@eridyn.bsky.social
International Relations
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Labor Econ
Applied Econ
Public Policy
Labor Econ
Oh, hey, it's the thing all my Canadian business contacts and their clients are terrified of.
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Oh, hey, it's the thing all my Canadian business contacts and their clients are terrified of.
Didn't expect this in my backyard.
December 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Didn't expect this in my backyard.
I know why this recovered, and I don't like it (trade policy impacts on automotive suddenly became relevant again).
December 1, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I know why this recovered, and I don't like it (trade policy impacts on automotive suddenly became relevant again).
oooh nooo. Markets are social constructs, like everything else in human existence. Best to engage economics, sociology, and poli sci for such questions. History, too or maybe instead of poli sci or econ depending on specific circumstances.
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
oooh nooo. Markets are social constructs, like everything else in human existence. Best to engage economics, sociology, and poli sci for such questions. History, too or maybe instead of poli sci or econ depending on specific circumstances.
However, the recent increase in the unemployment rate reflects both a slight uptick in job losses and a slight uptick in unemployment for labor force reentrants - people who were not working or looking for work, who began searching but did not find employment.
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
However, the recent increase in the unemployment rate reflects both a slight uptick in job losses and a slight uptick in unemployment for labor force reentrants - people who were not working or looking for work, who began searching but did not find employment.
The low-fire, low-hire environment maps directly to this. There's fairly low exit from unemployment, so average duration of employment increases and even tiny numbers of job losses accumulate.
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The low-fire, low-hire environment maps directly to this. There's fairly low exit from unemployment, so average duration of employment increases and even tiny numbers of job losses accumulate.
They seem pretty pissed off about things.
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Day to day changes to energy policy is no way for us to win as a country. Investors (rightly) avoid investing in energy (of all types, now) because of the volatility of underlying business results as well as the "stroke of pen" risk that the federal government wields as it relates to long duration energy developments. Life is long, and the sword being wielded against the renewables industry right now will likely boomerang back in 3.5 years against traditional energy which will find itself facing harsher methane penalties, permitting restrictions, crazy environmental reviews and other lawfare tactics.
The administration is pushing for $40 per barrel crude oil, and with tariffs on foreign tubular goods, [input] prices are up, and drilling is going to disappear. The oil industry is once again going to lose valuable employees.
The noise and chaos is deafening! Who wants to make a business decision in this unstable environment?
The uncertainty from the administration’s policies has put a damper on all investment in the oilpatch. Those who can are running for the exits. Tobin’s q < 1.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5ddxiddzhhbjqmsn6fnyd4dc/bafkreicsggorgltn4dwimwnglpegbqrug3yx23inb4yogfjmxsu5lj4vdm@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
They seem pretty pissed off about things.
I thought the important part was
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I thought the important part was
I think she's just happy my costume is gone.
My wife made me change back to Tariff Chicken because my other costume was, "scaring the children," about as badly as this cat.
My wife made me change back to Tariff Chicken because my other costume was, "scaring the children," about as badly as this cat.
November 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I think she's just happy my costume is gone.
My wife made me change back to Tariff Chicken because my other costume was, "scaring the children," about as badly as this cat.
My wife made me change back to Tariff Chicken because my other costume was, "scaring the children," about as badly as this cat.
Tickles the funny bone.
October 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Tickles the funny bone.
The 47, 60, and 66 photos clearly show water running right to it - similar to what shows up at other old hydroelectric plants and water-powered mills around the county.
October 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The 47, 60, and 66 photos clearly show water running right to it - similar to what shows up at other old hydroelectric plants and water-powered mills around the county.
From historical aerial photography, the river used to be routed a bit north of its current course. That structure just past the Broadway Bridge might have been a hydroelectric plant in the past. Certainly had the impression of that when walking past it. The old course would line up with that, too.
October 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
From historical aerial photography, the river used to be routed a bit north of its current course. That structure just past the Broadway Bridge might have been a hydroelectric plant in the past. Certainly had the impression of that when walking past it. The old course would line up with that, too.
Dingell shows up every time.
October 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Dingell shows up every time.
Tariff Chicken found TACO Chicken, and the Grim Reaper.
October 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Tariff Chicken found TACO Chicken, and the Grim Reaper.
The "fun" part of how my background applies to US politics since 2010 is getting to perpetually live as the right-side panel here.
October 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The "fun" part of how my background applies to US politics since 2010 is getting to perpetually live as the right-side panel here.