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RIP Meat Loaf.
I've listened to "Bat Out of Hell" more than any other album. He and Jim Steinman produced some true genius.
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Omicron is amazing. Almost every person or family we planned to visit during the holidays is now quarantining because of sickness or exposure.
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This is the real point. made history last night and will be back for more. And next time maybe with me...
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A sign of peak budget wonk season: a certain agency is lead clue in the NYT Mini.
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Hey #TaxTwitter: Are there any good principles for setting income tax brackets for trusts? Today, top rate starts at $628k for couples vs. $13k for trusts, a ratio of 48:1. BBBA uses 50:1 ratio for surcharges: $10m / $200k and $25m / $500k. Are those ratios based on anything?
To celebrate filing my taxes, I bought ice cream and a drink at a local store. The total? $6.66.
Seeing my distress, the cashier put my snacks in an otherwise unnecessary plastic bag. New total: $6.71.
Shout out to her — and our local bag tax — for keeping me safe.
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“Small” platinum coins give Treasury unlimited emergency measures. They take default off the table. The debt limit threat becomes a debate over money printing (er, minting), not doubt about Uncle Sam’s full faith and credit.
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Hot take on platinum coins of unusual size: Minting a trillion-dollar coin is too provocative. If pushed to the precipice, mint a $25 billion coin. Call it an extraordinary measure. Repeat as necessary. Buy the coins back once the debt limit goes up. Save them for next time.
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Indeed ! I will always value the ’s commitment to top-quality research that follows the evidence.
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Can confirm we are still doing objective & rigorous research at @urbaninstitute—and always will.
Can also confirm many of us are interrogating what it means to be objective & rigorous—including how unstated assumptions & biases can influence our work.
We will be better for it. twitter.com/arindube/statu…
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Shout out to the 19-year old in the toy store who said “Wow, kids today have much better toys than our generation did.” In unrelated news, I will keep wearing a face mask after Covid.
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I’m walking through an art museum with my wife, pretending I understand anything, when suddenly…
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Lobster diver swallowed by whale off the coast of Cape Cod capecodtimes.com/story/news/202
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To celebrate reopening, our 7-year old asked to sit in a Lamborghini. The salesman was very kind, unlocking a stunning Aventador. He also turned out to be highly fluent in the tax issues posed by carried interest and cryptocurrency.
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. and make a superb choice in naming for Director. A careful, rigorous statistician and scholar and a man of integrity, humility, passion, and purpose - just what we need in this critical role.
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Urban's @_Rob_Santos to be nominated for Director of the U.S. Census Bureau: urbn.is/2QjD9Dp
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Just one more sign that 2021 is better than 2020. Cicadas rock.
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Brood X cicadas are about to put on one of the wildest shows in nature. And D.C. is the main stage. wapo.st/3eop7dU
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#2021MMM Wildcard winner is the VOLE! Join us on Wed. March 10 at 8PM Eastern to begin the Red, In Fur Division
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🎉It's our 75th birthday!🎉
On February 20, 1946, President Harry S. Truman signed the Employment Act which created two sister organizations: the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee and !
📰: bit.ly/JEC-75
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Great opportunity for a communications pro who loves tax and budget policy or is excited to learn:
urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Urban-Ca
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Lovely to have all these new followers .. can we just check that you know that you’re following The World Wide Robin Hood Society in Nottingham and not the Robin Hood App .. if so .. a big welcome from Sherwood 🙌
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The SNOWY OWL on a west ballfield of the Central Park North Meadow, perhaps the first-ever documented record of this species in the park, with its new buddy, an American Crow.
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Are you a great communicator? Do you love tax? I'm aware these sets don't often overlap. But if this is you, please check out 's new job listing. It's hard to imagine a better place to put top flight data and analysis into the world (IMHO) urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Urban-Ca
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RIP Eddie Lazear, a remarkably kind and energetic man.
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Join the Tax Policy Center! This is a great job for someone who likes building models. Great colleagues and your work will help elevate the policy debate. urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Urban-Ca
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I sent this open letter to the Opporunity & Inclusive Growth Institute as a message to those well intentioned economists who are looking for a way they can respond to this moment of calling for racial equality minneapolisfed.org/~/media/assets
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Writing instructor --> Professional investor --> Professional writer
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People spent about 30% of their CARES rebates within 10 days in this study using high-frequency data. More for folks with little liquidity, less for folks with ample liquidity.
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Here clearest tutorial I've seen about the math underlying SIR dynamics, herd immunity, overshoot, and lockdowns. Economist compiled this set of notes that will also be useful to epidemiologists and anyone comfortable with basic math.
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Some stunning numbers from April’s jobs report:
* Unemployment: Up 17 million people since February
* Labor force: Down 8 million
* So employment is down 25 million
* Employment-to-population ratio now just 51% (vs 61% in February)
* 32% of teenage workers are unemployed
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Bonus random question: Do the still-new press lockup rules affect the initial quality of media coverage of this report?
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7. How does the rise in unemployment vary across groups (education, age, race, ethnicity, sex)
8. Does #EconTwitter stick with seasonally adjusted figures?
9. The employer survey is feeling overlooked at this point, so: how much has payroll employment declined?
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4. Does BLS flag any measurement issues with these figures (e.g., treatment of furloughs or survey problems)
5. Is there a spike in part-time work relative to full-time work? How much?
6. Do unemployed workers expect it to be temporary? 2/x
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The top 9 things I am looking for in tomorrow’s jobs report
1. Can BLS’s website handle the onslaught?
2. How much has employment fallen as a share of population?
3. How much of the decline reflects workers being recorded as unemployed vs. out of the labor force? 1/x
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🚨I wrote about the issue of coronavirus “strains”. Despite the recent overblown stories, there’s no strong evidence that more dangerous strains have evolved—or even that there’s more than one strain. Here's a guide to making sense of it all.
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