Matt Darling 🌐🏗️ @besttrousers
Senior Employment Policy Analyst @niskanencenter. Chief Neoliberal Shill 2023. Labor/behavioral economics and causal inference. Somerville, MA Joined March 2008-
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A good thread if you've never seen this stuff spelled out. Be careful though not to make the opposite mistake: If we sealed off Hong Kong and drove its imports to $0, its GDP would certainly be affected. (Will wouldn't disagree.)
A good thread if you've never seen this stuff spelled out. Be careful though not to make the opposite mistake: If we sealed off Hong Kong and drove its imports to $0, its GDP would certainly be affected. (Will wouldn't disagree.)
I call it theory-induced blindness: once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult to notice its flaws.” -Daniel Kahneman, One bias to rule them all. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/one-bias-to-…
Join us May 13: maximizing user accessibility & ensuring program integrity & security in gov program design with Jen Pahlka (@pahlkadot), Michele Evermore, former deputy director of OUIM @USDOL; @JusticeOIG Michael Horowitz, & AK State Sen. James Kaufman. levin-center.org/event/user-fri…
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"Fiduciary responsibility" was an institutional-technology breakthrough. What might be corollary ones, for different aims?
Unemployment insurance is experience rated. When a firm lays off workers, its future UI taxes go up. Seems logical, but that system has perverse unexpected consequences, says Matt Darling (@besttrousers) in this new analysis from @NiskanenCenter niskanencenter.org/creating-a-mor…
What a news week for decarb! Yet another update to celebrate: @HUDgov and @USDA announced a long-overdue update to energy standards for new low-cost-mortgage starter homes and affordable housing. I wrote about it @RMIBuildings. rmi.org/updated-home-e… Highlights in a thread: 1/
@besttrousers Like carcinization but for turning into a market instead of turning into a crab
There seems to be a connection between misinformation and inflation. From @S_Stantcheva's excellent paper on inflation, when CPI was 3.4%--half of respondents thought it was 5% or more and one-quarter thought it was 10% or more. brookings.edu/wp-content/upl….
Our man @evanpstarr has a great review of the reams of evidence here, which I encourage you to check out: eig.org/noncompetes-re…
WSJ ed. board on noncompetes: "The FTC says such agreements “restrict the freedom of American workers and suppress wages” and “stifle new businesses and new ideas.” Disregarding reams of evidence to the contrary..." Are the reams of evidence in the room with us right now?
A @USDOL program has cut unemployment duration by 3 weeks–and new legislation would help unemployed people get into it faster. buff.ly/3ITjCSx
Mapped: Where are noncompete agreements banned or restricted? @EmilyRPeck highlights EIG's new State Noncompete Law Tracker in @axios axios.com/2024/04/25/non…
The bipartisan Afghan Adjustment Act and Afghan Allies Protection Act have widespread support, including from veterans' groups and human rights organizations. @IdeanSalehyan explains why Congress should pass these crucial bills. buff.ly/3Uh0FhN
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You should complete the remaining "19%" before achievement poasting
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I profiled Larry’s work on the relationship between shelter and broader inflation back in late 2022 in my old account. TLDR the way shelter is tabulated is a useless disaster. New Tenant Rent Index is leading. Follow that.
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Apropos recent discussions I definitely don’t regret having Charlotte just wish I had picked one of the sperms with a functioning immune system and proclivity for sleeping thru the night.
A good thread if you've never seen this stuff spelled out. Be careful though not to make the opposite mistake: If we sealed off Hong Kong and drove its imports to $0, its GDP would certainly be affected. (Will wouldn't disagree.)
Listen up, folks. Imports are not a drag on GDP. They do not subtract from GDP. At least in terms of the accounting exercise, imports have NO EFFECT on GDP. This should not be a surprise considering that GDP is gross DOMESTIC product and imports are not produced domestically.
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This AER is Daniel Kahneman’s excellent revised Nobel lecture, “Maps of Bounded Rationality: Psychology for Behavioral Economics.” econweb.ucsd.edu/~jandreon/Econ…
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I call it theory-induced blindness: once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult to notice its flaws.” -Daniel Kahneman, One bias to rule them all. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/one-bias-to-…
if anyone has any solid checklists for everything that needs handled logistically after someone dies (death certificates, funeral planning, etc), that may unfortunately be very useful to me in the next few days, and I may not be in a state to figure it out from scratch
I've never been entirely clear as to at what point in the lifecycle the Always Right young people go to being the Always Wrong old people. Does a switch flip at 35
@sam_d_1995 @soulkhan Hey friend? Yeah so historically things liked by the older generations are bad and things disliked by the younger generations are also bad. Hope that helps.
I would (almost 50% all-time win rating on backstabbr dot com, baby)
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Okay so I'm sure it depends on the age gap (mine are 19 months apart), and the playmate payoff was later than I expected (started turning a corner when my youngest was 2.5) but it did pay off. And pretty hard. ~3 years of solid self-entertaining bestiehood so far.
When does this “it gets easier when you have two kids because they play together” start because Im 15 months in and so far everyone is always crying.
@besttrousers @whstancil I kinda know Will (he’s great) and I work with the people who made this ad and I am so confused rn
@Noahpinion They want post-neoliberal economic policy; I want to post neoliberal economic policy.