David Rosnick
@rosnick.bsky.social
Fallen physicist. Avid bridge player. Longtime CEPR (DC)
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David Rosnick
@rosnick.bsky.social
· Apr 9
Do Venezuelan Oil Revenues Drive Migration to the US? A Reappraisal of the Bahar and Hausmann Results
We show that their results are driven by a flawed empirical specification that appears to be the result of a coding error.
cepr.net
New from Francisco Rodríguez, myself, and Giancarlo Bravo:
That recent counter-intuitive @cgdev.org piece by Bahar and Hausmann suffers fatal flaws, starting with a Stata programming error. We fall back on the intuitive conclusion that U.S. economic conditions drive encounters at the border
That recent counter-intuitive @cgdev.org piece by Bahar and Hausmann suffers fatal flaws, starting with a Stata programming error. We fall back on the intuitive conclusion that U.S. economic conditions drive encounters at the border
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I for one am sick and tired of the government spending my money hurting people
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I for one am sick and tired of the government spending my money hurting people
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The purpose of DOGE was to exfiltrate the private data of hundreds of millions of Americans to Palantir's servers
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The purpose of DOGE was to exfiltrate the private data of hundreds of millions of Americans to Palantir's servers
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As a man, that is as genuine, dyed in the wool, sincerely deeply held personal values dick punch as you'll ever see. He truly just wanted to whack that man in the balls as comprehensively as possible. This came from the heart.
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
As a man, that is as genuine, dyed in the wool, sincerely deeply held personal values dick punch as you'll ever see. He truly just wanted to whack that man in the balls as comprehensively as possible. This came from the heart.
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I tried
to tell
a joke
on BlueSky
an epitaph
to tell
a joke
on BlueSky
an epitaph
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I tried
to tell
a joke
on BlueSky
an epitaph
to tell
a joke
on BlueSky
an epitaph
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
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The thing is that I'm temperamentally agreeable to the idea that you should avoid protesting places of worship altogether or to the best of your ability, but this is qualitatively different from claiming that there's nothing illegal or wrong being done when hosting an org that promotes settlement.
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The thing is that I'm temperamentally agreeable to the idea that you should avoid protesting places of worship altogether or to the best of your ability, but this is qualitatively different from claiming that there's nothing illegal or wrong being done when hosting an org that promotes settlement.
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Reading between the lines, it sounds like the captains of Boston University's cross country team want the ICE snitch off their team, and they're upset that the Dept of Athletics won't make it happen
dailyfreepress.com/11/21/08/216...
dailyfreepress.com/11/21/08/216...
OP-ED: An open letter to the Boston University community from the captains of the BU Cross Country team
Op-Eds do not reflect the editorial opinion of The Daily Free Press. They are solely the opinion of the author. Tucker Bowerfind (CAS ‘26), Adrienne Buettner-Cable (CAS ‘27), Caroline Collins (COM ‘28...
dailyfreepress.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Reading between the lines, it sounds like the captains of Boston University's cross country team want the ICE snitch off their team, and they're upset that the Dept of Athletics won't make it happen
dailyfreepress.com/11/21/08/216...
dailyfreepress.com/11/21/08/216...
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Strong points from Sarah Hurwitz: "Our key mistake was giving Jewish children brains that think and hearts that feel, and then encouraging them to use them. This naturally leads them to sympathize with Palestinians. We should consider removing our kids' brains & hearts until they turn 45."
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Strong points from Sarah Hurwitz: "Our key mistake was giving Jewish children brains that think and hearts that feel, and then encouraging them to use them. This naturally leads them to sympathize with Palestinians. We should consider removing our kids' brains & hearts until they turn 45."
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Israel has held 16-year-old American, Mohammed Ibrahim, without trial, for 9 months.
He has been denied contact with family & his health is deteriorating. He says he falsely confessed to throwing a rock after being beaten.
America needs to secure his release NOW.
He has been denied contact with family & his health is deteriorating. He says he falsely confessed to throwing a rock after being beaten.
America needs to secure his release NOW.
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Israel has held 16-year-old American, Mohammed Ibrahim, without trial, for 9 months.
He has been denied contact with family & his health is deteriorating. He says he falsely confessed to throwing a rock after being beaten.
America needs to secure his release NOW.
He has been denied contact with family & his health is deteriorating. He says he falsely confessed to throwing a rock after being beaten.
America needs to secure his release NOW.
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In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.
November 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.
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Getting journal rejections like
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Getting journal rejections like
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I'm sure everyone who got fired for repeating Charlie Kirk's own words back to the world will feel great seeing the President of the United States threaten his political enemies with DEATH over their protected political speech.
It is abhorrent that the President just threatened death upon members of Congress.
We must condemn all threats of political violence, especially when they come from someone who has incited a violent attack on the Capitol.
We must condemn all threats of political violence, especially when they come from someone who has incited a violent attack on the Capitol.
November 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I'm sure everyone who got fired for repeating Charlie Kirk's own words back to the world will feel great seeing the President of the United States threaten his political enemies with DEATH over their protected political speech.
I’m gonna say I’m broccoli hesitant until there is a proper study ruling out the possibility that broccoli causes measles
Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities
Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities
The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I’m gonna say I’m broccoli hesitant until there is a proper study ruling out the possibility that broccoli causes measles
Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities
Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities
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Trying to decide if saying "I support JD Vance" will get me suspended from Bluesky
A Michigan man named JD Vance was sentenced for threatening to kill JD Vance. www.fox5ny.com/news/michiga...
Michigan man who shares same initials as JD Vance convicted of threatening to kill president, vice president
A Michigan man named JD Vance was sentenced for threatening to kill JD Vance.
www.fox5ny.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Trying to decide if saying "I support JD Vance" will get me suspended from Bluesky
I know we are supposed to keep the two straight but still this from article… 💀
“Vance pleaded guilty to two felony offenses including threatening to kill or injure the President”
“Vance pleaded guilty to two felony offenses including threatening to kill or injure the President”
A Michigan man named JD Vance was sentenced for threatening to kill JD Vance. www.fox5ny.com/news/michiga...
Michigan man who shares same initials as JD Vance convicted of threatening to kill president, vice president
A Michigan man named JD Vance was sentenced for threatening to kill JD Vance.
www.fox5ny.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I know we are supposed to keep the two straight but still this from article… 💀
“Vance pleaded guilty to two felony offenses including threatening to kill or injure the President”
“Vance pleaded guilty to two felony offenses including threatening to kill or injure the President”
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People need to stop comparing ICE to the Gestapo. At least the Gestapo accepted it when you showed them your papers.
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
People need to stop comparing ICE to the Gestapo. At least the Gestapo accepted it when you showed them your papers.
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No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
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Academia is a really racist and sexist place. Larry Summers, as the president of Harvard, epitomized that racism and sexism but he is not unique. That's why we needed DEI.
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Academia is a really racist and sexist place. Larry Summers, as the president of Harvard, epitomized that racism and sexism but he is not unique. That's why we needed DEI.
It is absolutely insane that an election result can be certified without a reasonable opportunity for public examination of precinct-level data
It takes a long time to get detailed precinct-level data for a presidential election. We're now at 99 percent complete.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election (Gift Article)
See how your neighborhood voted on our interactive, precinct-level results map of the presidential election.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
It is absolutely insane that an election result can be certified without a reasonable opportunity for public examination of precinct-level data
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Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
Not precisely, but in recognizable strokes:
The current account records the balance of trade in currently-produced goods and services. A negative balance means the market value of our imports exceeded that of our exports. This is what we call a "trade deficit". (Quotes to be explained)
The current account records the balance of trade in currently-produced goods and services. A negative balance means the market value of our imports exceeded that of our exports. This is what we call a "trade deficit". (Quotes to be explained)
November 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Not precisely, but in recognizable strokes:
The current account records the balance of trade in currently-produced goods and services. A negative balance means the market value of our imports exceeded that of our exports. This is what we call a "trade deficit". (Quotes to be explained)
The current account records the balance of trade in currently-produced goods and services. A negative balance means the market value of our imports exceeded that of our exports. This is what we call a "trade deficit". (Quotes to be explained)
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people don't even notice how at the beginning of the last chapter of The Lord of the Rings, Frodo defunds the police
February 28, 2025 at 7:56 AM
people don't even notice how at the beginning of the last chapter of The Lord of the Rings, Frodo defunds the police
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Just so we're clear on something, if Keller is Captain of the Fleet technically that makes her a Fleet Captain which is higher rank than Captain, so technically she outranks the other seven Captains in the PWHL. This information is of no value whatsoever. Carry on with your day.
November 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Just so we're clear on something, if Keller is Captain of the Fleet technically that makes her a Fleet Captain which is higher rank than Captain, so technically she outranks the other seven Captains in the PWHL. This information is of no value whatsoever. Carry on with your day.
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Imagine being the person he’s talking about here and reading this on the internet 7 years later.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Imagine being the person he’s talking about here and reading this on the internet 7 years later.
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truly it is a mystery why women find it hard to get ahead in academia
"I could be a mentor to this very sharp person but as they aren't interested in me romantically I'm going to have to cut off all communication with them."
"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."
"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."
November 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
truly it is a mystery why women find it hard to get ahead in academia