There’s something so wonderfully comfortingly normal about DC cringing in expectation of a snow storm that fails to materialize.
Binyamin Appelbaum Wed 16 Dec 2020 13:04

RT @ronanlyons: New housing supply lowers rents. There are lots of people who, for apparently ideological reasons, prefer to believe that t…
Binyamin Appelbaum Mon 14 Dec 2020 22:18

RT @kaitlancollins: "It is unacceptable for political candidates to treat our election system as though we are a third-world nation & incit…
Binyamin Appelbaum Mon 14 Dec 2020 21:48

RT @cgreensit: We're thrilled that @sidhubaba will join @nytopinion in January as our new lead editor for business, economics and technolog…
Binyamin Appelbaum Mon 14 Dec 2020 17:48

RT @p_ganong: About 9 million people are set to exhaust unemployment benefits at the end of this year. What happens to spending at exhausti…
Binyamin Appelbaum Mon 14 Dec 2020 13:18

RT @RL_Stine: I am so honored to have won the R. L. Stine Creative Writing Award for the third year in a row. The award is given annually t…
Binyamin Appelbaum Sun 13 Dec 2020 02:46

RT @stewartbrand: Remember their names--the Republican serving representatives and attorneys general who actively supported the Texas effor…
Binyamin Appelbaum Sun 13 Dec 2020 01:31

RT @LizaPrendergast: Enjoying @BCAppelbaum’s book The Economists’ Hour—a highly recommended read. The best line is a footnote: “The congreg…
Binyamin Appelbaum Sat 12 Dec 2020 14:06

The Covid death toll in New Jersey has now topped 1 in 500. By Christmas it'll be above 1 in 1000 nationwide.
Binyamin Appelbaum Fri 11 Dec 2020 20:25

RT @kpomerleau: A family with $164,056 in adjusted gross income (AGI) is in the top 10 percent of income earners in New York. Median AGI i…
Binyamin Appelbaum Fri 11 Dec 2020 01:59

A reminder that right now in Washington, your elected representatives are debating whether to continue helping people who don't have jobs and don't have any reasonable prospect of returning to work in the near future. Some say yes, some say no.
Binyamin Appelbaum Thu 10 Dec 2020 14:34

Hanukkah arrived a little early. (Edward Nelson's monumental intellectual history of Friedman, finally in print.) https://t.co/MXzSGOjHFu
Binyamin Appelbaum Thu 10 Dec 2020 14:24

RT @paulg: https://t.co/063MPEVkyc
Binyamin Appelbaum Thu 10 Dec 2020 12:49

RT @eisingerj: Mind-boggling legacy of shame for the FTC here
Binyamin Appelbaum Thu 10 Dec 2020 06:43

RT @chrislhayes: Josh Hawley come out and say Bork was wrong about anti-trust challenge.
Binyamin Appelbaum Thu 10 Dec 2020 00:18

As one of the sponsors of the Sherman Act said during the final debate before its passage, https://t.co/a2vZTlypSQ
Binyamin Appelbaum Wed 09 Dec 2020 21:23

Members of both parties are applauding the Facebook suit. If they're serious, they should rewrite antitrust law to make clear that courts need to look beyond consumer welfare. (Yes, the law already supports a broader view, but the courts ignore it. So give the courts no choice.)
Binyamin Appelbaum Wed 09 Dec 2020 20:23

RT @SethHanlon: Counterpoint: The Opportunity Zone program was designed exactly for this purpose - to shield tech billionaires from capital…
Binyamin Appelbaum Wed 09 Dec 2020 13:58

RT @jamieson: Multiple reports that Biden will nominate Tom Vilsack as Ag Secretary. When Vilsack was Ag Sec under Obama, worker groups and…
Binyamin Appelbaum Wed 09 Dec 2020 03:12

RT @MrTomRad: I want you to know that I'm a state Teacher of the Year and published author of a book on teaching and a fifteen year veteran…
Binyamin Appelbaum Tue 08 Dec 2020 20:47

RT @katiekings: For the life of me, I do not understand why the American people are not flooding into the streets demanding another economi…
Binyamin Appelbaum Tue 08 Dec 2020 04:01

RT @MonicaHesse: My neighbor’s J fell down but this way is better. #2020 https://t.co/eU9Zl9wiAi
Binyamin Appelbaum Mon 07 Dec 2020 22:21

RT @nytopinion: This week @JInterlandi and @BCAppelbaum join "The Argument" to debate the two crises that President-elect Joe Biden will in…
Binyamin Appelbaum Sun 06 Dec 2020 14:00

RT @jasonfurman: A nice valedictory post from @econjared in The Washington Post, a lot of Jarednonmics in this most of which is highly corr…
Binyamin Appelbaum Fri 04 Dec 2020 18:13

RT @nytopinion: This week @JInterlandi and @BCAppelbaum join "The Argument" to debate the two crises that President-elect Joe Biden will in…
Binyamin Appelbaum Fri 04 Dec 2020 17:28