Wojtek Kopczuk

this list does not include some people who are front-runners - like Berry (jointly with Pakes) or Woodford

Always trade-offs. It would also maximize the size of the set of annoying people it would make happy (as does mentioning "trade-offs").

It's always funny to read things like "anti-immigrant Czech-Japanese entrepreneur"

Much of the top wealth is in private businesses, especially in Europe (but also in the US), and those have always been lightly taxed or exempt by the few European wealth taxes that existed in the past

See here for problems with wealth taxes more generally www.columbia.edu/~wk2110/bin/...

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I am a globalist, proudly

Soccer is a globalist sport and it is hard to imagine an organization better equipped than FIFA in navigating corruption. Trump stands no chance.

CBP is part of DHS and they have the last word on entry, even with valid visa

YouTube video by Free To Choose Network Milton Friedman - I, Pencil

youtu.be/67tHtpac5ws

DHS: Where was this lead pencil made?
ME: State of Washington, mines in South America, Malaya, and other places I don't even know about, by thousands of people who don't speak the same language, practice different religions, and might hate each other if they ever met
DHS: denied

It's multiple layers of sarcasm. The reader can choose how many to go through

Worried that Adams secretly wants to help Cuomo: he did not endorse Mamdani

Bad news for you: I'm in Europe right now

You have population of 5 million and both Celtic and Rangers would dominate our (Polish) league, so that's excellent for me 😃

You have two excellent clubs

This is based on club competitions not national teams. English teams and their league perform extremely well, that's why their national team not winning anything in a long time is viewed as such an oddity

Of course it's not. The failure is missing the blue sauce necessary to complete basic colors.

It performs pretty decently in soccer too, 20th out of 55 on UEFA list

You might sneer at that, but you should not. He has in fact unparalleled expertise on using language that incites violence and terrorism.

I have bad news for you about AI "revolution"

I don't know anything about his economic views, but my impression from his actions is that he was not very much into modern market economy

it's funny; but compromise in which direction?

Anthony Kennedys

"incredibly"? I've heard that accusation about his sister but not about him. I'll put aside the question of who we are comparing to

Exactly what I think too

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Hey, I'm going to block you for being an idiot

Here is one classic explanation www.jstor.org/stable/2006910

I'd speculate that a sufficiently deep crisis is what you need to start but not enough to maintain democratic support for years that you need for it to work. So, the opposition that somehow won't undo everything is necessary

Even Polish voters did not really fully do it - by 1991, the parliament had no stable coalition; by 1993 former communists were in power. But, the broad support for eventually joining the EU meant that everybody more or less stayed the general course