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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 4h

It's absurd that everyday stuff like this happens where Trump decides on your behalf that you're no longer going to buy cooking oil from China..

George Pearkes @peark.es · 11h

"We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil" is an all-timer. Thank you Mr President, we appreciate your insights.

Donald J. Trump

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I believe that China purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers, is an Economically Hostile Act. We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution. As an example, we can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves, we don’t need to purchase it from China.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 8h

The last game Kaepernick played in the NFL, Obama was president. You no longer have Sinéad O'Connor ripping up Pope John Paul II on SNL.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 13h

Trump on Time magazine cover with article headlines "HIS TRIUMPH," "THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED," and "HOW GAZA HEALS"

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 1d

Brookline Transportation Board chair Brian Kane on whether to allow Prairie Fire in CC to use 5 parking spots for outdoor seating:

"I think it's a lot better to have a beer garden than to store private automobiles.

You want to put your steel box somewhere? Okay. I'd rather have a beer garden."

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 17h

Much depopulation from disease occured decades/centuries after initial European contact, and indigenous death from disease often intensifies in some regions only after settlers intensify campaigns of violence, enslavement, and forced displacement.

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 17h

The other things 1491 downplays or ignores is the sophistication with which indigenous tribes, especially the Cherokee, managed epidemics though quarantine practices and how displacement and malnutrition from colonialization disrupted these protections.

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 17h

In other words, not a biological inevitability due to lack of immunity or something that rapidly spreads out in a pandemic before the Pilgrims arrive, but something localized and due to water exposure practices that Europeans did not engage in. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

New Hypothesis for Cause of Epidemic among Native Americans, New England, 1616–1619

This epidemic may have been leptospirosis complicated by Weil syndrome. Keywords: Native Americans, Weil disease, leptospirosis, bacteria, viruses, yellow fever, smallpox, plague, trichinosis, histori...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 17h

More recently-documented evidence suggests that the indigenous populations of SE Mass were wiped out pre-1620 by leptospirosis. Though likely from water sources contaminated by rats from European vessels, this would be a much more localized event driven by poor sanitary practices.

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 17h

Even though Kelton's work often focuses on the southeast or the Cherokee more specifically, it should cast doubt on almost everything else us non-experts have accepted as "common knowledge" about epidemics in the Americas more broadly.

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 17h

The first region-wide smallpox epidemic didn't hit the southeastern US until the late 1600s, for example, despite over a century of previous contact with the Spanish. And it coincided with an escalation of colonizer enslavement and forced relocation that disrupted nutrition and quarantine methods.

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 17h

I would strongly recommend reading or at least finding summaries of Kelton's work. Many of the first epidemics took place much later than people assume or had previously claimed under the "virgin soil" thesis that emerged in the 1970s.

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Alexander Wulfers @alexanderwulfers.com · 1d

"Bob Fogel said to me once: For economics to work without economic history is like an evolutionary biologist without paleontology. You just miss 99.5% of all the species that ever walked on this earth." Joel Mokyr www.youtube.com/live/__0sGvj...

LIVE: Nobel Prize in economics winner Joel Mokyr speaks

YouTube video by Reuters

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 1d

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 1d

so one of the things I’ve started to realize with having a notable following On Here is exactly how much of a reading comprehension problem we have in this country

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 1d

More proof we're living in a simulation (and that I am, in fact, taking crazy pills):

"Coming Soon: National Security Tariffs on Peanut Butter. Seriously." www.mmmlaw.com/news-resourc...

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John Cawley @johncawley.bsky.social · 1d

Zero new jobs in the federal government posted on JOE in the past three weeks.
Not surprising given the government shutdown (which began Oct 1), but still grim. At least two-thirds fewer such jobs posted in 2025 than in each of the past six years at this time.
#econjobmarket

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 1d

That's like four economics awards in a row with a substantial economic-history component, right? That strikes me as a remarkable shift. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists...

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 1d

More seriously: this is a great review essay from the late (and great) Nicholas Crafts on the Mokyr & Allen debate on the origins of the Industrial Revolution.

warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

Explaining the First Industrial Revolution: Two Views

10/2010 Nicholas Crafts, This review essay looks at the recent books on the British Industrial Revolution by Robert Allen and Joel Mokyr. Both writers seek to explain Britain’s primacy. This paper off...

warwick.ac.uk

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David Schindler @david-schindler.de · 1d

Ending slavery increased GDP by 9.1% as slavery reduced the welfare of the enslaved substantially, while only generating minuscule welfare gains to slave owners. Fascinating topic that once again highlights how coercive instructions are economically detrimental!

www.nber.org/papers/w3435...

The Economic Geography of American Slavery

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 2d

I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 2d

Experts warn that Trump shouting "Helter Skelter" from the White House roof and firing a pistol blindly into the air represented the declaration of an apocalyptic race war. But while such a move would challenge presidential norms, details are still unclear.

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 2d

Maybe a comment on more longer-term trends, but the measure has moved less than 10 percentage points over the past 45 years. Would want to see this with new owner-occupied housing expenditures included.

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 2d

It's interesting to find a macro series in part constructed from data that has a business cycle trend (Personal Consumption Expenditures), but the figure here has no clear relationship with recessionary periods. Hard to draw conclusions from this. Also PCE omits new housing spending.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

The economy is increasingly reliant on the wealthiest 10%.

(via MS) @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Maybe it's endogenous somehow."

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“How is this economics?”

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

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