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Kevin A. Bryan@Afinetheorem
Median lifetime consumption > median income > median wealth. First > b/c more skewed incomes *over* lifecycle keep median high vs individual lifetime income. Second b/c age, precautionary savings + housing v rent dominate. NZ not 4x richer at median than Germany! An example: 1/3
Daniel Ahmad @ZhugeEX
Surprising (not really) stat from the new UBS Global Wealth Report 2026.
The US ranks #2 when you look at average (mean) wealth per adult, but drops to #28 when you look at the median.
https://t.co/W0SNWwTQi4
9:49 PM · Jul 6, 2026 · 7.63K Views
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^is there work on this?
Carolyn D. Gorman@CarolynGorman_
Ivy League schools have the highest rates of disabilities and community colleges have the lowest.
The percentage of students with disabilities is inversely related to how elite the higher education setting is.
Obviously something is wrong with what’s happening here.
5:50 PM · Jul 6, 2026 · 121K Views
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Ernie Tedeschi@ernietedeschi
The labor market went thru 4 massive non-AI shocks simultaneously: 1) bullwhip from Great Resignation, 2) high inflation/interest rates, 3) pervasive WFH, 4) rise & fall in immigration. Not only tough to id any AI effects, but until recently, AI plausibly the *smallest* of these.
Conor Sen @conorsen
The age 20-24 unemployment rate is now ~unchanged since the AI boom began: https://t.co/OXhFJ69xdO
4:17 PM · Jul 12, 2026 · 27.8K Views
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Justin Sandefur@JustinSandefur
Which aid donors are most progressive, i.e., spend the highest % of their money in the poorest countries?
No surprise, but one pattern that jumps out: multilateral funds (World Bank's IDA, Gavi, Global Fund, African Development Bank's ADF) are much more progressive than big
11:19 PM · Jul 12, 2026 · 8.82K Views
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Jon Steinsson@JonSteinsson
Remember the op-eds and open letters to Bernanke in 2009 and 2010 warning of currency debasement and hard-to-control long-term inflation? (Probably brought on by high growth in the monetary base.) And what happened? Inflation remained below target for over a decade.
10:54 PM · Jul 11, 2026 · 40.2K Views
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Tom Holden@t_holden
@JonSteinsson The economists who still think money is important tend to prefer Divisia measures. And these didn't move much in and after the crisis.
I'm not denying those op eds existed of course. But the lack of inflation post crisis doesn't kill the case for the importance of money.
6:20 AM · Jul 12, 2026 · 981 Views
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Basil Halperin@BasilHalperin
@t_holden @JonSteinsson inspired by @C_Harwick (econlib.org/new-inflation-…)
(haven't sold myself on Divisia yet but it's intriguing)
1:25 AM · Jul 13, 2026 · 5.39K Views
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^👁️o👁️
Public goods
Andrew Gerard@andrewmgerard
Since 2022, @IFP has hosted the Economics of Ideas, Science and Innovation online PhD course. It includes lectures from luminaries of innovation economics like @ChadJonesEcon, @KRoyMyers, @inaganguli, @pierre_azoulay, @Afinetheorem, and others.
Until now, the only way to see
4:23 PM · Jul 10, 2026 · 20K Views
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Charts
Yehuda Teitelbaum@chalavyishmael
44% of Muslim Americans surveyed view Hamas favorably.
Almost half support an organization whose founding charter explicitly calls for the genocide of Jews, and which less than three years ago massacred 1,200 people in the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
4/
8:56 PM · Jul 9, 2026 · 357K Views
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^is something being misread here?
Jonathan Rosenthal@rosenthal_jon
This week in @TheEconomist I wrote about the incredible progress that we have been making against dementia. Though total numbers are rising (because we are living longer), the actual rate at every age has been coming down sharply for decades. A short 🧵 1/
4:33 PM · Jul 9, 2026 · 242K Views
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sophia@cis_female
What a bizarre graph. ~flat 1991-2013, 25% growth 2013-2016, flat 2016-2026 excepting covid. What could possibly cause this? Better cameras/instagram? The increase was exceptionally broad-based
Sebastian Caliri @SebastianCaliri
U.S. National Park attendance is up by 25M visits over the past 15 years. I am glad that more people are enjoying them - we have the best natural landscapes in the entire world.
But consider that there are a finite number of national parks and we can't exactly expand them as https://t.co/5f5M1Q1YRN
3:14 AM · Jul 13, 2026 · 4.53K Views
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