#  @jack_g_nicastro Jack Nicastro Jack Nicastro posts on X about tariffs, donald trump, ai, money the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1909259292/interactions)  - [--] Week [-----] -71% - [--] Month [------] -9.30% - [--] Months [-------] +236% - [--] Year [---------] +1,536% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1909259292/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] -55% - [--] Month [--] +35% - [--] Months [---] +271% - [--] Year [---] +245% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1909259292/followers)  - [--] Week [-----] +0.71% - [--] Month [-----] +0.71% - [--] Months [-----] +26% - [--] Year [-----] +119% ### CreatorRank: undefined [#](/creator/twitter::1909259292/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [countries](/list/countries) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [stocks](/list/stocks) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [nfl](/list/nfl) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [us election](/list/us-election) **Social topic influence** [tariffs](/topic/tariffs), [donald trump](/topic/donald-trump), [ai](/topic/ai), [money](/topic/money), [republicans](/topic/republicans), [education](/topic/education), [strike](/topic/strike), [to the](/topic/to-the), [inflation](/topic/inflation), [new york city](/topic/new-york-city) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@reason](/creator/undefined) [@veroderugy](/creator/undefined) [@conservamuse](/creator/undefined) [@dominicjpino](/creator/undefined) [@ericboehm87](/creator/undefined) [@pgunigantiat](/creator/undefined) [@charlescwcooke](/creator/undefined) [@greenplusane](/creator/undefined) [@drsamuelgregg](/creator/undefined) [@patrickc1995](/creator/undefined) [@danieldimartino](/creator/undefined) [@robbysoave](/creator/undefined) [@jackgnicastro](/creator/undefined) [@polymarket](/creator/undefined) [@averyfjames](/creator/undefined) [@kmanguward](/creator/undefined) [@petercearle](/creator/undefined) [@siaamerica](/creator/undefined) [@gailaslater](/creator/undefined) [@mex_libertario](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)](/topic/tesla) [Ferguson plc (FERG)](/topic/$ferg) [Noble Corporation (NE)](/topic/$ne) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "DOJs antitrust chief resigns amid accusations of corruption among top officials Gail Slater resigned from her position as Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division after butting heads with Attorney General Pam Bondi over merger enforcement" [X Link](https://reason.com/2026/02/13/dojs-antitrust-chief-resigns-amid-accusations-of-corruption-among-top-officials/) 2026-02-13T16:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "California bucks Alaska and Missouri by rejecting minimum wage ballot initiative. Californians have voted against increasing the states minimum wage despite raising that of fast food workers to $20 per hour with Assembly Bill [----] in" [X Link](https://reason.com/2024/11/20/california-bucks-alaska-and-missouri-by-rejecting-minimum-wage-ballot-initiative/) 2024-11-20T15:31Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Over [----] economists agree: Trump's tariffs are terrible Reason interviewed five signatories of the Anti-Tariff Declaration to learn why they oppose tariffs and support free trade" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/04/24/over-1500-economists-agree-trumps-tariffs-are-terrible/) 2025-04-24T18:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "These [--] terrible tech bills are on Gavin Newsoms desk One limits childrens access to mental health services the other mandates a black box warning and both undermine users digital privacy" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/09/22/these-2-terrible-tech-bills-are-on-gavin-newsoms-desk/) 2025-09-22T20:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Amazon is being forced to pay $2.5 billion for making it easier to sign up for Prime The Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with Amazon in its yearslong lawsuit against the company for "dark patterns" in Prime sign up and cancellation" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/09/26/amazon-is-being-forced-to-pay-2-5-billion-for-making-it-easier-to-sign-up-for-prime/) 2025-09-26T16:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Washington worsened Hurricane Helenes destruction At least [---] people have died as a result of Hurricane Helene as of Monday reports CNN. While the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is busy" [X Link](https://reason.com/2024/09/30/washington-worsened-hurricane-helenes-destruction/) 2024-09-30T22:19Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "The DOJ killed the JetBlue-Spirit merger. Spirit Airlines could now go under. The DOJ blocked Spirit's merger with JetBlue in [----] over concerns about market consolidation but markets also consolidate when failing firms go bankrupt and exit" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/08/15/spirit-airlines-may-go-out-of-business-because-of-the-justice-department/) 2025-08-15T14:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "How Milton Friedman can help us get through Hurricane Milton To give storm victims the best chance at recovery let local knowledge and markets guide decisions" [X Link](https://reason.com/2024/10/08/how-milton-friedman-can-help-us-get-through-hurricane-milton/) 2024-10-08T14:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "The White House says Trumps tariffs have raised $8 trillion in revenue. Thats not even close. The administration attributed the $8 trillion figure both to new investment and to tariff revenue. So which is it Neither" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/09/02/the-white-house-says-trumps-tariffs-have-raised-8-trillion-in-revenue-thats-not-even-close) 2025-09-03T18:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Second Circuit rules intent to racially balance NY high schools is unconstitutional A federal judge ruled Tuesday that an alternative admissions program to New York Citys competitive high schools is unconstitutional if it intended to" [X Link](https://reason.com/2024/09/26/second-circuit-rules-intent-to-racially-balance-ny-high-schools-is-unconstitutional/) 2024-09-27T15:26Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "FEMA should stick to disaster recovery and quit social engineering The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has received praise and scorn for its responses to Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Regardless of FEMAs" [X Link](https://reason.com/2024/10/10/fema-should-stick-to-disaster-recovery-and-quit-social-engineering/) 2024-10-10T20:17Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Washington sued for racially conscious homeownership program Washingtons Covenant Homeownership Program explicitly bars certain applicants from eligibility on the basis of race" [X Link](https://reason.com/2024/11/01/washington-sued-for-racially-conscious-homeownership-program/) 2024-11-01T23:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "European Commission fines Meta for serving consumers If advertisers dont want to give data to Facebook Marketplace they shouldnt advertise on Facebook" [X Link](https://reason.com/2024/11/18/european-commission-fines-meta-for-serving-consumers/) 2024-11-18T17:27Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "China goes tit for tat over U.S. chip bans On Tuesday China banned the export of gallium germanium antimony and industrial diamonds to the U.S. in response to U.S. trade and investment" [X Link](https://reason.com/2024/12/04/china-goes-tit-for-tat-over-u-s-chip-bans/) 2024-12-04T16:17Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Trumps tariffs have already hurt the economyand the pain is only beginning The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development projects that the impact of Trump's tariffs could get worse" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/09/24/trumps-tariffs-have-already-hurt-the-economy-and-the-pain-is-only-beginning/) 2025-09-27T16:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The feds wont let you use these cheap Chinese cellphones American cellphone service providers dont carry Huawei. Blame Donald Trump and Joe Biden" [X Link](https://reason.com/2024/09/10/the-feds-wont-let-you-use-these-cheap-chinese-cellphones/) 2024-09-10T14:48Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "The Federal Reserve cuts rates with inflation still hot. Is political pressure winning When the Federal Reserve is concerned about inflation it increases the federal funds rate. Despite expressing such concerns the Fed lowered it" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/09/18/the-federal-reserve-cuts-rates-with-inflation-still-hot-is-political-pressure-winning/) 2025-09-18T17:05Z [----] followers, 22.9K engagements "Congress fails the budget test again In theory Congress is supposed to pass [--] appropriations bills by the end of each fiscal year to fund discretionary spending on defense as well as" [X Link](https://reason.com/2024/09/23/congress-fails-the-budget-test-again/) 2024-09-24T12:10Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Is Gmail blocking Republican fundraising emails There is no hard evidence of Gmail discriminating against Republican campaign emails but thats no matter to the FTC Chairman" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/09/05/donald-trumps-antitrust-enforcers-continue-their-harassment-campaign-against-google/) 2025-09-07T23:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "A government shutdown isn't really a shutdown. Most federal employees are still working and will get paid. The federal government continues paying its biggest bills and hundreds of thousands of federal employees get a belatedly paid vacation" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/10/01/a-government-shutdown-isnt-really-a-shutdown-most-federal-employees-are-still-working-and-will-get-paid/) 2025-10-01T20:47Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Jet Blue and American Airlines guilty in antitrust suit despite no clear harm to consumers American Airlines and Jet Blue violated the Sherman Antitrust Act of [----] a federal appeals court said by sharing revenue and coordinating service for" [X Link](https://reason.com/2024/11/13/jet-blue-and-american-airlines-guilty-in-antitrust-suit-despite-no-clear-harm-to-consumers/) 2024-11-13T15:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "How post-arrest DNA swabs threaten innocent peoples privacy Most states collect DNA from felony arrestees pretrial. They should need a warrant to do so" [X Link](https://reason.com/2024/08/28/how-post-arrest-dna-swabs-threaten-innocent-peoples-privacy/) 2024-08-29T05:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "To get through the election use Ozempic The two major party candidates provide ample reasons for pessimism about the future of the republic. If youre a fanatical partisan on the left or right" [X Link](https://reason.com/2024/10/30/to-get-through-the-election-use-ozempic/) 2024-10-30T19:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "J.D. Vance says [--] percent of young liberals justify political violence. Here's what the data really say. Vance cherry-picks data from a YouGov poll to paint an inordinately bleak picture of the state of American political discourse" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/09/16/j-d-vance-says-26-percent-of-young-liberals-justify-political-violence-heres-what-the-data-really-say/) 2025-09-16T17:46Z [----] followers, 13.4K engagements "Trump and Biden tried to break up Google. Now theyve both failed. A federal judge rejected the proposed structural remedies in the Justice Department's Google search engine monopoly case" [X Link](https://www.newsweek.com/) 2025-09-05T12:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "No these new studies don't show an AI jobs apocalypse is coming Economists at the Federal Reserve and Stanford University recently published studies investigating how AI affects employment in different industries" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/08/27/no-these-new-studies-dont-show-an-ai-jobs-apocalypse-is-coming/) 2025-08-27T20:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Federal Reserve rightly rejects Trump's calls for lower interest rates Maintaining the elevated federal funds rate makes borrowing more expensive but the alternative is artificially cheap money malinvestment and inflation" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/07/30/the-federal-reserve-rightly-rejects-trumps-calls-for-lower-interest-rates/) 2025-07-30T20:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "DeSantis and Hawley are borrowing Bidens playbook to regulate AI The Florida governor and Missouri senator might be MAGA Republicans but their opposition to AI sounds an awful lot like Democrats" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/09/10/florida-gov-ron-desantis-and-missouri-sen-josh-hawley-are-borrowing-joe-bidens-playbook-to-regulate-ai/) 2025-09-10T19:31Z [----] followers, 16K engagements "Is free speech doomed in Hong Kong Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam were convicted last week by Hong Kong District Court Judge Kwok Wai-Kin on charges of conspiracy to publish and reproduce" [X Link](https://reason.com/2024/09/04/is-free-speech-doomed-in-hong-kong/) 2024-09-04T02:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Food and Drug Administration defends refusal to approve flavored e-cigarettes before the Supreme Court The FDAs regulations are burdensome and unnecessary to address the inflated high school vaping epidemic" [X Link](https://reason.com/2024/12/03/food-and-drug-administration-defends-refusal-to-approve-flavored-e-cigarettes-before-the-supreme-court/) 2024-12-03T17:22Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Instagram announces AI age-verification on new teen accounts Instagram announced that AI age verification will be used to determine which users are teens. The goal is to place 13- to 17-year-old users in newly" [X Link](https://reason.com/2024/09/19/instagram-announces-ai-age-verification-on-new-teen-accounts/) 2024-09-19T17:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Trumps new tariff could make building microchips in the U.S. more expensive Trump exempted imported chips from his reciprocal tariffs in April. Now he's threatening them with [---] percent rates" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/09/29/trumps-100-percent-chip-tariff-could-make-it-more-expensive-to-build-more-semiconductors-in-the-u-s/) 2025-09-29T20:46Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Spot on @DominicJPino: "Don't cut taxes replace consumer choice with government mandates and protect a handful of unionized jobs while passing on higher prices to everyone else we already have a political party that stands for that agenda. . ."" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1678866007438381057) 2023-07-11T20:37Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Pithy definition of the Knowledge Problem by @corymassimino for @Econlib: "Achieving efficacy in the face of uncertainty or more accurately continually telling the efficacious from the inefficacious and trying to adjust accordingly."" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1688973291959029760) 2023-08-08T17:59Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Gut-busting piece from @charlescwcooke: "If in the course of my daily life I were to encounter a person wandering around in public muttering about 'Dark Brandon' or the 'Trump Train' Id move my family to safety and then call the police."" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1689361312030003200) 2023-08-09T19:41Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Right on @charlescwcooke. "As one cannot have a culture of ordered liberty without protecting the public from violence one cannot have a culture of ownership without protecting the public from theft."" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1691281337791950848) 2023-08-15T02:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Fall quarter lineup: Greek and Roman Philosophy Ethics and the Arts Advanced Topics in Econometrics Environmental Science Excited to learn" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1701418222409470451) 2023-09-12T02:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@GreenPlusAnE "Plato (Ancient Greek: Pltn 'wide broad-shouldered')":" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1731743566370656370) 2023-12-04T18:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Just wrote the second draft of a script on black capital markets in Rocky I. . . I love my life" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1733538121726226615) 2023-12-09T17:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements ""Market dynamics reward well-run businesses. In interfering Trudeau is rewarding and preserving inefficiency." Good work by my friends April Liu and Ethan Yang:" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1737559270390984840) 2023-12-20T19:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Yes "To the extent that classical liberalism today can show that love of the true the good and the beautiful can go hand-in-hand with the wealth liberties and complexities associated with markets the power and attraction of its ideas will surely grow." @DrSamuelGregg" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1773028620560122160) 2024-03-27T16:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "The Intuit lobby must be stopped" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1779627367847067765) 2024-04-14T21:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@PatrickC1995 Thanks Patrick. If that's even close to being true it's because I have incredible philosophy professors and peers at @dartmouth" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1793725742406385708) 2024-05-23T19:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@DanielDiMartino Felcidades Tu madre tiene el mejor da por un cumpleaos 😉" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1814336060559700096) 2024-07-19T16:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@JD_Tuccille 🎯 "As illiberalism rises across the political spectrum Democrats are leapfrogging authoritarianism to embrace a soft totalitarianism enforced by unofficial pressure and foreign allies subject to minimal restraints on their power." https://reason.com/2024/09/04/the-soft-totalitarianism-of-the-political-class/ https://reason.com/2024/09/04/the-soft-totalitarianism-of-the-political-class/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1831325543494468029) 2024-09-04T13:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Just as Palestinian civilians are not morally responsible for Hamas' atrocities American firms and citizens aren't responsible for the behavior of the state and its agents. Dont blame American companies for the fact that their tax dollars help fund military aid for Israel. https://t.co/iPClsSLaZJ Dont blame American companies for the fact that their tax dollars help fund military aid for Israel. https://t.co/iPClsSLaZJ" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1831712208897589752) 2024-09-05T15:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@veroderugy 🏹🎯: "Permitting reform isn't just bureaucratic minutiae; it's a critical deeply moral issue for anyone who believes in free markets individual liberty and economic progress." https://reason.com/2024/09/05/the-governments-permitting-regime-is-choking-the-economy/ https://reason.com/2024/09/05/the-governments-permitting-regime-is-choking-the-economy/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1831714718844907929) 2024-09-05T15:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "The Dean: My dear fellow who will let you Howard Roark: Thats not the point. The point is who will stop me Ayn Rand The Fountainhead (1943) More permissionless innovation please" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1831714720417509452) 2024-09-05T15:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@veroderugy debunks protectionist sophistry: "Overlooked by those claiming that 19th-century tariffs made America great is that the country's biggest import at the time was immigrants who incurred no tariffs." Friends @PhilWMagness & @D_A_Irwin cited https://reason.com/2024/09/19/no-trump-style-tariffs-do-not-grow-the-economy/ https://reason.com/2024/09/19/no-trump-style-tariffs-do-not-grow-the-economy/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1836821295625031784) 2024-09-19T17:34Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "If the European Commission would stop fining our firms we'd have even more capital to invest in R&D. The US is the future Europe is the past https://t.co/03NFazGzkH The US is the future Europe is the past https://t.co/03NFazGzkH" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1837199626455200231) 2024-09-20T18:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "The modern Frederic Bastiat (@DominicJPino) excoriates economic sophists once again "The problem for Cass is not that economists do not consider the costs and benefits of tariffs. It is that they consistently find that the costs outweigh the benefits." Economists understand tariffs just fine. @oren_cass does not. New from me @NRO https://t.co/PSgfJFDAD9 Economists understand tariffs just fine. @oren_cass does not. New from me @NRO https://t.co/PSgfJFDAD9" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1839659207768834285) 2024-09-27T13:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Artificially lowering insurance rates deprives homeowners of the very information that communicates the risk of Hurricane Helene's devastation and displacement. https://reason.com/2024/09/30/washington-worsened-hurricane-helenes-destruction/ https://reason.com/2024/09/30/washington-worsened-hurricane-helenes-destruction/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1840865044390953036) 2024-09-30T21:23Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@robbysoave Her penchant for sadism was known since the pandemic" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1844468271262961999) 2024-10-10T20:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Another banger from @veroderugy: "Entrenched corporate interests shouldn't be rewarded by politicians with handouts at our expense. Neither should individuals singled out for favors by politicians on the campaign trail." https://reason.com/2024/10/24/neither-trump-nor-harris-wants-to-drain-the-swamp-they-want-you-to-join-it/ https://reason.com/2024/10/24/neither-trump-nor-harris-wants-to-drain-the-swamp-they-want-you-to-join-it/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1849472152631754993) 2024-10-24T15:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Don't get fat(ter) this election season from all your stress-eating; dose Ozempic instead Disclaimer: I am *not* sponsored by Novo Nordisk whose owners I'm sure would be horrified by this @reason article. https://reason.com/2024/10/30/to-get-through-the-election-use-ozempic/ https://reason.com/2024/10/30/to-get-through-the-election-use-ozempic/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1851996153912463705) 2024-10-31T14:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "For those stress-eating tonight: https://reason.com/2024/10/30/to-get-through-the-election-use-ozempic/ https://reason.com/2024/10/30/to-get-through-the-election-use-ozempic/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1853955337251901576) 2024-11-06T00:19Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "The median voter demands stable monetary policy 😎 The answer is inflation. People hate it. They don't know how to process it. They don't understand its effects. All parties must put avoiding inflation at the center of all policy choices. The answer is inflation. People hate it. They don't know how to process it. They don't understand its effects. All parties must put avoiding inflation at the center of all policy choices" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1854185066538192916) 2024-11-06T15:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Even if you don't believe taxation is theft civil asset forfeiture undeniably is: https://www.cato.org/legal-briefs/martin-v-fbi# https://www.cato.org/legal-briefs/martin-v-fbi#" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1854578982186054029) 2024-11-07T17:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Go northeast young man. Greenland YIMBY accelerationist (new political orientation just dropped) Greenland YIMBY accelerationist (new political orientation just dropped)" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1855030805854109750) 2024-11-08T23:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@ConservaMuse I love how I didn't even need to say I was channeling you @ConservaMuse" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1855031116874297694) 2024-11-08T23:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Marxist Manichaeism and dialectical materialism aresearching for a word I can use in publicmistaken to say the least. Have you considered the possibility that maybe just maybe Marxist class theory is a historical error is misaligned with actual class interests and is mostly just a veneer for violent bands of crackpots wishing to wage coup d'etats in the name of people they don't represent Have you considered the possibility that maybe just maybe Marxist class theory is a historical error is misaligned with actual class interests and is mostly just a veneer for violent bands of crackpots" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1855034618635751922) 2024-11-08T23:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@veroderugy reminds readers that libertarians are against *all* forms of welfare progressive and regressive alike. "It's fundamentally unfair to force taxpayers to invest in private companies against their will." https://reason.com/2024/11/08/how-donald-trump-and-elon-musk-could-cut-2-trillion-in-government-spending/ https://reason.com/2024/11/08/how-donald-trump-and-elon-musk-could-cut-2-trillion-in-government-spending/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1856019441139511755) 2024-11-11T17:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy Here's an easy one for the Department of Government Efficiency. Afuera The FTC calls the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authoritys $80 million budget prudent and cost-effective." https://t.co/oeuvsnJEmY The FTC calls the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authoritys $80 million budget prudent and cost-effective." https://t.co/oeuvsnJEmY" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1856849803134832753) 2024-11-14T00:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "If you'd like @reason to be able to continue publishing *incredibly* unpopular content like my very own "Abolish Social Security" please consider donating to the magazine of free minds and free markets. (You'll be added to the Nice List 🎅) https://reason.com/donate/rfr=tw001&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=reason_webathon_2024 https://reason.com/donate/rfr=tw001&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=reason_webathon_2024" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1864059309543284852) 2024-12-03T21:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "I share Billy's contempt for polyamory. True love is something like "the marriage of true minds" (Shakespeare) and "the complete fusion of the wills" (Montaigne). If the romantic union is complete it *cannot* be divided between multiple partners. 👩❤👨👩❤👩👨❤👨 The normalization of open relationships/polyamory is both very unhealthy & deeply weird. Slate scolds this person for not feeling A-OK about their daughter being in a throuple with multiple kids. People shouldnt pretend this is normal. Social shaming serves a purpose. The normalization of open relationships/polyamory is both very" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1864369994861064654) 2024-12-04T18:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@veroderugy lucidly explains the connection between fiscal and monetary policy: "Higher inflation leads to higher interest rates which lead to higher debt-service costs which then require more government borrowing or money creation potentially fueling further inflation."" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1880001310348702003) 2025-01-16T21:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Such an amendment is superfluous; the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in [----]. To honor it all levels of government must stop implementing programs that condition eligibility on immutable characteristics. Leveling outcomes is inimical to equality under the law. Today I'm affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: The 28th Amendment is the law of the land guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex. https://t.co/oZtS6Q89zG Today I'm affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1880329322457866334) 2025-01-17T19:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@gildeguerra ending birthright citizenship would "needlessly endanger the advantage we have in internal assimilation and stability." 🎯 https://thedispatch.com/article/birthright-citizenship-trump-implications/ https://thedispatch.com/article/birthright-citizenship-trump-implications/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1881408146754933124) 2025-01-20T18:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements ""The right to free speech doesn't come with exceptionsnot for apps not for ideas not for politicians who think they know better than you."Rand Paul (being absolutely based) https://reason.com/2025/01/21/state-run-tiktok-coming-soon/ https://reason.com/2025/01/21/state-run-tiktok-coming-soon/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1881823497401626739) 2025-01-21T21:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@MacroscopeEcon The public choice explanation for distribution requirements is obvious: Professors from under-enrolled departments lobby for them. What's unclear to me is why administrators cave to these demands. Especially if not doing so means they could compete on price w/ competitor schools" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1885071098355544424) 2025-01-30T21:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@veroderugy 🎯 "If we cheer when a president mostly governs by decree.to impose libertarian-leaning policies we have no principled basis on which to stand to object when the next administration uses.the same unchecked powers to expand government." https://reason.com/2025/03/03/how-would-milton-friedman-do-doge/ https://reason.com/2025/03/03/how-would-milton-friedman-do-doge/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1896681665273229555) 2025-03-03T21:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Competing with the Golden Arches on fries is certainly *a* strategy. .@sweetgreen is launching fries today - explicitly calling out their CLEAN ingredients compared to the 10+ components of McDonalds fries. We ate fries in the 1960s but werent chronically obese. Its about REAL food. https://t.co/GmxwqqAIH0 .@sweetgreen is launching fries today - explicitly calling out their CLEAN ingredients compared to the 10+ components of McDonalds fries. We ate fries in the 1960s but werent chronically obese. Its about REAL food. https://t.co/GmxwqqAIH0" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1897007180437708855) 2025-03-04T19:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Check out my first vertical for @reason 🧡🤍 A full-circle moment for me: I was introduced to libertarianism by ReasonTV a decade ago and now Im on the channel 🥹 More videos to come 🤠 If the government accused you of a crime youd think the First Amendment would at least protect your right to defend yourself. And you'd be right But the Securities and Exchange Commission plays by its own set of rules. Reasons @jack_g_nicastro shares more. https://t.co/Rw6GcEacYF If the government accused you of a crime youd think the First Amendment would at least protect your right to defend yourself. And" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1913021341617234240) 2025-04-18T00:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@jackbutler4815's review of the latest Mission: Impossible movie is erudite and wry (so a Jack Butler review). You should watch the movie in theaters but barring that you should at least read Butler's review: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/mission-impossible-in-cruise-we-trust/ https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/mission-impossible-in-cruise-we-trust/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1927469339461984310) 2025-05-27T20:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@EricBoehm87 🎯 "Trump would have converted Biden's meddling in the affairs of a private company into an official permanent place for the federal government on the board of U.S. Steelwhich is I stress once again a private company." https://reason.com/2025/05/27/nippon-steel-will-finally-get-to-buy-u-s-steel-the-deal-likely-ensures-more-federal-meddling-in-the-future/ https://reason.com/2025/05/27/nippon-steel-will-finally-get-to-buy-u-s-steel-the-deal-likely-ensures-more-federal-meddling-in-the-future/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1934684258964262995) 2025-06-16T18:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@ConservaMuse My brother in Christ not the Red Hot Chili Peppers🙏✝" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1934961184723128702) 2025-06-17T13:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@HughesAlex49068 @ConservaMuse @SamRaus1 @Polymarket Thank you for your dispatches from the Orient Mr. Hughes 🫡" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1934964579907616812) 2025-06-17T13:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@ConservaMuse Oriental has pejorative connotation. Orient is neutral I believe" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1934969749827359096) 2025-06-17T13:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "First time at the White House Reporting for @reason" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1937456068394733723) 2025-06-24T10:21Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "These guys gotta calm down. Ridiculous.Israel unloaded a lot.Thats not what we want. Im not happy about Israel either.President Donald Trump @reason" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1937465733576806574) 2025-06-24T11:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "The SHSAT is essential to New Yorks specialized high schools. @emmma_camp_ reports @ZohranKMamdani would scrutinize the exam for gender and racial bias but the disparate admissions rates are not the result of discrimination. (1/2) https://reason.com/2025/06/26/will-zohran-mamdani-kill-the-best-thing-about-new-york-city-public-schools/ https://reason.com/2025/06/26/will-zohran-mamdani-kill-the-best-thing-about-new-york-city-public-schools/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1938255275603202111) 2025-06-26T15:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "It was a rousing debate Shout out to my friends (with whom I disagree) at @CityJournal @DanielDiMartino you work with some cool cats No plans on a Friday night Watch me and @CharlesFLehman debate legalizing all drugs👇🏽 No plans on a Friday night Watch me and @CharlesFLehman debate legalizing all drugs👇🏽" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1938712595617456602) 2025-06-27T21:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Honored to represent @reason on the John Curley Show to explain why others aren't entitled to what you produce regardless of your productivity. Jack Nicastro (@jack_g_nicastro) from Reason Magazine (@reason) joined the John Curley Show to celebrate all things libertarian. #Libertarian #ReasonMagazine #MentalHealthMyths https://t.co/CYqcab8qIA Jack Nicastro (@jack_g_nicastro) from Reason Magazine (@reason) joined the John Curley Show to celebrate all things libertarian. #Libertarian #ReasonMagazine #MentalHealthMyths https://t.co/CYqcab8qIA" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1942687133208088637) 2025-07-08T20:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "I advertise my affinity for eighties music but I'm also a big fan of the aughts. C Breezy is wonderful: https://youtu.be/5sMKX22BHeEsi=G3RGa8LsMad8JoCS https://youtu.be/5sMKX22BHeEsi=G3RGa8LsMad8JoCS" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1942989542027301091) 2025-07-09T16:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "To recap: The FTC disobeyed the law by refusing to publish a preliminary regulatory analysis before issuing its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. This is actually why the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated its rule. I explain for @reason: https://reason.com/2025/07/10/the-8th-circuit-court-was-right-to-kill-the-ftcs-click-to-cancel-rule/ To recap: Firms have been making people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription trapping Americans in needless bureaucracy and wasting their time & money. @FTC began writing a click-to-cancel rule promoting efficient cancellation a rulemaking" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1943360429117341868) 2025-07-10T17:23Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Message to young men: Dont goon over AI models (pun intended) or e-girls. Cultivate yourself: Exercise; read broadly; learn delicious recipes languages and skills; hang out with friends and family IRL; get [--] hours of sleep; and engage with members of the opposite sex. JFC https://t.co/qFQGphg3SO https://t.co/qFQGphg3SO" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1945610060022821205) 2025-07-16T22:22Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "What digital sector The *American* digital sector. The European Commission's tech and AI regulations are an exercise of sharp power against the United States. (Assaulting American productivity makes me outright jingoistic😤🦅) Recent EU regulations in the digital sector. [---] pages. Good luck complying with it. https://t.co/n52CgfI8Zm Recent EU regulations in the digital sector. [---] pages. Good luck complying with it. https://t.co/n52CgfI8Zm" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1947754895144030621) 2025-07-22T20:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "In this article I cover @CatoInstitute's @RominaBoccia and @Ivanachkebia's eye-opening analysis of what raising the Social Security payroll tax rate would mean for young workers. (Shout out to Krit Chanwong for pioneering the methodology) If the payroll tax rate is increased to make Social Security solvent the median young worker will be out at least $2432 a year. https://t.co/lh3m1Mub6R If the payroll tax rate is increased to make Social Security solvent the median young worker will be out at least $2432 a year. https://t.co/lh3m1Mub6R" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1947764660494553300) 2025-07-22T21:04Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Been seeing a lot of homophobic responses to my dear friend @robbysoaves engagement. Marriage is essentially the romantic partnership of two people; the sex of the partners is accidental to the union. Conservatives who care about pair-bonding should celebrate gay marriage. Some personal news from my Sicily trip earlier this month in case anyone missed it: I got engaged 💍 https://t.co/VD3YVKWvOy Some personal news from my Sicily trip earlier this month in case anyone missed it: I got engaged 💍 https://t.co/VD3YVKWvOy" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1948012353531822116) 2025-07-23T13:28Z [---] followers, 62.6K engagements "I think that child-rearing is accidental to marriage. I imagine as I am not one yet that parenting is one of theif not the singlemost rewarding activities a person can possibly perform but I believe a marriage is essentially a romantic union of soul mates. I want to marry a man but it does make more sense to me that marriage is Between a man and a woman with the purpose procreating. It does not mean that not having kids makes the marriage invalid but that is the purpose of it. Since two perfectly healthy men cant have kids. I want to marry a man but it does make more sense to me that marriage" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1948044618508951771) 2025-07-23T15:36Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@PatrickC1995 @robbysoave I think its the metaphysically correct definition. I dont care about what particularly religious traditions contend" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1948087909803798595) 2025-07-23T18:28Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "1. A medium of exchange [--]. A unit of account [--]. A store of value "There is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is." -- Anthropologist who has never opened a book in monetary theory. "There is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is." -- Anthropologist who has never opened a book in monetary theory" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1948844289930232091) 2025-07-25T20:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Buchanan uses a hypothetical game theory matrix to explain why the rules of the game change as beliefs about benefits enjoyed in the Hobbesian state of nature change. Sounds really wonky but Buchanan explains it so succinctly and intelligibly. Issues accurate predictions IMO The self-madeseek to provide their children with fortunes that the latter will accept only with guilt.James Buchanan Before Public Choice Jim explains that the scions of the wealthy are more concerned about distribution due to their dearth of human capital/ability/merit The self-madeseek to provide their children with" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1949171581076357271) 2025-07-26T18:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "once we begin to thinkabout the disparities between existing imputations and those estimated to be forthcoming under some idealized anarchy we are necessarily precludingthe achievement of potential structural changes that might increase the size of the pie for all" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1949172325082939610) 2025-07-26T18:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "And the trees are all kept equal By hatchet Ax And saw 🎵🎸 This is the logical end of equality of outcome/opportunity. The only just egalitarianism is the moral-legal kind. Reject tyrannical envy. Read to your kids https://t.co/rMWDqSeclb Read to your kids https://t.co/rMWDqSeclb" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1949571870531231821) 2025-07-27T20:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "The retail service in Austria is abysmal. God bless the USA 🗽🦅 (Service sector workers have been great though)" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1952350093610307947) 2025-08-04T12:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Deploying federal troops is one of many ways to increase the expected cost of committing violent crime in DC. Another way is simply to respect the Constitution and the Supreme Court's decision in Bruen: DC must allow its residents to openly bear arms" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1955004100602626137) 2025-08-11T20:31Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Props to the Zuck for evading bullshit local laws The New York Times goes full Karen on Mark Zuckerberg for the crime of. wait for it. homeschooling his kids. "They suspected the house was being used as a school" notesthe Times "and they were right." The scandal https://t.co/ZuAa5I1AMh The New York Times goes full Karen on Mark Zuckerberg for the crime of. wait for it. homeschooling his kids. "They suspected the house was being used as a school" notesthe Times "and they were right." The scandal https://t.co/ZuAa5I1AMh" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1956254103681818753) 2025-08-15T07:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@averyfjames Tesla's neural processing units mount directly onto Hardware [--] circuit board. Nvidia's H100 GPUs use the PCIe Gen [--] or SXM5 interfaces. Setting aside wattage requirements the Nvidia tech can't interface with a Tesla (I believe) https://docs.nvidia.com/launchpad/ai/h100-mig/latest/h100-mig-gpu.html https://www.autopilotreview.com/tesla-hardware-4-rolling-out-to-new-vehicles/ https://docs.nvidia.com/launchpad/ai/h100-mig/latest/h100-mig-gpu.html https://www.autopilotreview.com/tesla-hardware-4-rolling-out-to-new-vehicles/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1956387012514075072) 2025-08-15T16:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@averyfjames TSMC produces Nvidia's H100 (and basically all other GPUs) using a 4-nanometer architecture. Tesla is suspected of partnering with Samsung to deploy Hardware [--] with 4N architecture. I'm *far* from a technical expert but it seems to me that TSMC's 4N fabs could serve this purpose" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1956392594394534282) 2025-08-15T16:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@WillRinehart Youre spot on. Its the acquisition thats wrong" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1956398392793239699) 2025-08-15T16:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@kmanguward ChatGPT gets right to it" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1957865123499975063) 2025-08-19T17:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@RichardMorrison @abundanceinst Where can I get one @abundanceinst" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1959995170751160591) 2025-08-25T15:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Bro Di Martino is mogging MAGA socialists 💪😎 My thoughts on the Intel takeover by the government https://t.co/jMG3nybv6c My thoughts on the Intel takeover by the government https://t.co/jMG3nybv6c" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1960530842771710324) 2025-08-27T02:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "A little more info on how a Section [---] furniture tariff might impact one of America's favorite budget brands: IKEA (1/4) Full piece here: https://reason.com/2025/08/27/trumps-furniture-tariffs-will-make-it-harder-to-turn-your-house-into-a-home/ Levying a tariff on imported furniture is a funny way of delivering price relief to American families. https://t.co/A0uoCzsMeH https://reason.com/2025/08/27/trumps-furniture-tariffs-will-make-it-harder-to-turn-your-house-into-a-home/ Levying a tariff on imported furniture is a funny way of delivering price relief to American families." [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1960715272274202677) 2025-08-27T14:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Unlike Wayfair IKEA owns and sources its inventory from imports its thousands of products from [--] countries. Still the company might escape impending furniture tariffs entirely: The U.S. and E.U. reached an agreement on Thursday that the total tariff rate. (2/4)" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1960715273972879816) 2025-08-27T14:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@peter_c_earle Can confirm. Article forthcoming. 😏" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1962892032596168771) 2025-09-02T14:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "1. Net tariff revenue Jan-July was only $136 billion [--]. Foreign direct investment in the first quarter of was $52.8 billion down 34% from Q4 [--] [--]. Employment grew by 597k Jan-Julyit grew by over 1M Jan-July [----] https://reason.com/2025/09/02/the-white-house-says-trumps-tariffs-have-raised-8-trillion-in-revenue-thats-not-even-close/ LABOR DAY 🤝 GOLDEN AGE President Trumps protectionist trade policies have helped drive more than $8 trillion in new U.S. investment creating hundreds of thousands of jobs. https://t.co/kYPb2vS6hp" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1962993429941551173) 2025-09-02T21:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@peter_c_earle And here it is: https://reason.com/2025/09/02/the-white-house-says-trumps-tariffs-have-raised-8-trillion-in-revenue-thats-not-even-close/ https://reason.com/2025/09/02/the-white-house-says-trumps-tariffs-have-raised-8-trillion-in-revenue-thats-not-even-close/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1962994468950262137) 2025-09-02T21:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Happy to report that my parents treated me like a rational being growing up which is why Im now (mostly 😅) a rational adult. "Do what I say." "Why" "Because I said so." Authoritarian parenting can lead to unhappy anxious children who grow into dependent authoritarian adults. A free society depends on autonomous individuals. https://t.co/YKYt61iHfW "Do what I say." "Why" "Because I said so." Authoritarian parenting can lead to unhappy anxious children who grow into dependent authoritarian adults. A free society depends on autonomous individuals. https://t.co/YKYt61iHfW" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1963732552918990921) 2025-09-04T22:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "For those of you who do not yet support the Second Amendment I encourage you to reconsider in light of this information. Oh and the myriad democides of the 20th century. Remember that police and prosecutors disclaim any legal duty to protect you from violence. Any protection they do provide is offered purely as a matter of largesse and with marginal competence. In the eyes of the state youre on your ownact accordingly. https://t.co/io5zZTa352 https://t.co/DjL8zuXbzs Remember that police and prosecutors disclaim any legal duty to protect you from violence. Any protection they do provide is" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1965039973448700197) 2025-09-08T13:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "People have rights. One of those rights is that of exit. Rich people areand I know this is crazy so bear with mepeople. Ergo rich people have the right to exit. They should exercise this right to leave NYC for a city more welcoming of wealth creators. 🌎 🤷♂ "How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New Yorks Next Mayor" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector. https://t.co/oIxZwx77Rq "How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New Yorks Next Mayor" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons." [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1965763477395722564) 2025-09-10T13:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@Benthamsbulldog Exactly right Bentham. Carls post is a pathetic attempt to precipitate a civil war by creating a Manichean political divide" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1966694073365848297) 2025-09-13T02:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "You too can work with the cool cats at @reason and @ReasonFdn 😎🐱 Applications for spring internships are open. Check 'em out https://reason.org/internships/ https://reason.org/internships/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1967690728588644753) 2025-09-15T20:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Despite sickening instances of leftist vitriol following Charlie Kirk's murder polling taken after the tragedy shows that most American liberals reject political violence and denounce its celebration. Basic decency is found on both sides of the aisle. https://reason.com/2025/09/16/j-d-vance-says-26-percent-of-young-liberals-justify-political-violence-heres-what-the-data-really-say/ https://reason.com/2025/09/16/j-d-vance-says-26-percent-of-young-liberals-justify-political-violence-heres-what-the-data-really-say/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1968013933807329539) 2025-09-16T18:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""Suppose that the need for direct human consumption of tobacco should disappear as the result of a change in tastes."Carl Menger Principles of Economics Why would Menger want us to suppose such a horrific thing (Also prescient.)" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1970954170766426272) 2025-09-24T20:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Menger generates an indifference curve between food and tobacco: "if his need for food is already satisfied up to a certain degree of completeness.consumption of tobacco begins to have the same importance to him as further satisfaction of his need for food." Nice" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1970971435456979095) 2025-09-24T21:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Excellent explainer by @maggiemoda on the irrelevance of the trade deficit/surplus to national well being: https://youtu.be/UfFv5YkrgGssi=3Edf1U8xESVc0jDY https://youtu.be/UfFv5YkrgGssi=3Edf1U8xESVc0jDY" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1973017941970157970) 2025-09-30T13:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@veroderugy is right. Data from @SIAAmerica show that China makes up a substantial plurality *only* of the least valuable parts of the semiconductor supply chain while US companies dominate the most valuable parts. US market share by global sales revenue = 50.4%. China = 4.5% Its astonishing the nonsense that comes out of our Commerce Secretarys mouth. The reality is simple: the high-value parts of the iPhone are already made heredesign software chips. The low-value assembly happens abroad because no one in America would work for the wages those Its astonishing the nonsense that comes out of" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1973071411729104984) 2025-09-30T17:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@veroderugy @SIAAmerica Semiconductor Industry Association's (@SIAAmerica) "State of the U.S. Semiconductor Industry" [----] report: https://www.semiconductors.org/2025-state-of-the-u-s-semiconductor-industry/ https://www.semiconductors.org/2025-state-of-the-u-s-semiconductor-industry/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1973071766210678867) 2025-09-30T17:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "BREAKING: @ride_empower is holding a rally in front of the White House tomorrow at [--] p.m. to protest the cease and desist issued by @MayorBowsers @DC_DFHV. If the C&D is not withdrawn Empowers DC operations will stop this Friday October [--] at the latest" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1975330448290000981) 2025-10-06T22:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "This is like saying the world would be better if scarcity didn't exist. Yes Eden is nicer than Earth: a world of moderate scarcity (Hume FTW) where we must make productive and allocative decisions. The price system of profit-and-loss accounting is the best way to do so. OBAMA: Betters good were not gonna get to perfect. Do I think single-payer with no profit motive wouldve been smarter Absolutely. President Obama tells Maron the ACA was a compromise because he didnt have the votes for what he really wanted. #MedicareForAll https://t.co/ATpURv8FjQ OBAMA: Betters good were not gonna get to" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1978181452073206072) 2025-10-14T19:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Trump accuses meat packers of 'criminally profiting' off Americans There are several reasons why beef prices are at a record high. Collusion isn't one of them" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/11/10/trump-baselessly-accuses-meat-packers-of-criminally-profiting-at-the-expense-of-the-american-people/) 2025-11-10T22:18Z [----] followers, 18.2K engagements "Coming soon to the U.S. Supreme Court: Are tariffs taxes The correct answer is: Yes even when they are also regulations. Whether the Court agrees could determine the future of presidential power" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/10/20/coming-soon-to-the-supreme-court-are-tariffs-taxes/) 2025-10-20T17:32Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Review: 'KPop Demon Hunters' is a Netflix musical about harmony A girl group battles a demon boy band in the wildly popular Netflix musical" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/11/07/kpop-demon-hunters/) 2025-11-07T11:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Trump administration's latest housing 'fix' could create a bubble Socializing risk to subsidize demand isn't a solution to the housing crisis but it is a good start to another financial crisis" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/11/12/the-trump-administrations-latest-housing-fix-could-inflate-another-bubble/) 2025-11-12T19:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The DoorDash-Klarna collaboration is nothing new The partnership gives Americans the ability to smooth their consumption spending just as credit cards do" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/03/24/theres-nothing-novel-about-the-doordash-klarna-collaboration/) 2025-03-24T20:56Z [----] followers, 216K engagements "Why a patchwork of state AI regulations could threaten U.S. innovation Without federal preemption a regulatory thicket of state AI laws threatens to slow the technology's development" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/12/04/leaving-ai-regulation-to-the-states-could-strangle-ai/) 2025-12-04T18:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Polymarket returns to U.S. users after a nearly 3-year hiatus The online betting company allows you to stake money on future events" [X Link](https://reason.com/2026/01/04/the-return-of-polymarket/) 2026-01-05T21:40Z [----] followers, 10.7K engagements "Billionaires are fleeing California to avoid a proposed wealth tax The proposed wealth tax may end up lowering tax revenue for California by driving billionaires out of the state" [X Link](https://reason.com/2026/01/13/california-billionaires-are-leaving-the-state-in-response-to-proposed-wealth-tax/) 2026-01-14T13:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Bill de Blasios NYC school reforms cut standards but didnt lift diversity New York City's specialized high schools face falling standards and little progress on diversity under Discovery reforms" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/12/03/bill-de-blasios-diversity-push-for-these-schools-lowered-admissions-standards-and-didnt-increase-diversity/) 2025-12-03T19:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Review: 'The Sound of Music' is an anti-authoritarian musical The 65-year-old musical's depiction of an us-vs.-them mentality remains poignant" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/12/19/the-sound-of-music-2/) 2025-12-19T11:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "AI might help doctors be more efficient A Northwestern University clinical study found that generative AI sped up radiology documentation by [----] percent" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/11/17/ai-vs-paperwork/) 2025-11-19T01:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Donald Trump says he'll 'be involved' in Warner Bros. merger Paramount Skydance is banking on the Ellison family's relationship with Trump following Netflix outbidding the company to acquire Warner Bros" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/12/08/donald-trump-says-hell-be-involved-in-choosing-who-gets-to-merge-with-warner-bros/) 2025-12-08T21:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Trump blames illegal immigrants for high housing prices. Blame zoning instead. Low-skilled immigrants would expand the supply of housing more than they increase demand if local governments would just allow new construction" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/12/18/trump-blames-illegal-immigrants-for-high-housing-prices-blame-zoning-instead/) 2025-12-18T16:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This Black Friday thank globalization for affordable gifts Capitalism and globalization have made it easier than ever to get gifts for the special people in our lives" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/11/28/this-black-friday-thank-globalization-for-affordable-gifts/) 2025-11-28T12:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "AI art in 'Call of Duty' leads Ro Khanna to call for more regulation Khanna's proposal is sweeping: a tax on mass displacement that would throttle technological adoption and slow economic growth" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/11/17/ai-art-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-7-leads-rep-ro-khanna-to-call-for-more-regulation/) 2025-11-17T20:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "U.S. quartz manufacturers want to make kitchen countertops even more expensive Their trade group filed a petition asking the government to impose quotas and a [--] percent tariff on all imported quartz" [X Link](https://reason.com/2026/01/15/american-quartz-manufacturers-want-to-make-kitchen-countertops-even-more-expensive/) 2026-01-15T17:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Washingtons state capital voted against increasing the minimum wage Olympia residents apparently did not learn from Seattles experience that minimum wage hikes do not improve the welfare of the worst off in society" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/11/05/washingtons-state-capital-just-voted-against-increasing-the-minimum-wage-unemployment/) 2025-11-05T15:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Trump's [--] percent tariff on chip imports is really an export tax The order imposes duties on China-bound AI chips if chipmakers don't invest in American semiconductor fabrication" [X Link](https://reason.com/2026/01/20/trumps-25-percent-tariff-on-chip-imports-is-really-an-export-tax/) 2026-01-21T02:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "California AI regulations affect everyone in the U.S. Federalism works best when state-level policy experiments stay contained" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/09/16/strangling-ai-one-state-at-a-time/) 2025-09-17T17:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "New York City can't afford Mamdani's campaign promises Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor by promising New Yorkers free programs and services with their own money" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/11/04/6-zohran-mamdani-campaign-promises-that-new-york-city-cant-afford/) 2025-11-05T02:38Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements "The White House says Trumps tariffs have raised $8 trillion in revenue. Thats not even close. The administration attributed the $8 trillion figure both to new investment and to tariff revenue. So which is it Neither" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/09/02/the-white-house-says-trumps-tariffs-have-raised-8-trillion-in-revenue-thats-not-even-close/) 2025-09-02T21:22Z [----] followers, 15.6K engagements "Cant afford to visit New York city for Christmas Blame the city government. The city has removed tens of thousands of rooms available to tourists while making it significantly harder to build and expand hotels" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/12/19/cant-afford-to-visit-new-york-city-for-christmas-blame-the-city-government/) 2025-12-19T16:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Trump sides with MAGA dynamists over nativists in high-skilled immigration debate The president is alarming the MAGA faithful by saying he wants more high-skilled immigration. But that doesnt mean hes rethinking the rest of his nativism" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/11/13/trump-wants-immigrants-sometimes/) 2025-11-15T18:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "USPS Spent $3 Billion on Its New Partially Electric Truck Fleet Oshkosh Defenses USPS van is thousands of dollars more expensive than the industry standard" [X Link](https://reason.com/2024/09/13/10-years-and-3-billion-for-a-new-mail-truck/) 2025-12-16T23:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "New behind the scenes pics of Jackson Yee decorating his birthday cake🥹 Jackson Yee Studio # #yiyangqianxi #JacksonYee https://t.co/U2EAtzYeQz If antitrust regulators allow the deal to go through consumers stand to benefit from a less expensive NetflixHBO Max bundle" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/12/05/warner-bros-accepts-netflixs-83-billion-bid-but-antitrust-threats-still-loom/) 2025-12-04T06:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "These small business owners explain how Trump's tariffs are more of an 'existential crisis' than COVID President Donald Trump says his tariffs protect American businesses but more than [---] small businesses represented by We Pay The Tariffs beg to differ" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/10/30/these-small-business-owners-explain-how-trumps-tariffs-are-more-of-an-existential-crisis-than-covid/) 2025-10-30T15:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Virginia company joins Supreme Court battle against Trumps tariffs Crutchfield Corporation a Charlottesville-based and family-owned electronics retailer is supporting challenges to the presidents tariffs" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/10/27/this-virginia-company-says-donald-trumps-tariffs-make-rational-business-planning-impossible/) 2025-10-27T21:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Live Nation's and Ticketmaster's merger isn't to blame for high pricesyou are Antitrust enforcers at the Justice Department and the FTC have singled out Live Nation as a scapegoat for concertgoers' insatiable appetites" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/10/22/live-nations-merger-with-ticketmaster-isnt-responsible-for-high-resale-prices-you-are/) 2025-10-22T13:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Meta's victory over the Federal Trade Commission shows the market moves faster than antitrust enforcement The federal government's yearslong case to label Meta a monopoly ended on Tuesday when a federal court ruled in favor of the tech giant" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/11/19/metas-victory-over-the-federal-trade-commission-shows-the-market-moves-faster-than-antitrust-enforcement/) 2025-11-19T21:03Z [----] followers, 11.2K engagements "Trump threatens NATO members with tariffs paid almost entirely by Americans Threatening European allies to further tax American citizens is unlikely to persuade them to surrender Greenland to the United States" [X Link](https://reason.com/2026/01/20/trump-threatens-nato-members-with-tariffs-paid-almost-entirely-by-americans/) 2026-01-20T20:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The new USPS electric vehicles cost $22000 more than other electric vans With commercial vehicles readily available cheaper and already used in its fleet why did the USPS commission new ones from Oshkosh Defense" [X Link](https://reason.com/2026/01/14/the-postal-services-next-generation-electric-delivery-vehicles-cost-22000-more-than-other-electric-vans/) 2026-01-14T16:16Z [----] followers, 39.5K engagements "As tariff case heads to the Supreme Court Trump's strongest argument has a fatal flaw The International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn't grant the president the power to regulate imports with tariffs" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/11/04/as-tariff-case-heads-to-the-supreme-court-trumps-strongest-argument-has-a-fatal-flaw/) 2025-11-04T20:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Federal Reserve defers to Donald Trump by cutting interest rates by [--] points The Federal Open Market Committee lowered the federal funds rate for the third meeting in a row despite elevated inflation" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/12/10/federal-reserve-defers-to-donald-trump-by-cutting-interest-rates-by-25-points/) 2025-12-10T22:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Trumps lawyer at SCOTUS cites a letter from Madison that says tariffs are taxes During oral argument at the Supreme Court Solicitor General John Sauer cited a letter by James Madison that completely undermines the administrations case that its tariffs are legal" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/11/07/trumps-lawyer-at-the-supreme-court-cites-a-letter-from-james-madison-that-says-tariffs-are-taxes/) 2025-11-07T17:45Z [----] followers, 22.3K engagements "House Republicans just voted to give even more tariff power away to Trump House Republicans passed a resolution that prevents Congress from ending the national emergency Trump is using to impose tariffs until March 31" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/09/17/house-republicans-just-voted-to-give-even-more-tariff-power-away-to-trump/) 2025-09-17T20:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The New Right is embracing Carl Schmitt's friend-enemy worldview When conservatives reject constitutional limits on executive power and foment civil conflict what exactly are they conserving" [X Link](https://reason.com/2025/09/26/the-american-new-right-looks-like-the-european-old-right/) 2025-09-26T18:19Z [----] followers, 354.4K engagements "Come to @reason to watch @justzuckerman @Nat_Dowzicky @jimepstein @cesarbaezc and Cody Huff's documentary about D.C.'s elimination of the tipped minimum wage https://reason.org/event/premiere-of-reasons-backpage-documentary-panel-discussion-2/ https://reason.org/event/premiere-of-reasons-backpage-documentary-panel-discussion-2/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1856077241383256082) 2024-11-11T20:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Listen I'm also upset that the shutdown has delayed the release of @BLS_gov's September Employment Situation but it's simply not true that w/o it businesses and policymakers are "flying blind" as @LeilaFadelwhose coverage I appreciatesaid today on @UpFirst 1/4" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1974218438399713422) 2025-10-03T21:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "For example @ADP uses payroll data from more than 500k companies and 26m employees to publish its National Employment Report (NER) every month. Its September NER published Wednesday found that private sector employment declined by [-----] workers. 2/4 https://mediacenter.adp.com/2025-10-01-ADP-National-Employment-Report-Private-Sector-Employment-Shed-32000-Jobs-in-September-Annual-Pay-was-Up-4-5 https://mediacenter.adp.com/2025-10-01-ADP-National-Employment-Report-Private-Sector-Employment-Shed-32000-Jobs-in-September-Annual-Pay-was-Up-4-5" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1974218439754494214) 2025-10-03T21:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements ""Scalpers" are good for the economy. Sorry. Auctions and price discrimination ensure efficient allocation of scarce resources: seats in this case. Oh and concert ticket resale is 2% of Live Nation's revenue and its market share is less than 20% https://reason.com/2025/10/22/live-nations-merger-with-ticketmaster-isnt-responsible-for-high-resale-prices-you-are/ Facing litigation from the FTC Live Nation agrees to further crackdowns on ticket brokers. The fact of the matter is that "scalpers" have plenty of ways to get tickets to those who value them the most. https://t.co/lwVn01Qg5j" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1981011193356841206) 2025-10-22T14:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@PGunigantiAT I agree; artists should allow primary ticket sellers to engage in dynamic pricing. But they don't because it's costly to appear greedy in the eyes of fans. Similarly primary ticket sellers don't do so for fear of misguided antitrust action. So scalpers to the rescue" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1981113549239079241) 2025-10-22T21:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@PGunigantiAT If the primary ticket sellers (StubHub SeatGeek Ticketmaster) engaged in dynamic pricing they would enjoy greater producer surplus which could be interpreted by antitrust enforcers as evidence of pricing power acquired through illegal anticompetitive conduct" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1981175829640954292) 2025-10-23T01:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@PGunigantiAT Im glad to hear it. Do you know how antitrust officials weigh diminished consumer surplus when more consumers are served in instances of dynamic pricing For instance with perfect price discrimination CS = [--] but consumers with lower willingness to pay (p=mc) are served" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1981179568124993752) 2025-10-23T02:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Gilmore Girls fans must listen: https://spotify.link/nosHx9wtHXb https://spotify.link/nosHx9wtHXb" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1981343573254529406) 2025-10-23T12:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I harbor great antipathy for Zohran Mamdanis policy proposals but not quite as much as I do for such braindead illiberalism. Mamdani will be mayor because New Yorkers() will have elected a pinko; immigration restrictionism will not stop this fatal attraction. Only reality. I fully support deporting Zohran Mamdani. Im tired of pretending citizenship is a right for foreigners. Hes not assimilated into our culture. Not with his habits not with his religion and not with his ideology. The federal government should be able to much easier strip https://t.co/VoL6cLKwov I fully support deporting" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1982445943975809126) 2025-10-26T13:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Just now learning that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission forced @Polymarket to ban U.S. users in [----]. Excited to see it return (hopefully) before the end of the year. I have some bets I'd like to make" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1983222095594115416) 2025-10-28T17:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "One of the greatest ironies of the Trump's IEEPA tariffs is that they're seriously harming the very entities they're purported to "protect": American businesses. Read all about it: (Shout out to @WePayTheTariffs) https://reason.com/2025/10/30/these-small-business-owners-explain-how-trumps-tariffs-are-more-of-an-existential-crisis-than-covid/ If the president's tariffs aren't protecting consumers or businesses whom exactly are they protecting https://t.co/g3ZLbF4adr" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1983927463093629085) 2025-10-30T16:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Read all about how Trump's IEEPA tariffs have crippled small American businesses here: https://reason.com/2025/10/30/these-small-business-owners-explain-how-trumps-tariffs-are-more-of-an-existential-crisis-than-covid/ Making America Great Again by. forcing small business owners to leverage their own homes to pay tariff bills: https://t.co/LRNp0CCc57 https://reason.com/2025/10/30/these-small-business-owners-explain-how-trumps-tariffs-are-more-of-an-existential-crisis-than-covid/ Making America Great Again by. forcing small business owners to leverage their own homes to pay tariff bills:" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1984013956634308835) 2025-10-30T21:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.H. L. Mencken. I'm sorry to say that my fellow New Yorkers are going to get what they asked for. Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City. Here are six of his promises that are doomed to fail. https://t.co/q7cxeEecT6 Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City. Here are six of his promises that are doomed to fail. https://t.co/q7cxeEecT6" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1985899833677275242) 2025-11-05T02:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "We went from Gipper and Red Dawn in the 80s to this My how the country has fallen The tankies can have my property when they pry it from my cold dead fingers 🗽 Luckily New Yorkers are not a representative of sample of Americans most of whom are red-blooded freedom lovers Hasan Piker just went full mask off at the Zohran election victory party declares it a tragedy that the USA defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War. AOC embraced him on camera just two minutes before he said this https://t.co/2VynJOL7BK Hasan Piker just went full mask off at the Zohran election victory party declares it a" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1986040448712839269) 2025-11-05T11:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Justice Sotomayor just pressed Solicitor General Sauer on why IEEPA's purported tariff power should apply to "importation" and not "exportation"which is explicitly unconstitutional. The lawyers I spoke to on background called it and I wrote about it: https://reason.com/2025/11/04/as-tariff-case-heads-to-the-supreme-court-trumps-strongest-argument-has-a-fatal-flaw/ https://reason.com/2025/11/04/as-tariff-case-heads-to-the-supreme-court-trumps-strongest-argument-has-a-fatal-flaw/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1986097627725803744) 2025-11-05T15:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Italian Americans are truly the most oppressed minority in the U.S. First the Dems attack Columbus Day. Second the Republicans attack Italian pasta. Theres truly no end to the injustice ✊ Ok this is out of control 107% tariffs on Italian pasta https://t.co/sOOZottaPe Ok this is out of control 107% tariffs on Italian pasta https://t.co/sOOZottaPe" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1987908296217338260) 2025-11-10T15:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Read all about Trump's bullshit theory of rising beef prices here: https://reason.com/2025/11/10/trump-baselessly-accuses-meat-packers-of-criminally-profiting-at-the-expense-of-the-american-people/ "Greedflation" narratives are all but expected from Democrats. Now the Republican president is baselessly accusing meat packers of "criminally profiting at the expense of the American People." https://t.co/p98Y6ovcXM https://reason.com/2025/11/10/trump-baselessly-accuses-meat-packers-of-criminally-profiting-at-the-expense-of-the-american-people/ "Greedflation" narratives are all but expected from" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1988008953973010843) 2025-11-10T22:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@Rafa_Mangual An armed society is a polite society. New York City is neither" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1988073560443592759) 2025-11-11T02:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Learned a lot today about the role Fannie Mae Freddie Mac and the Department of Housing and Urban Development played in the [----] financial crisis. Holy shit. Helpful links for young ignorant people like myself: [--]. [--]. [--]. https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-267.htm https://reason.com/2012/05/17/the-financial-crisis-was-the-result-of-g/ https://reason.org/commentary/fannie-and-freddies-role-in-causing/ https://reason.com/2012/05/17/the-financial-crisis-was-the-result-of-g/ https://reason.org/commentary/fannie-and-freddies-role-in-causing/ https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-267.htm" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1988369032521666898) 2025-11-11T22:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@1stMETALStriker @reason Sorry. I tried my best. Thanks for watching" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1990495145675174183) 2025-11-17T18:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@ConservaMuse Can you really still not get behind betting markets JUST IN: The odds of nothing happening this month continue to rise. https://t.co/NADDZrN25r JUST IN: The odds of nothing happening this month continue to rise. https://t.co/NADDZrN25r" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1990539147623477544) 2025-11-17T21:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@sarahsteelex @DrSamuelGregg Instead of the positive-sum world in which we really do live (As recognized by classical liberals free marketeers and everyone who has taken and passed an introductory microeconomics course)" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1991191650660458688) 2025-11-19T17:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "TFW you're a penniless working-age Zoomer and you realize your tax dollars are funding the lifestyles of rich retirees interest on the debt and straight-up Fourteenth Amendment violations. $1.16 Million going to Asian Americans for Equality in the latest Senate appropriations bills. Lots more taxpayer-funded payouts too. See replies for more. https://t.co/h5wgLdgMZm $1.16 Million going to Asian Americans for Equality in the latest Senate appropriations bills. Lots more taxpayer-funded payouts too. See replies for more. https://t.co/h5wgLdgMZm" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1991226495142920611) 2025-11-19T19:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I was a philosophical and political anarchist after reading @Michael__Huemer's The Problem of Political Authority but came back to constitutional liberalism after exploring James Buchanan's constitutional public choice literature with @mungowitz. (I think Buchanan presents a persuasive hypothetical social contract argument for how a kind of constitutional republic is what anyone/everyone would stipulate to in the state of nature.) So although my beliefs are the subject of @PerBylund's ire I regard his essay as cogent persuasive and challenging to respond to. I highly recommend reading it My" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1991601110415733244) 2025-11-20T20:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Huh Would you look at that: Manufacturing employment has been steadily decreasing since "Liberation Day." I guess the president wanted to liberate American manufacturing employees from their jobs Graph created using the seasonally adjusted manufacturing employment data from Table B-1 of the BLS Employment Situation March-September [----]. (Data for September and August = preliminary) Data and links to sources here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTA_rd7j2oFO-RgE8EmKXUauL1yMTbFU0bsSGKWtGbyxbIQX-6Yc-5Jmv_Yba0TwexrEeIPlEOXJSUa/pubhtmlgid=0&single=true" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1991910454537376227) 2025-11-21T16:43Z [----] followers, 148.3K engagements "Federalist 51: If Men were angels no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place oblige it to control itself" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1992024564121952378) 2025-11-22T00:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@Noahpinion When the cost of production was higher movies had to be good i.e. expected to do well at the box office to justify investment. Now that the cost of production is so low shitty movies are more likely to be profitable so they're made" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1993026122993353197) 2025-11-24T18:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Alex Tabarrok and Eric Helland explain the Baumol effect well in Why Are the Prices So Damn High As other sectors become more efficient the relative cost of slow-growth sectors (such as health care and education) increases. In other words doctors haven't gotten "faster" at healing people so the relative price of their time climbs. (Of course there are rent-seeking reasons that partially explain why the relatively slower productivity growth of the health care and education sectors)" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1993826587679010853) 2025-11-26T23:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@quant_____ From my piece: https://reason.com/2025/11/17/ai-vs-paperwork/ https://reason.com/2025/11/17/ai-vs-paperwork/" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1993826815752786253) 2025-11-26T23:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "1998 was perhaps the peak of race relations in the United States. I hope we can get back to this in my lifetime. https://share.google/ebUEtrummsQqaf0sv https://share.google/ebUEtrummsQqaf0sv" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1994481384656671191) 2025-11-28T18:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "This is awesome CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets. A new era of media is here. https://t.co/uXLlWVLjQs CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets. A new era of media is here. https://t.co/uXLlWVLjQs" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1996271564774572176) 2025-12-03T17:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@BilldeBlasio said his expanded Discovery Program effective fall [----] would offer seats at the city's specialized high schools to students "who just missed the test cut-off." The above is the actual difference between the minimum score required for admission to Stuyvesant the most competitive of the specialized high schools through the regular admissions process and through the Discovery Program (pre- and post-Discovery Program expansion) per official NYC DOE data I recently obtained from a Freedom Of Information Law Request. Before the program's expansion the difference was [--] points. Two" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1996317499554718018) 2025-12-03T20:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@jacobjamesrich Paging @kmanguward" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1996576832473215120) 2025-12-04T13:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@Diana_in_Winter @EphieBernstein Absolutely not. Merely sharing the heuristic I use to help myself remember Thanks in advance for reading my work" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1996675257651044756) 2025-12-04T20:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Following @christopherrufo and @rk_thorpe's reporting for the @ManhattanInst on Somali fraud rings in Minnesota President Donald Trump referred to Somalians as "garbage" said "I don't want them in our country" and terminated the Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota. It is true that [--] percent of those charged so far with defrauding Minnesota's Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) benefit Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) benefit and the Federal Child Nutrition Program (FCNP) were of Somali descent. (79/87 of the defendants including Hassan.) This" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1999554760324595745) 2025-12-12T18:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Let's start by assuming that every cent of the $302 million disbursed through HSS from 2021-the first six months of [----] were fraudulently acquired and done so solely by Somalis. (Source: The first eight people charged in connection to HSS fraud earned $8.4 million over this time period. (Source: Ibid) Therefore let's assume each HSS fraudster fleeces the program for $1.05 million. $302 million/$1.05 million/fraudster = [---] fraudsters including those [--] already charged. For the sake of the exercise we (uncharitably) assume every single one is of Somali descent. Next let's figure out how many" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1999554762501492988) 2025-12-12T18:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The type of care that Hassan claimed to have been administering through the EIDBI program was one-on-one ABA autism therapy (procedure code 97153) facilitated by behavioral technicians. (Source: In Minnesota Medicaid reimburses a maximum amount of $80.68 per hour ($20.17 per [--] minutes) for this kind of autism therapy. (Like HSS EIDBI is a Medicaid benefit.) (Source: The Justice Department alleges that "Hassan submitted claims seeking reimbursement for the maximum number of hours permitted by Medicaid. (Source: The maximum number of hours authorized for Medicaid reimbursement for this" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1999554767165562897) 2025-12-12T18:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "78 defendants of Somali descent charged with defrauding HSS EIDBI and FCNP + [---] HSS fraudsters (excluding those eight already charged by the Justice Department) + [--] EIDBI fraud orchestrators (excluding Hassan) + [----] complicit in defrauding EIDBI = [----] fraudsters and colluders of Somali descent. [---] percent of the total population of [-----] Minnesotans of Somali descent. (Source: Even under the most uncharitable assumptions the vast majority of Somali-Minnesotans are not implicated by the HSS EIDBI and FCNP scandals. This should come as no surprise: "The Somali adult (18-54) immigrant" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/1999554769027743887) 2025-12-12T18:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "So much of the immigrant blame is baseless. Trump blamed illegal immigrants for high housing prices last night; I have a piece coming out today that details the economic ignorance of this claim. SPOILER: The *signage* of immigration's effect on shelter prices (rent and home prices) is a function of immigrant education level and zoning restrictions. TPUSA hosting a session titled "Immigrants are causing all the problems actually" at their conference now. Led by J6 Capitol occupier and Nick Fuentes friend John Doyle. This is like the leftists who blame white men for their problems just replace" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/2001678029651673387) 2025-12-18T15:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Last Thursday Trump claimed that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is predicted to come in at over 5%. Trump appears to have confused the Atlanta Federal Reserves estimate of annualized Q4 GDP growth which was [---] percent at the time of Trumps Truth Social Post with annual GDP growth. (Fitch Ratings estimated last Thursday that U.S. GDP grew by [---] percent in 2025: the rate around which yearly economic growth has hovered for decades. ) President Donald Trump also celebrated the lowest Trade Deficit since 2009." Bureau of Labor Statistics data reveals the misleading nature of this statement. The" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/2011463829738181059) 2026-01-14T15:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Read all about Postal Service's profligate relationship with Oshkosh Defense here: https://reason.com/2026/01/14/the-postal-services-next-generation-electric-delivery-vehicles-cost-22000-more-than-other-electric-vans/ The government can't make the EV transition happen within its own postal service but it thought it could do it for all of society. https://reason.com/2026/01/14/the-postal-services-next-generation-electric-delivery-vehicles-cost-22000-more-than-other-electric-vans/ The government can't make the EV transition happen within its own postal service but it thought it could do it for" [X Link](https://x.com/jack_g_nicastro/status/2011563954125095089) 2026-01-14T22:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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Social Influence
Social category influence finance countries technology brands stocks travel destinations celebrities automotive brands nfl social networks us election
Social topic influence tariffs, donald trump, ai, money, republicans, education, strike, to the, inflation, new york city
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @reason @veroderugy @conservamuse @dominicjpino @ericboehm87 @pgunigantiat @charlescwcooke @greenplusane @drsamuelgregg @patrickc1995 @danieldimartino @robbysoave @jackgnicastro @polymarket @averyfjames @kmanguward @petercearle @siaamerica @gailaslater @mex_libertario
Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) Ferguson plc (FERG) Noble Corporation (NE)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"DOJs antitrust chief resigns amid accusations of corruption among top officials Gail Slater resigned from her position as Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division after butting heads with Attorney General Pam Bondi over merger enforcement"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"California bucks Alaska and Missouri by rejecting minimum wage ballot initiative. Californians have voted against increasing the states minimum wage despite raising that of fast food workers to $20 per hour with Assembly Bill [----] in"
X Link 2024-11-20T15:31Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Over [----] economists agree: Trump's tariffs are terrible Reason interviewed five signatories of the Anti-Tariff Declaration to learn why they oppose tariffs and support free trade"
X Link 2025-04-24T18:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"These [--] terrible tech bills are on Gavin Newsoms desk One limits childrens access to mental health services the other mandates a black box warning and both undermine users digital privacy"
X Link 2025-09-22T20:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Amazon is being forced to pay $2.5 billion for making it easier to sign up for Prime The Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with Amazon in its yearslong lawsuit against the company for "dark patterns" in Prime sign up and cancellation"
X Link 2025-09-26T16:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Washington worsened Hurricane Helenes destruction At least [---] people have died as a result of Hurricane Helene as of Monday reports CNN. While the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is busy"
X Link 2024-09-30T22:19Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"The DOJ killed the JetBlue-Spirit merger. Spirit Airlines could now go under. The DOJ blocked Spirit's merger with JetBlue in [----] over concerns about market consolidation but markets also consolidate when failing firms go bankrupt and exit"
X Link 2025-08-15T14:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"How Milton Friedman can help us get through Hurricane Milton To give storm victims the best chance at recovery let local knowledge and markets guide decisions"
X Link 2024-10-08T14:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"The White House says Trumps tariffs have raised $8 trillion in revenue. Thats not even close. The administration attributed the $8 trillion figure both to new investment and to tariff revenue. So which is it Neither"
X Link 2025-09-03T18:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Second Circuit rules intent to racially balance NY high schools is unconstitutional A federal judge ruled Tuesday that an alternative admissions program to New York Citys competitive high schools is unconstitutional if it intended to"
X Link 2024-09-27T15:26Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"FEMA should stick to disaster recovery and quit social engineering The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has received praise and scorn for its responses to Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Regardless of FEMAs"
X Link 2024-10-10T20:17Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Washington sued for racially conscious homeownership program Washingtons Covenant Homeownership Program explicitly bars certain applicants from eligibility on the basis of race"
X Link 2024-11-01T23:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"European Commission fines Meta for serving consumers If advertisers dont want to give data to Facebook Marketplace they shouldnt advertise on Facebook"
X Link 2024-11-18T17:27Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"China goes tit for tat over U.S. chip bans On Tuesday China banned the export of gallium germanium antimony and industrial diamonds to the U.S. in response to U.S. trade and investment"
X Link 2024-12-04T16:17Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Trumps tariffs have already hurt the economyand the pain is only beginning The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development projects that the impact of Trump's tariffs could get worse"
X Link 2025-09-27T16:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The feds wont let you use these cheap Chinese cellphones American cellphone service providers dont carry Huawei. Blame Donald Trump and Joe Biden"
X Link 2024-09-10T14:48Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"The Federal Reserve cuts rates with inflation still hot. Is political pressure winning When the Federal Reserve is concerned about inflation it increases the federal funds rate. Despite expressing such concerns the Fed lowered it"
X Link 2025-09-18T17:05Z [----] followers, 22.9K engagements
"Congress fails the budget test again In theory Congress is supposed to pass [--] appropriations bills by the end of each fiscal year to fund discretionary spending on defense as well as"
X Link 2024-09-24T12:10Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Is Gmail blocking Republican fundraising emails There is no hard evidence of Gmail discriminating against Republican campaign emails but thats no matter to the FTC Chairman"
X Link 2025-09-07T23:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"A government shutdown isn't really a shutdown. Most federal employees are still working and will get paid. The federal government continues paying its biggest bills and hundreds of thousands of federal employees get a belatedly paid vacation"
X Link 2025-10-01T20:47Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Jet Blue and American Airlines guilty in antitrust suit despite no clear harm to consumers American Airlines and Jet Blue violated the Sherman Antitrust Act of [----] a federal appeals court said by sharing revenue and coordinating service for"
X Link 2024-11-13T15:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"How post-arrest DNA swabs threaten innocent peoples privacy Most states collect DNA from felony arrestees pretrial. They should need a warrant to do so"
X Link 2024-08-29T05:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"To get through the election use Ozempic The two major party candidates provide ample reasons for pessimism about the future of the republic. If youre a fanatical partisan on the left or right"
X Link 2024-10-30T19:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"J.D. Vance says [--] percent of young liberals justify political violence. Here's what the data really say. Vance cherry-picks data from a YouGov poll to paint an inordinately bleak picture of the state of American political discourse"
X Link 2025-09-16T17:46Z [----] followers, 13.4K engagements
"Trump and Biden tried to break up Google. Now theyve both failed. A federal judge rejected the proposed structural remedies in the Justice Department's Google search engine monopoly case"
X Link 2025-09-05T12:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"No these new studies don't show an AI jobs apocalypse is coming Economists at the Federal Reserve and Stanford University recently published studies investigating how AI affects employment in different industries"
X Link 2025-08-27T20:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Federal Reserve rightly rejects Trump's calls for lower interest rates Maintaining the elevated federal funds rate makes borrowing more expensive but the alternative is artificially cheap money malinvestment and inflation"
X Link 2025-07-30T20:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"DeSantis and Hawley are borrowing Bidens playbook to regulate AI The Florida governor and Missouri senator might be MAGA Republicans but their opposition to AI sounds an awful lot like Democrats"
X Link 2025-09-10T19:31Z [----] followers, 16K engagements
"Is free speech doomed in Hong Kong Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam were convicted last week by Hong Kong District Court Judge Kwok Wai-Kin on charges of conspiracy to publish and reproduce"
X Link 2024-09-04T02:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Food and Drug Administration defends refusal to approve flavored e-cigarettes before the Supreme Court The FDAs regulations are burdensome and unnecessary to address the inflated high school vaping epidemic"
X Link 2024-12-03T17:22Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Instagram announces AI age-verification on new teen accounts Instagram announced that AI age verification will be used to determine which users are teens. The goal is to place 13- to 17-year-old users in newly"
X Link 2024-09-19T17:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Trumps new tariff could make building microchips in the U.S. more expensive Trump exempted imported chips from his reciprocal tariffs in April. Now he's threatening them with [---] percent rates"
X Link 2025-09-29T20:46Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Spot on @DominicJPino: "Don't cut taxes replace consumer choice with government mandates and protect a handful of unionized jobs while passing on higher prices to everyone else we already have a political party that stands for that agenda. . .""
X Link 2023-07-11T20:37Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Pithy definition of the Knowledge Problem by @corymassimino for @Econlib: "Achieving efficacy in the face of uncertainty or more accurately continually telling the efficacious from the inefficacious and trying to adjust accordingly.""
X Link 2023-08-08T17:59Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Gut-busting piece from @charlescwcooke: "If in the course of my daily life I were to encounter a person wandering around in public muttering about 'Dark Brandon' or the 'Trump Train' Id move my family to safety and then call the police.""
X Link 2023-08-09T19:41Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Right on @charlescwcooke. "As one cannot have a culture of ordered liberty without protecting the public from violence one cannot have a culture of ownership without protecting the public from theft.""
X Link 2023-08-15T02:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Fall quarter lineup: Greek and Roman Philosophy Ethics and the Arts Advanced Topics in Econometrics Environmental Science Excited to learn"
X Link 2023-09-12T02:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@GreenPlusAnE "Plato (Ancient Greek: Pltn 'wide broad-shouldered')":"
X Link 2023-12-04T18:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Just wrote the second draft of a script on black capital markets in Rocky I. . . I love my life"
X Link 2023-12-09T17:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
""Market dynamics reward well-run businesses. In interfering Trudeau is rewarding and preserving inefficiency." Good work by my friends April Liu and Ethan Yang:"
X Link 2023-12-20T19:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Yes "To the extent that classical liberalism today can show that love of the true the good and the beautiful can go hand-in-hand with the wealth liberties and complexities associated with markets the power and attraction of its ideas will surely grow." @DrSamuelGregg"
X Link 2024-03-27T16:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"The Intuit lobby must be stopped"
X Link 2024-04-14T21:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@PatrickC1995 Thanks Patrick. If that's even close to being true it's because I have incredible philosophy professors and peers at @dartmouth"
X Link 2024-05-23T19:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@DanielDiMartino Felcidades Tu madre tiene el mejor da por un cumpleaos 😉"
X Link 2024-07-19T16:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@JD_Tuccille 🎯 "As illiberalism rises across the political spectrum Democrats are leapfrogging authoritarianism to embrace a soft totalitarianism enforced by unofficial pressure and foreign allies subject to minimal restraints on their power." https://reason.com/2024/09/04/the-soft-totalitarianism-of-the-political-class/ https://reason.com/2024/09/04/the-soft-totalitarianism-of-the-political-class/"
X Link 2024-09-04T13:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Just as Palestinian civilians are not morally responsible for Hamas' atrocities American firms and citizens aren't responsible for the behavior of the state and its agents. Dont blame American companies for the fact that their tax dollars help fund military aid for Israel. https://t.co/iPClsSLaZJ Dont blame American companies for the fact that their tax dollars help fund military aid for Israel. https://t.co/iPClsSLaZJ"
X Link 2024-09-05T15:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@veroderugy 🏹🎯: "Permitting reform isn't just bureaucratic minutiae; it's a critical deeply moral issue for anyone who believes in free markets individual liberty and economic progress." https://reason.com/2024/09/05/the-governments-permitting-regime-is-choking-the-economy/ https://reason.com/2024/09/05/the-governments-permitting-regime-is-choking-the-economy/"
X Link 2024-09-05T15:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"The Dean: My dear fellow who will let you Howard Roark: Thats not the point. The point is who will stop me Ayn Rand The Fountainhead (1943) More permissionless innovation please"
X Link 2024-09-05T15:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@veroderugy debunks protectionist sophistry: "Overlooked by those claiming that 19th-century tariffs made America great is that the country's biggest import at the time was immigrants who incurred no tariffs." Friends @PhilWMagness & @D_A_Irwin cited https://reason.com/2024/09/19/no-trump-style-tariffs-do-not-grow-the-economy/ https://reason.com/2024/09/19/no-trump-style-tariffs-do-not-grow-the-economy/"
X Link 2024-09-19T17:34Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"If the European Commission would stop fining our firms we'd have even more capital to invest in R&D. The US is the future Europe is the past https://t.co/03NFazGzkH The US is the future Europe is the past https://t.co/03NFazGzkH"
X Link 2024-09-20T18:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"The modern Frederic Bastiat (@DominicJPino) excoriates economic sophists once again "The problem for Cass is not that economists do not consider the costs and benefits of tariffs. It is that they consistently find that the costs outweigh the benefits." Economists understand tariffs just fine. @oren_cass does not. New from me @NRO https://t.co/PSgfJFDAD9 Economists understand tariffs just fine. @oren_cass does not. New from me @NRO https://t.co/PSgfJFDAD9"
X Link 2024-09-27T13:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Artificially lowering insurance rates deprives homeowners of the very information that communicates the risk of Hurricane Helene's devastation and displacement. https://reason.com/2024/09/30/washington-worsened-hurricane-helenes-destruction/ https://reason.com/2024/09/30/washington-worsened-hurricane-helenes-destruction/"
X Link 2024-09-30T21:23Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@robbysoave Her penchant for sadism was known since the pandemic"
X Link 2024-10-10T20:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Another banger from @veroderugy: "Entrenched corporate interests shouldn't be rewarded by politicians with handouts at our expense. Neither should individuals singled out for favors by politicians on the campaign trail." https://reason.com/2024/10/24/neither-trump-nor-harris-wants-to-drain-the-swamp-they-want-you-to-join-it/ https://reason.com/2024/10/24/neither-trump-nor-harris-wants-to-drain-the-swamp-they-want-you-to-join-it/"
X Link 2024-10-24T15:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Don't get fat(ter) this election season from all your stress-eating; dose Ozempic instead Disclaimer: I am not sponsored by Novo Nordisk whose owners I'm sure would be horrified by this @reason article. https://reason.com/2024/10/30/to-get-through-the-election-use-ozempic/ https://reason.com/2024/10/30/to-get-through-the-election-use-ozempic/"
X Link 2024-10-31T14:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"For those stress-eating tonight: https://reason.com/2024/10/30/to-get-through-the-election-use-ozempic/ https://reason.com/2024/10/30/to-get-through-the-election-use-ozempic/"
X Link 2024-11-06T00:19Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"The median voter demands stable monetary policy 😎 The answer is inflation. People hate it. They don't know how to process it. They don't understand its effects. All parties must put avoiding inflation at the center of all policy choices. The answer is inflation. People hate it. They don't know how to process it. They don't understand its effects. All parties must put avoiding inflation at the center of all policy choices"
X Link 2024-11-06T15:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Even if you don't believe taxation is theft civil asset forfeiture undeniably is: https://www.cato.org/legal-briefs/martin-v-fbi# https://www.cato.org/legal-briefs/martin-v-fbi#"
X Link 2024-11-07T17:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Go northeast young man. Greenland YIMBY accelerationist (new political orientation just dropped) Greenland YIMBY accelerationist (new political orientation just dropped)"
X Link 2024-11-08T23:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ConservaMuse I love how I didn't even need to say I was channeling you @ConservaMuse"
X Link 2024-11-08T23:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Marxist Manichaeism and dialectical materialism aresearching for a word I can use in publicmistaken to say the least. Have you considered the possibility that maybe just maybe Marxist class theory is a historical error is misaligned with actual class interests and is mostly just a veneer for violent bands of crackpots wishing to wage coup d'etats in the name of people they don't represent Have you considered the possibility that maybe just maybe Marxist class theory is a historical error is misaligned with actual class interests and is mostly just a veneer for violent bands of crackpots"
X Link 2024-11-08T23:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@veroderugy reminds readers that libertarians are against all forms of welfare progressive and regressive alike. "It's fundamentally unfair to force taxpayers to invest in private companies against their will." https://reason.com/2024/11/08/how-donald-trump-and-elon-musk-could-cut-2-trillion-in-government-spending/ https://reason.com/2024/11/08/how-donald-trump-and-elon-musk-could-cut-2-trillion-in-government-spending/"
X Link 2024-11-11T17:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy Here's an easy one for the Department of Government Efficiency. Afuera The FTC calls the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authoritys $80 million budget prudent and cost-effective." https://t.co/oeuvsnJEmY The FTC calls the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authoritys $80 million budget prudent and cost-effective." https://t.co/oeuvsnJEmY"
X Link 2024-11-14T00:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"If you'd like @reason to be able to continue publishing incredibly unpopular content like my very own "Abolish Social Security" please consider donating to the magazine of free minds and free markets. (You'll be added to the Nice List 🎅) https://reason.com/donate/rfr=tw001&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=reason_webathon_2024 https://reason.com/donate/rfr=tw001&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=reason_webathon_2024"
X Link 2024-12-03T21:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"I share Billy's contempt for polyamory. True love is something like "the marriage of true minds" (Shakespeare) and "the complete fusion of the wills" (Montaigne). If the romantic union is complete it cannot be divided between multiple partners. 👩❤👨👩❤👩👨❤👨 The normalization of open relationships/polyamory is both very unhealthy & deeply weird. Slate scolds this person for not feeling A-OK about their daughter being in a throuple with multiple kids. People shouldnt pretend this is normal. Social shaming serves a purpose. The normalization of open relationships/polyamory is both very"
X Link 2024-12-04T18:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@veroderugy lucidly explains the connection between fiscal and monetary policy: "Higher inflation leads to higher interest rates which lead to higher debt-service costs which then require more government borrowing or money creation potentially fueling further inflation.""
X Link 2025-01-16T21:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Such an amendment is superfluous; the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in [----]. To honor it all levels of government must stop implementing programs that condition eligibility on immutable characteristics. Leveling outcomes is inimical to equality under the law. Today I'm affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: The 28th Amendment is the law of the land guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex. https://t.co/oZtS6Q89zG Today I'm affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the"
X Link 2025-01-17T19:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@gildeguerra ending birthright citizenship would "needlessly endanger the advantage we have in internal assimilation and stability." 🎯 https://thedispatch.com/article/birthright-citizenship-trump-implications/ https://thedispatch.com/article/birthright-citizenship-trump-implications/"
X Link 2025-01-20T18:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
""The right to free speech doesn't come with exceptionsnot for apps not for ideas not for politicians who think they know better than you."Rand Paul (being absolutely based) https://reason.com/2025/01/21/state-run-tiktok-coming-soon/ https://reason.com/2025/01/21/state-run-tiktok-coming-soon/"
X Link 2025-01-21T21:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@MacroscopeEcon The public choice explanation for distribution requirements is obvious: Professors from under-enrolled departments lobby for them. What's unclear to me is why administrators cave to these demands. Especially if not doing so means they could compete on price w/ competitor schools"
X Link 2025-01-30T21:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@veroderugy 🎯 "If we cheer when a president mostly governs by decree.to impose libertarian-leaning policies we have no principled basis on which to stand to object when the next administration uses.the same unchecked powers to expand government." https://reason.com/2025/03/03/how-would-milton-friedman-do-doge/ https://reason.com/2025/03/03/how-would-milton-friedman-do-doge/"
X Link 2025-03-03T21:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Competing with the Golden Arches on fries is certainly a strategy. .@sweetgreen is launching fries today - explicitly calling out their CLEAN ingredients compared to the 10+ components of McDonalds fries. We ate fries in the 1960s but werent chronically obese. Its about REAL food. https://t.co/GmxwqqAIH0 .@sweetgreen is launching fries today - explicitly calling out their CLEAN ingredients compared to the 10+ components of McDonalds fries. We ate fries in the 1960s but werent chronically obese. Its about REAL food. https://t.co/GmxwqqAIH0"
X Link 2025-03-04T19:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Check out my first vertical for @reason 🧡🤍 A full-circle moment for me: I was introduced to libertarianism by ReasonTV a decade ago and now Im on the channel 🥹 More videos to come 🤠 If the government accused you of a crime youd think the First Amendment would at least protect your right to defend yourself. And you'd be right But the Securities and Exchange Commission plays by its own set of rules. Reasons @jack_g_nicastro shares more. https://t.co/Rw6GcEacYF If the government accused you of a crime youd think the First Amendment would at least protect your right to defend yourself. And"
X Link 2025-04-18T00:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@jackbutler4815's review of the latest Mission: Impossible movie is erudite and wry (so a Jack Butler review). You should watch the movie in theaters but barring that you should at least read Butler's review: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/mission-impossible-in-cruise-we-trust/ https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/mission-impossible-in-cruise-we-trust/"
X Link 2025-05-27T20:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@EricBoehm87 🎯 "Trump would have converted Biden's meddling in the affairs of a private company into an official permanent place for the federal government on the board of U.S. Steelwhich is I stress once again a private company." https://reason.com/2025/05/27/nippon-steel-will-finally-get-to-buy-u-s-steel-the-deal-likely-ensures-more-federal-meddling-in-the-future/ https://reason.com/2025/05/27/nippon-steel-will-finally-get-to-buy-u-s-steel-the-deal-likely-ensures-more-federal-meddling-in-the-future/"
X Link 2025-06-16T18:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ConservaMuse My brother in Christ not the Red Hot Chili Peppers🙏✝"
X Link 2025-06-17T13:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@HughesAlex49068 @ConservaMuse @SamRaus1 @Polymarket Thank you for your dispatches from the Orient Mr. Hughes 🫡"
X Link 2025-06-17T13:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ConservaMuse Oriental has pejorative connotation. Orient is neutral I believe"
X Link 2025-06-17T13:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"First time at the White House Reporting for @reason"
X Link 2025-06-24T10:21Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"These guys gotta calm down. Ridiculous.Israel unloaded a lot.Thats not what we want. Im not happy about Israel either.President Donald Trump @reason"
X Link 2025-06-24T11:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"The SHSAT is essential to New Yorks specialized high schools. @emmma_camp_ reports @ZohranKMamdani would scrutinize the exam for gender and racial bias but the disparate admissions rates are not the result of discrimination. (1/2) https://reason.com/2025/06/26/will-zohran-mamdani-kill-the-best-thing-about-new-york-city-public-schools/ https://reason.com/2025/06/26/will-zohran-mamdani-kill-the-best-thing-about-new-york-city-public-schools/"
X Link 2025-06-26T15:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"It was a rousing debate Shout out to my friends (with whom I disagree) at @CityJournal @DanielDiMartino you work with some cool cats No plans on a Friday night Watch me and @CharlesFLehman debate legalizing all drugs👇🏽 No plans on a Friday night Watch me and @CharlesFLehman debate legalizing all drugs👇🏽"
X Link 2025-06-27T21:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Honored to represent @reason on the John Curley Show to explain why others aren't entitled to what you produce regardless of your productivity. Jack Nicastro (@jack_g_nicastro) from Reason Magazine (@reason) joined the John Curley Show to celebrate all things libertarian. #Libertarian #ReasonMagazine #MentalHealthMyths https://t.co/CYqcab8qIA Jack Nicastro (@jack_g_nicastro) from Reason Magazine (@reason) joined the John Curley Show to celebrate all things libertarian. #Libertarian #ReasonMagazine #MentalHealthMyths https://t.co/CYqcab8qIA"
X Link 2025-07-08T20:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"I advertise my affinity for eighties music but I'm also a big fan of the aughts. C Breezy is wonderful: https://youtu.be/5sMKX22BHeEsi=G3RGa8LsMad8JoCS https://youtu.be/5sMKX22BHeEsi=G3RGa8LsMad8JoCS"
X Link 2025-07-09T16:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"To recap: The FTC disobeyed the law by refusing to publish a preliminary regulatory analysis before issuing its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. This is actually why the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated its rule. I explain for @reason: https://reason.com/2025/07/10/the-8th-circuit-court-was-right-to-kill-the-ftcs-click-to-cancel-rule/ To recap: Firms have been making people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription trapping Americans in needless bureaucracy and wasting their time & money. @FTC began writing a click-to-cancel rule promoting efficient cancellation a rulemaking"
X Link 2025-07-10T17:23Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Message to young men: Dont goon over AI models (pun intended) or e-girls. Cultivate yourself: Exercise; read broadly; learn delicious recipes languages and skills; hang out with friends and family IRL; get [--] hours of sleep; and engage with members of the opposite sex. JFC https://t.co/qFQGphg3SO https://t.co/qFQGphg3SO"
X Link 2025-07-16T22:22Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"What digital sector The American digital sector. The European Commission's tech and AI regulations are an exercise of sharp power against the United States. (Assaulting American productivity makes me outright jingoistic😤🦅) Recent EU regulations in the digital sector. [---] pages. Good luck complying with it. https://t.co/n52CgfI8Zm Recent EU regulations in the digital sector. [---] pages. Good luck complying with it. https://t.co/n52CgfI8Zm"
X Link 2025-07-22T20:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"In this article I cover @CatoInstitute's @RominaBoccia and @Ivanachkebia's eye-opening analysis of what raising the Social Security payroll tax rate would mean for young workers. (Shout out to Krit Chanwong for pioneering the methodology) If the payroll tax rate is increased to make Social Security solvent the median young worker will be out at least $2432 a year. https://t.co/lh3m1Mub6R If the payroll tax rate is increased to make Social Security solvent the median young worker will be out at least $2432 a year. https://t.co/lh3m1Mub6R"
X Link 2025-07-22T21:04Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Been seeing a lot of homophobic responses to my dear friend @robbysoaves engagement. Marriage is essentially the romantic partnership of two people; the sex of the partners is accidental to the union. Conservatives who care about pair-bonding should celebrate gay marriage. Some personal news from my Sicily trip earlier this month in case anyone missed it: I got engaged 💍 https://t.co/VD3YVKWvOy Some personal news from my Sicily trip earlier this month in case anyone missed it: I got engaged 💍 https://t.co/VD3YVKWvOy"
X Link 2025-07-23T13:28Z [---] followers, 62.6K engagements
"I think that child-rearing is accidental to marriage. I imagine as I am not one yet that parenting is one of theif not the singlemost rewarding activities a person can possibly perform but I believe a marriage is essentially a romantic union of soul mates. I want to marry a man but it does make more sense to me that marriage is Between a man and a woman with the purpose procreating. It does not mean that not having kids makes the marriage invalid but that is the purpose of it. Since two perfectly healthy men cant have kids. I want to marry a man but it does make more sense to me that marriage"
X Link 2025-07-23T15:36Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@PatrickC1995 @robbysoave I think its the metaphysically correct definition. I dont care about what particularly religious traditions contend"
X Link 2025-07-23T18:28Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"1. A medium of exchange [--]. A unit of account [--]. A store of value "There is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is." -- Anthropologist who has never opened a book in monetary theory. "There is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is." -- Anthropologist who has never opened a book in monetary theory"
X Link 2025-07-25T20:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Buchanan uses a hypothetical game theory matrix to explain why the rules of the game change as beliefs about benefits enjoyed in the Hobbesian state of nature change. Sounds really wonky but Buchanan explains it so succinctly and intelligibly. Issues accurate predictions IMO The self-madeseek to provide their children with fortunes that the latter will accept only with guilt.James Buchanan Before Public Choice Jim explains that the scions of the wealthy are more concerned about distribution due to their dearth of human capital/ability/merit The self-madeseek to provide their children with"
X Link 2025-07-26T18:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"once we begin to thinkabout the disparities between existing imputations and those estimated to be forthcoming under some idealized anarchy we are necessarily precludingthe achievement of potential structural changes that might increase the size of the pie for all"
X Link 2025-07-26T18:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"And the trees are all kept equal By hatchet Ax And saw 🎵🎸 This is the logical end of equality of outcome/opportunity. The only just egalitarianism is the moral-legal kind. Reject tyrannical envy. Read to your kids https://t.co/rMWDqSeclb Read to your kids https://t.co/rMWDqSeclb"
X Link 2025-07-27T20:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"The retail service in Austria is abysmal. God bless the USA 🗽🦅 (Service sector workers have been great though)"
X Link 2025-08-04T12:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Deploying federal troops is one of many ways to increase the expected cost of committing violent crime in DC. Another way is simply to respect the Constitution and the Supreme Court's decision in Bruen: DC must allow its residents to openly bear arms"
X Link 2025-08-11T20:31Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Props to the Zuck for evading bullshit local laws The New York Times goes full Karen on Mark Zuckerberg for the crime of. wait for it. homeschooling his kids. "They suspected the house was being used as a school" notesthe Times "and they were right." The scandal https://t.co/ZuAa5I1AMh The New York Times goes full Karen on Mark Zuckerberg for the crime of. wait for it. homeschooling his kids. "They suspected the house was being used as a school" notesthe Times "and they were right." The scandal https://t.co/ZuAa5I1AMh"
X Link 2025-08-15T07:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@averyfjames Tesla's neural processing units mount directly onto Hardware [--] circuit board. Nvidia's H100 GPUs use the PCIe Gen [--] or SXM5 interfaces. Setting aside wattage requirements the Nvidia tech can't interface with a Tesla (I believe) https://docs.nvidia.com/launchpad/ai/h100-mig/latest/h100-mig-gpu.html https://www.autopilotreview.com/tesla-hardware-4-rolling-out-to-new-vehicles/ https://docs.nvidia.com/launchpad/ai/h100-mig/latest/h100-mig-gpu.html https://www.autopilotreview.com/tesla-hardware-4-rolling-out-to-new-vehicles/"
X Link 2025-08-15T16:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@averyfjames TSMC produces Nvidia's H100 (and basically all other GPUs) using a 4-nanometer architecture. Tesla is suspected of partnering with Samsung to deploy Hardware [--] with 4N architecture. I'm far from a technical expert but it seems to me that TSMC's 4N fabs could serve this purpose"
X Link 2025-08-15T16:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@WillRinehart Youre spot on. Its the acquisition thats wrong"
X Link 2025-08-15T16:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@kmanguward ChatGPT gets right to it"
X Link 2025-08-19T17:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@RichardMorrison @abundanceinst Where can I get one @abundanceinst"
X Link 2025-08-25T15:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Bro Di Martino is mogging MAGA socialists 💪😎 My thoughts on the Intel takeover by the government https://t.co/jMG3nybv6c My thoughts on the Intel takeover by the government https://t.co/jMG3nybv6c"
X Link 2025-08-27T02:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A little more info on how a Section [---] furniture tariff might impact one of America's favorite budget brands: IKEA (1/4) Full piece here: https://reason.com/2025/08/27/trumps-furniture-tariffs-will-make-it-harder-to-turn-your-house-into-a-home/ Levying a tariff on imported furniture is a funny way of delivering price relief to American families. https://t.co/A0uoCzsMeH https://reason.com/2025/08/27/trumps-furniture-tariffs-will-make-it-harder-to-turn-your-house-into-a-home/ Levying a tariff on imported furniture is a funny way of delivering price relief to American families."
X Link 2025-08-27T14:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Unlike Wayfair IKEA owns and sources its inventory from imports its thousands of products from [--] countries. Still the company might escape impending furniture tariffs entirely: The U.S. and E.U. reached an agreement on Thursday that the total tariff rate. (2/4)"
X Link 2025-08-27T14:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@peter_c_earle Can confirm. Article forthcoming. 😏"
X Link 2025-09-02T14:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"1. Net tariff revenue Jan-July was only $136 billion [--]. Foreign direct investment in the first quarter of was $52.8 billion down 34% from Q4 [--] [--]. Employment grew by 597k Jan-Julyit grew by over 1M Jan-July [----] https://reason.com/2025/09/02/the-white-house-says-trumps-tariffs-have-raised-8-trillion-in-revenue-thats-not-even-close/ LABOR DAY 🤝 GOLDEN AGE President Trumps protectionist trade policies have helped drive more than $8 trillion in new U.S. investment creating hundreds of thousands of jobs. https://t.co/kYPb2vS6hp"
X Link 2025-09-02T21:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@peter_c_earle And here it is: https://reason.com/2025/09/02/the-white-house-says-trumps-tariffs-have-raised-8-trillion-in-revenue-thats-not-even-close/ https://reason.com/2025/09/02/the-white-house-says-trumps-tariffs-have-raised-8-trillion-in-revenue-thats-not-even-close/"
X Link 2025-09-02T21:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Happy to report that my parents treated me like a rational being growing up which is why Im now (mostly 😅) a rational adult. "Do what I say." "Why" "Because I said so." Authoritarian parenting can lead to unhappy anxious children who grow into dependent authoritarian adults. A free society depends on autonomous individuals. https://t.co/YKYt61iHfW "Do what I say." "Why" "Because I said so." Authoritarian parenting can lead to unhappy anxious children who grow into dependent authoritarian adults. A free society depends on autonomous individuals. https://t.co/YKYt61iHfW"
X Link 2025-09-04T22:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"For those of you who do not yet support the Second Amendment I encourage you to reconsider in light of this information. Oh and the myriad democides of the 20th century. Remember that police and prosecutors disclaim any legal duty to protect you from violence. Any protection they do provide is offered purely as a matter of largesse and with marginal competence. In the eyes of the state youre on your ownact accordingly. https://t.co/io5zZTa352 https://t.co/DjL8zuXbzs Remember that police and prosecutors disclaim any legal duty to protect you from violence. Any protection they do provide is"
X Link 2025-09-08T13:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"People have rights. One of those rights is that of exit. Rich people areand I know this is crazy so bear with mepeople. Ergo rich people have the right to exit. They should exercise this right to leave NYC for a city more welcoming of wealth creators. 🌎 🤷♂ "How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New Yorks Next Mayor" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector. https://t.co/oIxZwx77Rq "How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New Yorks Next Mayor" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons."
X Link 2025-09-10T13:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Benthamsbulldog Exactly right Bentham. Carls post is a pathetic attempt to precipitate a civil war by creating a Manichean political divide"
X Link 2025-09-13T02:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"You too can work with the cool cats at @reason and @ReasonFdn 😎🐱 Applications for spring internships are open. Check 'em out https://reason.org/internships/ https://reason.org/internships/"
X Link 2025-09-15T20:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Despite sickening instances of leftist vitriol following Charlie Kirk's murder polling taken after the tragedy shows that most American liberals reject political violence and denounce its celebration. Basic decency is found on both sides of the aisle. https://reason.com/2025/09/16/j-d-vance-says-26-percent-of-young-liberals-justify-political-violence-heres-what-the-data-really-say/ https://reason.com/2025/09/16/j-d-vance-says-26-percent-of-young-liberals-justify-political-violence-heres-what-the-data-really-say/"
X Link 2025-09-16T18:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""Suppose that the need for direct human consumption of tobacco should disappear as the result of a change in tastes."Carl Menger Principles of Economics Why would Menger want us to suppose such a horrific thing (Also prescient.)"
X Link 2025-09-24T20:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Menger generates an indifference curve between food and tobacco: "if his need for food is already satisfied up to a certain degree of completeness.consumption of tobacco begins to have the same importance to him as further satisfaction of his need for food." Nice"
X Link 2025-09-24T21:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Excellent explainer by @maggiemoda on the irrelevance of the trade deficit/surplus to national well being: https://youtu.be/UfFv5YkrgGssi=3Edf1U8xESVc0jDY https://youtu.be/UfFv5YkrgGssi=3Edf1U8xESVc0jDY"
X Link 2025-09-30T13:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@veroderugy is right. Data from @SIAAmerica show that China makes up a substantial plurality only of the least valuable parts of the semiconductor supply chain while US companies dominate the most valuable parts. US market share by global sales revenue = 50.4%. China = 4.5% Its astonishing the nonsense that comes out of our Commerce Secretarys mouth. The reality is simple: the high-value parts of the iPhone are already made heredesign software chips. The low-value assembly happens abroad because no one in America would work for the wages those Its astonishing the nonsense that comes out of"
X Link 2025-09-30T17:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@veroderugy @SIAAmerica Semiconductor Industry Association's (@SIAAmerica) "State of the U.S. Semiconductor Industry" [----] report: https://www.semiconductors.org/2025-state-of-the-u-s-semiconductor-industry/ https://www.semiconductors.org/2025-state-of-the-u-s-semiconductor-industry/"
X Link 2025-09-30T17:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"BREAKING: @ride_empower is holding a rally in front of the White House tomorrow at [--] p.m. to protest the cease and desist issued by @MayorBowsers @DC_DFHV. If the C&D is not withdrawn Empowers DC operations will stop this Friday October [--] at the latest"
X Link 2025-10-06T22:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This is like saying the world would be better if scarcity didn't exist. Yes Eden is nicer than Earth: a world of moderate scarcity (Hume FTW) where we must make productive and allocative decisions. The price system of profit-and-loss accounting is the best way to do so. OBAMA: Betters good were not gonna get to perfect. Do I think single-payer with no profit motive wouldve been smarter Absolutely. President Obama tells Maron the ACA was a compromise because he didnt have the votes for what he really wanted. #MedicareForAll https://t.co/ATpURv8FjQ OBAMA: Betters good were not gonna get to"
X Link 2025-10-14T19:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Trump accuses meat packers of 'criminally profiting' off Americans There are several reasons why beef prices are at a record high. Collusion isn't one of them"
X Link 2025-11-10T22:18Z [----] followers, 18.2K engagements
"Coming soon to the U.S. Supreme Court: Are tariffs taxes The correct answer is: Yes even when they are also regulations. Whether the Court agrees could determine the future of presidential power"
X Link 2025-10-20T17:32Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Review: 'KPop Demon Hunters' is a Netflix musical about harmony A girl group battles a demon boy band in the wildly popular Netflix musical"
X Link 2025-11-07T11:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Trump administration's latest housing 'fix' could create a bubble Socializing risk to subsidize demand isn't a solution to the housing crisis but it is a good start to another financial crisis"
X Link 2025-11-12T19:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The DoorDash-Klarna collaboration is nothing new The partnership gives Americans the ability to smooth their consumption spending just as credit cards do"
X Link 2025-03-24T20:56Z [----] followers, 216K engagements
"Why a patchwork of state AI regulations could threaten U.S. innovation Without federal preemption a regulatory thicket of state AI laws threatens to slow the technology's development"
X Link 2025-12-04T18:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Polymarket returns to U.S. users after a nearly 3-year hiatus The online betting company allows you to stake money on future events"
X Link 2026-01-05T21:40Z [----] followers, 10.7K engagements
"Billionaires are fleeing California to avoid a proposed wealth tax The proposed wealth tax may end up lowering tax revenue for California by driving billionaires out of the state"
X Link 2026-01-14T13:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Bill de Blasios NYC school reforms cut standards but didnt lift diversity New York City's specialized high schools face falling standards and little progress on diversity under Discovery reforms"
X Link 2025-12-03T19:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Review: 'The Sound of Music' is an anti-authoritarian musical The 65-year-old musical's depiction of an us-vs.-them mentality remains poignant"
X Link 2025-12-19T11:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"AI might help doctors be more efficient A Northwestern University clinical study found that generative AI sped up radiology documentation by [----] percent"
X Link 2025-11-19T01:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Donald Trump says he'll 'be involved' in Warner Bros. merger Paramount Skydance is banking on the Ellison family's relationship with Trump following Netflix outbidding the company to acquire Warner Bros"
X Link 2025-12-08T21:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Trump blames illegal immigrants for high housing prices. Blame zoning instead. Low-skilled immigrants would expand the supply of housing more than they increase demand if local governments would just allow new construction"
X Link 2025-12-18T16:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This Black Friday thank globalization for affordable gifts Capitalism and globalization have made it easier than ever to get gifts for the special people in our lives"
X Link 2025-11-28T12:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"AI art in 'Call of Duty' leads Ro Khanna to call for more regulation Khanna's proposal is sweeping: a tax on mass displacement that would throttle technological adoption and slow economic growth"
X Link 2025-11-17T20:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"U.S. quartz manufacturers want to make kitchen countertops even more expensive Their trade group filed a petition asking the government to impose quotas and a [--] percent tariff on all imported quartz"
X Link 2026-01-15T17:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Washingtons state capital voted against increasing the minimum wage Olympia residents apparently did not learn from Seattles experience that minimum wage hikes do not improve the welfare of the worst off in society"
X Link 2025-11-05T15:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Trump's [--] percent tariff on chip imports is really an export tax The order imposes duties on China-bound AI chips if chipmakers don't invest in American semiconductor fabrication"
X Link 2026-01-21T02:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"California AI regulations affect everyone in the U.S. Federalism works best when state-level policy experiments stay contained"
X Link 2025-09-17T17:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"New York City can't afford Mamdani's campaign promises Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor by promising New Yorkers free programs and services with their own money"
X Link 2025-11-05T02:38Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements
"The White House says Trumps tariffs have raised $8 trillion in revenue. Thats not even close. The administration attributed the $8 trillion figure both to new investment and to tariff revenue. So which is it Neither"
X Link 2025-09-02T21:22Z [----] followers, 15.6K engagements
"Cant afford to visit New York city for Christmas Blame the city government. The city has removed tens of thousands of rooms available to tourists while making it significantly harder to build and expand hotels"
X Link 2025-12-19T16:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Trump sides with MAGA dynamists over nativists in high-skilled immigration debate The president is alarming the MAGA faithful by saying he wants more high-skilled immigration. But that doesnt mean hes rethinking the rest of his nativism"
X Link 2025-11-15T18:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"USPS Spent $3 Billion on Its New Partially Electric Truck Fleet Oshkosh Defenses USPS van is thousands of dollars more expensive than the industry standard"
X Link 2025-12-16T23:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"New behind the scenes pics of Jackson Yee decorating his birthday cake🥹 Jackson Yee Studio # #yiyangqianxi #JacksonYee https://t.co/U2EAtzYeQz If antitrust regulators allow the deal to go through consumers stand to benefit from a less expensive NetflixHBO Max bundle"
X Link 2025-12-04T06:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"These small business owners explain how Trump's tariffs are more of an 'existential crisis' than COVID President Donald Trump says his tariffs protect American businesses but more than [---] small businesses represented by We Pay The Tariffs beg to differ"
X Link 2025-10-30T15:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Virginia company joins Supreme Court battle against Trumps tariffs Crutchfield Corporation a Charlottesville-based and family-owned electronics retailer is supporting challenges to the presidents tariffs"
X Link 2025-10-27T21:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Live Nation's and Ticketmaster's merger isn't to blame for high pricesyou are Antitrust enforcers at the Justice Department and the FTC have singled out Live Nation as a scapegoat for concertgoers' insatiable appetites"
X Link 2025-10-22T13:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Meta's victory over the Federal Trade Commission shows the market moves faster than antitrust enforcement The federal government's yearslong case to label Meta a monopoly ended on Tuesday when a federal court ruled in favor of the tech giant"
X Link 2025-11-19T21:03Z [----] followers, 11.2K engagements
"Trump threatens NATO members with tariffs paid almost entirely by Americans Threatening European allies to further tax American citizens is unlikely to persuade them to surrender Greenland to the United States"
X Link 2026-01-20T20:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The new USPS electric vehicles cost $22000 more than other electric vans With commercial vehicles readily available cheaper and already used in its fleet why did the USPS commission new ones from Oshkosh Defense"
X Link 2026-01-14T16:16Z [----] followers, 39.5K engagements
"As tariff case heads to the Supreme Court Trump's strongest argument has a fatal flaw The International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn't grant the president the power to regulate imports with tariffs"
X Link 2025-11-04T20:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Federal Reserve defers to Donald Trump by cutting interest rates by [--] points The Federal Open Market Committee lowered the federal funds rate for the third meeting in a row despite elevated inflation"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Trumps lawyer at SCOTUS cites a letter from Madison that says tariffs are taxes During oral argument at the Supreme Court Solicitor General John Sauer cited a letter by James Madison that completely undermines the administrations case that its tariffs are legal"
X Link 2025-11-07T17:45Z [----] followers, 22.3K engagements
"House Republicans just voted to give even more tariff power away to Trump House Republicans passed a resolution that prevents Congress from ending the national emergency Trump is using to impose tariffs until March 31"
X Link 2025-09-17T20:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The New Right is embracing Carl Schmitt's friend-enemy worldview When conservatives reject constitutional limits on executive power and foment civil conflict what exactly are they conserving"
X Link 2025-09-26T18:19Z [----] followers, 354.4K engagements
"Come to @reason to watch @justzuckerman @Nat_Dowzicky @jimepstein @cesarbaezc and Cody Huff's documentary about D.C.'s elimination of the tipped minimum wage https://reason.org/event/premiere-of-reasons-backpage-documentary-panel-discussion-2/ https://reason.org/event/premiere-of-reasons-backpage-documentary-panel-discussion-2/"
X Link 2024-11-11T20:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Listen I'm also upset that the shutdown has delayed the release of @BLS_gov's September Employment Situation but it's simply not true that w/o it businesses and policymakers are "flying blind" as @LeilaFadelwhose coverage I appreciatesaid today on @UpFirst 1/4"
X Link 2025-10-03T21:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"For example @ADP uses payroll data from more than 500k companies and 26m employees to publish its National Employment Report (NER) every month. Its September NER published Wednesday found that private sector employment declined by [-----] workers. 2/4 https://mediacenter.adp.com/2025-10-01-ADP-National-Employment-Report-Private-Sector-Employment-Shed-32000-Jobs-in-September-Annual-Pay-was-Up-4-5 https://mediacenter.adp.com/2025-10-01-ADP-National-Employment-Report-Private-Sector-Employment-Shed-32000-Jobs-in-September-Annual-Pay-was-Up-4-5"
X Link 2025-10-03T21:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
""Scalpers" are good for the economy. Sorry. Auctions and price discrimination ensure efficient allocation of scarce resources: seats in this case. Oh and concert ticket resale is 2% of Live Nation's revenue and its market share is less than 20% https://reason.com/2025/10/22/live-nations-merger-with-ticketmaster-isnt-responsible-for-high-resale-prices-you-are/ Facing litigation from the FTC Live Nation agrees to further crackdowns on ticket brokers. The fact of the matter is that "scalpers" have plenty of ways to get tickets to those who value them the most. https://t.co/lwVn01Qg5j"
X Link 2025-10-22T14:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@PGunigantiAT I agree; artists should allow primary ticket sellers to engage in dynamic pricing. But they don't because it's costly to appear greedy in the eyes of fans. Similarly primary ticket sellers don't do so for fear of misguided antitrust action. So scalpers to the rescue"
X Link 2025-10-22T21:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@PGunigantiAT If the primary ticket sellers (StubHub SeatGeek Ticketmaster) engaged in dynamic pricing they would enjoy greater producer surplus which could be interpreted by antitrust enforcers as evidence of pricing power acquired through illegal anticompetitive conduct"
X Link 2025-10-23T01:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@PGunigantiAT Im glad to hear it. Do you know how antitrust officials weigh diminished consumer surplus when more consumers are served in instances of dynamic pricing For instance with perfect price discrimination CS = [--] but consumers with lower willingness to pay (p=mc) are served"
X Link 2025-10-23T02:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Gilmore Girls fans must listen: https://spotify.link/nosHx9wtHXb https://spotify.link/nosHx9wtHXb"
X Link 2025-10-23T12:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I harbor great antipathy for Zohran Mamdanis policy proposals but not quite as much as I do for such braindead illiberalism. Mamdani will be mayor because New Yorkers() will have elected a pinko; immigration restrictionism will not stop this fatal attraction. Only reality. I fully support deporting Zohran Mamdani. Im tired of pretending citizenship is a right for foreigners. Hes not assimilated into our culture. Not with his habits not with his religion and not with his ideology. The federal government should be able to much easier strip https://t.co/VoL6cLKwov I fully support deporting"
X Link 2025-10-26T13:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Just now learning that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission forced @Polymarket to ban U.S. users in [----]. Excited to see it return (hopefully) before the end of the year. I have some bets I'd like to make"
X Link 2025-10-28T17:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"One of the greatest ironies of the Trump's IEEPA tariffs is that they're seriously harming the very entities they're purported to "protect": American businesses. Read all about it: (Shout out to @WePayTheTariffs) https://reason.com/2025/10/30/these-small-business-owners-explain-how-trumps-tariffs-are-more-of-an-existential-crisis-than-covid/ If the president's tariffs aren't protecting consumers or businesses whom exactly are they protecting https://t.co/g3ZLbF4adr"
X Link 2025-10-30T16:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Read all about how Trump's IEEPA tariffs have crippled small American businesses here: https://reason.com/2025/10/30/these-small-business-owners-explain-how-trumps-tariffs-are-more-of-an-existential-crisis-than-covid/ Making America Great Again by. forcing small business owners to leverage their own homes to pay tariff bills: https://t.co/LRNp0CCc57 https://reason.com/2025/10/30/these-small-business-owners-explain-how-trumps-tariffs-are-more-of-an-existential-crisis-than-covid/ Making America Great Again by. forcing small business owners to leverage their own homes to pay tariff bills:"
X Link 2025-10-30T21:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.H. L. Mencken. I'm sorry to say that my fellow New Yorkers are going to get what they asked for. Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City. Here are six of his promises that are doomed to fail. https://t.co/q7cxeEecT6 Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City. Here are six of his promises that are doomed to fail. https://t.co/q7cxeEecT6"
X Link 2025-11-05T02:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"We went from Gipper and Red Dawn in the 80s to this My how the country has fallen The tankies can have my property when they pry it from my cold dead fingers 🗽 Luckily New Yorkers are not a representative of sample of Americans most of whom are red-blooded freedom lovers Hasan Piker just went full mask off at the Zohran election victory party declares it a tragedy that the USA defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War. AOC embraced him on camera just two minutes before he said this https://t.co/2VynJOL7BK Hasan Piker just went full mask off at the Zohran election victory party declares it a"
X Link 2025-11-05T11:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Justice Sotomayor just pressed Solicitor General Sauer on why IEEPA's purported tariff power should apply to "importation" and not "exportation"which is explicitly unconstitutional. The lawyers I spoke to on background called it and I wrote about it: https://reason.com/2025/11/04/as-tariff-case-heads-to-the-supreme-court-trumps-strongest-argument-has-a-fatal-flaw/ https://reason.com/2025/11/04/as-tariff-case-heads-to-the-supreme-court-trumps-strongest-argument-has-a-fatal-flaw/"
X Link 2025-11-05T15:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Italian Americans are truly the most oppressed minority in the U.S. First the Dems attack Columbus Day. Second the Republicans attack Italian pasta. Theres truly no end to the injustice ✊ Ok this is out of control 107% tariffs on Italian pasta https://t.co/sOOZottaPe Ok this is out of control 107% tariffs on Italian pasta https://t.co/sOOZottaPe"
X Link 2025-11-10T15:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Read all about Trump's bullshit theory of rising beef prices here: https://reason.com/2025/11/10/trump-baselessly-accuses-meat-packers-of-criminally-profiting-at-the-expense-of-the-american-people/ "Greedflation" narratives are all but expected from Democrats. Now the Republican president is baselessly accusing meat packers of "criminally profiting at the expense of the American People." https://t.co/p98Y6ovcXM https://reason.com/2025/11/10/trump-baselessly-accuses-meat-packers-of-criminally-profiting-at-the-expense-of-the-american-people/ "Greedflation" narratives are all but expected from"
X Link 2025-11-10T22:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Rafa_Mangual An armed society is a polite society. New York City is neither"
X Link 2025-11-11T02:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Learned a lot today about the role Fannie Mae Freddie Mac and the Department of Housing and Urban Development played in the [----] financial crisis. Holy shit. Helpful links for young ignorant people like myself: [--]. [--]. [--]. https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-267.htm https://reason.com/2012/05/17/the-financial-crisis-was-the-result-of-g/ https://reason.org/commentary/fannie-and-freddies-role-in-causing/ https://reason.com/2012/05/17/the-financial-crisis-was-the-result-of-g/ https://reason.org/commentary/fannie-and-freddies-role-in-causing/ https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-267.htm"
X Link 2025-11-11T22:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@1stMETALStriker @reason Sorry. I tried my best. Thanks for watching"
X Link 2025-11-17T18:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@ConservaMuse Can you really still not get behind betting markets JUST IN: The odds of nothing happening this month continue to rise. https://t.co/NADDZrN25r JUST IN: The odds of nothing happening this month continue to rise. https://t.co/NADDZrN25r"
X Link 2025-11-17T21:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@sarahsteelex @DrSamuelGregg Instead of the positive-sum world in which we really do live (As recognized by classical liberals free marketeers and everyone who has taken and passed an introductory microeconomics course)"
X Link 2025-11-19T17:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"TFW you're a penniless working-age Zoomer and you realize your tax dollars are funding the lifestyles of rich retirees interest on the debt and straight-up Fourteenth Amendment violations. $1.16 Million going to Asian Americans for Equality in the latest Senate appropriations bills. Lots more taxpayer-funded payouts too. See replies for more. https://t.co/h5wgLdgMZm $1.16 Million going to Asian Americans for Equality in the latest Senate appropriations bills. Lots more taxpayer-funded payouts too. See replies for more. https://t.co/h5wgLdgMZm"
X Link 2025-11-19T19:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I was a philosophical and political anarchist after reading @Michael__Huemer's The Problem of Political Authority but came back to constitutional liberalism after exploring James Buchanan's constitutional public choice literature with @mungowitz. (I think Buchanan presents a persuasive hypothetical social contract argument for how a kind of constitutional republic is what anyone/everyone would stipulate to in the state of nature.) So although my beliefs are the subject of @PerBylund's ire I regard his essay as cogent persuasive and challenging to respond to. I highly recommend reading it My"
X Link 2025-11-20T20:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Huh Would you look at that: Manufacturing employment has been steadily decreasing since "Liberation Day." I guess the president wanted to liberate American manufacturing employees from their jobs Graph created using the seasonally adjusted manufacturing employment data from Table B-1 of the BLS Employment Situation March-September [----]. (Data for September and August = preliminary) Data and links to sources here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTA_rd7j2oFO-RgE8EmKXUauL1yMTbFU0bsSGKWtGbyxbIQX-6Yc-5Jmv_Yba0TwexrEeIPlEOXJSUa/pubhtmlgid=0&single=true"
X Link 2025-11-21T16:43Z [----] followers, 148.3K engagements
"Federalist 51: If Men were angels no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place oblige it to control itself"
X Link 2025-11-22T00:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Noahpinion When the cost of production was higher movies had to be good i.e. expected to do well at the box office to justify investment. Now that the cost of production is so low shitty movies are more likely to be profitable so they're made"
X Link 2025-11-24T18:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Alex Tabarrok and Eric Helland explain the Baumol effect well in Why Are the Prices So Damn High As other sectors become more efficient the relative cost of slow-growth sectors (such as health care and education) increases. In other words doctors haven't gotten "faster" at healing people so the relative price of their time climbs. (Of course there are rent-seeking reasons that partially explain why the relatively slower productivity growth of the health care and education sectors)"
X Link 2025-11-26T23:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@quant_____ From my piece: https://reason.com/2025/11/17/ai-vs-paperwork/ https://reason.com/2025/11/17/ai-vs-paperwork/"
X Link 2025-11-26T23:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"1998 was perhaps the peak of race relations in the United States. I hope we can get back to this in my lifetime. https://share.google/ebUEtrummsQqaf0sv https://share.google/ebUEtrummsQqaf0sv"
X Link 2025-11-28T18:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This is awesome CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets. A new era of media is here. https://t.co/uXLlWVLjQs CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets. A new era of media is here. https://t.co/uXLlWVLjQs"
X Link 2025-12-03T17:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@BilldeBlasio said his expanded Discovery Program effective fall [----] would offer seats at the city's specialized high schools to students "who just missed the test cut-off." The above is the actual difference between the minimum score required for admission to Stuyvesant the most competitive of the specialized high schools through the regular admissions process and through the Discovery Program (pre- and post-Discovery Program expansion) per official NYC DOE data I recently obtained from a Freedom Of Information Law Request. Before the program's expansion the difference was [--] points. Two"
X Link 2025-12-03T20:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@jacobjamesrich Paging @kmanguward"
X Link 2025-12-04T13:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Diana_in_Winter @EphieBernstein Absolutely not. Merely sharing the heuristic I use to help myself remember Thanks in advance for reading my work"
X Link 2025-12-04T20:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Following @christopherrufo and @rk_thorpe's reporting for the @ManhattanInst on Somali fraud rings in Minnesota President Donald Trump referred to Somalians as "garbage" said "I don't want them in our country" and terminated the Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota. It is true that [--] percent of those charged so far with defrauding Minnesota's Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) benefit Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) benefit and the Federal Child Nutrition Program (FCNP) were of Somali descent. (79/87 of the defendants including Hassan.) This"
X Link 2025-12-12T18:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Let's start by assuming that every cent of the $302 million disbursed through HSS from 2021-the first six months of [----] were fraudulently acquired and done so solely by Somalis. (Source: The first eight people charged in connection to HSS fraud earned $8.4 million over this time period. (Source: Ibid) Therefore let's assume each HSS fraudster fleeces the program for $1.05 million. $302 million/$1.05 million/fraudster = [---] fraudsters including those [--] already charged. For the sake of the exercise we (uncharitably) assume every single one is of Somali descent. Next let's figure out how many"
X Link 2025-12-12T18:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The type of care that Hassan claimed to have been administering through the EIDBI program was one-on-one ABA autism therapy (procedure code 97153) facilitated by behavioral technicians. (Source: In Minnesota Medicaid reimburses a maximum amount of $80.68 per hour ($20.17 per [--] minutes) for this kind of autism therapy. (Like HSS EIDBI is a Medicaid benefit.) (Source: The Justice Department alleges that "Hassan submitted claims seeking reimbursement for the maximum number of hours permitted by Medicaid. (Source: The maximum number of hours authorized for Medicaid reimbursement for this"
X Link 2025-12-12T18:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"78 defendants of Somali descent charged with defrauding HSS EIDBI and FCNP + [---] HSS fraudsters (excluding those eight already charged by the Justice Department) + [--] EIDBI fraud orchestrators (excluding Hassan) + [----] complicit in defrauding EIDBI = [----] fraudsters and colluders of Somali descent. [---] percent of the total population of [-----] Minnesotans of Somali descent. (Source: Even under the most uncharitable assumptions the vast majority of Somali-Minnesotans are not implicated by the HSS EIDBI and FCNP scandals. This should come as no surprise: "The Somali adult (18-54) immigrant"
X Link 2025-12-12T18:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"So much of the immigrant blame is baseless. Trump blamed illegal immigrants for high housing prices last night; I have a piece coming out today that details the economic ignorance of this claim. SPOILER: The signage of immigration's effect on shelter prices (rent and home prices) is a function of immigrant education level and zoning restrictions. TPUSA hosting a session titled "Immigrants are causing all the problems actually" at their conference now. Led by J6 Capitol occupier and Nick Fuentes friend John Doyle. This is like the leftists who blame white men for their problems just replace"
X Link 2025-12-18T15:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Last Thursday Trump claimed that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is predicted to come in at over 5%. Trump appears to have confused the Atlanta Federal Reserves estimate of annualized Q4 GDP growth which was [---] percent at the time of Trumps Truth Social Post with annual GDP growth. (Fitch Ratings estimated last Thursday that U.S. GDP grew by [---] percent in 2025: the rate around which yearly economic growth has hovered for decades. ) President Donald Trump also celebrated the lowest Trade Deficit since 2009." Bureau of Labor Statistics data reveals the misleading nature of this statement. The"
X Link 2026-01-14T15:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Read all about Postal Service's profligate relationship with Oshkosh Defense here: https://reason.com/2026/01/14/the-postal-services-next-generation-electric-delivery-vehicles-cost-22000-more-than-other-electric-vans/ The government can't make the EV transition happen within its own postal service but it thought it could do it for all of society. https://reason.com/2026/01/14/the-postal-services-next-generation-electric-delivery-vehicles-cost-22000-more-than-other-electric-vans/ The government can't make the EV transition happen within its own postal service but it thought it could do it for"
X Link 2026-01-14T22:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
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