Tim Wu

Professor at Columbia
Contributing opinion writer at the N.Y. Times
Author of THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (2025), the ATTENTION MERCHANTS and other books.

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

Ways that America wastes money? In 2025, the tax-preparation compliance costs were $148 billion, 12x the budget of the IRS, and that doesn't include the value of time spent https://t.co/ycF9C82qhL

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

Crazy thing about the Paramount - Warner Bros deal is that its not just bad for the country but also terrible for shareholders as well over the longer term -- what Jonthan Knee calls "The Curse of the Mogul" https://t.co/5RMnkpMX4G

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

@jimmy_esq On #2 it surely depends -- "other disciplines" covers alot of ground

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Review of Cory Doctorow's new AI book "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life after AI" in Science magazine https://t.co/OzYnxnz3Nb

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

I'm not too superstitious but I do think having the whole world wanting you to lose after Trump got involved wasn't so helpful to the US soccer team

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Much preferred the world cup when it was a donald trump free zone, relatively speaking.

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

My main thought on the 250th is that the US is so much more than whatever random dude happens to be in the White House

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@randypicker Congratulations Randy

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

There are those who believe, almost as a matter of religion, that inflation has nothing to do with price-fixing or market power, explicit or implied. The story of egg prices suggests otherwise
https://t.co/6qaG0rCa4N

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

Free short online non-partisan course on the constitution. https://t.co/ZzzgTAxzNc

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

The strangest thing about the Cook / Slaughter case pair is how much work constitutional waiver is doing. To non-lawyers (and some lawyers too), it is weird to say "we just decided that independent agencies are unconstitutional, however we will not apply that ruling to the Fed because the government didn't make the argument hence it is waived."

It is a bit like saying Schrödinger's cat may be dead, but in case he isn't dead, well, you didn't use the right process to fire him

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

When is the business world going to learn that there is such a thing as state antitrust enforcement -- the backup when federal goes awol
https://t.co/TlSHssjg0d

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Forget the debates between Chicago, Post-Chicago, and the New Brandeis school -- corruption is the defining ideology of Trump 2 antitrust https://t.co/VP288kQnVU

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Not suspicious at all
https://t.co/kh0JCp180E

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

The States should collectively override Trump's indefensible pardons https://t.co/zllJp6osgf

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

@Ratio_Disputati Living on high alert at all times just ain't healthy

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

In the USA, the level of vigilance the average person has to maintain to avoid getting ripped off extracts its own kind of price -- one most analysis of dynamic pricing doesn't pay any attention to.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Remember when they said Zelensky desecrated the sanctity of the White House by not wearing a suit

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

@amimevalepitito Maybe less than India, Russia or Morocco but not less than Japan, much of Europe

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I'm writing a piece about how the States should organize and re-indict as many of the inexcuseable people Trump pardons - to fight the message that you cannot buy your way out of everything
https://t.co/sGrM3DzgrK

[Tim Wu @superwuster]

Dynamic pricing in economic theory could be a boon to the poor, but more often it favors the hyper-diligent and hyper-vigilant against more normal personality types, then wreaks havoc on poorly educated consumers