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Good tweets
Matt Clancy@mattsclancy
Per capita growth accelerated 15x during the Industrial Revolution; how much should that make us open to a similar acceleration today, this time arising from AI and automation? I wrote a post pointing out one way this analogy breaks (with great help from my research assistant,
2:26 PM · Jul 30, 2026 · 1.07K Views
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^incredible that the best answer we have to this [important!] question is “two Matt Clancy tweets from 2026 and 2024”
Basil Halperin@BasilHalperin
@mattsclancy the combination of "what is the right end date" + "is it long-term growth or short-term fluctuations" might be important, what do you think here? --
if one uses the second industrial revolution rather than 1652:
5:42 PM · Jul 30, 2026 · 210 Views
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Basil Halperin@BasilHalperin
@mattsclancy and here's the distribution for *TFP* for England, from Bouscasse-Nakamura-Steinsson [all via Claude]
- note is trend TFP growth + is decadal data
5:45 PM · Jul 30, 2026 · 144 Views
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^hopium
Alvin Christian@_AlvinChristian
So it's almost August. Anyone have any suggestions/tips on, uh, making a syllabus and teaching for a guy just getting into making syllabuses and teaching?
2:38 PM · Jul 29, 2026 · 3.42K Views
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Charts
Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬@lymanstoneky
worth noting that real disposable income per capita is not currently rising.
one of the worst 2-year performances outside of a recession on record.
Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi
One problem with letting inflation spike over the Fed's 2% target is how it confuses people. It's a change in the ratio of dollars to stuff, not a change in real cost of living
Inflation doesn't cut real wages. Wages grew faster than groceries! It's not real, it's just monetary https://t.co/yY2QOCuB8W
1:50 PM · Jul 29, 2026 · 21.7K Views
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Hongshen Zhu@HongshenZhu
Updated with China's 2024 data using the latest national time-use survey. A notable pattern is that East Asian countries all have relatively short housework/shopping time, probably due to urbanism and efficient delivery services.
Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600
Chart shows how people spend their time around the world. Source: https://t.co/QZFPQ6k2Wj
5:31 AM · Jul 30, 2026 · 7.76K Views
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Soumaya Keynes@SoumayaKeynes
How exposed is the UK to China Shock 2.0?
ft.com/content/0ed87a…
7:33 AM · Jul 30, 2026 · 3.86K Views
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David Shor@davidshor
Wiccans/Pagans are the most common non-Christian religion in most of the country
David Shor @davidshor
Update: There are way more Wiccan/Pagans than I thought there were
7:51 PM · Jul 30, 2026 · 122K Views
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