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@Noahpinion

Writes about economics, posts about rabbits. For serious opinions/analysis, read my blog: https://t.co/KfUxUlCYPz

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Absolutely unbelievable. Today was the day that David Austin Walsh, one of Twitter's premier leftists, complained that he can't get a job because he's discriminated against for b...

For 20 years, China used financial repression to force working-class savers to subsidize a crap-ton of investment, only some of which benefitted those savers. At the same time, it...

I was always a big India booster, but recently I read V.S. Naipaul's India trilogy, and it turned me into an even bigger India booster. https://t.co/H1ndLAQXXn

This is just an incredible graph. India is making absolutely amazing strides against poverty. (ht @scienceisstrat1) https://t.co/gq5AozJEMW

I love walkable cities, but when I dug into the data, I found that they're not really associated with lower levels of social isolation. https://t.co/15frGR77Jv https://t.co/MVYa...

The wackiest thing about all this is that the publishers apparently think that the color black itself is inherently offensive to Black people. https://t.co/zyLtinrJd5

This thread, despite being written in the sneering, dismissive tone typical of Breakthrough Institute people, does provide some interesting additional information about how coal is...

From 1990-2019, UK per capita GDP (PPP) grew about as fast as the U.S., and faster than Germany, Canada, or France. From 2009 to 2019 it grew faster than Canada or France, though s...

Interesting thread pushing back against the common belief that regulation killed nuclear power back in the 80s. https://t.co/a6l4hI9E55

When Americans ask me to explain Japanese culture to them, I just say "Hobbies. Hobbies are incredibly important in Japanese culture." Honestly, that is the single most important t...

1/Might as well explain the references in my "We make shirts" thread! https://t.co/OXn8HRXnxE

Now that Trump has called DeSantis a groomer, I feel like this meme is on the way out. Classic "Robespierre denounces Danton" spiral. https://t.co/o3XEzoGWhe