Thomas Philippon
@ThomasPHI2
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Economist. Dad. Rock climber. Author of The Great Reversal.
NYC, Paris
Joined February 2014
(1) New Working Paper: the fundamental driver of growth in modern economies, Total Factor Productivity (TFP), is linear, not exponential. This is a paper I did not expect to write...
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Here’s what it really represents: 47th in education 45th in healthcare 44th in median household income 43rd in life expectancy 1st in incarceration rate 2nd in teen pregnancy 3rd in reliance on federal aid So yeah — God bless Oklahoma. Y’all need it.
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Trump's standard process: 1) Create a crisis where one didn't exist before 2) Negotiate a solution to the crisis with great fanfare 3) Hope no one notices that steps 1 and 2 leave us in a worse position than we were in before the invented crisis
Oof. The NYT coverage of Trump in China is absolutely scalding. NYT practically says straight out that Trump got totally rolled here and that China played his pathologies like a fiddle: https://t.co/R9icadKZyJ
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Oof. The NYT coverage of Trump in China is absolutely scalding. NYT practically says straight out that Trump got totally rolled here and that China played his pathologies like a fiddle: https://t.co/R9icadKZyJ
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🚨 JD Vance just claimed that when settlers arrived in the New World, they “found widespread child sacrifice,” adding that “Christian civilization ended the practice.” Archaeologists, including those specializing in North American history, are calling this a flat-out lie. There
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Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven on Donald Trump: "Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation." RETWEET if you stand with Admiral McRaven!
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Astonishing. Encouraging.
A single dose of a new cancer drug made a brain tumor almost disappear – in just five days. Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital reported “dramatic and rapid” tumor regression in the first patients treated with a next-generation form of CAR T-cell therapy for glioblastoma,
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No way this guy isn't on the payroll
Tucker Carlson: "Putin is the most popular leader in the world. Whether you're in Western Europe, Canada, the English-speaking world, outside the English-speaking world, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, you won't meet anyone who doesn't like Putin; Putin is like a global
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Moi je suis chaud, c’est votre gouvernement qui veut pas
@Monsieursoyouz il nous faut un Xavier Niel en Belgique, marre de payer MINIMUM 35€/mois pour internet basique
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Le Prix Nobel de médecine 2025 a récompensé la découverte de la tolérance immunitaire périphérique. Il s’agit d’un mécanisme essentiel qui empêche notre système immunitaire de se retourner contre nous-mêmes. ☝️Quand les lymphocytes T et B se développent dans le thymus et la
BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
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🚨NEW: Ret. Major General Paul Eaton calls out Pete Hegseth: "I am saddened for our military that they have had to endure such clueless, self-aggrandizing civilian leadership....These are not serious people" RETWEET if you stand with Major General @PaulDEaton52 against Hegseth!
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Tetanus causes a horrifying, agonising death It causes your muscles to contract leaving you fully conscious but in excruciating pain, unable to breathe until you slowly suffocate I've seen it. It's horrific. And it's vaccine preventable. Don't listen to crap like this
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BREAKING 🇺🇸: American military leaders after the Trump speech👀
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À la fac, ils voulaient surveiller les filles. Aujourd’hui, en politique, ce sont eux qui coachent des députés Insoumis. Voilà la preuve que les islamistes ont bien bossé. 🖋️Une chronique de @SophiaAram
https://t.co/MbtU1Zjrn8
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Trump has a point about the hatred under Obama. I remember some nutball running around the country insisting Obama was born in Kenya and his U.S. birth certificate was fake
MacCALLUM: Do you think it's the responsibility of the president to bring people together? TRUMP: Ideally ... I saw it starting with President Obama. I saw tremendous hatred.
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I've been reporting in East Africa on the impact of President Trump's USAID cuts, and I find that not only are children dying in large numbers but the pace is accelerating as stockpiles run out and people grow weaker. I also obtained an internal Trump administration memo stating
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In desperate villages in southwestern Uganda, not only are aid cuts killing children every day, but the death toll is accelerating.
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Second, it’s worth reading this excerpt from Frederick Douglass https://t.co/qFD9Aux4p8
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National Constitution Center Historic Documents Library record for A Plea for Free Speech in Boston (1860)
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First there’s this piece by David French, who devoted much of his legal career to defending the First Amendment rights of conservative writers and scholars https://t.co/V8VzYAnJw8
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Frederick Douglass knew what free speech was. Why don’t we?
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The funniest thing about DEI to me is that every single person in the Trump administration is completely unqualified for their job and wholly incompetent.
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