The belief that some form of tax cut solves every problem has been bipartisan myth for two generations now. The parties only differ on who gets them and how much they get.
Congratulations!
The concept of extracting and owning someone’s human capital should be the first clue. In a “traditional” labor market this is rented, but if you own it…
This is one reason why I always teach that enslavement “production functions” are misspecified— labor and capital and not cleanly separated.
When economists say that AI will change the economy due to labor-as-capital (a worker’s skill and knowledge can be used to train AI, scaled, leveraged and/or commodified), I don’t think it occurs to them that labor-as-capital also applied to American slavery.
Even though I'm an economist, I wish there was more focus on the human suffering from this war and less focus on the economic consequences. Hundreds of little girls are dead, and we're worried about oil prices.
2025 was a decided attack on Black women’s employment. The administration stripped away the security and worker protections of government employment and turned it into an economic weapon.
I am always glad to see Black women being centered in our own stories about the workforce and the workplace.
One thing I want to note is that across multiple sectors, the net employment loss Black women have experienced is closer to 216,000 from 2024-2025 according to @epi.org.
This is a major development. The American Economic Association (AEA) and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) are the most powerful groups of economists in the world.
Q: You said the war is 'very complete.' But your defense secretary says 'this is just the beginning.' So which is it?
TRUMP: You could say both
You’d need something different than increasing wages to explain Black women’s labor supply, however. @itsafronomics.blacksky.app discusses much of this research in her book.
I’m exhausted.
Spring Break cannot come soon enough…
The whole narrative around humanities research has enabled this. It’s a disaster with real material consequences.
According to DOGE flunky, a documentary about the experiences of Jewish women's slave labor during the Holocaust is "inherently discriminatory." Come ON.
While people emboldened and enabled by the federal government went on a directed mission to eliminate approved projects from the National Endowment for the Humanities, we are supposed to believe that the real problem in the humanities is the private, “woke” Mellon Foundation…
As this was happening you were told shoplifting and home invasions were grave threats you needed to abandon any pretense of sympathy to address.
Targeting a program designed to address the homogeneous faculty of business schools, which corporate leaders wanted, is a choice.
I’m sure Trump anticipated all of this happening and has a great plan.
Had to get the AOC LEGO mini figure.
VACCINATE YOUR DAMN KIDS
I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation
the most important state election of early 2026 is right around the corner… though you’d never know it by the attention it’s receiving.
here’s hoping this bolts article helps jumpstart a little more chat!
Trump to Latin American leaders: "I'm not learning your damn language. I don't have time."
I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.
Went to the LEGO Brick Convention today and had a great time!! More photos to come!
This! We also need to be clear that Black men are disproportionately disenfranchised. Only about 1/3 of the Black electorate is Black men. No other demographic has such a gender imbalance.
Black men vote Democratic more than any ethnicity and gender besides Black women and Jewish women.
They're the most reliable Democratic voting demographic among men, and get little credit for it because there's so much focus on the loud (and annoying) 20% that insist on voting for the GOP and MAGA.
People with no track record of turning Black voters out should have no sway in the 2028 campaign. You have to have a strategy that leverages community connections and engagement. Period.
OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…
“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”
