Mark Andrew Price
@pricelaborecon.bsky.social
Salt Lake City born. Current Pennsylvanian (Carlisle). Labor economist. Flower planter, runner (recently back at it), Dad. Signal: price_laborecon.68
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The economy is not a force of nature, we can change it to make it work better for everyone. We can’t fix everything but we can make the economy less hostile towards a fulfilling and good life.
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The story (www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...) also lets people believe a million immigrants is a lot. It's not. In 2023 there were 32 million immigrants here who arrived in the last 26 years -- well over a million a year. A healthy level of immigration is probably higher than that.
December 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The story (www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...) also lets people believe a million immigrants is a lot. It's not. In 2023 there were 32 million immigrants here who arrived in the last 26 years -- well over a million a year. A healthy level of immigration is probably higher than that.
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If only Biden had spent more time complaining about the real problem -- immigrants, who bring obvious and easily demonstrable benefits to US society -- instead of minor issues like everyone dying of an infectious disease or losing their jobs and homes.
December 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If only Biden had spent more time complaining about the real problem -- immigrants, who bring obvious and easily demonstrable benefits to US society -- instead of minor issues like everyone dying of an infectious disease or losing their jobs and homes.
In timeline of fear and loathing here is some good news. The Utah legislature is seeking to repeal a law banning collective bargaining. The body normally crazy got extra crazy in the first year of Trump II and mobilized labor in a way that threatened to hurt Republicans in the next election.
December 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
In timeline of fear and loathing here is some good news. The Utah legislature is seeking to repeal a law banning collective bargaining. The body normally crazy got extra crazy in the first year of Trump II and mobilized labor in a way that threatened to hurt Republicans in the next election.
Had a nightmare in which my boss from my old job, no union, dispatched me to go to a dinner meeting cause he was running late. I mean not a scary nightmare but perhaps a window into how much that kind of shit used to piss me off. To the youth. If you have a disorganized boss, FIND A NEW JOB.
December 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Had a nightmare in which my boss from my old job, no union, dispatched me to go to a dinner meeting cause he was running late. I mean not a scary nightmare but perhaps a window into how much that kind of shit used to piss me off. To the youth. If you have a disorganized boss, FIND A NEW JOB.
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First they came for the participants in child sex trafficking. "Oh no," I said, "I'm gonna be next"
December 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
First they came for the participants in child sex trafficking. "Oh no," I said, "I'm gonna be next"
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The American Economics Association may have banned Larry Summers for life, but some companies have been less conclusive about their ongoing ties to the disgraced Epstein pal.
Companies Are Trying to Hide Their Ties to Larry Summers - The American Prospect
Some fintech and energy startups haven’t announced that Summers is leaving; they just took him off their websites.
prospect.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The American Economics Association may have banned Larry Summers for life, but some companies have been less conclusive about their ongoing ties to the disgraced Epstein pal.
Do it
December 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Do it
Central Pennsylvanian makes good
Once upon a time, in 1999, I was the captain of Lebanon Catholic High School Quiz Bowl team. We competed on a local program narrated by a local news personality. I have the full recording.
(I will not be taking questions about my eyebrows at this time.)
Read here:
(I will not be taking questions about my eyebrows at this time.)
Read here:
That time I was on a Central Pennsylvania high school quiz show. | Monica Byrne
Get more from Monica Byrne on Patreon
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December 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Central Pennsylvanian makes good
My gods
Education Dept. asks hundreds of fired employees to temporarily return
The agency is asking laid-off staffers in the Office for Civil Rights to come back and pitch in to help handle school discrimination cases. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... by @zachschermele.bsky.social
The agency is asking laid-off staffers in the Office for Civil Rights to come back and pitch in to help handle school discrimination cases. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... by @zachschermele.bsky.social
www.usatoday.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
My gods
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"No quo?" "No quo! I'm quoless."
December 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"No quo?" "No quo! I'm quoless."
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I really would like to hear a non-nefarious reason why reporters at places like the NYT, WaPo, or NPR can't take 10 second to tell us that the $100 billion we spend on SNAP is 1.3% of the budget or the $6 billion that went to the AIDS program in Africa was 0.9% of the budget. Love to hear a reason.
seriously, can anyone give me a reason why reporters refuse to express huge budget numbers, that they know are meaningless to their audience, in a context that makes them understandable -- such as a percentage of the budget? I NEVER get an answer to this question.
If every budget number was presented as a percent of budget, percent of GDP, and percent of 10 year GDP, a large fraction of the population would have a pretty good understanding of the relative sizes of these items and budget proposals pretty quickly
December 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I really would like to hear a non-nefarious reason why reporters at places like the NYT, WaPo, or NPR can't take 10 second to tell us that the $100 billion we spend on SNAP is 1.3% of the budget or the $6 billion that went to the AIDS program in Africa was 0.9% of the budget. Love to hear a reason.
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"Macroeconomic crime" = austerity/structural adjustment
Sr Lanka's ghastly tragedy - sovereign defaujt followed by a deflating economy and central bank technocrats imposing punishingly high real rates of interest - a macroeconomic crime. open.substack.com/pub/jwmason/...
Sri Lanka's Interest Rate Trap
by Arjun Jayadev, Ahilan Kardirgamar and J. W. Mason
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"Macroeconomic crime" = austerity/structural adjustment
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We are controlled by a revolutionary party that has captured every branch of the federal government and is reinterpreting to its preferences, history and public consent be damned. The other party is more geared to bipartisan accommodation & consensus than opposition. So here we are
The Supreme Court's conservative justices are rethinking how much allegiance they owe to legal precedents set years ago by the nation's top judicial body.
US Supreme Court may be poised to ditch more of its precedents
How much allegiance do conservative justices owe to legal precedents set years ago?
www.reuters.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
We are controlled by a revolutionary party that has captured every branch of the federal government and is reinterpreting to its preferences, history and public consent be damned. The other party is more geared to bipartisan accommodation & consensus than opposition. So here we are
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I'm just a bumpkin at an under-funded teaching college who spent 16 years in a book doing this thing Wurman et al suddenly discovered. Silly me.
Since I traced migration & citizenship from the colonial period through 1888, yeah, pretty clear the 14th Amendment is intended to repudiate Dred Scott.
Since I traced migration & citizenship from the colonial period through 1888, yeah, pretty clear the 14th Amendment is intended to repudiate Dred Scott.
bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I'm just a bumpkin at an under-funded teaching college who spent 16 years in a book doing this thing Wurman et al suddenly discovered. Silly me.
Since I traced migration & citizenship from the colonial period through 1888, yeah, pretty clear the 14th Amendment is intended to repudiate Dred Scott.
Since I traced migration & citizenship from the colonial period through 1888, yeah, pretty clear the 14th Amendment is intended to repudiate Dred Scott.
Delete your account formerly known as Price.
If you change your display name and your avatar at the same time you have fully regenerated into a new person to me
December 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Delete your account formerly known as Price.
Is this a sportsball tweet or a politics tweet
I’m going to jump into a volcano
December 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Is this a sportsball tweet or a politics tweet
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icymi
Elon Musk shares far right advocate and former holocaust denier Peter Sweden to explain that remigration isn't far right
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
icymi
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MyTaxReceipt shows you a breakdown of how your U.S. federal taxes get spent — enter your Zip code and the amount you paid in Federal taxes (or you can use the default average for your Zip code). It generates a receipt-style summary showing what portion goes to defense, healthcare, interest on debt..
MyTaxReceipt.org
See exactly where your federal income taxes go — and message Congress about it in one click.
my-tax-reciept.vercel.app
December 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
MyTaxReceipt shows you a breakdown of how your U.S. federal taxes get spent — enter your Zip code and the amount you paid in Federal taxes (or you can use the default average for your Zip code). It generates a receipt-style summary showing what portion goes to defense, healthcare, interest on debt..
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
The dude is a rapist, his views of the law are immaterial. He should be removed from the court.
In his concurrence, Kavanaugh seems to criticize the Biden administration for allowing many migrants into the country lawfully when it was always possible that the next president would strip them of legal status. He says this switcheroo doesn't matter: All these migrants are now breaking the law.
December 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The dude is a rapist, his views of the law are immaterial. He should be removed from the court.
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"Obama, Trump and Biden all stood by their man in Honduras for the 8 vicious, destructive years he was in power. They ignored his drug connections, supported the military&police that kept him in power through state terror, and countenanced his illegal re-elections www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s pardon of an ex-Honduran president is shocking. So is the history of US support for him | Dana Frank
Obama, Trump, and Biden stood by their man in Tegucigalpa for the eight vicious, destructive years he was in power
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"Obama, Trump and Biden all stood by their man in Honduras for the 8 vicious, destructive years he was in power. They ignored his drug connections, supported the military&police that kept him in power through state terror, and countenanced his illegal re-elections www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Lonsdale is, among other things, the founding board chairman of that "University of Austin" thing that Bari Weiss is backing.
That's the school that "prepares thoughtful and ethical innovators, builders, leaders, public servants and citizens through open inquiry and civil discourse."
That's the school that "prepares thoughtful and ethical innovators, builders, leaders, public servants and citizens through open inquiry and civil discourse."
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Lonsdale is, among other things, the founding board chairman of that "University of Austin" thing that Bari Weiss is backing.
That's the school that "prepares thoughtful and ethical innovators, builders, leaders, public servants and citizens through open inquiry and civil discourse."
That's the school that "prepares thoughtful and ethical innovators, builders, leaders, public servants and citizens through open inquiry and civil discourse."
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One more pelican post for the day. 🪶
December 7, 2025 at 3:41 AM
One more pelican post for the day. 🪶
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We do. This was something @bakerdphd.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, & I discussed at the UIC UF event last week. (Forthcoming pod.)
Unions need power maps & conflicts audits of their schools, boards, etc. But we also need more info sharing between academic worker collectives.
Unions need power maps & conflicts audits of their schools, boards, etc. But we also need more info sharing between academic worker collectives.
The university-surveillance component of this piece is !!! I had missed the Qualtrics shift and acquisition and wow.
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We do. This was something @bakerdphd.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, & I discussed at the UIC UF event last week. (Forthcoming pod.)
Unions need power maps & conflicts audits of their schools, boards, etc. But we also need more info sharing between academic worker collectives.
Unions need power maps & conflicts audits of their schools, boards, etc. But we also need more info sharing between academic worker collectives.