Eric O'N. Fisher

Economist who publishes in international economics and macroeconomics

[Eric O'N. Fisher @MustangTiger]

Brown U President Paxton should just have said, The homeless guy in the basement was our security camera. #BrownUniversity

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We are fighting a proxy war with Iran. They have every right to retaliate against us, perhaps with terrorist strikes on our homeland.

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@creepydotorg It’s impossible to flatten a globe.

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@JonahDispatch No, the Left are just ignorant: they have no sense of world history or the nature of the ideal relationship between Islam and the State. Perhaps they hate Israel reflexively not because it’s a Jewish state but because it is a democracy with people who look like us.

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@LHSummers @realDonaldTrump @Harvard https://t.co/RHHOIRc3eX

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The architecture of the international economic system was reconfigured at the end of WWII. America was a leader in promoting free trade. #Trump is now rethinking globalization and its discontents.

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Back of the envelope: imports are around 19% of GDP. The average tariff rate is 20%. So increased federal revenues will be around 4% of GDP.

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Joseph de Maistre’s dictum: “The counterrevolution is not the opposite of a revolution, but is an opposing revolution.”

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For my Episcopalian friends:

Listen to Bishop Budde’s entire sermon. Its theme was three aspects of unity: dignity of the individual, telling the truth, and humility. It was not based on scripture, and it was illogical at key points. As such, it was okay but was crafted as a typically mediocre sermon by an Episcopal priest—I’ve heard hundreds of them.

It’s crux was cribbed from Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago, “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.”

Even there she left out the part about redemption. She absolutely lectured a sitting president on his duty. She used overwrought examples, not based in the reality of proposed policy, and created fear and division where she should have created unity by her own example. She used her ecclesiastical power to harangue a political leader.

The sermon would have been much more effective if she had used the gospel reading to show how Christ displayed compassion to the least among us.

But she couldn’t do it. The line between good and evil is inside every one of us. And often enough evil masquerades as virtue signaling by those in power, be it ecclesiastical or political.

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@JonahDispatch It’s not stupid if his family have been laundering his bribes for years.

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@BishopBarron You’re assuming that ministers of established religion in our country actually believe in God.

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@ianbremmer Of course the Roman republic had two consuls.

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You think the Democrats are still in favor of abolishing the filibuster?

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Now is the time to show compassion and kindness. Their hatred and vitriol cost them dearly.

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Trump got fewer votes this time than he did in 2020. Biden won 4 years ago because of widespread and unprecedented use of harvested mail in ballots.

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Donald Trump is now one of the most influential men in American history.

[Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine]

I just wish the academics who talk about “fascism” day in and day out could expand their alarmist repertoire even a tiny bit, if only to make the discourse less boring. Here’s one suggestion (just to help articulate a view I emphatically do *not* share): a much more interesting historical analogy would be Napoleon III, who attempted two failed coups, was elected to the presidency as a champion of the working class against the liberal elite, and then made himself Emperor.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

He called me “gay” and now he wants to touch my ass 🤣🤣🥲🥲

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@Econ_4_Everyone I gave up the quaint notion that economics was a science around 1995. If we were a science, then our publication process would be much different.