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Dan Ludwinski

@dludwinski.com

Assistant Professor of Economics at Emory University's Oxford College. I love teaching, and research healthcare.

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Trump Sucks - Let me count the ways@whatssobadabouttrump.com · 8mo ago

If this were true, then the Fed should be raising interest rates to combat inflation and prevent the economy from overheating (AD>AS). Any genuine economist would know this... Instead the administration is pushing for lower rates. I leave figuring out the discrepancy as an exercise for the reader.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

Lutnick: "Jay Powell is too afraid to lead the greatest $30t economy in the world. We should be leading with our front foot. Instead we are always leaning back as if something bad is happening. We are doing great. Nothing bad is happening. Greatness is happening. We're growing 4% GDP! Come on."

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

Dan Ludwinski@dludwinski.com · 10mo ago

Waiting with bated breath to see if Trump fires someone after the GDP numbers were revised up... www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/e...

The US economy grew at a 3.8% rate in the second quarter, significantly stronger than previously reported | CNN Business

The US economy’s comeback in the second quarter was just revised higher again, and economists estimate that momentum carried on in the third quarter, underscoring the resilience of the world’s largest...

cnn.com

Judah Grunstein@judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The more this settles in, the more its danger and gravity becomes clear. 1. This was a crime, whether under domestic law enforcement, international law or war law. 2. By its very logic, there is nothing preventing them from doing the same within the US. 3. They are bragging about it.

Judah Grunstein@judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Shot: "In his first term, [Trump] praised then-President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines for doing an 'unbelievable job on the drug problem' in the nation where Mr. Duterte’s government had sanctioned gunning down suspected drug dealers in the streets."

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12mo ago

When African Americans applied to segregated southern universities, white officials would routinely dig into their personal lives to find any semblance of dirt that they could play up to pretend they were criminals and therefore unfit to attend the school.

TPM@talkingpointsmemo.com · 12mo ago

President Trump’s attack on yet another Black woman in public office gives away the game – if you were still harboring any doubt – about his corrupt use of mortgage fraud allegations to target Democrats. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12mo ago

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

Michael@fleerultra.bsky.social · 12mo ago

6 months later, with armored humvees and (as of tomorrow) military personnel carrying weapons of war through the capitol, with a concentration camp built in the florida everglades, with SCOTUS and circuit courts enabling this every step of the way, i think this framing has been entirely vindicated

Michael@fleerultra.bsky.social · last yr.

the constitutional crisis is actually 25 years going, but most people shrugged their shoulders and kept moving because it was happening very slowly. we are now in the final constitutional collapse phase, which is moving orders of magnitude faster.