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Industries Hampering Economic Growth The Tollbooth Economy: Five Industries Holding America's Future Hostage Introduction: The Unseen Tax on American Excellence The American economy, at its best, is a dynamic engine of innovation and opp...

It backs up the decision of these markets with numbers that do look decent - full response here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The five industries it mentions off the rip (in order) are Healthcare, railroad, freight, seeds (agrichem), and military.
Is it correlating my prompt or is it doing independ analysis???

"'That fucking dumbass,' one of the senior Trump administration officials told Zeteo on Wednesday, after seeing a clip of Lutnick riffing on Epstein. 'I’ve worked with him ... He just talks and talks, and doesn’t care what unhelpful bullshit comes out.'"

Its great to see NM making the rounds for something good

How Universal Child Care Could Change the Economy

Lots of specifics that matter in the design of these policies but good to see some debate and momentum in New Mexico, New York City, and elsewhere.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

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State of the Art: Economic Development Through the Lens of Paintings Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org/papers/w33976

Common Ownership and Employee Earnings * José Azar Xin Dai Yue Qiu Aaron Sojourner September 15, 2025 Abstract Using administrative data in the manufacturing sector from the U.S. Census Bureau, this paper provides the first evidence on the effect of common ownership on employee earnings. Using firms’ additions to the S&P 500 index as a shock to their local competitors’ common ownership, we find that, after a same-industry competitor enters the S&P 500 index, the average employee earnings of S&P 500 incumbents in the same local labor market decrease. Additionally, these firms’ employment increases. These findings are inconsistent with the canonical oligopsony models but our generalized model of oligopsony incorporating a recruitment intensity margin can rationalize them

Common Ownership & Employee Earnings
updated & improved

Consider a pair of companies that sell into the same product market. If pair shares common owners, the owners have incentive for pair to soften competition.

Same with local labor market competition
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The additional capital cost of burying the wires + risk of wire cutting accident during farm operations. There are multiple fallowing programs in the US - payment to farmers to not grow crops - a long term fallowing program with agrivoltaic installation makes most sense to me.

Maybe a long term fallowing program that includes solar installations?

I imagine it complicates farmer operations - the wires to the grid and irrigation are two sore spots

20% of practicing doctors in the United States are immigrants.

Matching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34170

"In our benchmark estimate, the total effective tax rate—all taxes paid relative to economic income—of the top 0.0002% (approximately the “top 400”) averaged 24% in 2018–2020 compared with 30% for the full population and 45% for top labor income earners." #Econsky

Open letter Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...

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Most of NM showing up red or worse seems off - probably something with IDW or the monitoring stations.

Aerospace Defense competition based in Japan…

The UFP – Unsustainable Fiscal Position The US Senate passed legislation to enshrine an unsustainable fiscal position into law. The bill goes to the House, where it may run into difficulties. Some fiscal conservatives are unhappy with the u...

The UFP – Unsustainable Fiscal Position

The US Senate passed a bill to enshrine the US Unsustainable Fiscal Position into law. It is not entirely certain the House will follow.

secure.ubs.com/global/en/we...

#EconSky

10am today at the Valles Caldera #NewMexico

Is this data published publicly?

This should be bearish for the U.S. dollar medium- and longer-term. #EconSky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Corporate America’s ‘Carbon Burden’ Exceeds Its Total Market Value Chicago Booth’s Lubos Pastor explains his research on the social cost of carbon emissions by US companies.

How valuable to society are America’s companies? www.chicagobooth.edu/review/corpo... #econsky

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High-frequency labor market update: On 25 November postings on job site Indeed were 49.3% above their pre-pandemic level. New job postings, defined as on Indeed for seven days or less, are 56.6% above their pre-pandemic level #jobs @indeed #econsky

🚨 DOJ & FTC just weighed in on common ownership:

✅ Passive index investing? Protected.
✅ Shareholder advocacy? Protected.
❌ Using stakes in competitors to cut output across an industry? Not protected.

Antitrust safe harbors don't shield anticompetitive common ownership.

Collusion through Common Leadership Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Common leadership (two firms sharing executives or board directors) contributes to collusion.

Collusion probability between two firms increases by 12 percentage points after the onset of common leadership, compared to only 1.2 percent in the absence of common leaders.
www.nber.org/papers/w33866

Oil demand isn’t growing the way it was. On the NM side of the Permian, politics is also changing the tax landscapes for producers.

The editorial boards of seven leading health econ journals are taking a stand today against political influence and ideological attacks on peer review and academia. No matter what you study we want to see your scholarship and will NEVER collaborate with suppression. Please repost.

Someone should make a New Mexico legislation feed here on blsky!