
Justin Slaughter
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VP, Regulatory Affairs @paradigm. Prev. Senior Adviser @secgov & Chief Policy Adviser @cftc. Alum of @NRDems, & @SenMarkey. Carbon-based.
Maryland, USA
Joined October 2008
Much of the story on economic policy globally over the last five years is that inflation had been so successfully conquered over the last four decades in the developed world that everyone forgot how politically toxic inflation is, especially for left and center left parties.
Why do voters hate inflation so much? This paper can’t answer why, but it’s worth recognizing that inflation is incredibly heterogeneous. If “mad about inflation” is a threshold, small shifts in inflation lead to large changes in number of affected voters.
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RT @danrobinson: I'm testifying to the Senate Banking Committee tomorrow!. I'll be talking about why it's important to protect DeFi as part….
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As much as I think analogies the the politics of the early 20th century are usually inapposite (industrializing country where 20% of people worked in agriculture and 4% had college degrees very different than today), the world of academia in 1930s was VERY different than today.
Fascinating insight here from Stefanie Stantcheva:. "People with more formal education are less likely to see the world as zero-sum but the pattern flips among the highly educated: those with PhDs often show the strongest zero-sum beliefs".
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Hyper cutting edge state of the art systems that cost a mint are going out of style nearly everywhere in the economy: tech, transportation, defense, even the government. We’re shifting broadly to a paradigm focused on cost and efficiency, akin to after the energy shock of 1970s.
@angryaboutbikes look at almost every reply and QT here. Military guys talk non stop about using cheap drones instead of expensive systems.
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Unironically, chains are going to start having political pundits as KOLs over the next five years. A lot of chains are going to misfire at first, in part because the top tier pundits tend to be more crypto skeptical, but the trend will strengthen as crypto becomes mainstream.
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Code is speech.
🚨 JUST IN: The man who built the ICE-tracking app just dared Trump’s entire administration to come for him. “Go ahead. Demonize me. Demonize the app. It’s called the First Amendment, look it up.”. That’s the energy. You don’t need a badge or a bench to defend the Constitution,
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Was on the beach; can confirm there was a crowd panic and everyone suddenly scrambling for cover. Didn’t see or hear a gun discharge though.
#OceanCityMD #oceancity.Alarms due to possible shooting at ocean city MD. after July 4th fireworks had started.
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Happy Fourth 🇺🇸.
@mattyglesias @bendreyfuss Liberalism is by far the best ideology that has created the greatest amount of utility for the greatest number of people…by orders of magnitude more than any other ideology.
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RT @Henry_George63: @mattyglesias @bendreyfuss Liberalism is by far the best ideology that has created the greatest amount of utility for t….
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We’re about to find out if materialist politics is truly dead. Anyone who tells you they know for certain that this will trigger a strong backlash among working class Trump voters (or restore GOP support among affluent Romney-Harris voters) is gaslighting you or themselves.
it is kind of wild that at the peak of its popularity with working class voters, the GOP passed the biggest rollback of the welfare state since Reagan.
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RT @anangbhai: Great point. It's easier to have a vacation to Japan, book a 5 star ryokan, go to Europe than it is to buy a vacation house….
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