@nicholaskemery.bsky.social
Economics Ph.D candidate @UCLA | economics of computing and AI | industrial organization, innovation, political economy | PEPFAR fanatic https://nicholasemeryxu.com/
Future proofing airports for future Trump Shutdowns™?
08.12.2025 20:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wow so efficient Elon did a great job!!!!!!
08.12.2025 20:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Leonid Brezhnev, an aged, corrupt authoritarian with too many medans
05.12.2025 21:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0yeah we’re gonna have to think bigger than “wealth tax” when it comes to Elon.
My proposal: he spends the rest of his life in a prison cell and his personal fortune is seized by the government and used to fund an expanded USAID
This is the man who ripped away food from thousands of starving kids and burned it
04.12.2025 01:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In the long run, America is very fortunate that Trump is old
02.12.2025 23:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wow.
The AEA has issued a life time ban against Larry Summers.
www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
Those who illegally destroyed USAID deserve consequences for their actions
30.11.2025 21:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Ooh think I found the culprits: m.youtube.com/watch?v=DHFB...
30.11.2025 21:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Another horrific DID for innovation economists just dropped
28.11.2025 18:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Free the snails!
27.11.2025 22:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In contrast, MAGA has nothing but useless tariffs and higher healthcare premia. While this is bad in the short term, my guess is it'll be great at limiting MAGA's long-run viability and the ability of MAGA to consolidate authoritarianism.
26.11.2025 21:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Currently in the middle of Good Change by @stanleysbill.bsky.social @benstanley.eu . One thing that strikes me is that PiS, like United Russia, has actual populist redistributive policies (higher min wage, transfers for parents) in addition to social conservatism.
26.11.2025 21:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A rational response to the slowing of progress in computing
25.11.2025 22:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks for the explainers everyone, helpful to know!
24.11.2025 22:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yeah sorry if I was unclear!
24.11.2025 22:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Are Dean Preston and/or Zohran Mamdani just outliers or have DSA-backed candidates really gotten incredibly better on housing in the last few years?
24.11.2025 20:21 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 7 📌 0
Exciting news! The paper submission portal is now open! Join us April 10-12 in Boston for the 24th annual IIOC. We have lots of great things already lined up.
www.indorgsociety.org/news/iioc-20...
Not surprised that this is the level of economic analysis from an admin that hates economists
21.11.2025 16:58 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Those who illegally destroyed USAID deserve consequences for their actions
21.11.2025 03:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Larry Summers is a terrific economist. No terrific economist is more important to the advance of Economics than is open science. No professor is more important to a university than is a commitment to open science and open access. /6
20.11.2025 20:22 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0He suddenly ripped away food and medicine from millions of poor people. Millions will die from this in the next 5 years.
20.11.2025 18:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Brought to you by the admin that ripped away food aid from 30,000 starving kids and burned it!
17.11.2025 21:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hotel owner fixed effect?
16.11.2025 01:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trump eventually stiffs everyone
15.11.2025 23:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Musk too, for his illegal destruction of USAID
15.11.2025 18:29 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 01) Veganism is morally correct and animal agriculture should be banned or heavily restricted in rich countries
2) Most middle class and up Americans are in the global 1% and, in the absence of relevant taxation, should donate accordingly
He ripped away food from starving children for this
12.11.2025 22:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I hope Summers is not on the Harvard econ hiring committee
12.11.2025 22:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
