Ted Tatos

Empirical microeconomist & statistician with Econ One. Assoc. Econ Editor @ The Antitrust Bulletin. Papers at

[Ted Tatos @TedTatos]

Life comes at you fast

[Ted Tatos @TedTatos]

For Rush fans (or rock fans in general), here's the "Anika Nilles cam" view of Rush's first concert with Nilles crushing it on the drums and doing the Professor proud. https://t.co/hESepLZrSW

[The Sling @TheSlingUtah]

A Spiritless Post Mortem by Darren Bush. No, Biden's DOJ isn't the cause of Spirit's demise. But there's plenty of blame to go around for the state of the airline industry. Darren thanks Hal Singer (whose account is still hacked) for insightful comments.

https://t.co/WpEvnkVRVT

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

This one hits hard.

[Joshua Rothkopf @joshrothkopf]

Listen to the way the crowd responds to drummer Anika Nilles during the solo section of “Tom Sawyer” at Rush last night. A huge arrival.

[Ted Tatos @TedTatos]

@HedgieMarkets The alternative, and perhaps more worrisome, explanation is that executives at these companies have realized this, but (1) view themselves as immune from the social consequences of their decisions, and (2) intend to cash out well before the crash.

[Ted Tatos @TedTatos]

@achristovichh Nick Saban didn't say a damn thing when coaches were making millions while athletes got nothing. Now that the athlete labor has power, Saban's suddenly "concerned about Olympic sports." Hypocrisy at its finest.

[Brian Callaci @brian_callaci]

Citation: @TedTatos @HalSinger

[Ted Tatos @TedTatos]

You know what, just build the sports arenas and data centers right on top of each other and call them sports centers.

[Eric Prisbell @EricPrisbell]

Why the Mavericks and Stars say American Airlines Center is obsolete. Both teams are planning to leave the 25-year-old venue to build arenas elsewhere. My deep dive:
https://t.co/JhcSyzOmIc

[Ted Tatos @TedTatos]

This paper, "At the Mercy of the Market? E-Commerce, Warehouse Work, and Job Quality in the United States" is well worth your time and if you want a non-paywalled pre-publication copy, you can find it here: https://t.co/QFt6XbJpU3

[Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell]

https://t.co/oKzzup11Dh

[Ted Tatos @TedTatos]

@jmwooldridge Brilliant finish from Havertz

[Hal Singer @lindsaylsahm]

Progressives are right to feel that something has gone badly wrong in the way artificial intelligence (AI) is being introduced into society. The anxiety is not abstract. To the extent that graduation ceremonies are any indication, where speakers who celebrated  the promises of AI were roundly booed, a small but telling sign that many young people do not experience this technology as an invitation to the future, but as another force being imposed upon them. In my latest piece, I offer a three-part platform for progressives to confront the AI threat to jobs.

[Ted Tatos @TedTatos]

Funny how we never hear about this worker compensation v. prices trade-off when it comes to executive pay, bonuses, or stock buybacks.

[Hal Singer @lindsaylsahm]

The Wall Street Journal highlights the “tradeoffs” between paying hotel workers well and higher hotel prices. Except in this case, the beneficiaries of the new union contract are *local* low-income workers and the allegedly injured party are *out-of-town* higher-income consumers. This makes the tradeoff for local politicians—assuming hotels even perceive the staff to be a marginal cost in selling the last room—much easier.

[REI Union @reiunion]

An REI co-op member sitting peacefully in her camp chair -- reading a book, wearing a hand-painted "Boycott REI" shirt, warmly greeting customers -- got arrested by six police officers yesterday at REI's Seattle flagship.

That's who REI called the cops on.

[Ted Tatos @TedTatos]

This song can never be played “too loud”

[MP10 @MusicPills10]

Nothing even comes close to this these days! What a powerhouse tune!!! #TheCult

[Ted Tatos @TedTatos]

Yeah, quality summaries like this are really what endear people to AI 🙄

[Lindsay Owens @owenslindsay1]

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[Hal Singer @lindsaylsahm]

United made news last month when its CEO, Scott Kirby, floated the audacious idea of acquiring American Airlines. Such a move would be blatantly anticompetitive, given the intense rivalry among the nation’s largest carriers. A more subtle anticompetitive strategy is taking place under the radar at Chicago’s O’Hare airport. My latest via @TheSlingUtah

[Ted Tatos @TedTatos]

Meanwhile universities are killing off their liberal arts programs. Make it make sense.

[Hal Singer @lindsaylsahm]

This finding is fairly compelling evidence of what AI is doing to the job market for recent college grads. Certain fields like computer science and information science are more exposed to displacement by AI. Amazing that just a few years ago some were telling the underemployed to “learn to code.”

“We found that graduates in fields more exposed to AI have suffered markedly worse outcomes. Between 2022 and 2024 graduates in the least-exposed quintile—studying subjects such as education, philosophy and civil engineering—saw their average full-time employment rate fall by just 1.5 percentage points. Those in the most exposed quintile—including computer science, computer engineering and information science—suffered a 6.6 percentage-point drop.”

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC on why she’s considered controversial: When you fight really entrenched power, that power will fight you back. They cannot be seen attacking the message because that makes them look bad, so they attack the messenger. There will never be an uncontroversial messenger for challenging the structures of power keeping wages low.

Secondly, I think my presence at someone who was a waitress… I’m not supposed to be there according to them and I’m not bought. There’s a real class aspect to this. There is a lot of people who think if you don’t make a lot of money, it’s reflective of your intelligence and your capacity as a human being.

And of course, I’m a woman and I’m Latina. My mere existence is subversive in the place that is am. I also don’t act in a way that women are supposed to act in a society like this. You’re coming at me crazy, I’m not going to be deferential to you.