Nicholas Decker

Where is this business of me being a bottom coming from?

Hi folks — I’m right, damn it

What’s the matter with India? I argue it’s the courts. They leaves firms unable to conduct business, and make the country as much as 10% poorer.

nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/whats-the-...

Why do people just lie, and obviously lie? The writer is a grad student at MIT. His name is Daniel Luo. As an aside he’s the best theorist in some time, and is uncomfortably brilliant. Go check out his work.

he’s so good x4

Rat limit, I’m so sorry.

Please make a new account on Easter. For the bit.

sup

lol wut???? this is flatly absurd, so many of the people to whom I am attracted are jewish that some of my friends tease me for it

Banger

That is, to be clear, correct. They made drugs which people wished to consume. They were scapegoated for people misusing them.

More importantly, the rise in overdose deaths has been due to the *crackdown* making dose size irregular and unsafe.

Decide whether you want drugs legal or not!

I am a liberal? I’ve been extremely clear about this, over and over again. Please do not stereotype me for my school.

It’s meant to be read aloud!

I have never wanted people to be shot. You can look at what I’ve written — I am concerned mainly with identifying competition between firms and trade theory. I resent that this administration should deny me a quiet, happy life.

They grew very cross

24, tyvm

Thank you!

Not yet. But the time may come.

I miss you on twitter

What Matt means here is he used to uncritically write articles about "paper in top journal finds result consistent with progressive policy" & now he's worried those articles were refereed and accepted with a less critical and unbiased eye than he had thought. Like, clearly true! Everyone knows this!

omg thanks! very thoughtful

A group of researchers has attempted to replicate our work on self-control and asset market prices published in the Review of Financial Studies (doi.org/10.1093/rfs/...) and not been able confirm our findings. See doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

In fairness to Kruse, if I were an academic best-known for plagiarism I would also feel distinctly threatened by AI tools

Them and the software engineers generally

The very best inventors are sensitive to top tax rates, especially the foreign born. An elasticity of 1 means that a 1% increase in tax rates leads to a 1% decrease in foreign born inventors! Paper below, blog post Tuesday (I’m back to writing >1 per day lol)

t.co/gNXRknmt4y

Ooh, exciting

Between 1995 and 2001, 35 million workers were laid off from state-owned enterprises in China. They were pushed into creating their own companies, leading to an increase in the number, size, and quality of entrepreneurs. t.co/cPSoNwDTQc

Is it worthwhile going to as a second year student? I just want to go to meet cool people and such. I would be able to couch surf for it, so low cost of traveling.

Nature is healing 🥹🥹

This is incredible

As an exercise, you should show what happens if we allow for monopolistic competition.