James Fallows Tierney
@jamesftierney.bsky.social
Associate professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law (Illinois Tech). I study financial markets regulation & law of capitalism. But this ≠ IIT. DSA Fund board 🌹🤝, Rstats, NLP, Phish dad, etc. Semper ubi sub ubi.
This guy (DM, not OP) was like one of my law firm mentors as a summer associate. He was the most obviously slimy one among them, and this is relative to the guy who later became ambassador to Russia and was assigned to me because we both had Irish names.
onion person@junlper.beer · 22h agosuspiciously green bananas is sadly one of the funniest things i’ve read in awhile
My wife, seeing the paperwork on my desk: “Is *this* what you are doing when you say you are ‘working’?” The paperwork: Mostly empty pages
This guy (DM, not OP) was like one of my law firm mentors as a summer associate. He was the most obviously slimy one among them, and this is relative to the guy who later became ambassador to Russia and was assigned to me because we both had Irish names.
onion person@junlper.beer · 22h agosuspiciously green bananas is sadly one of the funniest things i’ve read in awhile
Bathroom code at a Colorado Springs Chick-Fil-A: 867-530. If you press 9 it errors out on you.
It’s taken me 47 years, but some kind of switch flipped this year and I’ve gotten really into the Grateful Dead. www.npr.org/2026/08/03/n...
How long will the Grateful Dead's songs survive?
The Grateful Dead endured an original run of 30 years, but its appeal has survived just as long in a world where the band no longer exists. The question now is not whether the music will continue, but...
npr.org
This monarch friend waits for the train with me
I think this is fundamentally wrong but in an interesting way I will need to write about sometime. The key is a) consumers do not choose what is produced, or how, they choose between what is produced. This is a crucial difference
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d agoI think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
Either Scholastica needs to streamline this or journals are going to need to find another way to do this. Nobody reads individual submission requirements in a mass submission system.
Michael Smith@msmith750.bsky.social · 3d agoAs another PSA, The University of Pennsylvania Law Review is requiring AI disclosures too. They don't have a Google form and are asking authors to include a note in their cover letters. Anyway, RIP to my submissions as I found this out too late, but did I really have a chance?
Me: Wow! What are the odds of seeing someone in Denver wearing a Phish t shirt? My wife: based on the smell at this park, very high
I can tell the bond folks the exact date Kevin Warsh will start advocating for major rate hikes to tame inflation: January 20, 2029
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 5d ago"it’s clear that the bond market reaction wasn’t a judgment on the rate decision itself. It was, instead, a judgment on Warsh." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-bond-m...
Colorado turns 150 years young today. Happy sesquicentennial to the Centennial State.
Colorado turns 150 years young today. Happy sesquicentennial to the Centennial State.
The Colorado Sun has been celebrating many of the things unique about the Centennial State. Take a look at 150 things that just lean into Colorado's awesomeness.
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Interesting idea to pick someone who really wanted to be Fed Chair but had no interest in economic forecasting or monetary policy.
This has seemingly been coming for several months, but I've heard almost nothing about it. And it's here now.
Illinois Tech to lay off 160 as enrollment, financial woes force restructure
The move reportedly prompted a faculty senate vote of no confidence in the school’s top leadership.
chicagobusiness.com
look. nobody here likes paying consultants. but the only alternative is paying *instructors*
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 6d ago“Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Yeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece.
Elias Thorne@truebe.horse · 6d agosaw an article today about an az politician saying how great it was that we're now in emergency drought conditions because the farmers get automatic bailouts and I feel like way more Professional Rural Understanders just breeze by sentences like that. www.paysonroundup.com/news/arizona...
you gotta talk about Gloria here, right
Rich Raho@richraho.bsky.social · 5d agoPope Leo received singer and songwriter Patti Smith in private audience this morning. The Pope and Smith are both Chicago natives. She was accompanied by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social, undersecretary for the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education.
oh did the hedge fund run by the 25 year old effective altruist who previously worked for FTX have problems? man who could have anticipated that
Mads Mikkelsen Smoking
ALT: Mads Mikkelsen Smoking
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Noodling with permit data: It appears that the 2019 building code change to allow three-story buildings to be built with wood coincided with a threefold increase in the proportion of three-flats built on the South and West Sides
Examining the rapid expansion and convergence of retail betting markets, from Scott R. Baker, Justin Balthrop, Mark J. Johnson, Jason D. Kotter, and Kevin Pisciotta www.nber.org/papers/w35520
Staff were also part of this cut (I understand that laying off tenured faculty is bigger news, but we lost a LOT of people) leiterreports.com/2026/07/29/i...
Illinois Institute of Technology declares “financial exigency” and begins firing faculty, including tenured faculty
Up to one-third of the faculty may be terminated, although in the law school, Chicago-Kent, it appears the number is lower (maybe one-fifth by some accounts). If readers have more details, please e…
leiterreports.com
Third Circuit holds that algorithmic price collusion can violate the antitrust laws; sets up potential conflict with the Ninth Circuit. www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/243...
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“The main source of the budgetary crisis is the decline in the enrollment of international students, no doubt due to Trump policies.”
James Fallows Tierney@jamesftierney.bsky.social · last wk.Brian Leiter wrote about faculty layoffs at my university. leiterreports.com/2026/07/29/i...
Oh no! Chicago-Kent is a great law school and it's where I got my start teaching. It's a wonderful institution.
James Fallows Tierney@jamesftierney.bsky.social · last wk.Brian Leiter wrote about faculty layoffs at my university. leiterreports.com/2026/07/29/i...
