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05.10.2025 20:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@martingaynor.bsky.social
Economist at Carnegie Mellon focusing on organizations and incentives, markets, competition, and antitrust, and health care. Formerly at the Antitrust Division, DOJ and at the FTC. Daf Yomi learner. Antitrust, Economics, Talmud puns.
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05.10.2025 20:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Give the man a yardstick! π
05.10.2025 20:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I hear they have grass swords and weird lemons over which they utter strange incantations!
05.10.2025 19:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Read our statement responding to reports that the president is sending California National Guard troops to Oregon.
We are quickly assessing our options and preparing to take legal action.
Weβll continue to share updates as we have them.
"At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen."
Louis D. Brandeis, who died on this day in 1941
Imagine what Koufax could have accomplished if heβd spent his time learning instead of batteling af that baseball narishkeit.
05.10.2025 01:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Not to mention a foolish waste of time - one could be learning Gemore.
05.10.2025 01:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This victory supports what Oregonians already know: we donβt need or want Donald Trump to provoke violence by deploying federal troops in our state. Iβll keep working to stop Trump from fulfilling his perverse fantasy of making Portland the center of his assault on U.S. cities.
05.10.2025 00:03 β π 1180 π 252 π¬ 30 π 14Big deal.
01.10.2025 00:02 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1New piece.
The data presented by @thejcpa.bsky.social and @counterhate.com about antisemitism on X is stark: it is being spread to hundreds of millions of people.
Not just antisemitism, but OVERT antisemitism. And that shift means far more than people realize. It won't be long before it leaves X.
I don't know how well this is reflected outside Israel but Israelis want the war to end. The Israeli majority is laser focused on the hostage issue, worried about Israel's international standing, exhausted from reserve service and soldier deaths, and some even Palestinian suffering.
29.09.2025 15:09 β π 57 π 13 π¬ 4 π 2The threats against @jayapal.house.gov by an elected state official are dangerous and vile.
I condemn this violent rhetoric that has no place in our country.
I hope Republican leaders will do the same.
newrepublic.com/post/201016/...
π¨ #Pennsylvania Republicans are pulling out all the stops to remove 3 Democratic State Supreme Court Justices this year!
Help keep them on the bench.
There's also seats up in #WI & #NC next year. Donate today!
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Delighted that Jonathan Kanter has joined our faculty at @cmuheinzcollege.bsky.social Carnegie Mellon - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy! A fantastic addition - looking forward to what his knowledge, expertise, and energy will bring us. www.heinz.cmu.edu/faculty-rese...
25.09.2025 18:16 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Monopoly history - mergers and collusion in the steel industry, which went unchallenged initially and for quite some time. At the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor (amazing museum!) in Youngstown, Ohio.
19.09.2025 20:22 β π 26 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0It was my privilege to be on this panel at the Eradicate Hate Global Summit. We have a big problem with hate, but we donβt have to solve it all at once. Big solutions are hard, but small kindnesses are within our grasp & small things can add up to something big. www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2...
18.09.2025 09:39 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh no - so sorry to hear this. He was a good guy and gave a lot to the profession. May his memory be for a blessing.
14.09.2025 12:06 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thank you for listening and for speaking up.
12.09.2025 19:52 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Exactly - thank you.
12.09.2025 19:49 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The damage to the U.S. vaccination program that is about to be caused by RFK Jr. and his fellow fraudsters misusing data to falsely claim that the COVID19 vaccine caused the deaths of 25 children will be incalculable.
These people are committing scientific misconduct of the most grievous kind.
Impossible - by definition markets are always in (competitive) equilibrium at The Chicago School!
11.09.2025 18:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So thatβs where it is β¦ good to know!
11.09.2025 18:17 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0THE LATEST SCOTUS RULING IS A REMINDER OF HOW IMPORTANT JUDGES ARE.
π£ #Pennsylvania has 3 Dem State Supreme Court Justices up for retention this fall. Help keep them on the bench!
There's also seats up in #WI & #NC next year. Donate today!
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The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
10.09.2025 11:59 β π 5825 π 2168 π¬ 111 π 81Very bad news, if not unexpected. The independence of the FTC, and probably all independent federal agencies, is over.
08.09.2025 16:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Jonathan Kanter on the lack of an effective remedy for Googleβs monopoly power. A real missed opportunity not only to address abuses by Google, but to take a clear stand that attempts to harm competition and consumers wonβt be permitted or tolerated. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
07.09.2025 14:13 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Federal Reserve nominee Stephen Miran, a senior White House economic adviser, told senators that he does not plan to resign from the Trump administration if confirmed β an unusual arrangement likely to raise concerns about the bankβs independence.
05.09.2025 01:00 β π 89 π 47 π¬ 22 π 8Ever wanted to know what are three
(& 1/2) key points about US health care consolidation (including The Integration Myth)? Join us at 10am tomorrow! www.linkedin.com/posts/prisci...
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