Rob Cripps

Econ PhD from George Mason University. Federal Employee.

[Rob Cripps @robcripps3]

Thanos, brushing up on his econ:
@ne0liberal @EconInOneMeme

[Rob Cripps @robcripps3]

@Citibank I applied for an American Airlines card this evening to save $400 on tickets, but wasn't given a temp card number on the website. 4 hours on the phone, 3 reps and 2 supervisors. No one could help. Terrible customer service. Absolute clown show.

[Rob Cripps @robcripps3]

@mmmille6 @KarenFriedman @ThisBumbler @mhdksafa "[The US] health insurance system has the feature that when you’re down on your luck, you’re unemployed, you lose your insurance... only the devil could ever have invented such a system." -Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton Economist

[Rob Cripps @robcripps3]

@cafreiman #JulianSimon

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@benjaminpacini Mistborn movie when?

[Rob Cripps @robcripps3]

@benjaminpacini @bryan_caplan People with a slightly different belief system than their own, talking about their intellectual opponents:

[Rob Cripps @robcripps3]

@jcdevereaux1 @lymanstoneky One of my favorites:

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress https://t.co/jKxI2hx0hi

[Rob Cripps @robcripps3]

@jcdevereaux1 @VincentGeloso I stand corrected. :-)

[Rob Cripps @robcripps3]

@jcdevereaux1 @VincentGeloso (also the world's highest denomination note ever!)

[Rob Cripps @robcripps3]

@jcdevereaux1 @VincentGeloso As the highest Zimbabwe note, those are pretty sought after now. They go for ~$150 now on ebay!

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

Progress forward isn't progress completed, "but overall, it is hard to argue that human progress is some sort of sales pitch from the pathologically optimistic. Progress is simply a fact."

[Rob Cripps @robcripps3]

@NimbleThor You should also add a donate button to the app! I'd send you a few dollars!

[Rob Cripps @robcripps3]

@NimbleThor will you consider adding an "asynchronous" tag to Minireview? I downloaded it today and was sad to discover there were no tags for that.

[Rob Cripps @robcripps3]

@NimbleThor Nimblethor, you're awesome. Thanks man.

[Rob Cripps @robcripps3]

@jmhorp The graph literally says that it's adjusted for inflation on the bottom left hand corner, that all dollars are 2020 dollars. When I posted this on my FB wall someone pushed back on it in the same way and I looked up the Census data tables on their website and it says the same.

[Rob Cripps @robcripps3]

@FXNetworks @DLanceBlack @RealRonHoward @BrianGrazer @hulu @DaisyEdgarJones How do you make a crime show and not answer the question, "what happened to the bad guys"????

[Rob Cripps @robcripps3]

@jasonhickel Where is @BadEconTakes ? This thread is a doozy.

[Rob Cripps @robcripps3]

@RonSteenblik @bechhof @jmhorp "[The] health insurance system that has the feature that when you’re down on your luck, you’re unemployed, you lose your insurance ...Only the devil could ever have invented such a system."
Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton Economist

[Rob Cripps @robcripps3]

@RonSteenblik @bechhof @jmhorp And tying health insurance to employment, that's one of my favorites. Hot mess indeed.

[Rob Cripps @robcripps3]

@jmhorp In my program we called getting a B- "optimizing".

[Robert Östling @robertostling]

I find animations useful to teach metrics to undergrads. I believe it improves understanding to see what goes on. Here is a thread with my favorite GIFs, most of them are re-makes of stuff from #EconTwitter.