Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7) @cojobrien Twitter profile

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

3 years

Anytime my tweets get 10 likes

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

1 year

Yes, they do in fact use 9/11 to get to this figure.

Air Line Pilots Association

@ALPAPilots

1 year

Since current standards for pilot training and qualifications were established in 2010, air fatalities have been reduced by 99.8%. Despite this, Washington leaders are considering weakening these standards. Let’s be clear — passenger safety is at stake. Learn more.

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@cojobrien

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It's. pretty insane we did this

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@cojobrien

1 year

If you’re a reporter with a death wish, you should look into the legitimacy of these offsets.

Taylor Swift Updates 🩶

@swifferupdates

1 year

✈️ | @BusinessInsider reports on @taylorswift13 's efforts to reduce her carbon footprint during The Eras Tour. "Before the tour kicked off in March of 2023, Taylor purchased MORE THAN DOUBLE the carbon credits needed to offset all tour travel."

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

3 years

Learning economics has its upsides but it absolutely ruins the experience of getting a tax refund.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

2 years

For the love of god please end this show already

The Simpsons

@TheSimpsons

2 years

Professor @RBReich gives The Simpsons a lesson in economics this Sunday — and we *will* be taking attendance.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

3 years

The Intercept names Moderna and BioNTech executives on its list of the year’s worst Americans. Speechless.

The Intercept

@theintercept

3 years

The pandemic has turned nine pharma executives and investors into billionaires. This has only been possible thanks to a massive government intervention in the market via monopoly patent protection — for vaccines largely developed via government funding.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

2 years

“You’re acting 5’8” right now.” -my girlfriend Absolutely devastating.

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@cojobrien

2 years

Second-tier state schools seem to be the gems of the American higher ed system (via @DKThomp )

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

2 years

New county-level population data is out today. Wide swaths of the country are shrinking.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

3 years

A man used to be able to support his family on one income.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

1 month

RIP to the dude marrying an Olympic athlete. Not sure he’ll recover from this L.

9mmSMG

@9mm_smg

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If your girl proposes to you, especially during the Olympics, you're cooked. There is nothing more emasculating than a woman proposing.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

2 years

A sign that you may have a clunky immigration system

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

2 years

My reading list for 2023:

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

2 years

Truly remarkable turnaround in DC housing production over the last 30 years. In the 1990s, the District lagged behind every single state in housing permits per capita (infamously issuing zero in 1996). In 2020, DC issued one permit for every 100 people, more than any state.

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@cojobrien

2 years

BDMII

@_BarringtonII

2 years

Do me a favor. Go look at your last pay check stub. Then look at the taxes that were taken out. Then realize that the Ukraine probably got 20-40% of that money. Ask yourselves... what could you do with that money? Better yet... what could you do with all of the taxes that were

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@cojobrien

1 year

I'm starting to get a bit suspicious that this group does not, in fact, represent the views of U.S. tech workers.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

2 years

@christianbrits those demands are pretty radical

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

3 years

Quite the opposite. The 99% of human history where we all were on the brink of starvation, dominated by some cruel, moronic lord, and dead at 40 was dystopian.

Kate Aronoff

@KateAronoff

3 years

People really underestimate how dystopian the United States is

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

1 year

New Census population estimates shed light on the extent of prime-age population decline across the country, with some interesting wrinkles. First, nearly three-quarters of U.S. counties saw declines in their prime-age populations between 2012-2022: 1/n

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

6 months

*Walter Bloomberg

@DeItaone

6 months

❖ BIDEN TO PROPOSE $5,000 CREDIT FOR FIRST-TIME HOME BUYERS: WAPO ❖ BIDEN TO PROPOSE CREDIT FOR FAMILIES SELLING STARTER HOMES:WAPO

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

3 months

Not pictured: visible hand

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@cojobrien

15 days

Fake survey by company offering financial services finds shocking results: you should buy their services.

The Spectator Index

@spectatorindex

15 days

UNITED STATES: CNBC reports that 25% of Gen Z taxpayers say they will 'need a therapist to help deal with the stress of tax-filing season', based on a survey by Cash App Taxes.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

3 years

That life is substantially improving for most of the world (and that this is a very good thing!) is practically a contrarian take at this point.

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@cojobrien

5 months

Mark Lynas

@mark_lynas

5 months

Disastrous news from the Philippines- the Court of Appeals has sided with Greenpeace and the antis in blocking vit-A enhanced Golden Rice, which is now in widespread cultivation in the country. All planting must now stop, harming the interests of millions.

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@cojobrien

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

3 years

The return of 1970s population bomb doomer-ism among highly-educated elites is worrying and incredibly sad.

To Breed or Not to Breed? (Published 2021)

In a world of pandemic chaos, political strife and climate catastrophe, some would-be parents see the future as too dark to procreate.

www.nytimes.com

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

9 months

On violent crime overall, the picture is even more grim. D.C. has seen the largest increase of any major city in America and it isn't even very close. 6/

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

2 months

This goes straight into the Canon.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

4 months

Japan doubling its intake of skilled workers to 160,000/year. That's a country a little more than one-third our size. Note the H-1B is still 85,000.

Greg Siskind

@gsiskind

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Japan to double cap on skilled foreign workers from fiscal 2024 via @NikkeiAsia

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

5 months

Don't shut down TikTok. Simply require every post to undergo an environmental impact assessment before going live.

Senior PowerPoint Engineer

@ryxcommar

5 months

The US government should nationalize TikTok.

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@cojobrien

1 year

Change in the under-5 population at the state level since the start of the pandemic. New York, Chicago, Illinois, Hawaii...

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

10 months

Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND): "It is time to do the right thing by making it easier for highly skilled immigrants to live, raise their families, and work in our country, allowing them to contribute in meaningful ways to states like North Dakota."

Letter: Immigration reform promotes a healthy workforce

Sens. Cramer and Durbin, D-Ill., have introduced the the Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act, which would allow up to 25,000 doctors and 15,000 nurses to come to the United States to help fill open...

www.inforum.com

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

1 year

@JosephPolitano He still won’t give up on the online bank idea 20 years later lmao

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@cojobrien

2 years

What a signal this sends to the next pandemic’s Pfizer or Moderna.

Jeff Stein

@JStein_WaPo

2 years

. @SenSanders today introduced a plan to impose a 95% tax on the “windfall profits” of all corporations earning more than $500M in revenue. “Windfall” would be determined by each company’s average profits during the 5 years before the pandemic

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

7 months

I would simply read the bill, personally.

David Sacks

@DavidSacks

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The Inflation Reduction Act was actually a trillion dollar spending bill. The border security bill is actually a mass amnesty. Just assume bills do the opposite of what they say.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

2 years

Biden's collapse with young voters is kind of mysterious. I've heard a lot of theories, but I find disappointment over his failure to end the SALT deduction most convincing.

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@cojobrien

2 years

I don't think you need an associate's degree to look after a toddler.

Kathryn Watson

@kathrynw5

2 years

"Putting two kids into a child-care center in D.C. costs 41% more than the local average mortgage payment and nearly twice the cost of tuition at a public university." Requiring an associate's degree will make it even more expensive for families.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

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The worst part of Twitter is not the viciousness, shallowness, or scapegoating. It’s finding out how many smart and important people have terrible epistemic standards. Demoralizing to see people you admire share obvious slop that doesn’t pass the smell test.

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@cojobrien

2 years

98% talk, 2% inflation

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@byHeatherLong

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“Monetary policy is 98% talk.” - Ben Bernanke, former Fed Chair

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@cojobrien

1 year

The Hulk does not have our best interests at heart

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@MarkRuffalo

4 years

This is a BIG deal - the first of Indian Point's nuclear reactors is shutting down this month & New York State is moving toward a 100% #RenewableEnergy future! Be sure to check out @Beyond_IP and their incredible campaign! #BeyondIndianPoint

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

2 months

There is a housing policy angle to our engagement. This was on top of The Cairo, the building which led to DC’s first building height restrictions. I would have proposed on an even higher rooftop, if one were legal.

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@cojobrien

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DSA San Francisco

@DSA_SF

3 years

Many of these YIMBRos have never held public power, and their dreamy capitalist idealism of supply-demand curves show that they don’t understand that the root cause of housing scarcity is commodification.

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@cojobrien

2 years

it's sad how nobody wants to work anymore

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@cojobrien

2 years

Setting aside all the other stuff about the Boudin recall, it is actually wild that a major US city elected a former Hugo Chavez staffer to be District Attorney.

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@cojobrien

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Underrated is the extent to which hedge funds/high finance make it harder for the US to do advanced manufacturing (and not just through the capital inflows/trade balance channel).

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼

@Noahpinion

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I just don't believe this cultural story. TSMC gets the best, most motivated people in Taiwan. In America those people can make 5x as much doing software. Notably, Japanese-owned U.S. auto factories are as productive as factories in Japan.

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@cojobrien

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Job estimates conspiracy theories are the cleanest identifier I’ve ever seen for people whose views on the economy add zero value. They’re helpfully identifying themselves so we can clear our feeds of stupidity.

Tom Elliott

@tomselliott

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CNN: Biden Admin admits cooking the books, claiming 818,000 jobs between March 2023 & March 2024 that didn’t actually exist

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@cojobrien

5 months

A must-read in @TheEconomist : America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population. Thread:

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@cojobrien

3 years

This is grim.

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@cojobrien

3 months

Buried in this episode: We almost lost Dwarkesh to stupid per-country green card caps. After 13 years in the US (the son of a doctor!), he was mere months away from aging out of his H-1B dependent status and having to leave the country or become a Big Tech "code monkey."

Dwarkesh Patel

@dwarkesh_sp

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. @leopoldasch on: - the trillion dollar cluster - unhobblings + scaling = 2027 AGI - CCP espionage at AI labs - leaving OpenAI and starting an AGI investment firm - dangers of outsourcing clusters to the Middle East - The Project Full episode (including the last 32 minutes cut

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The new right-wing government in New Zealand is going to war with NIMBYs. So too is Pierre Poilievre, the next Conservative PM in Canada. Starmer won a giant Labour majority last night in the UK promising big planning reforms... Fascinating.

David Wessel

@davidmwessel

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New Zealand govt vows to 'flood' cities with housing in new planning rules

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

3 years

What if I told you there was a revenue source that doubled as a climate program?

Jeff Stein

@JStein_WaPo

3 years

NEWS: WH aides planning how to make grueling cuts to Biden agenda to accommodate centrists Manchin's $1.5T "topline" = ~**60%** cut to Biden's plans Wrenching choices of what gets left out: Homelessness or climate? Seniors or poor? Hungry or sick?

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

3 years

Folks,

CNBC Now

@CNBCnow

3 years

BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire, @NBCNews has learned

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@cojobrien

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This is one of those ideas where folks will say "sure it's probably a bad idea, but it polls well and helps you get elected." The problem is when you say that for long enough, policymakers simply start to think it's actually a good idea in the first place.

Eric Levitz

@EricLevitz

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Kamala wants to ban corporate landlords from owning lots of single-family homes. But this policy may actually be regressive: It effectively shrinks the supply of housing available to renters, while reinforcing class segregation

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@cojobrien

3 months

Heartbreaking: The worst country you know embraces abundance before your own

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@cojobrien

2 months

Low-wage workers' wages have boomed twice in the last 40 years. They happen to be the two times we actually approached full employment. No radical changes in trade or labor policy, just good old-fashioned aggregate demand.

Jed Kolko

@JedKolko

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Fascinating new way to look at how lower-wage workers have fared, by @ernietedeschi Introducing the Low-Wage Index: A Compositionally-Adjusted Look at Low-Wage Workers Since 1979

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

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Tim Walz signed a full ban on noncompete agreements in Minnesota last year. MN is the fourth state thus far with a full ban.

State Noncompete Law Tracker

Explore the interactive map of current state noncompete laws and a searchable tracker of proposed noncompete reform bills in state legislatures across the country. Nearly one in five workers in the...

eig.org

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

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New: Demographic collapse has arrived in major American cities. Between 2020 and 2023, large urban counties' under five population fell 8%. In NYC, it fell 18%. Los Angeles, 14%. Cook County, IL, 15%. 1/x

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@cojobrien

2 years

This is not even remotely true.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

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Mortgage interest and SALT deduction hatred rapidly evaporating…

Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

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We are officially D.C. homeowners!!

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@cojobrien

1 year

Here's how our map shakes out when we look at absolute changes in prime-age population over the last decade. Sun Belt: it's your economy, if you can keep it. 3/n

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@cojobrien

2 years

Wait I thought we wanted to hurt Russia?

Samuel Ramani

@SamRamani2

2 years

BREAKING: The U.S. will join Britain in banning the provision of management consulting services to Russia

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@cojobrien

3 years

The ship is unstuck. Neoliberalism is back on.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

1 year

The kicker is the UK has *already* eradicated the scourge of economic growth.

Degrowth London

@degrowthlondon

1 year

Hello! We are excited to announce the arrival and imminent launch of 'Degrowth London'🧵1/4

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

2 years

Standing outside the van Gogh exhibit

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@cojobrien

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In contrast to what you may hear about the gig-ification of work in America: -The average worker is working fewer hours -Rates of 2+ jobs are down -Typical job tenure is up -People are changing jobs less frequently Via @BenGlasner @LettieriDC @ModeledBehavior 's new project.

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@cojobrien

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@SteveMatthews12 @atanzi @economics @wealth

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@cojobrien

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This stuff from EJ is crude clickbait at best. Here's the share of native-born, prime age Americans who are employed. As you can see, it's the highest it's been in two decades. Nobody is being "swapped out." The labor market for native workers is historically tight.

E.J. Antoni, Ph.D.

@RealEJAntoni

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Over the last year, native-born Americans have LOST 1.2 million jobs while foreign-born employment has increased 1.3 million; we're just swapping out American workers at this point, not growing the pie for everyone...

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@cojobrien

3 years

Ok maybe Jerome Powell went a little too far this time

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@SixBrownChicks

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San Diego: Armored truck dumps cash on freeway. Freeway shuts down while people collect $100 bills

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TIL: Lee Kuan Yew couldn’t get India or Egypt to help train Singapore’s brand-new military. He took the controversial step of inviting Israelis to do it, and just told people they were Mexicans.

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@cojobrien

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@mattyglesias It is strange for the author of this story to frame apartheid South Africa as a bastion of unfettered speech while also including this passage:

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@cojobrien

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We are officially D.C. homeowners!!

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@cojobrien

9 months

For all of DC's recent troubles, it permitted more than 7,700 new housing units last year alone, the highest total since 1965.

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Biggest winners: Mountain West, Southern metros Biggest losers: Rural counties, Rust Belt counties of all stripes 2/n

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@cojobrien

2 years

@RichardHanania dude give it a rest and go outside

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@cojobrien

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New: Foreign-born workers make up an outsized share of the workforce in industries critical to economic and national security. You simply cannot separate industrial policy success from skilled immigration reform. Let’s dive into the numbers.

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@cojobrien

2 years

Fed raises interest rates as Powell vows to go “sicko mode” against inflation

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@cojobrien

1 year

Probably one of the most important storylines for understanding the 21st century: The Great Stagnation may be self-perpetuating, locking in zero-sum views that in turn slow growth.

John Burn-Murdoch

@jburnmurdoch

1 year

NEW: a recent study found a fascinating pattern People are becoming more zero-sum in their thinking, and weaker economic growth may explain why Older generations grew up with high growth and formed aspirational attitudes; younger ones have faced low growth and are more zero-sum

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@cojobrien

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Build The Cube

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@cojobrien

9 months

D.C. really is experiencing a very large spike in crime. Homicide is up by one-third, robbery two-thirds, and carjackings have nearly doubled. 4/

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@cojobrien

2 years

Top-tier bill acronym

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

2 years

Oh my god an Odd Lots episode on a Land Value Tax

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

3 years

I see we've reached the "let's just make inflation illegal" stage of the business cycle.

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@cojobrien

9 months

The median salary for an H-1B visa holder last year was $118,000. For all the rhetoric around H-1B as some kind of low-wage program, the typical person on this visa makes literally twice the average American's annual salary.

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@cojobrien

9 months

NEW: How is Washington D.C. actually doing? As we near the end of 2023, I take a look at key measures of the city's health, including demographics, crime, transit, schools, and housing. 1/

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@cojobrien

3 years

The EU is a very good idea, so it hurts that I can’t really name a major crisis/problem in my lifetime that it hasn’t completely fumbled.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

1 year

Utah does not like zero-sum thinking!

Crémieux

@cremieuxrecueil

1 year

A new paper on correlates of zero-sum thinking just came out and it has everything: race, sex, politics, class, mobility, and even deep roots! Here are my favorite graphs from the paper. But first: how was zero-sum thinking measured? The answer is as a set of four questions on

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

2 years

Robert Reich is the Charlie Kirk of progressive Twitter

Matt Darling 🌐🏗️

@besttrousers

2 years

@MattBruenig

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

3 years

A spectre is haunting America — the spectre of like 2% of GDP/year in additional federal spending.

Marco Rubio

@marcorubio

3 years

The $3.5 trillion Biden plan isn’t socialism, it’s marxism

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

6 months

Dune is a great story about supply chain chokepoints and what happens without friendshoring. Take heed, friends.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

1 year

Shockingly few green cards (likely many fewer than you think) actually go to employer-sponsored or self-sponsored skilled workers.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

4 months

In Nevada, 18-year-olds can vote or join the army. But they can't be trusted to become licensed magicians.

Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥

@senatorshoshana

4 months

Someone asked me I can't believe this exists OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING FOR MAGICIANS

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

4 months

Now would be a good time to drop the petty feuds against South Korean washing machines and Canadian wood.

Matthew Yglesias

@mattyglesias

4 months

The economic case against tariffs is sound. The national securities case against letting China poach all of American manufacturing is also sound. The synthesis is we need free trade with the free world.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

2 years

Outrageous: With his $44 billion, Elon Musk could have established a student loan debt forgiveness program for Pell Grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

3 years

“You smell like updog” “I am updog”

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

1 year

Good morning from Georgetown. I’m here with 75 of my closest friends about to walk 62 miles to Harper Ferry, West Virginia. Wish me luck.

Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

2 years

Signed up to do a reckless and painful physical feat. Will let the TL know how it works out.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

8 months

Being upset by this is the normal reaction.

Elissa Silverman

@tweetelissa

8 months

I knew this guy was insufferable on national politics but he is just clueless and uninformed on local affairs, which is a shame because he lives here and other people listen to him. He is the part of the MAGA group in DC local politics, voting against his own good gov interest.

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Connor O’Brien (in SF 9/4-9/7)

@cojobrien

1 year

@atrembath 10% of the tour proceeds go to Greenpeace, doubling its emissions footprint

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