Nic Duquette
@nicduquette.bsky.social
Economist at USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. Nonprofit economics, public economics, economic history. #EconSky
Site: http://www.nicolasduquette.com
Site: http://www.nicolasduquette.com
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
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🇺🇸 trifectas get shot at doing something
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be
If we want to actually be a representative democracy, then the platform needs to be institutional reform. All the Popularism and all the policies follow from that, not the other way around.
- DC/PR/USVI statehood
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting the "national emergency" laws: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
December 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🇺🇸 trifectas get shot at doing something
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be
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"Designing your organization for modern times: Lessons from the success of FiFA"
I feel like the mickey mouse prize for Trump is less an expression of genuine support and more that they understand it as the price for not having his thugs shake down FIFA for money every 5 seconds until the games. If those people know anything it's dealing with autocrats (Putin, Qatar, soon KSA)
The world's wealthy liberal democracies looked the other way on FIFA's corruption for years because they didn't think corruption in sports was a big deal or worth addressing, and now find themselves looking at FIFA as a powerful, increasingly-integrated part of the far-right anti-democracy movement.
December 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"Designing your organization for modern times: Lessons from the success of FiFA"
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which is why the reconstruction and rebuilding has to be bigger than you are presently imagining
December 7, 2025 at 6:03 AM
which is why the reconstruction and rebuilding has to be bigger than you are presently imagining
Holy spatial correlation Batman
The problem with questioning birthright citizenship in the US context should not be looked at with its economic peers, but its geographic. There’s a historical reason it exists and it underpins the entire state organization in the Western Hemisphere. There exceptions in the WH also tie into that:
December 7, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Holy spatial correlation Batman
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Anniversary of halifax explosion so obligatory
"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
- Vincent Coleman
saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it
"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
- Vincent Coleman
saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it
December 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Anniversary of halifax explosion so obligatory
"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
- Vincent Coleman
saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it
"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
- Vincent Coleman
saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it
A lot of regrettable decisions in the history of Christmas music, but Sinatra changing the lyrics “until then we’ll have to muddle through somehow“ to “hang a shining star upon the highest bough” is S-tier
December 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
A lot of regrettable decisions in the history of Christmas music, but Sinatra changing the lyrics “until then we’ll have to muddle through somehow“ to “hang a shining star upon the highest bough” is S-tier
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He's an extraordinarily venal and shallow man and Infantino is a hardened operative expert in the ways of corruption. Ever since Apple got a tariff exemption by giving him a golden plaque it's been obvious that it's easy and cheap to buy him with a meaningless honor
December 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
He's an extraordinarily venal and shallow man and Infantino is a hardened operative expert in the ways of corruption. Ever since Apple got a tariff exemption by giving him a golden plaque it's been obvious that it's easy and cheap to buy him with a meaningless honor
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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In stock, shipping now and stocking ready: the blue canary nightlight at www.TMBGshop.com.
December 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In stock, shipping now and stocking ready: the blue canary nightlight at www.TMBGshop.com.
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Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids
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“Experts credit the universal dose with the near elimination of hepatitis B in babies—from about 16,000 cases per year to fewer than 20.“ 🧪🛟
“Without data to support their decision & defying warnings from doctors, medical associations, & public-health groups, a federal advisory panel stocked with loyalists to Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has voted to stop recommending a life-saving vaccine to infants at birth”
RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns
The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“Experts credit the universal dose with the near elimination of hepatitis B in babies—from about 16,000 cases per year to fewer than 20.“ 🧪🛟
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I am increasingly convinced the optimal number of laptops per child is 0 (or at least much lower than 1).
From the latest Journal of Public Economics issue:
doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...
From the latest Journal of Public Economics issue:
doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...
December 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I am increasingly convinced the optimal number of laptops per child is 0 (or at least much lower than 1).
From the latest Journal of Public Economics issue:
doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...
From the latest Journal of Public Economics issue:
doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...
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The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
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if you do even moderately computationally demanding tasks, get a GPU - even an older one.
testing scripts and benchmarks on a 5070 series here, 2060 from @detectiveenters.bsky.social in replies, and 1070 here apoorvalal.github.io/lalgorithms/...
testing scripts and benchmarks on a 5070 series here, 2060 from @detectiveenters.bsky.social in replies, and 1070 here apoorvalal.github.io/lalgorithms/...
December 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
if you do even moderately computationally demanding tasks, get a GPU - even an older one.
testing scripts and benchmarks on a 5070 series here, 2060 from @detectiveenters.bsky.social in replies, and 1070 here apoorvalal.github.io/lalgorithms/...
testing scripts and benchmarks on a 5070 series here, 2060 from @detectiveenters.bsky.social in replies, and 1070 here apoorvalal.github.io/lalgorithms/...
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ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts
December 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts
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This is the entirety of his bio on the official Vandy roster
December 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This is the entirety of his bio on the official Vandy roster
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Jimmy Sexton’s a hard money guy and decided he needed to shake up the Fed Chair race:
December 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Jimmy Sexton’s a hard money guy and decided he needed to shake up the Fed Chair race:
Calling it, the peak of the bubble is today
December 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Calling it, the peak of the bubble is today
I have had this wrong my entire life. I always thought PVI was an estimate of two-way vote margin.
(Cook PVI is partisan performance compared to national average, not two-way margin. You ~can double it to get the expected two way margin.)
December 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I have had this wrong my entire life. I always thought PVI was an estimate of two-way vote margin.
Bought a few years' worth of holiday-themed international forever stamps, in a bold bet on the survival of the US Postal Service, the globe, and the holidays
December 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Bought a few years' worth of holiday-themed international forever stamps, in a bold bet on the survival of the US Postal Service, the globe, and the holidays