Samuel Smith

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

@Birdyword Omission of The Terror is egregious. Second only to BoB.

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

@lukeaaronmoore I think that’s the point of Gary Neville? But he’s not doing it very well.

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

How can Neville not see that Dorgu plays him on????

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

@HenryJackson87 Quite a lot of United-Succession similarities. Logan = Fergie, Kendall = Neville, Roman = Giggs (obviously), Tom = Carrick.

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

@MysteriosoX I did Econ and had 12-16 hours of contact time a week, plus 20 digesting the material and problem sets.

Couldn’t fathom peers studying humanities who seemed to do about 10 hours total a week. How’s there any signalling effect or academic fulfilment if the degrees are that easy?

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

@TomL1ttle_ Infuriating

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@ClemCowton @MDC12345678 It doesn’t have to move global energy prices to benefit the UK economy and improve living standards though?

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

@mrianleslie There’s a distinction between club and international football.

I think people (incl myself) accept the benefits of an uber-capitalist club system whilst thinking the World Cup better serves football by focusing more on the spirit of intl competition rather than money-making.

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

@s8mb Don’t understand why they kept mentioning them then? Sort of suggestive of the reactive style of governance which harmed the last government.

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

@jenuflexion It’s a glorious failure. British culture venerates glorious failures: Dunkirk, Shackleton, Euro 1996.

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

@flameosumeet Well presumably the argument is that the majority of players of those sports are American. So Americans are under-represented in the elite given who actual plays those sports.

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

@IvanWerning The players did as expected. I wouldn’t feel too proud nor disappointed. The American fans/public should feel proud for showing the best of the US. Many US talking heads and commentators (who often should know better) should be ashamed (but won’t be).

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

@MattZeitlin ????

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

@MattZeitlin Lots of fans terrified of the dominant USMNT, who destroyed the giant footballing nations of Australia, Paraguay and Bosnia (and lost to a terrible Turkey side).

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

@BNHWalker They don’t understand that the journey is what matters.

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

@PEWilliams_ https://t.co/lRbD4MC3WY

[Miguel Delaney @MiguelDelaney]

From speaking to a few legal people etc re Balogun, there's a consensus that:

10.5 is clear - cards are issued by the referee. They are not "disciplinary measures" so 12.7 should not apply

The object of the FIFA disciplinary code it is to do with infringement of rules, not on-field offences

9.1 says decisions are final and may not be reviewed by the FIFA judicial bodies

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

@NicholasOShaug1 The random detour to describe circumcision practices in Arabian Sands is both incredibly interesting and absolutely disgusting

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

@AscendedYield Read Alan Blinder’s latest book? Enjoying hugely atm (tho I suspect his stuff on Covid might have been a tad premature…)

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

@daisychristo Buying stocks in big sudoku

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@CromRedoubt Not that economists are always that much better tbf

[Samuel Smith @SRASmithEcon]

@CromRedoubt Quite annoying looking into British politicians described as economists just to find their “expertise” is in some wholly political academic discipline with the “economics” or “economy” stuck on the end.