Matthew Zeitlin
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correspondent @heatmap_news matthew at heatmap dot news
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Joined January 2008
There’s truly Nordic administrative data for everything
An incredible Finnish dataset shows that dating (or at least cohabiting with) a manager at your company might lead to an initial pay bump, but then a huge wage hit once you break up. https://t.co/cEqh1dLnoZ
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wake me up when greg starts doing deals with australian rare earths refiners
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it's funny because i believe this was basically optimal madden strategy when i was last playing football video games (ie 2000-2012). also madden was way ahead on going for it on fourth down and basic clock management
interesting that strategic optimization has pushed basketball and football in opposite directions: long shots vs. short passes NFL in 2025 has: - highest QB completion % ever - lowest INT% ever - fewest yards/catch ever - and, sort of a separate thing, but: most long field goal
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macron chimes in with the most french thing said in human history: "this is impossible"
Erdogan to Meloni; “You look good! But I have to make you quit smoking”
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CHART OF THE DAY: The coming LNG supply wave is here — Would there be enough demand? At what price? LNG demand is threatened by a pincer movement involving, ironically, the two old and new sources it’s supposed to bridge: coal and solar. My column: https://t.co/iQy19WHbG5
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>>having an entire politics built around feeling that i was mistreated by a host of the view >>pic unrelated
@janecoaston I just can't imagine having an entire politics built around feeling that I was mistreated by Joy Behar
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"Charli, long the critical darling of the pop music world, has a song about insecurity and status competition that is emotionally deep in a way that is a bit above the head of my ten-year-old, whereas Taylor is right on his wavelength." https://t.co/N1Rl756fgA
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Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day (or Columbus Day, depending on where you're reading). This post about the triumph of poptimism originally ran this summer for paid subscribers.
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the answer is that you need an existing big city that goes through some horrific economic downturn (high crime/disinvestment, banning the use of english in businesses, whatever) and then you get the ideal mix of agglomeration and low cost of living
What wins out for maximizing cultural productivity? Agglomeration economies, or the freedom afforded by a low cost of living?
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Santa Clara is one of the first law schools to publish 2026-27 tuition. Historically, Grad PLUS loans have had no limits. Starting next year, professional school borrowing will be capped at $50k/year. Notice anything about the trend in tuition? I expect many schools to copy this.
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if you're wondering why aghion's home and overall vibe are more put together than your typical academic economist, it runs in the family
Say bonjour! This snapshot from one of our newest laureates in economic sciences was taken just after receiving the news. Stay tuned for our telephone interview with Philippe Aghion. #NobelPrize Photo: Mikhaela Aghion
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Soybeans
Bessent: "The Chinese have unfortunately turned our soybean farmers into pawns. They're trying to manipulate them and our farmers overwhelmingly back President Trump. They know that he has their back. And we can't implement the programs we want to stabilize the farmers'
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I’m probably being a little America centric, the political arrow is this prize may be more pointed towards Europe
A fantastic choice, which could not be timelier especially for Europe, which is struggling to reinvent itself in a difficult geopolitical environment. I am particularly happy for @PAghion who is not just a great researcher but also an incredibly kind person. 1/2
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I think it’s possible the prize committee is trying to both comment on AI generally (a culture of innovation drives growth) and maybe make a statement against protectionism and nostalgianomics (firm destruction drives growth)
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Go cats
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr
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Aghion (with several co-authors) also has a paper on China. They recognised long ago & before many, that the Chinese model departs from the general East Asia model in having Darwinian struggle-to-the-death competition amongst firms behind a wall of protection. It pairs
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Going to be really funny when a bunch of tech posters who were referencing Girard all the time work their way through the Peter Thiel approved manga and we all start reading post after post about it
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Trump is the most effective speaker since Pelosi
From WSJ: “Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an ‘iron fist,’… Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”
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Lots of guys like this in the greater twin cities, there’s a kinda generalized upscale redneck culture that has escaped any geographic specificity
Grown men who were born in Chicago and work office jobs are wearing cowboy boots And listening to Zachary Bryan Complete cultural victory
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