K followers, [---] engagements


"The HEROES Act gets a lot of things right but I think at this point we should be relying much less on unemployment benefits and much more on universal cash payments. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-19/coronavirus-shutdown-economy-needs-more-stimulus-from-congresssref=R8NfLgwS https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-19/coronavirus-shutdown-economy-needs-more-stimulus-from-congresssref=R8NfLgwS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1262775138593861633)  2020-05-19T16:00Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements


""Dear Bissell My rabbits LOVE chewing the box my vacuum cleaner came in. Can you refer me to your supplier so I can order empty boxes for them to chew Sincerely Noah Smith" (You asked me how I spend my free time and this is it)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1265850073860038662)  2020-05-28T03:39Z 355.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Wait this is exactly why government spending DOES work. Here's what WH adviser Art Laffer had to say today: "Imagine there's [--] farmers on an island and nothing else. One gets unemployment. Who pays for it The other farmer That's economics -- straight simple intuitive and true. That's why government spending doesn't work." Here's what WH adviser Art Laffer had to say today: "Imagine there's [--] farmers on an island and nothing else. One gets unemployment. Who pays for it The other farmer That's economics -- straight simple intuitive and true. That's why government spending doesn't work.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1268921454390685699)  2020-06-05T15:03Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"And just to satisfy the "but what about per capita" trolls here's per capita"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1273101035695996930)  2020-06-17T03:51Z 359.3K followers, [----] engagements


"News flash: Something that has been talked about for [--] years is still happening In other breaking news we still don't know why we haven't found aliens yet and there's still no evidence for string theory Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born https://t.co/mlpyoRKb5I Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born https://t.co/mlpyoRKb5I"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1283258701483147264)  2020-07-15T04:34Z 336.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Scary thought: Digital nationalism could return us to the age where people thought of the populations of other countries as faceless hordes of enemies. If China can't use Google/Facebook/Twitter and Americans can't use WeChat how will we even *talk* to each other"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1292855891780222981)  2020-08-10T16:10Z 359.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Wednesday open question: What's one thing that's very hard for most people to believe but which is actually true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1298715832575393793)  2020-08-26T20:15Z 337K followers, [---] engagements


"WOW. It isn't just in the U.S. where negative opinions of China have soared. It's all across the developed world. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/10/06/unfavorable-views-of-china-reach-historic-highs-in-many-countries/ https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/10/06/unfavorable-views-of-china-reach-historic-highs-in-many-countries/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1313682271379943425)  2020-10-07T03:27Z 335.6K followers, [----] engagements


"OK folks. First we elect Biden. Then we get a COVID vaccine. Then we drop the Medicare age to [--]. Then we switch to 100% green energy. Then we double our housing stock and build some trains. Then we build a global alliance to balance China. We can do this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1314582967344275457)  2020-10-09T15:06Z 354.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Giggles flopping is referred to as a "gigaflop""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1323385188185878529)  2020-11-02T22:03Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"GDP growth for selected African countries since [----]. Ethiopia has grown the most (in percentage terms) followed by Ghana and Rwanda while Kenya lags"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1326982795432841217)  2020-11-12T20:18Z 341K followers, [--] engagements


"Some thoughts on MMT and the meme-ification of macroeconomics: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/mmt-and-the-meme-ification-of-macro https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/mmt-and-the-meme-ification-of-macro"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1332374966948380672)  2020-11-27T17:25Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"undergrad = novice grad student = apprentice assistant prof = journeyman associate prof = expert full prof = master Academia is just the old apprentice system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1344338610921738241)  2020-12-30T17:44Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements


"If you really want to teach your kid how to do things on their own in this day and age tell them to search YouTube"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1345877981172887552)  2021-01-03T23:41Z 359.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Left-NIMBYs would call these "luxury apartments" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-04/tiny-apartment-sales-soar-in-world-s-priciest-home-market https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-04/tiny-apartment-sales-soar-in-world-s-priciest-home-market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1348887021616418817)  2021-01-12T06:58Z 355.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Vaccine shots going at about 1.2M/day and no longer accelerating:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1354577932035874821)  2021-01-27T23:52Z 335.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Just under [--] out of [--] American adults vaccinated so far. At this rate we're on track to vaccinate all American adults by the end of August. Hopefully Biden's program and the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will speed things up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1354579151731138562)  2021-01-27T23:56Z 336.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Vaccine companies are already making booster shots against new COVID variants: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-04/pfizer-pfe-moderna-mrna-race-to-make-vaccines-for-covid-variantssref=R8NfLgwS https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-04/pfizer-pfe-moderna-mrna-race-to-make-vaccines-for-covid-variantssref=R8NfLgwS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1358496930209304576)  2021-02-07T19:24Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Can't believe they're going with this message when Biden is obviously harder on China than Trump was. Team Biden is soft on China. Team Biden is soft on China"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1358952716207202306)  2021-02-09T01:35Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@MTBinDurham Thx"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1361731516842139649)  2021-02-16T17:37Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Clubhouse is so much better than Twitter for discussion that it's not even comparable. But Twitter is still The News"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1365873706963140609)  2021-02-28T03:57Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Poor countries have been catching up to rich countries. Though slowly poorer countries have been catching up w/ richer ones. And this new era of convergence isn't stemmed by growth among the rich but rather more persistent improvements w/n the developing world: https://t.co/BgmRDwebO0 @dev_a_patel @JustinSandefur @arvindsubraman Though slowly poorer countries have been catching up w/ richer ones. And this new era of convergence isn't stemmed by growth among the rich but rather more persistent improvements w/n the developing world: https://t.co/BgmRDwebO0 @dev_a_patel @JustinSandefur"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1367602281911226368)  2021-03-04T22:26Z 332.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@jfurlan14 @delong It's at least partly definitional. Here was the original definition. Somehow Australia Taiwan and Singapore got into the "north" Mongolia and Kazakhstan into the "south". Now people are thinking about making China "north" because it got rich"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1370117155614646275)  2021-03-11T20:59Z 356.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Most of the criticisms of Bitcoin have proven to be unfounded. But if Bitcoin mining keeps gobbling up computer chips and electricity governments are going to get mad. A technolgical fix is in order. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-24/bitcoin-miners-are-on-a-path-to-self-destruction https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-24/bitcoin-miners-are-on-a-path-to-self-destruction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1374798079279304704)  2021-03-24T18:59Z 336.9K followers, [---] engagements


"@KateAronoff @LogicalAnalysis Yes but on Twitter your weapons don't break from overuse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1376365120050262018)  2021-03-29T02:46Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"BIDENOMICS EXPLAINED. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-explained https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-explained"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1378604064259203072)  2021-04-04T07:03Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"What is Bidenomics In this post I attempt to distill Biden's economic program into its basic elements and weave them into a coherent vision for where we're headed. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-explained https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-explained"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1378678742801735682)  2021-04-04T12:00Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"The Age of Reagan is over. The Age of Biden has begun. But what will this new paradigm entail What is Biden's vision How does it fit with economic research What are the dangers and downsides In this post I attempt to answer all those questions. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-explained https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-explained"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1378724046330728453)  2021-04-04T15:00Z 336.7K followers, [----] engagements


"I wanted to write a "big picture" post where I pulled in all the stuff that Biden's doing and wove it into a coherent vision of the future of the U.S. economy. This is my theory of Biden's vision. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-explained https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-explained"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1379080635579392000)  2021-04-05T14:37Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"8/FDR also presided over the mightiest industrial nation in the world. Biden does not. China has taken that crown. Now the U.S. is facing stiff competition. And because of this he's turning to industrial policy. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-31/biden-jobs-plan-would-be-a-new-kind-of-u-s-industrial-policysref=R8NfLgwS https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-31/biden-jobs-plan-would-be-a-new-kind-of-u-s-industrial-policysref=R8NfLgwS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1379169012265852929)  2021-04-05T20:28Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"9/In sum: * FDR had to deal with a Depression. * Biden instead has to deal with a productivity slowdown and competition from China. * Biden has much better data at his command. This means Bidenomics won't be quite like the New Deal. (end) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-01/biden-and-fdr-tackled-economic-renewal-with-different-toolssref=R8NfLgwS https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-01/biden-and-fdr-tackled-economic-renewal-with-different-toolssref=R8NfLgwS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1379170225946468355)  2021-04-05T20:33Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Here's a take: Speculative frenzies in cryptocurrencies are actually good because they reallocate society's demand for speculation to assets whose price is not linked to the allocation of real capital investment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1383097436525129728)  2021-04-16T16:38Z 335.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Were people always this mad about stuff all the time before Twitter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1383278261904363520)  2021-04-17T04:36Z 355.5K followers, [---] engagements


"1/One thing I think the coup attempt of 1/6 did besides galvanize institutional awareness of a rightist threat was to expose how militarily weak the rightists are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1383498537036484621)  2021-04-17T19:12Z 337.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Things everyone on the political Right apparently believes now: [--]. Derek Chauvin is innocent [--]. The coup attempt of 1/6 was just a peaceful protest [--]. Widespread voter fraud cost Trump the election [--]. Immigration represents a Great Replacement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1384694582550491136)  2021-04-21T02:24Z 335.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@jamescham No love for World of Warcraft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1384942225038221314)  2021-04-21T18:48Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements


"This is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard Tucker Carlson say and he says a lot of dumb things. Really dude The Immigration Act of [----] You couldn't have just gone with Pearl Harbor or 9/11 Tucker: Really The worst attack on our democracy in a [---] years How about the immigration act of [----] https://t.co/ibftJ7ofnE Tucker: Really The worst attack on our democracy in a [---] years How about the immigration act of [----] https://t.co/ibftJ7ofnE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1388024056868347907)  2021-04-30T06:54Z 336.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Why is Biden doing a child allowance industrial policy scientific research spending and infrastructure The answers lie in deep economic theory. (Subscribers only.) https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-deep-economic-theory-of-bidenomics https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-deep-economic-theory-of-bidenomics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1388131028724813824)  2021-04-30T14:00Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"I paywalled this post for a very rational reason: It was the end of the week and I'm sticking to my policy of writing one paywalled post a week https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-deep-economic-theory-of-bidenomics https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-deep-economic-theory-of-bidenomics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1388188431004573697)  2021-04-30T17:48Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Good that folks are recognizing this I do think though that Bidenomics isn't just a reversal of Reaganomics; it's a partially orthogonal new program that deals with issues Reaganomics didn't even think about. [--] years ago Ronald Reagan and Paul Volcker oversaw a root-and-branch restructuring of the U.S. economy. Today Joe Biden and Jerome Powell are trying to do the same thing only in reverse (via @RichMiller28) https://t.co/xpbl8KWEwf [--] years ago Ronald Reagan and Paul Volcker oversaw a root-and-branch restructuring of the U.S. economy. Today Joe Biden and Jerome Powell are trying to do the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1388903895586410496)  2021-05-02T17:11Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"On international tests American kids score very well in reading and very badly at math. Why My hypothesis: We de-emphasize math because we treat it as an IQ test instead of a skill that anyone can learn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1389705885660839941)  2021-05-04T22:17Z 335.3K followers, [----] engagements


"I had never encountered antisemitism in America until Twitter came along. Then I started encountering it regularly. We don't think enough about how Twitter puts each person in direct contact with the people who hate them. 75% of U.S. Jews say there is more anti-Semitism in the U.S. today than there was five years ago. Just 5% say there is less and 19% perceive little or no change saying there is about the same amount as there was five years ago. https://t.co/pFPLbIKI6K https://t.co/N7GhXMGJ5n 75% of U.S. Jews say there is more anti-Semitism in the U.S. today than there was five years ago."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1392171365868867584)  2021-05-11T17:34Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements


"I guess there hasn't been any good sci-fi written in the last three years since when I asked everyone ignored the question and started naming stuff that was written in 1974-2016"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1401356359971471362)  2021-06-06T01:52Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Look folks.Just because ProPublica came out with a report where they redefined unrealized capital gains as "income" does not mean that suddenly the situation in America has changed and we need to tax unrealized gains as income"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1402488346434146304)  2021-06-09T04:50Z 336.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Yeah dude the Left looooooves BlackRock so muchπŸ™„ Blackrock is pursuing an investment strategy that will make it harder for young Americans to own homes. The Left will ignore this because Blackrock has committed to "racial audits" and other diversity BS. Blackrock is pursuing an investment strategy that will make it harder for young Americans to own homes. The Left will ignore this because Blackrock has committed to "racial audits" and other diversity BS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1402662603348877314)  2021-06-09T16:23Z 335.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Biden and Merkel inspire high confidence in developed countries while Xi and Putin get lower marks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1403403587674279944)  2021-06-11T17:27Z 335.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Of all developed countries the U.S. is the least popular in New Zealand with Australia also ambivalent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1403404157847961602)  2021-06-11T17:29Z 336.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@mattbeane @tamaybes @mattsclancy I did"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1406281861375004674)  2021-06-19T16:04Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"How did finance decide to apply the name "technical analysis" to the least technical of all methods of stock analysis No. Don't tell me I already know. It's just silly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1409790837064572932)  2021-06-29T08:28Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"The New Deal didn't come into its full power til the 60s. Reaganomics reached the height of its power under Clinton. Similarly Biden may be seeding the ground for a long-lasting shift toward more government investment. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-takes-on-government-investment https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-takes-on-government-investment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1410236693039308803)  2021-06-30T14:00Z 337.2K followers, [--] engagements


"The "cell phones cause brain cancer" theory is back https://www.ktvu.com/news/new-uc-berkeley-study-draws-strong-link-between-cell-phone-use-and-cancer https://www.ktvu.com/news/new-uc-berkeley-study-draws-strong-link-between-cell-phone-use-and-cancer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1412769273660022789)  2021-07-07T13:43Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@TomChivers Thanks Tom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1415231154416852994)  2021-07-14T08:46Z 358.8K followers, [--] engagements


"One of the most remarkable economic divergences in the world. In [----] Haiti was as rich as the Dominican Republic. In [----] Haiti was POORER than it was in [----] while the D.R.'s GDP had increased by a factor of TEN. These countries are two halves of the SAME ISLAND"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1415735255353335808)  2021-07-15T18:09Z 337.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Leftist Twitter: Another policy failure what a contemptible country AMERICAN UNEXCEPTIONALISM Everyone else: Oh hey cool Rihanna is now officially a billionaire https://t.co/EUrJML3zfG #SelfMadeWomen https://t.co/sBprKDDeMZ Rihanna is now officially a billionaire https://t.co/EUrJML3zfG #SelfMadeWomen https://t.co/sBprKDDeMZ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1423015298488147968)  2021-08-04T20:17Z 335.4K followers, [---] engagements


"The fact that Republicans are willing to spend money cleaning up lead pipes and switching to electric cars should not be ignored. Bidenomics is going to outlive Biden. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/score-2-for-bidenomics https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/score-2-for-bidenomics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1425456974251057152)  2021-08-11T14:00Z 336.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Sorry but buying and holding real estate is a financial decision that comes with risk. You don't get outsized returns without accepting outsized risk. I'm a landlord with [--] properties. We're suffering during Biden's eviction ban too and no one is helping. https://t.co/orq9Sd5gRS I'm a landlord with [--] properties. We're suffering during Biden's eviction ban too and no one is helping. https://t.co/orq9Sd5gRS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1427867669642895362)  2021-08-18T05:39Z 336.8K followers, [----] engagements


""Im highly suspicious of the practice of epistemic enclosure of using social consensus to delineate the boundaries of fields of inquiry and to assign each bounded region to a single club of human beings." https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/epistemic-trespassing-or-epistemic https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/epistemic-trespassing-or-epistemic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1430295351496372225)  2021-08-24T22:26Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Interesting fact: New Zealand HK Singapore and the UK actually pay *more* per mile of train than we do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1432097234108125186)  2021-08-29T21:46Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@HeerJeet People choose their identity but they need something to coordinate around"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1432845393562243074)  2021-08-31T23:18Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Police won't be abolished but I do think some departments will be replaced en masse. https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/571739-entire-police-department-resigns-in-missouri https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/571739-entire-police-department-resigns-in-missouri"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1436808189341667329)  2021-09-11T21:45Z 332.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Olympic gold medals have been made of gold-plated silver since [----]. The official policy is for the medals to be made of at least 92% silver. https://www.visitcos.com/blog/seven-things-you-didnt-know-about-olympic-medals/ #Olympic sailing champion Xu Lijia said on Weibo that her London Olympic gold medal has oxidized. Experts said the medal was made of silver and its surface plated with gold so it would oxidize easily. https://t.co/7xO23QNAb7 https://www.visitcos.com/blog/seven-things-you-didnt-know-about-olympic-medals/ #Olympic sailing champion Xu Lijia said on Weibo that her London Olympic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1436950976573820932)  2021-09-12T07:13Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"In honor of Evergrande it is once again time for me to post the picture I post whenever I see the start of a financial crisis:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1438202867148476416)  2021-09-15T18:07Z 358.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Facebook Messenger censors the name of the company and we can't figure out why http://Compound.Finance http://Compound.Finance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1442532859722403846)  2021-09-27T16:53Z 337K followers, [--] engagements


"This is exactly right. If I were making the BBB bill it would just be climate stuff universal cash benefits and investment in housing. The fact that it's "a grab bag of popular things.done only partway" is a bit disappointing TBH. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/30/memo-democrats-do-fewer-things-better-rather-than-bunch-things-poorly/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/30/memo-democrats-do-fewer-things-better-rather-than-bunch-things-poorly/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1444000991351697414)  2021-10-01T18:07Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Oh one great thing about universal cash benefits is that they reduce the amount that the Dems have to fight over targeted in-kind benefits -- health care vs. housing vs. child care etc. Just give people the CASH and let them spend it as they see fit. This is exactly right. If I were making the BBB bill it would just be climate stuff universal cash benefits and investment in housing. The fact that it's "a grab bag of popular things.done only partway" is a bit disappointing TBH. https://t.co/JHdxzhLD72 This is exactly right. If I were making the BBB bill it would just be climate stuff universal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1444007696575844356)  2021-10-01T18:33Z 337K followers, [--] engagements


"Americans just don't seem to care as much as I do about climate change research infrastructure or universal cash benefits. That means the "centrists" have a good shot at gutting these crucial parts of Biden's agenda. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-the-build-back-better-negotiations https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-the-build-back-better-negotiations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1444767329921818624)  2021-10-03T20:52Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Amazing burst of technological progress here: Only [--] vaccine program in history (Covid) went from pathogen identification to success in [--] year. This week one vs malaria got the green light by @WHO after none for [---] years An mRNA πŸ’‰ vs HIV [--] years later starts a major trial next month graph by @MaxCRoser @OurWorldInData https://t.co/UpGZBEEZfU Only [--] vaccine program in history (Covid) went from pathogen identification to success in [--] year. This week one vs malaria got the green light by @WHO after none for [---] years An mRNA πŸ’‰ vs HIV [--] years later starts a major trial next month graph by"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1448859820375756801)  2021-10-15T03:54Z 359K followers, [---] engagements


"@Victor_M_Short @besttrousers @DTCochrane @TMMTleonardo @NiallGlynn @JamesRobichaux @moneyontheleft Not really no"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1451632721671774209)  2021-10-22T19:33Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@DTCochrane @Victor_M_Short @besttrousers @TMMTleonardo @NiallGlynn @JamesRobichaux @moneyontheleft Utility maximization but of an imaginary representative agent not of real-world individual agents"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1451635497101455363)  2021-10-22T19:44Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Most of the stuff you believe in is wrong. But you'll never realize it. Instead you'll find new mostly-wrong things to believe in and you'll barely even be able to remember believing the stuff you used to believe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1456519306137640961)  2021-11-05T07:10Z 359K followers, [---] engagements


"America much like a petrostate has become politically and socially addicted to low gas prices. The only way to break the addiction is to rapidly transition to electric cars. you can say that "higher gas prices" is not a politically winning message and I agree but if you earnestly think that fossil fuels should be curbed yet the price of gas must be low or else you hate the working class -- you're just setting yourself up for failure. you can say that "higher gas prices" is not a politically winning message and I agree but if you earnestly think that fossil fuels should be curbed yet the price"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1459587535487651840)  2021-11-13T18:22Z 359.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Wait Ernie wasn't Asian At only [--] years old Ji-Young is making history as the first Asian American muppet in the Sesame Street canon. https://t.co/NkSMlNJ3Ul https://t.co/klKYWK9btj At only [--] years old Ji-Young is making history as the first Asian American muppet in the Sesame Street canon. https://t.co/NkSMlNJ3Ul https://t.co/klKYWK9btj"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1460330508433256449)  2021-11-15T19:34Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Fortunately I have not been burgled. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-s-pandemic-surge-in-burglaries-is-16633265.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-s-pandemic-surge-in-burglaries-is-16633265.php"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1461878311622119428)  2021-11-20T02:05Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"The U.S. economy is actually kicking butt Quite a revision here from Morgan Stanley "Incorporating the wealth of data today including GDP revisions to 3Q21 more robust spending strong inventories strong durable goods orders and upside in new home sales we significantly raise our Q4 GDP tracking from 3.0% to 8.7%" Quite a revision here from Morgan Stanley "Incorporating the wealth of data today including GDP revisions to 3Q21 more robust spending strong inventories strong durable goods orders and upside in new home sales we significantly raise our Q4 GDP tracking from 3.0% to 8.7%""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1463587008953995266)  2021-11-24T19:15Z 359K followers, [---] engagements


"@CitizenHaight I'll take it under advisement but so far you're the first to complain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1465246062730350595)  2021-11-29T09:07Z 337K followers, [--] engagements


"Chinese food: βœ… Movie: βœ… Merry Christmas everyone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1474582886829416448)  2021-12-25T03:28Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements


"@alexxdouglas @MaxJerneck @GeorgeSelgin I just don't take the claim as fact. I don't disbelieve it. And I don't really care"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1477771676423110658)  2022-01-02T22:39Z 359K followers, [--] engagements


"@alexxdouglas @MaxJerneck @GeorgeSelgin She wrote the Twitter thread as I wrote. Let's not play these little games. Stay focused on the substance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1477772669172924420)  2022-01-02T22:43Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@alexxdouglas https://apricitas.substack.com/p/are-rising-corporate-profit-margins https://apricitas.substack.com/p/are-rising-corporate-profit-margins"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1477773553990733826)  2022-01-02T22:47Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Annuity salespeople going with the guerrilla marketing strategy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1478482305349914628)  2022-01-04T21:43Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"And some people are responding that I should just say "low-wage" vs. "high-wage" but this is absolutely wrong. I'm talking about PEOPLE not jobs. A PhD student waiting tables is low-wage but not "low-skill". So that isn't going to work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1478844245444206592)  2022-01-05T21:41Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Three graphs from @johnauthers showing that #TeamTheFedWillHandleIt is right: [--]. People expect the Fed to tighten [--]. They expect this to reduce inflation [--]. They do NOT expect this to cause a recession https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-04/inflation-optimism-and-political-negativity-confront-markets-in-2022sref=R8NfLgwS https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-04/inflation-optimism-and-political-negativity-confront-markets-in-2022sref=R8NfLgwS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1479929802727460865)  2022-01-08T21:35Z 335.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Americans -- including Black Americans -- like "affirmative action" a lot but really don't like "racial preferences" in college admissions. What gives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1486283364747255812)  2022-01-26T10:22Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@popedum So anyway young college-educated Americans are assimilated into a unified American elite by being taught to value diversity and by being inculcated with awareness of privilege"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1487351417752801284)  2022-01-29T09:06Z 355.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@popedum What of those who are neither White nor Black The members of these groups who are part of the college-educated elite learn a close analogue to the noblesse oblige of White privilege. https://blogs.brown.edu/ethn-1650b-s01-2018-fall/asian-americans-and-the-legacy-of-antiblackness/ https://blogs.brown.edu/ethn-1650b-s01-2018-fall/asian-americans-and-the-legacy-of-antiblackness/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1487352074924744706)  2022-01-29T09:09Z 355.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Inflation expectations have been contained. Here we see: * 3-year survey expectations * 5-year market expectations Both tell the same story: People now think inflation will persist above target but will not accelerate. The Fed is doing its job"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1488251384365400064)  2022-01-31T20:42Z 335.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Remember MMT is not a theory of how the economy works; it is a set of memes to encourage the government to borrow more money. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/mmt-and-the-meme-ification-of-macro https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/mmt-and-the-meme-ification-of-macro"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1490442968557256704)  2022-02-06T21:51Z 332.8K followers, [---] engagements


"4/ Wojak memes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1491322469852278784)  2022-02-09T08:05Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements


"5/ Cheems memes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1491322768604143617)  2022-02-09T08:07Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Every day tweets saying "unions are good companies are evil and steal from the workers" get like [----] retweets and yet union membership is still falling https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-20/u-s-union-membership-falls-despite-high-profile-labor-actions https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-20/u-s-union-membership-falls-despite-high-profile-labor-actions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1492046364238254080)  2022-02-11T08:02Z 333.9K followers, [---] engagements


"A map of countries Britain has invaded. Note that Britain and Mongolia who built the two biggest empires ever known have never invaded each other"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1492377166675255297)  2022-02-12T05:56Z 336.7K followers, [----] engagements


"3. Historians are far more powerful than economists and their theories gain wide acceptance with far less solid evidence to back them up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1494404334804602886)  2022-02-17T20:12Z 358.9K followers, [----] engagements


"8. America is not a land of brash rude honest people but rather a highly intricate and polite society with dense web of social taboos euphemisms politeness customs and unwritten rules"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1494407031280701448)  2022-02-17T20:22Z 336.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@frankjdistefano @JasonLHughes Try to do this in practice. Try to find a concrete measurement of the things you're talking about instead of just waving your hands and saying "look at this episode and this other episode". You will see how insanely hard it is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1494793583571783680)  2022-02-18T21:58Z 338.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@AthertonKD @MikeRTrice I tagged you so you and your gang woild show up and provide real-time examples of the kind of attitudes al-Assil described in his thread. Thank you for doing that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1498746048633704448)  2022-03-01T19:44Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@thepatriotfiles Kashmir blackout citizenship crackdown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1507921158905032704)  2022-03-27T03:23Z 358.6K followers, [--] engagements


"I wish we could just blame the dastardly McConnell and Manchin for screwing over the American people. But polls consistently found that a strong majority of Americans didn't want the child tax credit to be permanent. We did this to ourselves folks. https://www.politico.com/f/id=0000017a-c756-d4d6-ad7f-e75623c00000&nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000014e-f115-dd93-ad7f-f91513e50001&nlid=630318"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1509474083552985090)  2022-03-31T10:14Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Pakistani general. General Bajwa: We share a long history of excellent relationship with the United States which remains our largest export market; UK/EU vital to our national interests; Russian aggression on Ukraine is very unfortunate this is a huge tragedy. This is huge. https://t.co/4bufYu45Lc General Bajwa: We share a long history of excellent relationship with the United States which remains our largest export market; UK/EU vital to our national interests; Russian aggression on Ukraine is very unfortunate this is a huge tragedy. This is huge. https://t.co/4bufYu45Lc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1510168825022480388)  2022-04-02T08:14Z 337.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@davidjmadden What's wrong with this building Looks quite efficient to me. And cool-looking as well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1511409164349702147)  2022-04-05T18:23Z 336.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@bobgourley It's far far far more energy per transaction though. And no economy of scale that would decrease energy intensity as scale increased (in fact the opposite)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1514448712486977540)  2022-04-14T03:41Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements


"I don't know or care what Lib of TikTok is I just want the child tax credit back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1516844072840822785)  2022-04-20T18:19Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements


"To everyone saying they'll leave Twitter now that Musk is in charge: Did you think Jack Dorsey was on your side Or did you think Twitter's management was just so fragmented and ineffec that no one was really in charge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1518999952743051266)  2022-04-26T17:06Z 359.3K followers, [---] engagements


"I wrote a post trying to explain the four main theories of Bitcoin's financial value. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/what-kind-of-financial-asset-is-bitcoin https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/what-kind-of-financial-asset-is-bitcoin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1525382033102385152)  2022-05-14T07:46Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Bitcoin's dominance of the crypto space is trending downward as it is slowly eclipsed by newer cryptocurrencies. But its absolute value has still generally risen over time and could continue to rise even as it obsolesces. The four main theories of Bitcoin: [--]. The future of money [--]. A worthless fad [--]. Digital gold [--]. Just another tech stock .and I added another little theory of my own at the end. https://t.co/cTmVqpmylS The four main theories of Bitcoin: [--]. The future of money [--]. A worthless fad [--]. Digital gold [--]. Just another tech stock .and I added another little theory of my own at the end."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1525743243496869888)  2022-05-15T07:41Z 359K followers, [--] engagements


"@MrKapitalist Here's oil prices the core CPI and the M2 money supply all normalized to be [---] in [----]. I just don't see a lot of action there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1535520450733699072)  2022-06-11T07:12Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements


"A lot of people have asked me to write about Central Bank Digital Currencies and whether I think they're a good idea. After looking closely at the issue I conclude that they're essentially useless -- at least for the U.S. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/central-bank-digital-currencies-are https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/central-bank-digital-currencies-are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1540233636867219457)  2022-06-24T07:21Z 337.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Never spend more than $700 (in 2022$) on a laptop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1541140395924418560)  2022-06-26T19:24Z 332.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@Alesis_Turner Some liberals try to warn white progressives but white progressives increasingly refuse to listen to any criticism that comes from a liberal much less a moderate centrist or conservative"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1543294916293324801)  2022-07-02T18:05Z 332.6K followers, [--] engagements


"That'll get em My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril. Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost youre paying for the product. And do it now. My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril. Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost youre paying for the product. And do it now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1543422446543376386)  2022-07-03T02:32Z 332.1K followers, [---] engagements


"America beats Europe on median income no matter how you slice the data. But Europe has more leisure better health and safety and less poverty. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/americans-are-generally-richer-than https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/americans-are-generally-richer-than"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1545007218038173696)  2022-07-07T11:30Z 338.6K followers, [---] engagements


"China's leaders are frantically trying to adjust the policies that led the country into its current economic slump. But the reversals are only partial and so far they're not having much success. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/china-is-flailing https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/china-is-flailing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1548150182721638403)  2022-07-16T03:39Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

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Social category influence countries #3934 finance technology brands us election social networks travel destinations celebrities stocks #1714 automotive brands #2009 cryptocurrencies

Social topic influence china #339, russia #2316, japan #671, countries, ukraine #176, israel, inflation, tariffs #519, money, india

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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"4/Interestingly black support for government intervention in the job market had also been trending steadily down though the level of support was much higher than among white people (60% vs. 20% by the mid-2000s)"
X Link 2018-06-05T04:53Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"She wants to transition to 100% renewable energy which is a GREAT goal and looking increasingly realistic (though her timeline is slightly optimistic)"
X Link 2018-07-02T17:13Z 336.9K followers, [--] engagements

"And finally she wants to restore Glass-Steagall which I hope (and assume) is a proxy for "better financial regulation in general""
X Link 2018-07-02T17:14Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements

"9/But like the Europeans the Mongols dominated the world for only a short space of time. Almost as soon as it reached its zenith the Mongol Empire started falling apart due to civil wars. [--]. [--]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berke%E2%80%93Hulagu_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toluid_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berke%E2%80%93Hulagu_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toluid_Civil_War"
X Link 2018-07-06T16:41Z 337.2K followers, [--] engagements

"10/Civil wars dramatically weakened the Mongol Empire and broke it up into several smaller empires that often spent their energy fighting each other. Meanwhile the much more populous civilizations they had conquered kept rebelling until they threw off Mongol rule"
X Link 2018-07-06T16:44Z 336K followers, [--] engagements

"Howdy everybody Today's @bopinion post asks whether immigration restriction touched off the Great Depression and whether something like that could happen again https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-09/cuts-to-u-s-immigration-in-1920s-made-great-depression-worse https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-09/cuts-to-u-s-immigration-in-1920s-made-great-depression-worse"
X Link 2018-07-09T14:57Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"What started the Great Depression Well many people would say it was the stock market crash of [----]. There was also a housing bubble and crash a couple of years earlier"
X Link 2018-07-09T15:00Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

""If global warming is real why aren't coastal real estate prices falling" they asked me. https://x.com/lisaabramowicz1/status/935857466952310785 Moodys warns coastal cities from Maine to California to confront climate risks or face downgrades. https://t.co/l01BmIwCi0 https://x.com/lisaabramowicz1/status/935857466952310785 Moodys warns coastal cities from Maine to California to confront climate risks or face downgrades. https://t.co/l01BmIwCi0"
X Link 2018-07-25T04:50Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"Settlers of Catan [---] Avalon +1"
X Link 2018-08-05T16:51Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"China's stock market performance for [----] is looking less than amazing"
X Link 2018-08-15T20:36Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"@KateAronoff @csilverandgold Can you recommend a history book about this I never realized there was a credible threat of revolution in the early 30s"
X Link 2018-11-11T17:05Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@KateAronoff @csilverandgold I am in fact asking for a book recommendation (or an article if it's good and detailed)"
X Link 2018-11-11T18:06Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"How trade barriers work in service industries: a thread. 1/ A turkey sandwich impersonator asked me a sensational question and I'm going to answer it with a thread because this is my life now. The faux baguette asks: "How do trade agreements deal with cross border services trade" Brace yourselves this gets complicated. 1/ A turkey sandwich impersonator asked me a sensational question and I'm going to answer it with a thread because this is my life now. The faux baguette asks: "How do trade agreements deal with cross border services trade" Brace yourselves this gets complicated"
X Link 2018-11-27T06:07Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"College majors gaining the most in popularity: Exercise science Computer science Nursing Health and medical Computer and electrical engineering College majors losing the most in popularity: History Religion Area studies Humanities Languages and literatures other than English"
X Link 2018-11-29T06:50Z 346.1K followers, [----] engagements

"A yield curve (5 year Treasuries over [--] year Treasuries) just inverted https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-03/u-s-yield-curve-just-inverted-that-s-hugeutm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=181203&utm_campaign=sharetheview https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-03/u-s-yield-curve-just-inverted-that-s-hugeutm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=181203&utm_campaign=sharetheview"
X Link 2018-12-03T21:41Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements

"@eean The regressiveness shouldn't be forgotten but using this as a reason to sink the entire carbon tax idea - rather than just adjust the payouts to make it progressive - would be concern trolling or "solution tribalism" or something like that"
X Link 2018-12-10T17:45Z 332.3K followers, [--] engagements

"People are demanding a "Green New Deal" apparently without having any idea what that means. I could think of some great policies that go by the name Green New Deal and also some silly policies. Which policies are actually on the table https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4397ap/the-left-thinks-a-green-new-deal-could-save-earth-and-destroy-the-gop https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4397ap/the-left-thinks-a-green-new-deal-could-save-earth-and-destroy-the-gop"
X Link 2018-12-10T19:20Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Paul Volcker is awesome as this interview demonstrates: https://www.barrons.com/articles/a-q-a-with-paul-volcker-former-federal-reserve-chairman-51544634862mod=hp_DAY_9 https://www.barrons.com/articles/a-q-a-with-paul-volcker-former-federal-reserve-chairman-51544634862mod=hp_DAY_9"
X Link 2018-12-15T16:42Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"When I look at this graph I have a very hard time concluding that capitalism is failing the human race"
X Link 2018-12-29T16:02Z 337.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@ne0liberal Hmm it's been [--] years no signs of anything Venezuela-like that I can see"
X Link 2018-12-29T16:46Z 359.4K followers, [--] engagements

"And you can't just set rates at zero you have to promise to keep them at zero forever because if you have an incredible pile of debt even a small rise in rates would make debt service costs explode upward. But OK suppose we do this. What else could go wrong"
X Link 2019-01-10T16:55Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"Doesn't this just mean that in addition to being the first woman president and the second Black president Harris would also be the first Asian president And wouldn't that be pretty cool"
X Link 2019-01-22T01:15Z 335.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Government takes 2% of your wealth every year to fund health care green energy etc.: Damn it that's COMMUNISM Asset manager takes 2% of your wealth every year to invest your money in a portfolio that underperforms the index: Well that's just good ol' productive CAPTITALISM"
X Link 2019-01-24T23:57Z 336.8K followers, [----] engagements

"Snapchat: [--]. Is losing daily active users [--]. Loses over $300 million a quarter [--]. Has massively negative free cash flow .and has a market cap of $8.5 billion. Amazing https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-11/snapchat-s-computing-cloud-doesn-t-have-a-silver-lining https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/25/snapchat-q3-2018-earnings/ https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-11/snapchat-s-computing-cloud-doesn-t-have-a-silver-lining https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/25/snapchat-q3-2018-earnings/"
X Link 2019-01-30T20:03Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements

""Every human being drawing vital breath upon this soil.he may be of Caucasian Jewish Indian or Ethiopian race.but before the Constitution of Massachusetts all these distinctions disappear. He is a MAN the equal of all his fellow-men." - Charles Sumner"
X Link 2019-02-13T01:37Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

""I believe the entire records of the world from the date of the Declaration of Independence up to within three years ago may be searched in vain for one single affirmation from one single man that the negro was not included in the Declaration of Independence." - Lincoln"
X Link 2019-02-13T01:39Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"A game theory paper about blockchains. Formalizes and generalizes the intuition that distributed ledgers are inherently expensive ways of keeping records. Required reading for all blockchain and crypto enthusiasts. https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/markus/files/blockchain_paper_v5a.pdf https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/markus/files/blockchain_paper_v5a.pdf"
X Link 2019-02-17T18:49Z 337.5K followers, [---] engagements

"An article analyzing the motives and ideology of Brenton Tarrant (the New Zealand shooter) and Robert Bowers (the synagogue shooter). No surprises here but still useful to read: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2019.1599493 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2019.1599493"
X Link 2019-04-01T06:39Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@PhartmanHill @Arthur_Klein1 @JeffreyASachs I personally emitted more decibels at any Stanford basketball game and said far harsher things than these kids did in this video yet they are facing criminal penalties while I walk free how is this justice"
X Link 2019-04-02T07:37Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"@PhartmanHill @Arthur_Klein1 @JeffreyASachs Your only principle is that speech of people who aren't on your team is bad and to be prohibited while speech of people who are on your team is sacred and to be protected. It's a base instinctual unintelligent unprincipled way of thinking"
X Link 2019-04-02T07:46Z 336.4K followers, [--] engagements

"@BretWeinstein That's about the lamest weakest "disruption" I've ever seen. If two people tepidly chanting like that is a crime I don't see how we have free speech"
X Link 2019-04-02T21:45Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements

"2/The result for Japan was a "lost decade" of low growth. For us the slowdown was milder but we still had one"
X Link 2019-04-04T17:42Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"Today's @bopinion post is about how Republicans and the conservative movement more generally are turning away from the economics profession as their go-to source of expertise. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-11/economics-is-another-field-where-republicans-reject-the-experts https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-11/economics-is-another-field-where-republicans-reject-the-experts"
X Link 2019-04-11T15:59Z 335.9K followers, [---] engagements

"In [----] Obama nominated a Nobel Prize-winning macroeconomist to the Fed board. Republicans blocked him because they said he wasn't experienced enough"
X Link 2019-04-11T16:02Z 336.2K followers, [---] engagements

"Mark Calabria a Republican policy adviser and think-tank guy wrote that "the last thing the Fed needs is another PhD in economics": https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/nobel-laureate-diamond-is-unqualified-fed https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/nobel-laureate-diamond-is-unqualified-fed"
X Link 2019-04-11T16:03Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements

"Calabria then wrote that having too many econ PhDs at the Fed was leading to "rampant inflation". Narrator voice: There was no rampant inflation"
X Link 2019-04-11T16:05Z 335.7K followers, [--] engagements

"In fact economic historians have found that union workers tended on average to have less skill than their non-unionized counterparts. Worker solidarity and bargaining power overcame a deficit of technical skill. https://www.nber.org/papers/w24587 https://www.nber.org/papers/w24587"
X Link 2019-05-07T16:31Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements

"Could the same thing happen to service industries Could human-interaction workers be transformed from a disposable cheap floating labor force into respected stable middle-class unionized workers Maybe they could"
X Link 2019-05-07T16:32Z 337K followers, [--] engagements

"Dear God imagine a world where AI-enabled networked devices do everything and no one understands how they work (even the engineers who make the algorithms) and nobody believes in vaccines or climate science or anything"
X Link 2019-05-10T04:14Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements

"11/We could devalue the dollar by having the Fed create a bunch of dollars. But this complicates the Fed's mandate (it is already supposed to fight both unemployment and inflation) It would lead to a less independent monetary policy"
X Link 2019-06-06T19:53Z 335.3K followers, [--] engagements

"Only 7% of Japanese people say they oppose greater diversity in Japan. SEVEN PERCENT That's the second-lowest percentage of any country surveyed (after Indonesia)"
X Link 2019-06-10T04:20Z 359.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@tara https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1137158497689202689s=19 Japan's new work visa program is being called a "guest worker law" but it includes a path to permanent residency. It thus represents a true immigration program. Also Japan has implemented a permanent residency fast track for skilled workers. https://t.co/ogUKbgTTbS https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1137158497689202689s=19 Japan's new work visa program is being called a "guest worker law" but it includes a path to permanent residency. It thus represents a true immigration program. Also Japan has implemented a permanent residency fast"
X Link 2019-06-10T16:37Z 359.3K followers, [--] engagements

"Before reading this poll did you know that corgis are born with long bushy tails Yes I knew No didn't know Yes I knew No didn't know"
X Link 2019-06-21T22:07Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"Here's what a corgi naturally looks like before people amputate its tail for cosmetic reasons"
X Link 2019-06-21T22:10Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"One more possible definition of the "West":"
X Link 2019-06-25T04:34Z 333.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Today in my Twitter feed: [--]. Cupertino city official calls YIMBYs "neoliberal fascists" on Nextdoor threatens to call their employers [--]. Evidence emerges that building more multifamily housing reduces racial segregation Hmm wonder what's going on here. πŸ€”"
X Link 2019-06-26T16:38Z 360.7K followers, [---] engagements

"When England got rid of free college enrollment expanded expenditure per student expanded and inequality of access did NOT increase. Very interesting Key features of their system: [--]. Buy now pay later [--]. Financial aid for lower-income ppl [--]. Income-based loan repayment Our paper came out today on English higher education going from #FreeCollege Low Aid to High-Delayed-Fee High-Aid with @jscottclayton and Gill Wyness. Get your open access version here: https://t.co/eMYLAerfsu Our paper came out today on English higher education going from #FreeCollege Low Aid to High-Delayed-Fee High-Aid with"
X Link 2019-07-01T19:58Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@ishaantharoor He's not as cool as Satyendra Nath Bose though"
X Link 2019-07-12T04:12Z 359.3K followers, [--] engagements

"I'm always amazed every time I meet someone who both A) is in favor of free college and B) thinks college is mostly useless signaling. /subtweet"
X Link 2019-07-17T19:11Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements

"OK now let's look at what happens when we adjust for prices. Adjusting for prices median household income went up by only a little more than 10% between [----] and [----]. (It has continued increasing in the last two years which is probably where the WSJ gets its 14% number.)"
X Link 2019-08-02T02:24Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"Now let's compare income to housing costs. There are many measures of housing costs. Here are three common ones: [--]. The "rent of primary residence" component of the Consumer Price Index [--]. The "housing" component of the CPI [--]. The Case-Shiller national house price index"
X Link 2019-08-02T02:25Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"Every year like clockwork the Guardian publishes one of these op-eds bashing economics. So far none of them have been good. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/03/economics-global-economy-climate-crisis https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/03/economics-global-economy-climate-crisis"
X Link 2019-08-04T07:34Z 359K followers, [---] engagements

"A recession will give Trump the boot"
X Link 2019-08-15T01:01Z 336.9K followers, [---] engagements

"This is cool"
X Link 2019-08-15T22:02Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"1/Today's @bopinion post is about the looming recession.if there is in fact a looming recession. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-16/if-there-s-a-recession-it-will-be-made-in-china https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-16/if-there-s-a-recession-it-will-be-made-in-china"
X Link 2019-08-16T14:46Z 336.2K followers, [---] engagements

"2/The yield curve has inverted. That is a harbinger of recession. But it probably does not cause recessions any more than a crowing rooster causes the sun to rise"
X Link 2019-08-16T14:48Z 336.2K followers, [--] engagements

"Agree with this. I haven't read the book yet but @BCAppelbaum's op-ed struck me as much more of an indictment of politicians and think-tankers who couch business-friendly ideology in econ-sounding language rather than of the economis profession itself. This opinion by @BCAppelbaum can be read two ways depending on what we take for economist. Is it economist advisors or policymakers chosen by politicians Maybe a case there. Economists more generally including academics Makes zero sense to me. https://t.co/dDDfFAeVxs This opinion by @BCAppelbaum can be read two ways depending on what we take"
X Link 2019-08-25T21:38Z 359K followers, [--] engagements

"Cumulative real per capita GDP growth for various upper-middle-income countries since [----]. Thailand Chile and Uruguay have done quite well"
X Link 2019-08-28T17:28Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements

"Damn it America is such a dumpster fire. Let's see what's going on in India. https://www.npr.org/2019/08/21/751541321/this-is-it-im-going-to-die-indias-minorities-are-targeted-in-lynchings https://www.npr.org/2019/08/21/751541321/this-is-it-im-going-to-die-indias-minorities-are-targeted-in-lynchings"
X Link 2019-09-01T04:06Z 359.3K followers, [---] engagements

"So how do we tax the super-rich First we raise the capital gains tax rate"
X Link 2019-10-08T17:55Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"ARE YOU FRIGGING KIDDING ME https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2128124/marriott-sacks-employee-who-liked-twitter-post-tibet-independence https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2128124/marriott-sacks-employee-who-liked-twitter-post-tibet-independence"
X Link 2019-10-09T16:52Z 336.7K followers, [----] engagements

"The right answer is that national health insurance has monopsony power and can thus bargain for lower prices (though we could also allow Medicare to do more of this even without changing our insurance system)"
X Link 2019-11-04T16:05Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"Any health plan that uses monopsony power (or price controls I guess) to crush overpricing will look like a success even if it isn't national insurance. And if national insurance for some reason isn't allowed to crush overpricing it'll look like an epic failure"
X Link 2019-11-04T16:07Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"Electric cars are going to happen faster than a lot of people think 10% of passenger vehicles sold in BC are now zero emissions like the Chevy Bolt Nissan Leaf and Teslas. Incentives charging infrastructure & high gas prices are all helping people switch. https://t.co/IRDjnnVFZW #bcpoli #cleanbc 10% of passenger vehicles sold in BC are now zero emissions like the Chevy Bolt Nissan Leaf and Teslas. Incentives charging infrastructure & high gas prices are all helping people switch. https://t.co/IRDjnnVFZW #bcpoli #cleanbc"
X Link 2019-11-17T17:03Z 355.7K followers, [---] engagements

"Baby rabbit = smol good friend"
X Link 2019-11-29T18:27Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements

"One underappreciated trend is how peaceful Africa has become. The huge wars of the 90s and 00s - the DRC Darfur Sudan Angola Rwanda Ethiopia-Eritrea Ivory Coast Liberia - are basically over. That's great news for the continent's future"
X Link 2019-12-01T08:01Z 358.8K followers, [----] engagements

"22/But the [----] primary campaign's shift from industrial and labor reform to health care health care health care has made me pessimistic about the Democratic party's willingness and ability to change the things that really need changing in our economy. Oh well. (end)"
X Link 2019-12-20T19:25Z 359K followers, [---] engagements

"Ultimately there was no mass movement for the changes I wanted most for America and despite having a lot of great plans Warren failed to create one. So we're left with health care. I accept the judgment of the Democratic primary electorate but I don't have to like it"
X Link 2019-12-20T20:01Z 359.3K followers, [--] engagements

"@jnoisecat It's encouraging but I'm not sure it has made a big difference.climate change hasn't been a big issue in the debates for example. Everyone has their big climate plan but I'm not sure most voters understand or care about the differences between them"
X Link 2019-12-20T20:09Z 359.3K followers, [--] engagements

"@jacobinmag To Defeat Headaches We Must Defeat Capitalism To Defeat Parties Where There Are No Hot People We Must Defeat Capitalism To Defeat Cranberry-Raspberry Muffins We Must Defeat Capitalism To Defeat the Hidden Super Boss in Final Fantasy XV We Must Defeat Capitalism"
X Link 2020-01-08T14:56Z 359K followers, [---] engagements

"This is a good point that I hadn't thought of. If you have price controls and massive shortages your GDP (PPP) will come out looking great because prices are so low but that doesn't represent real standard of living because people don't actually have the "cheap" stuff. @Noahpinion @MattBruenig @Samizdat24 Exactly what if stuff is (officially) super cheap because the price is mandated in some way by the state all the while you're suffering from shortages. The population could be starving to death but hey potatoes are cheaper than in the UK. @Noahpinion @MattBruenig @Samizdat24 Exactly what"
X Link 2020-01-15T17:24Z 335.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Thursday open question: If you could meet one living person whom you haven't yet met who would it be"
X Link 2020-01-16T20:49Z 359.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@joshboak @issiromem But home prices are the pillar of middle class wealth in the U.S"
X Link 2020-01-22T16:25Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"Real median family income has almost doubled ($42k to $79k) since [----]. For real median renter income to have gone up by only 5% there must have been a HUGE composition effect. This needs looking into. The median American rent payment rose 61% in real terms between [----] and [----] while the median renters income grew by 5% https://t.co/PzU77qUnkl The median American rent payment rose 61% in real terms between [----] and [----] while the median renters income grew by 5% https://t.co/PzU77qUnkl"
X Link 2020-01-22T17:09Z 336.8K followers, [---] engagements

"@joshjhthomas @kyle700 Chavez looted the national oil company for pet projects (some of which were payments to personal friends). He randomly nationalized businesses of people he didn't like and freaked businesspeople out causing capital flight. And his price controls were a total flaming disaster"
X Link 2020-01-28T02:13Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"If Bernie wins a plurality and doesn't become the nominee I predict the party splits and a new party emerges. "The single most disastrous outcome for the party would be for Sanders to win a plurality of pledged delegates only for Democratic power brokers to try to deny him the nomination at a contested convention" writes @JesseLehrich: https://t.co/9iQtJ0M9ML "The single most disastrous outcome for the party would be for Sanders to win a plurality of pledged delegates only for Democratic power brokers to try to deny him the nomination at a contested convention" writes @JesseLehrich:"
X Link 2020-02-17T18:49Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@johnvanreenen @asvalero @MoreOrLesTO @TimHarford What's a good written primer on Britain's productivity problem"
X Link 2020-02-17T20:01Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"Betting markets once again give Bernie Sanders less of a chance of winning the Democratic nomination than.Hillary Clinton"
X Link 2020-03-11T06:34Z 336.8K followers, [---] engagements

"Do not go to restaurants (except for take-out). Do not go to bars. Do not go to the gym. Do not throw parties. Do not attend parties. Do not go to clubs. Do not go to cafes. Do not go near any crowd"
X Link 2020-03-15T02:44Z 359K followers, [----] engagements

"The Fed is buying investment-grade corporate bonds but to prevent a wave of defaults it'll have to buy junk bonds and the like. Political problem: The Fed buying junk bonds is more like a bailout. https://www.cfr.org/blog/why-feds-bazooka-will-not-stop-wave-corporate-defaults https://www.cfr.org/blog/why-feds-bazooka-will-not-stop-wave-corporate-defaults"
X Link 2020-03-26T18:43Z 337K followers, [--] engagements

"@GringoLoquisimo @MrsDemocrat @chrislhayes @PinnacleBioLabs IgG/IgM = antibodies my friend"
X Link 2020-04-02T19:39Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"If we had sectoral unions in the local service sector they might have been able to negotiate deals where store and restaurant workers retain their jobs through the shutdown. .just sayin'"
X Link 2020-04-08T23:11Z 359.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Coronavirus has now killed more Americans than the "Global War on Terror" (Iraq + Afghanistan + 9/11). https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/"
X Link 2020-04-10T17:15Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@TomChivers I cross check it with other sources"
X Link 2020-04-10T17:22Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"Some #TestAndTrace improvements in South Carolina Oklahoma and Wyoming. https://testandtrace.com/state-data/ https://testandtrace.com/state-data/"
X Link 2020-05-07T02:03Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@iamkylemullins TBH I don't know"
X Link 2020-05-07T04:29Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"According to our data only [--] states have hired enough contact tracers to meet the bare minimum (5/case) required for effective suppression of the virus: Montana Alaska Hawaii Vermont Maine Utah Michigan Washington North Dakota and Oklahoma https://testandtrace.com/state-data/ https://testandtrace.com/state-data/"
X Link 2020-05-14T18:31Z 336K followers, [--] engagements

"1/Today's @bopinion post is about the New Deal. Some folks like @benshapiro claim that the New Deal prolonged the Depression. They are wrong. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-15/u-s-economy-needs-another-new-deal-for-coronavirus-depression https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-15/u-s-economy-needs-another-new-deal-for-coronavirus-depression"
X Link 2020-05-15T17:02Z 358.9K followers, [----] engagements

"What makes you a Winner in America today Making $100 million Having [-----] Instagram followers Sleeping with [---] people Starting your own company Getting promoted to upper management Getting [-----] retweets on your epic dunk What should you even be striving for"
X Link 2020-05-17T17:43Z 359.3K followers, [---] engagements

"The HEROES Act gets a lot of things right but I think at this point we should be relying much less on unemployment benefits and much more on universal cash payments. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-19/coronavirus-shutdown-economy-needs-more-stimulus-from-congresssref=R8NfLgwS https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-19/coronavirus-shutdown-economy-needs-more-stimulus-from-congresssref=R8NfLgwS"
X Link 2020-05-19T16:00Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements

""Dear Bissell My rabbits LOVE chewing the box my vacuum cleaner came in. Can you refer me to your supplier so I can order empty boxes for them to chew Sincerely Noah Smith" (You asked me how I spend my free time and this is it)"
X Link 2020-05-28T03:39Z 355.1K followers, [--] engagements

"Wait this is exactly why government spending DOES work. Here's what WH adviser Art Laffer had to say today: "Imagine there's [--] farmers on an island and nothing else. One gets unemployment. Who pays for it The other farmer That's economics -- straight simple intuitive and true. That's why government spending doesn't work." Here's what WH adviser Art Laffer had to say today: "Imagine there's [--] farmers on an island and nothing else. One gets unemployment. Who pays for it The other farmer That's economics -- straight simple intuitive and true. That's why government spending doesn't work.""
X Link 2020-06-05T15:03Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"And just to satisfy the "but what about per capita" trolls here's per capita"
X Link 2020-06-17T03:51Z 359.3K followers, [----] engagements

"News flash: Something that has been talked about for [--] years is still happening In other breaking news we still don't know why we haven't found aliens yet and there's still no evidence for string theory Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born https://t.co/mlpyoRKb5I Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born https://t.co/mlpyoRKb5I"
X Link 2020-07-15T04:34Z 336.8K followers, [---] engagements

"Scary thought: Digital nationalism could return us to the age where people thought of the populations of other countries as faceless hordes of enemies. If China can't use Google/Facebook/Twitter and Americans can't use WeChat how will we even talk to each other"
X Link 2020-08-10T16:10Z 359.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Wednesday open question: What's one thing that's very hard for most people to believe but which is actually true"
X Link 2020-08-26T20:15Z 337K followers, [---] engagements

"WOW. It isn't just in the U.S. where negative opinions of China have soared. It's all across the developed world. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/10/06/unfavorable-views-of-china-reach-historic-highs-in-many-countries/ https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/10/06/unfavorable-views-of-china-reach-historic-highs-in-many-countries/"
X Link 2020-10-07T03:27Z 335.6K followers, [----] engagements

"OK folks. First we elect Biden. Then we get a COVID vaccine. Then we drop the Medicare age to [--]. Then we switch to 100% green energy. Then we double our housing stock and build some trains. Then we build a global alliance to balance China. We can do this"
X Link 2020-10-09T15:06Z 354.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Giggles flopping is referred to as a "gigaflop""
X Link 2020-11-02T22:03Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"GDP growth for selected African countries since [----]. Ethiopia has grown the most (in percentage terms) followed by Ghana and Rwanda while Kenya lags"
X Link 2020-11-12T20:18Z 341K followers, [--] engagements

"Some thoughts on MMT and the meme-ification of macroeconomics: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/mmt-and-the-meme-ification-of-macro https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/mmt-and-the-meme-ification-of-macro"
X Link 2020-11-27T17:25Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"undergrad = novice grad student = apprentice assistant prof = journeyman associate prof = expert full prof = master Academia is just the old apprentice system"
X Link 2020-12-30T17:44Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements

"If you really want to teach your kid how to do things on their own in this day and age tell them to search YouTube"
X Link 2021-01-03T23:41Z 359.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Left-NIMBYs would call these "luxury apartments" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-04/tiny-apartment-sales-soar-in-world-s-priciest-home-market https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-04/tiny-apartment-sales-soar-in-world-s-priciest-home-market"
X Link 2021-01-12T06:58Z 355.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Vaccine shots going at about 1.2M/day and no longer accelerating:"
X Link 2021-01-27T23:52Z 335.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Just under [--] out of [--] American adults vaccinated so far. At this rate we're on track to vaccinate all American adults by the end of August. Hopefully Biden's program and the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will speed things up"
X Link 2021-01-27T23:56Z 336.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Vaccine companies are already making booster shots against new COVID variants: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-04/pfizer-pfe-moderna-mrna-race-to-make-vaccines-for-covid-variantssref=R8NfLgwS https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-04/pfizer-pfe-moderna-mrna-race-to-make-vaccines-for-covid-variantssref=R8NfLgwS"
X Link 2021-02-07T19:24Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"Can't believe they're going with this message when Biden is obviously harder on China than Trump was. Team Biden is soft on China. Team Biden is soft on China"
X Link 2021-02-09T01:35Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@MTBinDurham Thx"
X Link 2021-02-16T17:37Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"Clubhouse is so much better than Twitter for discussion that it's not even comparable. But Twitter is still The News"
X Link 2021-02-28T03:57Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"Poor countries have been catching up to rich countries. Though slowly poorer countries have been catching up w/ richer ones. And this new era of convergence isn't stemmed by growth among the rich but rather more persistent improvements w/n the developing world: https://t.co/BgmRDwebO0 @dev_a_patel @JustinSandefur @arvindsubraman Though slowly poorer countries have been catching up w/ richer ones. And this new era of convergence isn't stemmed by growth among the rich but rather more persistent improvements w/n the developing world: https://t.co/BgmRDwebO0 @dev_a_patel @JustinSandefur"
X Link 2021-03-04T22:26Z 332.7K followers, [--] engagements

"@jfurlan14 @delong It's at least partly definitional. Here was the original definition. Somehow Australia Taiwan and Singapore got into the "north" Mongolia and Kazakhstan into the "south". Now people are thinking about making China "north" because it got rich"
X Link 2021-03-11T20:59Z 356.6K followers, [--] engagements

"Most of the criticisms of Bitcoin have proven to be unfounded. But if Bitcoin mining keeps gobbling up computer chips and electricity governments are going to get mad. A technolgical fix is in order. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-24/bitcoin-miners-are-on-a-path-to-self-destruction https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-24/bitcoin-miners-are-on-a-path-to-self-destruction"
X Link 2021-03-24T18:59Z 336.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@KateAronoff @LogicalAnalysis Yes but on Twitter your weapons don't break from overuse"
X Link 2021-03-29T02:46Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"BIDENOMICS EXPLAINED. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-explained https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-explained"
X Link 2021-04-04T07:03Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"What is Bidenomics In this post I attempt to distill Biden's economic program into its basic elements and weave them into a coherent vision for where we're headed. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-explained https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-explained"
X Link 2021-04-04T12:00Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"The Age of Reagan is over. The Age of Biden has begun. But what will this new paradigm entail What is Biden's vision How does it fit with economic research What are the dangers and downsides In this post I attempt to answer all those questions. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-explained https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-explained"
X Link 2021-04-04T15:00Z 336.7K followers, [----] engagements

"I wanted to write a "big picture" post where I pulled in all the stuff that Biden's doing and wove it into a coherent vision of the future of the U.S. economy. This is my theory of Biden's vision. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-explained https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-explained"
X Link 2021-04-05T14:37Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"8/FDR also presided over the mightiest industrial nation in the world. Biden does not. China has taken that crown. Now the U.S. is facing stiff competition. And because of this he's turning to industrial policy. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-31/biden-jobs-plan-would-be-a-new-kind-of-u-s-industrial-policysref=R8NfLgwS https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-31/biden-jobs-plan-would-be-a-new-kind-of-u-s-industrial-policysref=R8NfLgwS"
X Link 2021-04-05T20:28Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"9/In sum: * FDR had to deal with a Depression. * Biden instead has to deal with a productivity slowdown and competition from China. * Biden has much better data at his command. This means Bidenomics won't be quite like the New Deal. (end) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-01/biden-and-fdr-tackled-economic-renewal-with-different-toolssref=R8NfLgwS https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-01/biden-and-fdr-tackled-economic-renewal-with-different-toolssref=R8NfLgwS"
X Link 2021-04-05T20:33Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"Here's a take: Speculative frenzies in cryptocurrencies are actually good because they reallocate society's demand for speculation to assets whose price is not linked to the allocation of real capital investment"
X Link 2021-04-16T16:38Z 335.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Were people always this mad about stuff all the time before Twitter"
X Link 2021-04-17T04:36Z 355.5K followers, [---] engagements

"1/One thing I think the coup attempt of 1/6 did besides galvanize institutional awareness of a rightist threat was to expose how militarily weak the rightists are"
X Link 2021-04-17T19:12Z 337.2K followers, [---] engagements

"Things everyone on the political Right apparently believes now: [--]. Derek Chauvin is innocent [--]. The coup attempt of 1/6 was just a peaceful protest [--]. Widespread voter fraud cost Trump the election [--]. Immigration represents a Great Replacement"
X Link 2021-04-21T02:24Z 335.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@jamescham No love for World of Warcraft"
X Link 2021-04-21T18:48Z 336.8K followers, [--] engagements

"This is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard Tucker Carlson say and he says a lot of dumb things. Really dude The Immigration Act of [----] You couldn't have just gone with Pearl Harbor or 9/11 Tucker: Really The worst attack on our democracy in a [---] years How about the immigration act of [----] https://t.co/ibftJ7ofnE Tucker: Really The worst attack on our democracy in a [---] years How about the immigration act of [----] https://t.co/ibftJ7ofnE"
X Link 2021-04-30T06:54Z 336.8K followers, [---] engagements

"Why is Biden doing a child allowance industrial policy scientific research spending and infrastructure The answers lie in deep economic theory. (Subscribers only.) https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-deep-economic-theory-of-bidenomics https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-deep-economic-theory-of-bidenomics"
X Link 2021-04-30T14:00Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"I paywalled this post for a very rational reason: It was the end of the week and I'm sticking to my policy of writing one paywalled post a week https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-deep-economic-theory-of-bidenomics https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-deep-economic-theory-of-bidenomics"
X Link 2021-04-30T17:48Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"Good that folks are recognizing this I do think though that Bidenomics isn't just a reversal of Reaganomics; it's a partially orthogonal new program that deals with issues Reaganomics didn't even think about. [--] years ago Ronald Reagan and Paul Volcker oversaw a root-and-branch restructuring of the U.S. economy. Today Joe Biden and Jerome Powell are trying to do the same thing only in reverse (via @RichMiller28) https://t.co/xpbl8KWEwf [--] years ago Ronald Reagan and Paul Volcker oversaw a root-and-branch restructuring of the U.S. economy. Today Joe Biden and Jerome Powell are trying to do the"
X Link 2021-05-02T17:11Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"On international tests American kids score very well in reading and very badly at math. Why My hypothesis: We de-emphasize math because we treat it as an IQ test instead of a skill that anyone can learn"
X Link 2021-05-04T22:17Z 335.3K followers, [----] engagements

"I had never encountered antisemitism in America until Twitter came along. Then I started encountering it regularly. We don't think enough about how Twitter puts each person in direct contact with the people who hate them. 75% of U.S. Jews say there is more anti-Semitism in the U.S. today than there was five years ago. Just 5% say there is less and 19% perceive little or no change saying there is about the same amount as there was five years ago. https://t.co/pFPLbIKI6K https://t.co/N7GhXMGJ5n 75% of U.S. Jews say there is more anti-Semitism in the U.S. today than there was five years ago."
X Link 2021-05-11T17:34Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements

"I guess there hasn't been any good sci-fi written in the last three years since when I asked everyone ignored the question and started naming stuff that was written in 1974-2016"
X Link 2021-06-06T01:52Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Look folks.Just because ProPublica came out with a report where they redefined unrealized capital gains as "income" does not mean that suddenly the situation in America has changed and we need to tax unrealized gains as income"
X Link 2021-06-09T04:50Z 336.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Yeah dude the Left looooooves BlackRock so muchπŸ™„ Blackrock is pursuing an investment strategy that will make it harder for young Americans to own homes. The Left will ignore this because Blackrock has committed to "racial audits" and other diversity BS. Blackrock is pursuing an investment strategy that will make it harder for young Americans to own homes. The Left will ignore this because Blackrock has committed to "racial audits" and other diversity BS"
X Link 2021-06-09T16:23Z 335.7K followers, [---] engagements

"Biden and Merkel inspire high confidence in developed countries while Xi and Putin get lower marks"
X Link 2021-06-11T17:27Z 335.3K followers, [--] engagements

"Of all developed countries the U.S. is the least popular in New Zealand with Australia also ambivalent"
X Link 2021-06-11T17:29Z 336.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@mattbeane @tamaybes @mattsclancy I did"
X Link 2021-06-19T16:04Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"How did finance decide to apply the name "technical analysis" to the least technical of all methods of stock analysis No. Don't tell me I already know. It's just silly"
X Link 2021-06-29T08:28Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"The New Deal didn't come into its full power til the 60s. Reaganomics reached the height of its power under Clinton. Similarly Biden may be seeding the ground for a long-lasting shift toward more government investment. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-takes-on-government-investment https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/bidenomics-takes-on-government-investment"
X Link 2021-06-30T14:00Z 337.2K followers, [--] engagements

"The "cell phones cause brain cancer" theory is back https://www.ktvu.com/news/new-uc-berkeley-study-draws-strong-link-between-cell-phone-use-and-cancer https://www.ktvu.com/news/new-uc-berkeley-study-draws-strong-link-between-cell-phone-use-and-cancer"
X Link 2021-07-07T13:43Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@TomChivers Thanks Tom"
X Link 2021-07-14T08:46Z 358.8K followers, [--] engagements

"One of the most remarkable economic divergences in the world. In [----] Haiti was as rich as the Dominican Republic. In [----] Haiti was POORER than it was in [----] while the D.R.'s GDP had increased by a factor of TEN. These countries are two halves of the SAME ISLAND"
X Link 2021-07-15T18:09Z 337.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Leftist Twitter: Another policy failure what a contemptible country AMERICAN UNEXCEPTIONALISM Everyone else: Oh hey cool Rihanna is now officially a billionaire https://t.co/EUrJML3zfG #SelfMadeWomen https://t.co/sBprKDDeMZ Rihanna is now officially a billionaire https://t.co/EUrJML3zfG #SelfMadeWomen https://t.co/sBprKDDeMZ"
X Link 2021-08-04T20:17Z 335.4K followers, [---] engagements

"The fact that Republicans are willing to spend money cleaning up lead pipes and switching to electric cars should not be ignored. Bidenomics is going to outlive Biden. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/score-2-for-bidenomics https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/score-2-for-bidenomics"
X Link 2021-08-11T14:00Z 336.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Sorry but buying and holding real estate is a financial decision that comes with risk. You don't get outsized returns without accepting outsized risk. I'm a landlord with [--] properties. We're suffering during Biden's eviction ban too and no one is helping. https://t.co/orq9Sd5gRS I'm a landlord with [--] properties. We're suffering during Biden's eviction ban too and no one is helping. https://t.co/orq9Sd5gRS"
X Link 2021-08-18T05:39Z 336.8K followers, [----] engagements

""Im highly suspicious of the practice of epistemic enclosure of using social consensus to delineate the boundaries of fields of inquiry and to assign each bounded region to a single club of human beings." https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/epistemic-trespassing-or-epistemic https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/epistemic-trespassing-or-epistemic"
X Link 2021-08-24T22:26Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Interesting fact: New Zealand HK Singapore and the UK actually pay more per mile of train than we do"
X Link 2021-08-29T21:46Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@HeerJeet People choose their identity but they need something to coordinate around"
X Link 2021-08-31T23:18Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"Police won't be abolished but I do think some departments will be replaced en masse. https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/571739-entire-police-department-resigns-in-missouri https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/571739-entire-police-department-resigns-in-missouri"
X Link 2021-09-11T21:45Z 332.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Olympic gold medals have been made of gold-plated silver since [----]. The official policy is for the medals to be made of at least 92% silver. https://www.visitcos.com/blog/seven-things-you-didnt-know-about-olympic-medals/ #Olympic sailing champion Xu Lijia said on Weibo that her London Olympic gold medal has oxidized. Experts said the medal was made of silver and its surface plated with gold so it would oxidize easily. https://t.co/7xO23QNAb7 https://www.visitcos.com/blog/seven-things-you-didnt-know-about-olympic-medals/ #Olympic sailing champion Xu Lijia said on Weibo that her London Olympic"
X Link 2021-09-12T07:13Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"In honor of Evergrande it is once again time for me to post the picture I post whenever I see the start of a financial crisis:"
X Link 2021-09-15T18:07Z 358.6K followers, [--] engagements

"Facebook Messenger censors the name of the company and we can't figure out why http://Compound.Finance http://Compound.Finance"
X Link 2021-09-27T16:53Z 337K followers, [--] engagements

"This is exactly right. If I were making the BBB bill it would just be climate stuff universal cash benefits and investment in housing. The fact that it's "a grab bag of popular things.done only partway" is a bit disappointing TBH. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/30/memo-democrats-do-fewer-things-better-rather-than-bunch-things-poorly/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/30/memo-democrats-do-fewer-things-better-rather-than-bunch-things-poorly/"
X Link 2021-10-01T18:07Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"Oh one great thing about universal cash benefits is that they reduce the amount that the Dems have to fight over targeted in-kind benefits -- health care vs. housing vs. child care etc. Just give people the CASH and let them spend it as they see fit. This is exactly right. If I were making the BBB bill it would just be climate stuff universal cash benefits and investment in housing. The fact that it's "a grab bag of popular things.done only partway" is a bit disappointing TBH. https://t.co/JHdxzhLD72 This is exactly right. If I were making the BBB bill it would just be climate stuff universal"
X Link 2021-10-01T18:33Z 337K followers, [--] engagements

"Americans just don't seem to care as much as I do about climate change research infrastructure or universal cash benefits. That means the "centrists" have a good shot at gutting these crucial parts of Biden's agenda. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-the-build-back-better-negotiations https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-the-build-back-better-negotiations"
X Link 2021-10-03T20:52Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"Amazing burst of technological progress here: Only [--] vaccine program in history (Covid) went from pathogen identification to success in [--] year. This week one vs malaria got the green light by @WHO after none for [---] years An mRNA πŸ’‰ vs HIV [--] years later starts a major trial next month graph by @MaxCRoser @OurWorldInData https://t.co/UpGZBEEZfU Only [--] vaccine program in history (Covid) went from pathogen identification to success in [--] year. This week one vs malaria got the green light by @WHO after none for [---] years An mRNA πŸ’‰ vs HIV [--] years later starts a major trial next month graph by"
X Link 2021-10-15T03:54Z 359K followers, [---] engagements

"@Victor_M_Short @besttrousers @DTCochrane @TMMTleonardo @NiallGlynn @JamesRobichaux @moneyontheleft Not really no"
X Link 2021-10-22T19:33Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@DTCochrane @Victor_M_Short @besttrousers @TMMTleonardo @NiallGlynn @JamesRobichaux @moneyontheleft Utility maximization but of an imaginary representative agent not of real-world individual agents"
X Link 2021-10-22T19:44Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"Most of the stuff you believe in is wrong. But you'll never realize it. Instead you'll find new mostly-wrong things to believe in and you'll barely even be able to remember believing the stuff you used to believe"
X Link 2021-11-05T07:10Z 359K followers, [---] engagements

"America much like a petrostate has become politically and socially addicted to low gas prices. The only way to break the addiction is to rapidly transition to electric cars. you can say that "higher gas prices" is not a politically winning message and I agree but if you earnestly think that fossil fuels should be curbed yet the price of gas must be low or else you hate the working class -- you're just setting yourself up for failure. you can say that "higher gas prices" is not a politically winning message and I agree but if you earnestly think that fossil fuels should be curbed yet the price"
X Link 2021-11-13T18:22Z 359.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Wait Ernie wasn't Asian At only [--] years old Ji-Young is making history as the first Asian American muppet in the Sesame Street canon. https://t.co/NkSMlNJ3Ul https://t.co/klKYWK9btj At only [--] years old Ji-Young is making history as the first Asian American muppet in the Sesame Street canon. https://t.co/NkSMlNJ3Ul https://t.co/klKYWK9btj"
X Link 2021-11-15T19:34Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Fortunately I have not been burgled. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-s-pandemic-surge-in-burglaries-is-16633265.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-s-pandemic-surge-in-burglaries-is-16633265.php"
X Link 2021-11-20T02:05Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"The U.S. economy is actually kicking butt Quite a revision here from Morgan Stanley "Incorporating the wealth of data today including GDP revisions to 3Q21 more robust spending strong inventories strong durable goods orders and upside in new home sales we significantly raise our Q4 GDP tracking from 3.0% to 8.7%" Quite a revision here from Morgan Stanley "Incorporating the wealth of data today including GDP revisions to 3Q21 more robust spending strong inventories strong durable goods orders and upside in new home sales we significantly raise our Q4 GDP tracking from 3.0% to 8.7%""
X Link 2021-11-24T19:15Z 359K followers, [---] engagements

"@CitizenHaight I'll take it under advisement but so far you're the first to complain"
X Link 2021-11-29T09:07Z 337K followers, [--] engagements

"Chinese food: βœ… Movie: βœ… Merry Christmas everyone"
X Link 2021-12-25T03:28Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@alexxdouglas @MaxJerneck @GeorgeSelgin I just don't take the claim as fact. I don't disbelieve it. And I don't really care"
X Link 2022-01-02T22:39Z 359K followers, [--] engagements

"@alexxdouglas @MaxJerneck @GeorgeSelgin She wrote the Twitter thread as I wrote. Let's not play these little games. Stay focused on the substance"
X Link 2022-01-02T22:43Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@alexxdouglas https://apricitas.substack.com/p/are-rising-corporate-profit-margins https://apricitas.substack.com/p/are-rising-corporate-profit-margins"
X Link 2022-01-02T22:47Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"Annuity salespeople going with the guerrilla marketing strategy"
X Link 2022-01-04T21:43Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"And some people are responding that I should just say "low-wage" vs. "high-wage" but this is absolutely wrong. I'm talking about PEOPLE not jobs. A PhD student waiting tables is low-wage but not "low-skill". So that isn't going to work"
X Link 2022-01-05T21:41Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Three graphs from @johnauthers showing that #TeamTheFedWillHandleIt is right: [--]. People expect the Fed to tighten [--]. They expect this to reduce inflation [--]. They do NOT expect this to cause a recession https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-04/inflation-optimism-and-political-negativity-confront-markets-in-2022sref=R8NfLgwS https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-04/inflation-optimism-and-political-negativity-confront-markets-in-2022sref=R8NfLgwS"
X Link 2022-01-08T21:35Z 335.3K followers, [--] engagements

"Americans -- including Black Americans -- like "affirmative action" a lot but really don't like "racial preferences" in college admissions. What gives"
X Link 2022-01-26T10:22Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@popedum So anyway young college-educated Americans are assimilated into a unified American elite by being taught to value diversity and by being inculcated with awareness of privilege"
X Link 2022-01-29T09:06Z 355.8K followers, [--] engagements

"@popedum What of those who are neither White nor Black The members of these groups who are part of the college-educated elite learn a close analogue to the noblesse oblige of White privilege. https://blogs.brown.edu/ethn-1650b-s01-2018-fall/asian-americans-and-the-legacy-of-antiblackness/ https://blogs.brown.edu/ethn-1650b-s01-2018-fall/asian-americans-and-the-legacy-of-antiblackness/"
X Link 2022-01-29T09:09Z 355.8K followers, [--] engagements

"Inflation expectations have been contained. Here we see: * 3-year survey expectations * 5-year market expectations Both tell the same story: People now think inflation will persist above target but will not accelerate. The Fed is doing its job"
X Link 2022-01-31T20:42Z 335.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Remember MMT is not a theory of how the economy works; it is a set of memes to encourage the government to borrow more money. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/mmt-and-the-meme-ification-of-macro https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/mmt-and-the-meme-ification-of-macro"
X Link 2022-02-06T21:51Z 332.8K followers, [---] engagements

"4/ Wojak memes"
X Link 2022-02-09T08:05Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements

"5/ Cheems memes"
X Link 2022-02-09T08:07Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Every day tweets saying "unions are good companies are evil and steal from the workers" get like [----] retweets and yet union membership is still falling https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-20/u-s-union-membership-falls-despite-high-profile-labor-actions https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-20/u-s-union-membership-falls-despite-high-profile-labor-actions"
X Link 2022-02-11T08:02Z 333.9K followers, [---] engagements

"A map of countries Britain has invaded. Note that Britain and Mongolia who built the two biggest empires ever known have never invaded each other"
X Link 2022-02-12T05:56Z 336.7K followers, [----] engagements

"3. Historians are far more powerful than economists and their theories gain wide acceptance with far less solid evidence to back them up"
X Link 2022-02-17T20:12Z 358.9K followers, [----] engagements

"8. America is not a land of brash rude honest people but rather a highly intricate and polite society with dense web of social taboos euphemisms politeness customs and unwritten rules"
X Link 2022-02-17T20:22Z 336.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@frankjdistefano @JasonLHughes Try to do this in practice. Try to find a concrete measurement of the things you're talking about instead of just waving your hands and saying "look at this episode and this other episode". You will see how insanely hard it is"
X Link 2022-02-18T21:58Z 338.1K followers, [--] engagements

"@AthertonKD @MikeRTrice I tagged you so you and your gang woild show up and provide real-time examples of the kind of attitudes al-Assil described in his thread. Thank you for doing that"
X Link 2022-03-01T19:44Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@thepatriotfiles Kashmir blackout citizenship crackdown"
X Link 2022-03-27T03:23Z 358.6K followers, [--] engagements

"I wish we could just blame the dastardly McConnell and Manchin for screwing over the American people. But polls consistently found that a strong majority of Americans didn't want the child tax credit to be permanent. We did this to ourselves folks. https://www.politico.com/f/id=0000017a-c756-d4d6-ad7f-e75623c00000&nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000014e-f115-dd93-ad7f-f91513e50001&nlid=630318"
X Link 2022-03-31T10:14Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"Pakistani general. General Bajwa: We share a long history of excellent relationship with the United States which remains our largest export market; UK/EU vital to our national interests; Russian aggression on Ukraine is very unfortunate this is a huge tragedy. This is huge. https://t.co/4bufYu45Lc General Bajwa: We share a long history of excellent relationship with the United States which remains our largest export market; UK/EU vital to our national interests; Russian aggression on Ukraine is very unfortunate this is a huge tragedy. This is huge. https://t.co/4bufYu45Lc"
X Link 2022-04-02T08:14Z 337.6K followers, [---] engagements

"@davidjmadden What's wrong with this building Looks quite efficient to me. And cool-looking as well"
X Link 2022-04-05T18:23Z 336.8K followers, [----] engagements

"@bobgourley It's far far far more energy per transaction though. And no economy of scale that would decrease energy intensity as scale increased (in fact the opposite)"
X Link 2022-04-14T03:41Z 358.9K followers, [--] engagements

"I don't know or care what Lib of TikTok is I just want the child tax credit back"
X Link 2022-04-20T18:19Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

"To everyone saying they'll leave Twitter now that Musk is in charge: Did you think Jack Dorsey was on your side Or did you think Twitter's management was just so fragmented and ineffec that no one was really in charge"
X Link 2022-04-26T17:06Z 359.3K followers, [---] engagements

"I wrote a post trying to explain the four main theories of Bitcoin's financial value. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/what-kind-of-financial-asset-is-bitcoin https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/what-kind-of-financial-asset-is-bitcoin"
X Link 2022-05-14T07:46Z 358.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Bitcoin's dominance of the crypto space is trending downward as it is slowly eclipsed by newer cryptocurrencies. But its absolute value has still generally risen over time and could continue to rise even as it obsolesces. The four main theories of Bitcoin: [--]. The future of money [--]. A worthless fad [--]. Digital gold [--]. Just another tech stock .and I added another little theory of my own at the end. https://t.co/cTmVqpmylS The four main theories of Bitcoin: [--]. The future of money [--]. A worthless fad [--]. Digital gold [--]. Just another tech stock .and I added another little theory of my own at the end."
X Link 2022-05-15T07:41Z 359K followers, [--] engagements

"@MrKapitalist Here's oil prices the core CPI and the M2 money supply all normalized to be [---] in [----]. I just don't see a lot of action there"
X Link 2022-06-11T07:12Z 336.7K followers, [--] engagements

"A lot of people have asked me to write about Central Bank Digital Currencies and whether I think they're a good idea. After looking closely at the issue I conclude that they're essentially useless -- at least for the U.S. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/central-bank-digital-currencies-are https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/central-bank-digital-currencies-are"
X Link 2022-06-24T07:21Z 337.1K followers, [--] engagements

"Never spend more than $700 (in 2022$) on a laptop"
X Link 2022-06-26T19:24Z 332.6K followers, [---] engagements

"@Alesis_Turner Some liberals try to warn white progressives but white progressives increasingly refuse to listen to any criticism that comes from a liberal much less a moderate centrist or conservative"
X Link 2022-07-02T18:05Z 332.6K followers, [--] engagements

"That'll get em My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril. Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost youre paying for the product. And do it now. My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril. Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost youre paying for the product. And do it now"
X Link 2022-07-03T02:32Z 332.1K followers, [---] engagements

"America beats Europe on median income no matter how you slice the data. But Europe has more leisure better health and safety and less poverty. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/americans-are-generally-richer-than https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/americans-are-generally-richer-than"
X Link 2022-07-07T11:30Z 338.6K followers, [---] engagements

"China's leaders are frantically trying to adjust the policies that led the country into its current economic slump. But the reversals are only partial and so far they're not having much success. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/china-is-flailing https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/china-is-flailing"
X Link 2022-07-16T03:39Z 336.7K followers, [---] engagements

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