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What is a Farmer and How Does the Government Count Them? The High Politics of a Seemingly Mundane Statistical Task Silvia Secchi is a natural resources economist and a Full Professor in the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences at the University of Iowa. Editor's Note: Dear readers, Nathan here. ...

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What is a Farmer and How Does the Government Count Them? The High Politics of a Seemingly Mundane Statistical Task Silvia Secchi is a natural resources economist and a Full Professor in the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences at the University of Iowa. Editor's Note: Dear readers, Nathan here. ...

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"At a time when the Trump administration seems poised to hand out even more funds to farmers while it further guts our statistical agencies, I think this topic is more important than ever."

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What is a Farmer and How Does the Government Count Them? The High Politics of a Seemingly Mundane Statistical Task Silvia Secchi is a natural resources economist and a Full Professor in the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences at the University of Iowa. Editor's Note: Dear readers, Nathan here. ...

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What is a Farmer and How Does the Government Count Them? The High Politics of a Seemingly Mundane Statistical Task Silvia Secchi is a natural resources economist and a Full Professor in the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences at the University of Iowa. Editor's Note: Dear readers, Nathan here. ...

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What is a Farmer and How Does the Government Count Them? The High Politics of a Seemingly Mundane Statistical Task Silvia Secchi is a natural resources economist and a Full Professor in the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences at the University of Iowa. Editor's Note: Dear readers, Nathan here. ...

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social piece by @profsecchi.bsky.social! Late to posting it here but this piece is really a must read on how the USDA counts- or miscounts- farmers, how this came about and why it matters.

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Notes on the Crises Until Further Notice, Comprehensive coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025

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The Federal Reserve Has Created an Entire Page Dedicated to My Successful FOIA Requests Tomorrow is my 34th Birthday and as such this month's "Birthday" sale is still ongoing. Take advantage today! Birthday Sale! Longtime Notes on the Crises readers will remember that I hav...

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: I finally have written up the extraordinary fact that the @federalreserve.gov has created an entire page specifically devoted to my FOIA requests entitled "Historical Board Documents". Also, my birthday sale is still underway!

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The Longest Government Shutdown in U.S. History Ends Without Ameliorating Our Constitutional Crisis This is a free Notes on the Crises piece. Consider tipping here. November is my birth month so I'm doing a birthday sale all month long. I'm turning 34, so an annual subscription is now ...

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social: I take a look at the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, the little it accomplished- especially on the central governmental crisis we face- the constitutional crisis over impoundment.

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What Connects Conventional Wisdom Processors, AI and The Second Trump Administration’s Constitutional Crisis? Part Two This is Part Two of a three part series. Find Part one here. Subscribe Today! One of the most important microeconomics textbook writers ever is a man named Hal Varian. Generations o...

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social: I continue my deep dive into the intellectual origins of my "conventional wisdom processor". Here I examine the role of economists at Google, Amazon, Uber etc. in propagating an entirely different notion of markets.

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What the Hell is a Government Shutdown Anyway? The Accounting Gimmicks at the Heart of the Federal Budget Subscribe Today! So the federal government is shut down. I’ve been late to covering this story because of my focus on events at the Federal Reserve.  Well, that was true when I first wrote tha...

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social piece: I take a look at the government shutdown by focusing on the big picture constitutional issues. I go on to assess the White House's claim to use "tariff money" for WIC. Then I connect this up with the ongoing impoundment crisis

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