Bret Devereaux

I've nearly convinced myself my future is away from academia with data like this.https://twitter.com/DavidAstinWalsh/status/1196910850868690945 …

What *happened* this year? A steady decline even from the post-2007 'new normal' I could understand, but a 50% drop from one year to the next?

Perhaps concerns about an impending economic downturn based on the current global headwinds and domestic - let's say 'instability'? My other guess is some sort of sampling error. ::shrug::

The strange thing is, the medieval market seems to me no worse than last year, really. Certainly not twice as bad. I think we already had this second big plunge, like, three years ago.

I will diminish, and go into the civil service and become a bureaucrat

The civil service doesn't deserve you. I mean, even I'm not that much of a libertarian to wish that on them.