John Whitehead
@johnwhitehead81.bsky.social
Economist | Regional State University | 6' 210
Raising taxes to pay down the debt. Got it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h agoBessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."
He will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"
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Journal investigating apparent data mismatch in climate study
A leading environmental economics journal is looking into claims that a 2025 study linking national innovation to lower carbon emissions contains data that does not match its source, after an exper…
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bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
I just bumped up my weight 5 lbs in my profile. It happens.
Facebook is also where angry boomers keep up with their friends so mostly yes
Marc F. Bellemare@marcfbellemare.bsky.social · 3w agoI've been Facebook sober for nearly 10 years and do not miss it at all. Isn't it mostly angry boomers with little to no critical thinking sharing minion memes and miscellaneous fake news and propaganda at this point?
Someone tells us how this World Congress session goes down
I received another 14 day review request for a different paper from the same Elsevier journal.
John Whitehead@johnwhitehead81.bsky.social · 2mo agoI declined
NBER working papers get too much weight in our profession
Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 2mo agoUgh. Not good reporting about unrefereed preprints. Sabrina Tavernese at NYT says two studies were "published," one of which was "published in the National Bureau of Economic Research" (not a journal) the other is on SSRN (not identified).
“The money for the new coal plants would come from funds that Congress originally designated for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from polluting industries.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/c...
Trump Offers Funds for First New U.S. Coal Plants in 13 Years
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WSJ opinion shows how useless the WSJ opinion page is
Someone should have told him thats the job description “Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently complained that he was tired of wasting time in endless negotiations“ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/u...
Trump Hits the Stalemate Phase of His International Interventions, and It Stings
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Guys I’m packing up my books, what do I do with my copy of Predictably Irrational? Bonus: it’s from Borders (RIP)
