News & Musings
News & Musings
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"This is my home - I really love my country. But a lot of my mentors have been telling me to get out, right now"
75% of US scientists who answered our poll are considering relocating. Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/4iJhsov
Studio Ghibli responds to the Ghiblification of the Internet over the last few days...
Fără îndoială că talentatul domn jurnalist traducând "academic" din engleză prin "academician"—și etichetând ca "somitate" pe cineva cu publicații în... Sustainability—trimite într-un mod foarte subtil la celebrul academician neaoș care tradusese "footnote" prin "notă de picior".
I heard a lot about sensorship and self-sensorship among academics. But, until this year, I have never seen it in reality among the economists. Academic economists, at least those that I know, felt comfortable experessing publicly their opinions on economic policy.
Take a VAT tax such as in Europe. Modify it so imports (say from USA) no longer pay the tax, and exports now do pay it.
Affects trade and benefits the US?
No. A well known trade result Lerner symmetry says it is trade neutral. Magical, not intuitive on first glance, but true.
Nu aveam nici o îndoială că Ciolacu e prost..., dar pe undeva totuși nutream speranța că nu poate fi *** chiar atât de prost ***:
(aleator dintre episoadele anterioare: )
Burduja trebuia demis de mult pe bază de incompetență crasă (e.g., https://x.com/sbuhai/status/1902823414152266108, https://x.com/sbuhai/status/1886365465510809668, https://x.com/sbuhai/status/1883984517884780638, https://x.com/sbuhai/status/1798675822632657145, https://x.com/sbuhai/status/1814710288232358065, etc. ), dar bine că s-au trezit, în sfârșit, și ONG-urile astea: https://hotnews.ro/75-de-ong-uri-cer-demiterea-ministrului-energiei-sebastian-burduja-pentru-represaliile-ordonate-de-ministru-impotriva-societatii-civile-1933098
We are pleased to announce an experiment intended to stimulate academic discussion and exchange, centered on papers published in Econometrica 1/5
Elon Musk lost $9 billion over the last day. Rational profit maximizing oligarchy is not the right model for understanding our current public policy.
Repeat after me: The VAT is not a tariff. The VAT is not a tariff. It levels the playing field by making sure that domestic and foreign firms face the same tax when selling on the domestic market.
