Todd Richard Yarbrough

"About Those Trump Tariffs...." danieldrezner.substack.com/p/about-thos...

Not sure when +50K jobs has ever been described as "solid gain" outside of maybe a post recession recovery.

Nothing, I thought, could demolish my ego like graduate school. Then I became a parent, where the longer your string of successes the bigger the sense of failure when things go even just a little awry.

Me at 16 years old: Hey, I better read John Locke, Thomas Paine, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Rousseau, Henry Thoreau.... because understanding the philosophical underpinnings and nuances of the new American democracy will be very important in the future!

Society in 2025: Get bent, NERD!

This headline is wild. Such passivity despite the words describing several constitutional and international crises.

You can tell the people who haven't had to deal with daycare pickup/drop-off by their response to the videos.

"Why wouldn't they LET HIM IN?!"

Bro, they don't even let parents inside the building without at least 24 hr prior authorization.

Watching my 5 year old eat a bowl full of raw carrot, a match light in our existential darkness.

It pains me to even think about the city most days, it was a dream to live there and I was proud of myself for getting there. But it was grinding me to a pulp. I finally understood why Lynch shot Eraserhead the way he did: the industrial strain was isolating and deeply affecting. I am still worn out

I put in 8 years, and 2 years on am still recovering.

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

Let them fight.

Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters.

Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.

These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

Co-signed.

Go Vols!

I grew up in TN, I just counted from a simple scroll down my feed. 11 out of the first 25 were complaining about the rebrand on FB, most calling it woke.

I was born in 1985. I like to describe this experience as, "born in the 80s but remember the 70s."

I cannot fully explain it, but that description feels perfect. Black and white TVs, rotary phones, beta-max, drunk driving as socially acceptable behavior.

YouTube video by From The Basement Weird Fishes/Arpeggi | Radiohead | From The Basement

Happy Friday

youtube.com/watch?v=pcEJ...

I saw this headline, and thought, "god, I hope they gave this to Katie."

Not thinking in a million years it was her!

Always in the thick of it, @katiehonan.bsky.social

I *finally* found my ASMR sound: the quiet rattling of a child silently putting away their toys.

YouTube video by Todd R. Yarbrough, Ph.D. Back Porch Economics | Ep1: Should the US Federal Reserve Be Independent? +Monetary Policy Basics

I needed an economic catharsis or otherwise the current era was going to drive me insane. I also will always and forever be completely devoted to educating anybody willing to listen to basic economics.

So, here I am discussing Monetary Policy and Fed Independence: youtube.com/watch?v=ZEer...

I cannot imagine the degradation of content over there now. When I kicked off over a year ago it was already reading like an old Ebaum's World thread, with even more racism and misogyny.

you truly could not pay me to rejoin Twitter on any regular basis

"All up in the videos..."

Puff Daddy was so uncool he made Suge Knight (also a monster) seem palatable.

Watching all these Northeast liberal academic powers fold like cheap suits to Trump reaffirms my strong belief we need far more southerners getting PhDs.

Mark my words, Trump will rip the football away again very soon and Columbia will give more and Trump will move it again. Does nobody at Columbia understand game theory?

When Trump trolls dem politicians, I think, wow that's immature for a president, but not a crisis. When the president trolls the Fed chairman, I think, wow that's bad for the long-run solvency of our economy.

This is problematic because a president personally attacking a Fed chairman is a VERY BIG DEAL. Presidents have (though they should not) commented on Fed policy before, but leveling personal grievances publicly hasn't been seen since Nixon brutalized Burns in the early 70s. Then we had Stagflation.

One of the things I was not prepared for was extent simply holding to account a president over decorum would be considered silly political correctness, so much that a so-called hostile press seems to largely turn a blind eye. POTUS called the Fed Bank Chairman "stupid." And it wasn't even a story.