Stephen Nuñez

The think tank white paper I dare not write about think tank white papers.

The people who graduated into it still have depressed earnings relative to those who graduated just a year or two before. It did serious longterm damage.

Right. If these were targeted tariffs that benefited a specific industry sure. But he is doing and tariffs and also tarrifs that hit supply chains and tariffs that weirdly benefit certain foreign companies sometimes. It's a giant mess.

I don't see this as being similar to the NRA/gun control. Far more salient. And single issue "economy' voters are far more prevalent than single issue "gun control" voters.

Tariffs are concentrated benefit (dollars) and diffuse costs (dollars). But as we have learned people fucking hate inflation. So that diffuse cost (dollar) != diffuse cost("utility"). If people are sufficiently angry about something (intensity) en masse, politicians may respond.

1/Kevin Hassett had long ago discredited himself as a scholar by parroting claims about the economy he knew to be false. Even so, parroting the lie about rigged statistics, is a new low. The academy should ostracize him the same way a fabricator of research should be ostracized.

Saw a post this morning lamenting that Texas Democrats would not do this because they were useless cowards despite the fact that they have done this before.

I mean don't let these folks slide back into the annual conferences after their term. Make them pariahs. Too many people who should be pariahs walking down the halls at e.g. APPAM without being pelted with rotten vegetables.

Origins might still be my favorite RPG. Needs the mods to remove the orange filter and replace the potato faces though.

Which is to say that you should try being Hobo Cop for a bit. It might do you some good.

If you want a crpg that demands a ton of time and research I'd point you to something like Wrath of the Righteous. Disco Elysium is the complete opposite.

It happens a bit toooo quickly. It's a tricky balance.

It is extremely easy to figure out. My non-gamer wife played through and loved the game. No problem with the mechanics at all. This is not like learning a complex tabletop rpg. And besides failing rolls/checks is part of the fun of this game. That is one of the reasons people love it so much.

It is extremely easy to figure out. My non-gamer wife played through and loved the game. No problem with the mechanics at all. This is not like learning a complex tabletop rpg. And besides failing rolls/checks is part of the fun of this game. That is one of the reasons people love it so much.

Getting Kim to dance...an amazing moment.

it's not the greatest rpg ever made but it is a very good and extremely funny game.

"We will remove these tariffs and replace them with tax increases on the rich and corporations"

That's easy. It's the middle class tax increases that would be hard to sell.

"Why are there shortages in everything?" was the question on everyone's lips during the pandemic, Joe and Tracy found story after story on supply chains & how years of underinvestment post 2008 mattered.
nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...

Gummy Bears, Onion Futures.... thats why we love Odd Lots

Devastating, and you can already feel the effects in university life, as administrations brace for this in ways that even a familiar term like “austerity” might understate.

People on twitter will really be like "you believe in redistribution? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, donating 35% of my income to charity" and then not donate 35% of their income to charity.

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

America got beat by a two bit grifting carny. When we remove him we need to do a serious post-mortem and build a better republic.

More seriously it is good to have boring centrists on the Sunday shows saying this stuff. Even if it is still this was what finally triggered it. We need this to penetrate.

More seriously it is good to have boring centrists on the Sunday shows saying this stuff. Even if it is still this was what finally triggered it. We need this to penetrate.

Pleasantly surprised by Hochul on this actually.

"except for the Columbia deal which was good "

They think they can squeeze one more out. Then Florida and Ohio will get involved too I suspect. They are trying to build a firewall. Probably won't work but don't want to find out. Teach them what happens when you violate the compact.

This is existential now. Democrats have to do the same or they'll never weild power again.

They’re trying to speed run Orbanization because they realize how screwed they are if America ever has another relatively free and fair election. I’m not sure what options exist other than having blue states fight fire with fire.