Wonk-world savages everything-bagel liberals for trying to do too much with manufacturing subsidies.
In the real world, those subsidies didn't actually come with any hard guarantees, & companies are freezing unions out as a result.
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AFR’s Mark Hays speaking on the false promises of cryptocurrencies and racial equity, and how believing the hype can threaten progress toward real solutions for financial inclusion.
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I spoke to the president of the Arizona building trades council, who finally got a meeting with TSMC. “It was the iciest meeting I’ve ever been in,” he told me. “There is zero interest in doing business with us.”
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Kind of a star-studded piece with an economic cast of characters including David Card, David Autor, Luigi Zingales, Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, John Kwoka, Perry Mehrling, Teresa Ghilarducci and more.
Hard to sum up in tweets; read it!
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Have you ever used distilled white vinegar to descale items in your household?
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In our latest in our series on modeling, does a deep dive into the economic profession itself, whether it remains imprisoned by the unreal assumptions of models or is more committed to real-world inquiry.
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The funny thing is this episode is the right's long-held caricature of how the iron boot of Big Government stamps on the face of job creators forever
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The Bureau of Prisons proposed last month to garnish incoming remittances for incarcerated people by *75%* to pay for the litany of fees & fines associated with imprisonment.They're being canny about whether they've dropped the idea, writes:
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Impossible to overstate how much this belief is driving the attacks on public education and democracy. They've lost the kids. And the more that sinks in, the more desperate they will get.
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Like Mayor 's constituents, hardworking families are told that education is the way to financial security.
But afterward, when struggling to buy homes, open businesses & start families due to student debt, they are unfairly told to shoulder that burden themselves!
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This is not a leader in a democracy. This is a petty, petulant authoritarian prepared to sabotage the most powerful tourist draw and iconic corporation in his state.
Does the silence of Floridians = acquiescence to this?
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Boom. @GovRonDeSantis vows Disney will not win battle with state. Says Fla Leg will void development agmt & says since Disney "opened" things back up the state will "look" at hotel taxes, look at putting tolls on roads, look at developing property owned by new district
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CFPB Defines Abusive Conduct Under The CFPA & $2 Billion Owed To City In Unpaid Fines, As Mayor Adams Asks For Budget Cuts -
I have watched the entire interview and this is not what happened. I have locked horns with on his show and while he’s tough, it’s not ad hominem.
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The decision by @mehdirhasan to pull a pure ad hominem interview, with no purpose but to attack me personally to deflect attention from what we’ve found, reveals him to be the latest in a long line of security-state attack dogs at @MSNBC whose job is to obscure damaging truths.
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“Clarence Thomas broke the law and it isn’t even close.”
Excellent piece by & , which actually gets the current & former state of the law exactly correct.
Other reporting on this hasn’t.
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Certain types of Peeps, the famous marshmallow treats formed into the shape of bunnies and chicks, are made with known carcinogen #Red3, according to CR. (via )
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I've had one class session on various aspects of technology in legal writing (e.g. using styles, cross-references, and auto-generating TOCs in Word, using Zotero). Should I add another one specifically on the use of LLMs? Should I build in pieces here & there? What are you doing?
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These models also hallucinate citations. see theguardian.com/commentisfree/
Should a teacher (more?) closely review citations than they have in the past? I've always emphasized to students that they should seek primary sources.
Do they? Surely not all the time.
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