Ryan D. Edwards

Is this also the $2,000 check silliness though?

If it is, it’s even worse: lets just send everyone the average, and then a lot of them will immediately spend it on groceries and electricity

Opinion | Economists Hate This Idea. It Could Be a Way Out of the Affordability Crisis.

All we have to do is set a policy that the tiger doesn’t eat our faces, and then we’ll have the tiger and it won’t eat our faces

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...

White House Hunts for Ways to Lower the Cost of Living Aside from reducing tariffs, President Trump faces limits in his ability to bring down prices.

It’s pretty hard to understand how jawboning the Fed into lowering interest rates or issuing $2K checks to taxpayers would help lower prices. Seems like both of those would do the reverse, geniuses

www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

A regime of avaricious, cruel goons isn't the same thing as a "fascist state," and the fact that they have to go to court, fight it out in state elections and legislatures, cower from being filmed (instead of filming *you*) means everything.

Recognize this. Don't surrender to your fears.

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Refugees to face 20-year wait to settle permanently under asylum reforms Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is expected to announce major reforms to the asylum system on Monday.

More on Labour’s proposed asylum reforms

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Opinion | Beef Is Now Political Red Meat Trump blames packers for rising prices, much as Joe Biden did.

The WSJ on beef prices

Ranchers may be seeing higher prices for cattle, but you’d think that rising costs associated with drought and feed eat into profits, maybe contributing to this circular firing squad where everybody claims the OTHER guy must be profiting

www.wsj.com/opinion/beef...

Opinion | Make Medical School Three Years

Glacial curricular innovation is not a medical school monopoly either, but I think there have been endogenous adjustments in other fields at the doctoral level. Seems like a good time to revisit, especially given what we know about first year classes in person

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

Opinion | Bruce Springsteen’s Father Complicates a Powerful American Narrative

Can I has Mitchell Duneier as my teacher dad? No? Is his Princeton class available online perhaps?

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

UK seeks inspiration from Denmark to shake up immigration system Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is taking cues from some of the toughest migration laws in Europe.

Trying to defang Reform seems critical. How can Labour do it without becoming whom they seek to defeat? Find elements of other policies that resonate, avoid those that don’t

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Q: Food prices are still going up. Grocery prices are still going up. How do you respond?

MIKE JOHNSON: All of the economist have shown that food prices always go up. There's an inflationary level that's built in to grocery prices.

And finally, the candidates who won were running AGAINST people endorsed by Donald Trump. Like seriously, all of them. Americans are sick of tariffs raising their costs while he focuses on renovating bathrooms in the White House.

Dorothy?

Opinion | Trump’s Blanket Tariffs Are a Bridge Too Far The case against his use of IEEPA is powerful. The justices shouldn’t defer to presidential power.

Just lays it out very clearly. IEEPA justification for levying tariffs on every country would be a big expansion of executive power

www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

Update from Tony Romm

The IEEPA statute implies that powers are meant to address *emergencies*, and trade embargoes seem like reasonable tools. But as we have seen, tariffs do not work quickly, although they appear to provide leverage.

No donut holes to see here, folks

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

if Joe Biden said this during a speech Hannity would immediately start anchoring special coverage and the New York Times would fire up a live blog breaking down every syllable

Like a Monty Python skit

'I don't know who he is,' says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon The president pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the co-founder of the world's largest crypto exchange, in October.

Is it time for an amendment that allows for a supermajority Senate override of a pardon

www.bbc.com/news/article...

FDA Official Steps Down, Sued by Drugmaker George Tidmarsh, who resigned Sunday, is accused in a lawsuit of seeking a bribe and defaming a drug.

More insanity at FDA. Other than DOD and USDA, is there a more vital agency?

www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

“If immigrant workers are no longer abundant, I don’t understand why it wouldn’t be the case that you’d be able to tap labor supply from other parts of the labor market,”

Yes, you’d be able. Will it work? Good luck with that. Silly to expect it would just work without frictions when it hasn’t

Fed Risks a Recession if It Doesn’t Cut Rates Rapidly, a Top Official Warns

This is paranoid, disingenuous drivel. Miran called out the revolving door himself.

“The people who have made those criticisms, they’d be making exactly the same claims about me if I had fully resigned from C.E.A.,” he said. “Their minds were already made up.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/b...

I’m sorry/congrats

Get the hell out of Evanston.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world.

That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.

And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

Immigration Agents Clash With Chicago-Area Residents on Halloween

Appalling.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

America's immigration crackdown is disrupting the global remittance market America's immigration crackdown might have serious financial consequences for a range of countries.

Quick overview of immigrants’ remittances by Planet Money with a longer segment due today

www.npr.org/sections/pla...

Opinion | Reagan vs. Trump on Tariffs The Gipper was a free trader, no matter what the current President says.

It's hilarious to me how much the WSJ Editorial Board these days has to resort to being reasonable rather than unhinged.

Can the justices find in IEEPA how Congress delegated to the President the power to punish capriciously over a TV ad?

www.wsj.com/opinion/reag...

Opinion | Rescuing My Daughter From the Cult of Labubu

Games of chance for kids, like those awful claw machines that don’t actually ever grab anything, are works of pure eeeeville

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...

US beef prices are soaring. Will Trump's plans lower them? Trump is under fire from ranchers, who say his ideas to lower prices address "symptoms not the problems".

It seems like a perfect time to look at trends in prices of beef cattle, and to compare them to trends in prices of processed beef for consumption, if the question is whether it’s supply versus incentives for supply and market power in processing

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Terry Gross tried her best toward the end of the interview, but she wasn’t able to break him. He’s got his game plan and he’s sticking to it, and it’s a public service