Best of #econtwitter - Week of November 2, 2025: good tweets

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Public goods

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Good tweets

From the archives

NK discussion

For whatever reason this (joke) tweet prompted discussion:

^Blanchard, Reis, FairyCalvo-Geerolf, FairyCalvo-Surprenant. Also:

Charts

^the ZIRP meme makes you want to scoop your eyeballs out — real interest rates are what “matter”, not the nominal ones! — but the broader point that [real] interest rates are the dark matter of macro trends is right

^who’s got the composition adjustment

^thread from author

UK charts

and (responding to someone else):

^thread

^I have not #ReadTheCodebook so am not here to adjudicate only report

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This is from a few weeks ahead, but I thought this was a very interesting possibility (see also Fernández-Villaverde, Ventura, and Yao 2025?)

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