Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana)
@ericrasmusen.bsky.social
Christian, economist, author of Games and Info, Ramseyer co-author, law-and-econ, game theory, conservative, mushroomer, Yale, MIT, Indiana. I like Oxford, GMU, amicus briefs, 7th-grade math, MIT Free Speech Alliance, Substack. Blocked by 294 here.
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when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."
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November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."
IG mr.funkys0ul
IG mr.funkys0ul
An oddity: online, I am much more encouraged by positive comments than discouraged by negative. Live, or in book reviews, etc., it is the opposite. Probably it is because online negative comments are almost always stupid.
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
An oddity: online, I am much more encouraged by positive comments than discouraged by negative. Live, or in book reviews, etc., it is the opposite. Probably it is because online negative comments are almost always stupid.
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This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
I just published my what-to-do-on-Thanksgiving Substack, revised from last year:
ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/to-read-at...
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To Read at the Table for Thanksgiving (2025)
We Americans are very bad at knowing how to celebrate holidays.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I just published my what-to-do-on-Thanksgiving Substack, revised from last year:
ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/to-read-at...
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Take a look on Twitter/X, folks-- lots of humorous unveilings tonight of fake-American accounts from Paraguay, Thailand, etc., with the new policy of listing location of each poster.
November 23, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Take a look on Twitter/X, folks-- lots of humorous unveilings tonight of fake-American accounts from Paraguay, Thailand, etc., with the new policy of listing location of each poster.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
"Don't take notes of what the professor says, take note." www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/i...
Quotations - Rasmapedia
Contents
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November 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"Don't take notes of what the professor says, take note." www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/i...
Do appellate lawyers consult for trial lawyers who want to do their own appeals? This sounds like a lucrative and socially useful business.
A summar of the legal news today (re: Comey and the Texas redistricting): Bad lawyers are bad, and they're worse if you chase out every good lawyer who could possibly help them be ok.
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Do appellate lawyers consult for trial lawyers who want to do their own appeals? This sounds like a lucrative and socially useful business.
Bad news for Bluesky; Today, I couldn't even remember the name "Bluesky" at first. I thought it might be something lose to NASA.
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Bad news for Bluesky; Today, I couldn't even remember the name "Bluesky" at first. I thought it might be something lose to NASA.
Today's Substcak, on the Larry Summer-Jeffrey-Epstein emails. Summers is humiliated, but not for the reason you think. ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/larry-summ...
Larry Summers and the Jeffrey Epstein Emails
Emails between economist Larry Summers and pimp Jeffrey Epstein have come to light.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Today's Substcak, on the Larry Summer-Jeffrey-Epstein emails. Summers is humiliated, but not for the reason you think. ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/larry-summ...
It seems Keyu Jin led Larry Summers on to get access, and he hoped for intimacy and asked Epstein for advice, but she outsmarted him. How could Summers be stupid enough to ask Epstein for advice, in writing , after being bitten when the World Bank "Summers memo" was leaked? www.keyujin.co/pdf/cv.pdf
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November 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
It seems Keyu Jin led Larry Summers on to get access, and he hoped for intimacy and asked Epstein for advice, but she outsmarted him. How could Summers be stupid enough to ask Epstein for advice, in writing , after being bitten when the World Bank "Summers memo" was leaked? www.keyujin.co/pdf/cv.pdf
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Still working our way through approx. 23,000 pages of Epstein related documents released by House Oversight Cmte.
In another email.. this one from Feb. 2017.. Epstein references Trump
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In another email.. this one from Feb. 2017.. Epstein references Trump
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November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Still working our way through approx. 23,000 pages of Epstein related documents released by House Oversight Cmte.
In another email.. this one from Feb. 2017.. Epstein references Trump
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In another email.. this one from Feb. 2017.. Epstein references Trump
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Not sure if I misunderstand myself. Or the Political Tribes quiz misunderstands me (and possibly the world). yourpoliticaltribe.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Not sure if I misunderstand myself. Or the Political Tribes quiz misunderstands me (and possibly the world). yourpoliticaltribe.com
Fascinating. It sure looks like "Why I resigned" is "Because I was about to be fired." He doesn't seem to under negotiating or nonprofit law.
I'm glad it looks like he didn't have to sign a nondisparagement agreement. Somebody needs to ask for his money deal though. Probably FOIA it.
I'm glad it looks like he didn't have to sign a nondisparagement agreement. Somebody needs to ask for his money deal though. Probably FOIA it.
Former University of Virginia President Jim Ryan broke his silence on Friday about his resignation, calling his own board members "complicit" in forcing him out.
Former UVA president Jim Ryan disputes governor's account of his resignation
Former University of Virginia President Jim Ryan broke his silence on Friday about his resignation, calling his own board members "complicit" in forcing him out.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Fascinating. It sure looks like "Why I resigned" is "Because I was about to be fired." He doesn't seem to under negotiating or nonprofit law.
I'm glad it looks like he didn't have to sign a nondisparagement agreement. Somebody needs to ask for his money deal though. Probably FOIA it.
I'm glad it looks like he didn't have to sign a nondisparagement agreement. Somebody needs to ask for his money deal though. Probably FOIA it.
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NEW: Adriana Kugler, who abruptly left the Fed, repeatedly violated the central bank’s trading rules.
New disclosures show trades in individual stocks, like Apple, Southwest Airlines and Cava, many of which took place during the blackout period ahead of policy votes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/b...
New disclosures show trades in individual stocks, like Apple, Southwest Airlines and Cava, many of which took place during the blackout period ahead of policy votes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/b...
Former Fed Official Violated Trading Rules, Disclosures Show
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
NEW: Adriana Kugler, who abruptly left the Fed, repeatedly violated the central bank’s trading rules.
New disclosures show trades in individual stocks, like Apple, Southwest Airlines and Cava, many of which took place during the blackout period ahead of policy votes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/b...
New disclosures show trades in individual stocks, like Apple, Southwest Airlines and Cava, many of which took place during the blackout period ahead of policy votes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/b...
Tucker Carlson talks redistricting, abortion and Ukraine during Turning Point event at IU www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
Tucker Carlson talks redistricting, abortion and Ukraine during Turning Point event at IU
Carlson was joined by Gov. Mike Braun and TPUSA at IU President James Chambers.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Tucker Carlson talks redistricting, abortion and Ukraine during Turning Point event at IU www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
“we shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / www.thefp.com/p/things-wor...
Things Worth Remembering: The Truth Eludes Even Old Men
Every time I read T.S. Eliot's ‘Four Quartets,’ I think my previous interpretations were wrong. But that makes the poem more meaningful, writes Tara Isabella Burton.
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October 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“we shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / www.thefp.com/p/things-wor...
My latest substack: See ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/the-2025-c...
The 2025 Censorship of the Indiana Daily Student
Indiana University just fired the director of the student newspaper, and abruptly eliminated its occasional print edition just two days before the next one was due to appear.
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October 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
My latest substack: See ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/the-2025-c...
But why would anyone want to force taxpayers to make a poor kid and (usually) two adoptive parents worse-off for the benefit of one single mother unwilling to endure the hardship of simultaneously working and caring for her child?* www.betonit.ai/p/infant-ado...
Infant Adoption is Now Tragically Rare
And what to do about it.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
But why would anyone want to force taxpayers to make a poor kid and (usually) two adoptive parents worse-off for the benefit of one single mother unwilling to endure the hardship of simultaneously working and caring for her child?* www.betonit.ai/p/infant-ado...
The Real Meaning of the Baseball-Boys-on-Boxes Cartoon: Inefficiency Is Bad ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/the-real-m...
The Real Meaning of the Baseball-Boys-on-Boxes Cartoon: Inefficiency Is Bad
This classic cartoon is wonderful in depiction and discussable in message.
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October 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The Real Meaning of the Baseball-Boys-on-Boxes Cartoon: Inefficiency Is Bad ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/the-real-m...
The Real Meaning of the Baseball-Boys-on-Boxes Cartoon: Inefficiency Is Bad ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/the-real-m...
October 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The Real Meaning of the Baseball-Boys-on-Boxes Cartoon: Inefficiency Is Bad ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/the-real-m...
Today's Substack: Capitalism and socialism in the cartoon of three boys standing on crates watching a baseball game: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/the-real-m...
The Real Meaning of the Baseball-Boys-on-Boxes Cartoon: Inefficiency Is Bad
This classic cartoon is wonderful in depiction and discussable in message.
ericrasmusen.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Today's Substack: Capitalism and socialism in the cartoon of three boys standing on crates watching a baseball game: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/the-real-m...
Why Architecture Matters www.theculturist.io/p/why-archit...
October 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Why Architecture Matters www.theculturist.io/p/why-archit...
"The 2025 Suit against Professor DeGraff and MIT for Anti-Semitism" Substack. Interesting as an situation where once I investigated the lawsuit, I switched sides. ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/the-2025-s...
The 2025 Suit against Professor DeGraff and MIT for Anti-Semitism
A story has been circulating about a Jewish PhD student in computer science at MIT who was the target of such an intense internet harassment campaign by a pro-Palestinian professor that he dropped out...
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August 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"The 2025 Suit against Professor DeGraff and MIT for Anti-Semitism" Substack. Interesting as an situation where once I investigated the lawsuit, I switched sides. ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/the-2025-s...
In American slang, a Mickey Finn is a drink laced with an incapacitating agent, particularly chloral hydrate, given to someone without their consent with the intent to incapacitate them or "knock them out"; hence the colloquial name knockout drops.
A new cocktail: @anthonyrickey.bsky.social recently introduced me to the Mickey Finn. It’s really good! Bracing, but really good.
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This Forgotten Gin Classic Is “Silky as Hell”
A forgotten gin cocktail, the Mickey Finn is an underrated classic drink that Atlanta restaurant Whoopsie’s has transformed into a Martini.
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August 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
In American slang, a Mickey Finn is a drink laced with an incapacitating agent, particularly chloral hydrate, given to someone without their consent with the intent to incapacitate them or "knock them out"; hence the colloquial name knockout drops.