Favorite Rejects 2021-11-25

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

A fun thing to do on Twitter is to post a deliberately inaccurate summary of someone’s argument for the purposes of dunking. But here with a link and everything is what I wrote. slowboring.com/p/joe-rogan-an…

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein

Progressives said: Don’t go on Joe Rogan, he‘s getting fashier. Joe Rogan gets fashier. Centrists: Why did you make Joe Rogan get fashier? https://t.co/5iIAdBzh4y

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

On my mom's side my family has an *extremely* narrow range of political views from "orthodox democrat" to "slightly more conservative than an orthodox democrat (but still never gonna vote Republican)." Spicier takes on my dad's side, but that's not my normal Thanksgiving crew.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Remember, Fed tightening is not for the purpose of taking inflation back down to 2%. It's to show the Fed is still serious about inflation, so that it has no chance of going to 20%. Only supply chain normalization will take it back down to 2%.

Bloomberg Economics @economics

Goldman economists say they expect the Fed to tighten monetary policy faster than previously anticipated next year amid rising inflationary pressures https://t.co/wZ8B2i3Hmk

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

My family is weird in that all the Boomers are woke leftists (even the rich ones), and all the Millennials are either center-left squishes like me, or (in a couple of cases) degenerate Trumpers.

Prof. Christina Pagel @chrischirp

THREAD on the new variant B.1.1.529 summarising what is known from the excellent South African Ministry of Health meeting earlier today TLDR: So much uncertain but what *is* known is extremely worrying & (in my opinion) we should revise red list immediately. This is why: 1/16

Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok

"If the Green Revolution had never happened GDP per capita in the developing world would be half of its current level."

marginalrevolution.comGive Thanks to the Green Revolution - Marginal REVOLUTIONIt’s well known that the Green Revolution dramatically increased crop yields. In a new paper, Gollin, Hansen and Wingender use a general equilibrium model to show that the effects were even more far reaching. For a given acre, the Green Revolution raised the yields of some crops by 44% between 1965 …

Bloomberg CityLab @CityLab

A sweeping defeat of extremist views in one Washington county could become a template for other local government candidates

trib.alBloomberg - Are you a robot?