Gregory Besharov

Came for the economics and finance, stayed for the dog videos.

Author, Microeconomics in Words

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@ho_ben @alz_zyd_ Or negative zero-sum status games or wasteful collective action results.

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@alz_zyd_ For GDP, it’s as real as paying $10k to get punched in the face or having the government pay someone $10k to sit in a room doing nothing.

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@GarettJones What’s the policy?

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@HugoGye https://t.co/PvTydFK4W8

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@HugoGye Same story in US.

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@Prolapsarian How can you measure the increase in productive capacity from a degree?

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1) The inflation-adjusted amount is much less and not sufficient to fund current retirement payments
2) It is expensive during the transition for the current pensions that still need to be paid for
3) It creates winner and loser birth cohorts if the market returns are used to fund the pensions
4) It looks most appealing at market tops. George Bush proposed privatizing Social Secuirty right before the 2008 crisis
5) It the income tax code is working correctly, then the government already owns a large share of the retuns of all the ETFs

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@asymmetricinfo Luckily they came to the US instead

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@WillManidis @emilyinvc You don’t think ai writing would improve before time travel was invented?

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@BobMurphyEcon Imagine the next best things I could be doing...

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@BluthCapital They are creditors not owners.

That the VP would become president if the president leaves office does not mean he is president.

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@legendaryBL Sense and sensibility

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@INArteCarloDoss Good for stocks since it means there can be more ceasefires and peace treaties

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@RichardvReeves In the uk students are admitted for specific areas of study, have typically already studied them intensively for two years, and do not have the same distribution requirements.

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@dc_lawrence @BritishProgress First-year revenue positivity may matter less now than it did when the report was written.

This is a near-term reveue reduction that the markets would probably be ok with if the PDV of revenue is higher than under current law.

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@dc_lawrence @BritishProgress Stamp duty is so much higher than the property tax there has to be something hidden that they are understating in the beginning.

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@dc_lawrence @BritishProgress Interesting proposal. What’s the intuition as to why it generates more revenue than stamp duty in year one?

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@BillAckman Tribute is paid to the victor for future safety

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@Financialtailor No cap