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stick this in your nexus study & smoke it

Chris Elmendorf @CSElmendorf

Russia terrorizing Europe is just stupid. Europe is its biggest market, and Russia has nothing to gain from long-term antagonism.

Branko Milanovic is right...Russia is just not good at foreign policy.

Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan

Really useful paper here, answering a question I had long wondered about.
Basically, for college grads, living standards are just about the same everywhere in America. But for less-educated people, living standards are much higher in cheaper places.

Arindrajit Dube @arindube

This shows that the burden of NIMBYism in our cities is falling almost entirely on the working class.
Which of course we already sort of knew, but now we have solid proof.

Agree with this thread, monopolization isn’t the cause of inflation but there’s nothing wrong with using public concern about inflation to motivate stepped-up competition policy.

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

It’s terrific they’ve finally figured this out and are willing to state the obvious. But when this whole thing is over, can we have a public inquiry that explores the deeper causes of the CDC’s systematic failures throughout the pandemic?

The New York Times @nytimes

"I consider it completely unimportant who in the Party will vote, or how.
But what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.”
Joseph Stalin, 1923
(as quoted in “Oxford Essential Quotations, 2017) https://t.co/VPcPSIDvnN

Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski

Republicans need to realize that immigrants make the best Americans because they are Americans by choice. Since W. this message has been totally abandoned. Immigration is important for the US economy. Some relevant thoughts from @JimPethokoukis & @m_clem aei.org/economics/the-…

Washington Examiner @dcexaminer

Having exactly 50 senators, one of whom is from a state Trump won by 39 points, is far from the worst possible outcome for Democrats, but it probably leads to the largest gap between expectations and reality.

*Elementary* school is day care.
Junior high and high school are jail. 😉

Stephanie H. Murray @stephmurrayyyy