Gordon Gray

Past and present non-profiteer, with some Senate, campaign, and advocacy time here and there.

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

It really looks like DC’s plan right now is to try and ride out the next few years on reserves and pray that a Democrat hires a bunch of new federal workers in 2029, because there is no real longterm economic development thinking here

[Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano]

Oren being devotedly pro-tariff and vaguely anti-war puts him in this insane position where he believes “less trade causes higher prices and slower growth” but ONLY for goods coming through the Strait of Hormuz. It’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so pathetic.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

Zucman manipulated the stats you show below to make them fit his political story.

In 2018 he published a dataset that inadvertently revealed the real tax rate paid by the top 0.001%. It hovered around 40% in recent years - nearly twice what his 2019 chart claims to show.

[Kyle Pomerleau @kpomerleau]

No, the U.S. tax system *is* highly progressive: effective rates rise sharply with income.

Justin and others are confusing this with a distinct concept: redistribution.

Our overall tax burden is low so our tax and transfer system is not very redistributive.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Now that it's four years later and Ukraine seems to be turning the tide, I think back a lot to Zelenskyy's refusal to leave Kyiv as the invasion hit.

Everyone was telling him to leave. He stayed. "I need ammunition, not a ride". The man is an era-defining hero.

[Chris Cillizza @ChrisCillizza]

The scandal hiding in plain sight is the collapse of American education.

And no 2028 candidates -- aside from Rahm Emanuel -- are talking about it.

[Patrick Hedger @pat_hedger]

The data center issue is very similar to the housing issue. A lot of blaming demand without addressing supply.

[Zach Moller @econwonk]

Another A+ @JessicaBRiedl special.

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

The kind of thing that could pass Congress on a bipartisan basis and, naturally, is a bad idea

[The Aviationist @TheAviationist]

A U.S. Navy F-14D Tomcat Might Return to the Skies Thanks to Congress’ “Maverick Act”

Three U.S. Navy F-14D Tomcats would be transferred to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center Commission in Huntsville, Alabama, and one might be made flyable again, following the approval of the “Maverick Act.”

Story: https://t.co/mNsS7Khml7

[JD Flynn @jdflynn]

This radio station is called “classic rock” but it’s playing cool current music like Pearl Jam and Nirvana.

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

I don't think people fully appreciate what a disaster DC's entire affordable housing program is.

To start with, it is absurd that we have a chronic problem with people not paying rent when there are 27,000 households registered for the IZ lottery...

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

This did not age well.

[Sohaib Athar @ReallyVirtual]

Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).

[Rory Cooper @rorycooper]

Ben Sasse is uniquely extraordinary…but if you watch that interview and wish we had more civically serious leaders like him, please understand that’s a choice. Voters can demand it.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

My new @opinion column looks at the dozens of economist-supported policies that would help lower the price of essential goods & services - reforms that US politicians, supposedly obsessed with "affordability," routinely ignore: /1

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

Canada is legally part of the US Defense Industrial Base and a massive fertilizer producer. And buying Canadian fertilizer was never a problem for American farmers...

Until recently.

[Joel Griffith @joelgriffith]

IF this is true that the U.S. offered the Iranian terrorist regime joint control of the Strait of Hormuz, utterly shameful.