Best of #econtwitter - Week of September 15, 2024: interesting tweets

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Misc

^lot of replies throughout the chain

China charts

^a tricky issue with English-language (i.e., Western) coverage of the Chinese economy is that seemingly 1 in every 2 articles are simply wrong, even in the very best publications like the FT. That unfortunately seems to be the case here: see here, here, and the data provider CEO (although)

More charts

^super interesting (AIC remains underrated) but how much of this is eastern/central Europe catching up?

^suspicious, would read a whole paper on this

^phone for Orley Ashenfelter

Public goods

Fin