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Good tweets
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Tim Willems@timwillems85
Very interesting chat indeed. In retrospect, it’s quite ironic that Summers’ Secular Stagnation thesis, rooted in a lack of profitable investment opportunities, ~coincided with the arrival of the transformer architecture, which gave us LLMs and massive associated investment opps!
Ivan Werning @IvanWerning
I highly recommend the interview of Ricardo Caballero by Paul Krugman (two greats). It starts off with PK admitting defeat (sort of) to RC on the issue of global imbalances. Overall, a great economic discussion.
https://t.co/2m32KX3COm
1:57 PM · Aug 29, 2026 · 737 Views
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Tim Willems@timwillems85
This may give the Secular Stagnation thesis the dubious honour of being invalided *twice* as Alvin Hansen’s original floating of the idea, in the late 1930s, managed to predate quite the productivity boom
2:00 PM · Aug 29, 2026 · 123 Views
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Kevin A. Bryan@Afinetheorem
Fall terms coming up. How should we modify university teaching to both use AI effectively and ensure students actually learn/don't just cheat their way through? I wrote eight rules I've been using; hopefully useful for you as well. 1/3
9:06 PM · Aug 24, 2026 · 28.1K Views
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Ben Moll@ben_moll
Thanks to @willmacaskill, @SamuelAlbanie, @tomcohen for taking the other side of this bet at 4:1 odds and to @andrewho03 for joining on my side.
Here are the final terms we agreed on benjaminmoll.com/growth_bet/
More (within) ~7 years from now 😃
Ben Moll @ben_moll
Would anyone like to take the other side of the following bet? I bet you (say) $25k inflation-adjusted that U.S. per capita real GDP growth will be <15% per annum in 2033 or any year before that. (15% implies a doubling time of ~5 years.)
Note: I'm extremely bullish on AI and...
10:19 AM · Aug 27, 2026 · 233K Views
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^perhaps obvious but this is why being a researcher is so destabilizing… you better know just how much you don’t know
^requesting a 3k word thinkpiece on this
Public goods
Sebastian Tello-Trillo@dsebastiantello
Thinking about going on the job market this year?
A lot has been written on it, so in this article, I've posted my recommended links of that literature and a high end view of what has changed and what hasn't changed:
sebastiantellotrillo.com
Pulling the curtain behind the Job Market Article for CSWEP (Writer’s cut)
2:51 PM · Aug 31, 2026 · 1.19K Views
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Charts
^this is not possibly correct is it
