Win Monroe

Win Monroe

@winmonroe.bsky.social

Another economist. Views and bad hot takes are my own, if even that. Likes & RTs =/= endorsements.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com

if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

The Associated Press@apnews.com

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

bit.lySerbia’s strongman leader Vucic concedes defeat to student-led movement in seismic political shiftThe long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

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Tim Price
@timprice.bsky.social

Polymarket, thank you for sharing

Polymarket@polymarket.extwitter.link

JUST IN: Newly released Pentagon UFO files reveal witness drawings of bizarre creatures allegedly encountered in Utah, including hairy humanoids & mysterious “Skinwalkers.”

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Michael Clemens
@mclem.org

International students who stay after graduation (OPT) cause large increases in innovation, entrepreneurship, and productivity in the US. I talked with @insidehighered.com about the US Administration's new tax on those students—>

insidehighered.comBreaking Down OPT and How It Affects the Economy in 6 ChartsResearchers who have studied high-skilled immigration say that international students on OPT often bring innovation, entrepreneurship and job opportunities for domestic employees.
Win Monroe
@winmonroe.bsky.social

Good read on the economics of service charges in the UK. Interesting how in some ways the are similar to the US but others very different.

Braise@braise.substack.com

Constantly learning about little subtleties of how the restaurant industry works from Dan O'Regan's newsletter. His latest on why UK service charge is optional, even though we all end up paying it anyway, is a great example

danoregan.substack.comService Charge ShenanigansWhere the 12.5% goes, and what happens when it’s built into the price.

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JW Mason
@jwmason.bsky.social

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The point is, it's hard to make sense of CoreWeave's financing troubles on the hypothesis that everybody else in the space is doing fine.

Win Monroe
@winmonroe.bsky.social

Who is running "he thinks you can be bought" advertisements in the US with Elon pictures and donation receipts? Bc Dems should be all over that.

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FT Edit
@ftedit.ft.com

The trade in credit default swaps is surging as investors seek protection in the event the AI boom unravels. The insurance-like derivatives, which pay out if a company defaults on its debt, last rose to prominence during the 2008 financial crisis. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/VAF717U

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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

wsj.comExclusive | Putin Floats a Summit With Trump and Xi to Discuss Ukraine DealUkraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky wouldn’t be included in the proposed talks, as Russia’s leader seeks to negotiate an end to the war that favors Moscow.

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Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest.bsky.social

The Super AGI: I'm sorry. I disassembled the entire human race molecule by molecule to make paperclips. That's on me. Me: what are you talking about, that's not true Super: you're right. That was a failure of alignment and I'm really sorry Me: you haven't made any paper clips at all have you

Win Monroe
@winmonroe.bsky.social

Reading one of those books where I constantly want to look up every end note. I know it's not aesthetically pleasing, but footnotes please!

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@winmonroe.bsky.social
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

thehandbasket.co'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist tiesThomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.

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Gavin Jackson
@gavinjackson.bsky.social

Absolutely wild to me. I was in the room and he didn’t signal a pause in any way.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

FED HIKE ODDS CRASH FROM 55% TO 13% Warsh signals an October pause despite inflation hitting 3.7%. Kalshi now puts the odds of a Fed hold at 86%, up from 50%. 📊 Watch the odds move in real time 👇

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Katie Martin
@katie0martin.ft.com

"welcome to the marketplace of ideas"

Journal of Art in Society@artinsociety.bsky.social

In this “Jaws of Hell” roof boss from 12th-century Norwich Cathedral, dark spotted devil with long hair and cloven foot (at L) ushers condemned souls into the gaping fanged mouth of a hideous monster

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Nathan Goldwag
@goldwagnathan.bsky.social

Something I really love is the way the movie constantly contrasts Nausicaä's emotional, naive, feminine-coded objections with the Hard Men Making Hard Decisions, and then repeatedly shows us that Nausicaä is the only person who has actually done the research to understand the logic of the world.

Nathan Goldwag@goldwagnathan.bsky.social

goddamn this movie is so fucking good

nathangoldwag.wordpress.comNausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Is The BestYesterday, I had the opportunity to watch Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in a theater. It’s been one of my favorite movies since I first saw it when I was ten, but seeing it on the big sc…

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Craig Harrington
@craigipedia.bsky.social

Does the FIFA Peace Prize mean nothing to these people!?

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. At a FIFA Council meeting in Zurich on Thursday, it was decided that the governing body’s football social responsibility committee will now be tasked with assessing the merits of what was supposed to be an annual prize.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/769....

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Stephen Williamson
@1954swilliamson.bsky.social

We don't expect Warsh to announce a future path for overnight interest rate targets. It would be desirable, though, for him to carefully articulate how he thinks about appropriate interest rate targets. He won't, or can't, do that either.

Michael Derby@michaelsderby.bsky.social

In his only appearance ahead of the next FOMC meeting, Fed boss Warsh says nothing on rate outlook: "I don't prejudge meetings...I don't believe in saying now what I might do at the meetings that we have in the balance of this year."

reuters.comFed's Warsh sees US resilience, mum on rate-path viewFederal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh voiced optimism on Friday about US economic strength and surprise about how well global economies have been "hanging in there" ​amid continued energy shocks and ti...

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Win Monroe
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I'll add his reach also tells you just how sui generis he was. You could see references to him or his ideas in mainstream economics papers or heterodox ones, in theoretical academic work or technical papers from central bankers or market strategists. His ideas (and charm) were infectuous to all.

Win Monroe@winmonroe.bsky.social

I spent much of what little free time I had during my PhD in the YSI reading group Perry sponsored. Like everything he did, it was deeply intellectual and inspiring. It tells you everything about him that people from all over the world sought out his class & he provided it free.