Senior economist @ceidotorg. @ryanyoungcei@bsky.social
Chicago, IL
Joined March 2010
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The Wikipedia community has built a tool that makes it possible to embed our interactive Our World in Data charts right in any Wikipedia page.
I have always admired Wikipedia and all the people contributing to it. And I'm very happy that our work now can get used this way!
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"If submitting a housing permit application on the same day, the average aspiring homeowner who wants to build in Miami, San Francisco or Boston — the cities with the longest permitting times — will still be stuck in paperwork when the average aspiring homeowner in Indianapolis, El Paso, Colorado Springs, Phoenix or Fort Worth is moving into a completed home."
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The website & email sign-up list. Emails on anything from analysis of major data releases minutes after they're released to daily roundups of economic news to weekly analyses of the U.S., European & Chinese economies.
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"Eliminating tariffs" is Democratic voters' second-favorite concrete step to reduce their costs.
And yet, too many Democrats are bashful about bashing tariffs - because organized labor likes them.
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The economic legacy of the last two years in a single chart. Americans hate tariffs.
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You love to see it. RIP protectionism as populism.
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When my book came out, everyone asked if Trump was going to change the direction of US trade policy. "Too soon to say" I'd say because of status quo bias. Now Trump made "tariff" one of the most hated words in politics, says @greg_ip wsj.com/economy/trade/how-ta… via @WSJ (1/2)
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How many Americans actually just straight-up starve to death?
In the latest data, from 2024, there were 22 cases.
And not even one of them was about poverty making it unaffordable to obtain food.
How many Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck? How many are starving?
The answer to both questions is--despite what you might have heard from the news media--not many.
Link: cremieux.xyz/p/how-many-amer…
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If actual socialism does ever take hold in America, it'll be Donald J Trump who got the ball rolling:
Of course, of course: "Trump turned the government into an investor. Democrats have shopping plans, too." semafor.com/article/10/21/20…
"We’re through the looking glass"
"The sky’s the limit"
"The Trump administration has opened up Pandora’s box"
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The government's equity portfolio of 36 companies has a distressingly weak legal foundation, says Cato’s @scottlincicome.
None of the cited laws expressly authorize federal ownership stakes in private companies. #CatoRFE
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How a MAGA youth movement is training ‘10,000 Stephen Millers’
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“Actually, in America, the reading of books is up. Sales of print books have increased nearly twenty-five per cent from a decade ago. The number of independent bookstores in the United States has climbed steeply since 2009, with a seventy-per-cent increase since 2020.”
These nuggets & more in this delightful @NewYorker profile of James Daunt, founder of Daunt Books, CEO of Barnes & Noble, and Managing Director of Waterstones: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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Defying predictions, the reading of books is trending up. Add 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘪𝘮 𝘖𝘭𝘥 𝘋𝘢𝘺𝘴 to your reading list:
“Actually, in America, the reading of books is up. Sales of print books have increased nearly twenty-five per cent from a decade ago. The number of independent bookstores in the United States has climbed steeply since 2009, with a seventy-per-cent increase since 2020.”
These nuggets & more in this delightful @NewYorker profile of James Daunt, founder of Daunt Books, CEO of Barnes & Noble, and Managing Director of Waterstones: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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WAKE UP BABES NEW TARIFF LAWSUIT JUST DROPPED
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Going into the winter, electricity prices are the highest they have ever been in nominal terms. Natural gas and fuel oil are approaching the highs from 2022. All three have outpaced wages gains since the beginning of 2020.
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Nearly two-thirds of builders said immigration enforcement is affecting their labor force, up from 23% in March and 13% a year ago, according to a September John Burns Research & Consulting survey.
“We’re almost dead in the water because our workforce is gone,” said Scott Brannock, president of Jacksonville-based Tidewater Homes and the Northeast Florida Builders Association.
“We have national builders who are missing projections, losing hundreds of thousands of dollars because they have slabs sitting on the ground and no one to frame.”
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i can't believe that a policy designed to make steel more expensive has made steel more expensive
who could have seen this coming
US steel prices climbed to the highest in more than four years as Trump’s tariffs restrict foreign supplies, boosting domestic producers while raising costs for American manufacturers bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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The last time the Milwaukee Brewers were in the World Series you could get 12 8-track tapes for only a dollar through The Gorman Thomas Tape Club®.
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NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. Story with @nancyayoussef theatlantic.com/politics/202…
