Ted Knudsen

Ex-Wall Street, now a history professor, start-up advisor, long suffering Mets fan

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@AlexisCoe He totally misread Thucydides and drew the wrong conclusion?

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@NateSilver538 This is a true statement

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@paulswaney3 What I wouldn’t pay to watch that

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@paulswaney3 I think they will certainly find another role for her more befitting her talents and qualifications sometime soon. But she can last a bit…not exactly people knocking down the door for that job right now.

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@paulswaney3 @LeylaKuni That plus some of the valuations we have been seeing recently…heavy 2007 vibes

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I actually have a very nuanced and mixed opinion on Roosevelt’s performance in the New Deal. I find some of Friedman’s criticisms of him quite convincing. But to say he didn’t inherit the thing at the height of the mess is just backsolving to a partisan position, it’s not history.

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That’s a lazy partisan talking point. The 1,453 failures of 1932 were not as strategically important because they primarily hit smaller, isolated rural banks that had been weak since the 1920s. The situation degraded rapidly when the lame-duck period between Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt created a political vacuum, triggering a final, catastrophic wave of systemic banking panics. Fearing Roosevelt would abandon the gold standard and devalue the dollar, depositors tried to convert cash into gold, draining Federal Reserve reserves and threatening key banks in places like New York. This is what finally paralyzed national commerce and drove unemployment to its historic 25% peak in early 1933.

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@robertjabalos @davidsirota Certainly March of 1933 was the height of the financial contagion, hence the bank failures

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@robertjabalos @davidsirota The trough of the depression was in the spring of 1933. Lowers real GDP, highest unemployment, lowest industrial production. Probably around March if you want to be specific

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@robertjabalos @davidsirota The global economy had been in a depression for four years by 1933. You can criticize the New Deal (it was, in fact, a mixed bag) but this is ahistorical claptrap

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@billmaher At least in college towns, make the drinking age 18. Then guys such as yourself who didn’t go Greek can meet women in public venues, on equal terms, like they could when you were in college.

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Bill, leaving the merits of the argument aside for a second, let’s be honest about why these institutions are allowed to continue to exist on campus. Fraternities mitigate liability risk for universities by operating as independent corporate entities that structurally and legally separate the institution from the direct provision of alcohol. By functioning at "arm's length," fraternities insulate universities from lawsuits through legal precedent, private insurance frameworks, and operational self-governance. Historically, universities were viewed under the doctrine of in loco parentis (acting in the place of a parent), making them responsible for student behavior. Modern legal precedent—anchored by landmark cases like Bradshaw v. Rawlings—established that universities do not have a duty to police the private, off-campus social activities of adult college students. Because most fraternity houses are owned by independent alumni house corporations rather than the university itself, the legal duty of care as a social host falls entirely on the local chapter, individual members, or the house corporation—not the university.

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The root issue here is the kabuki theater we do in America about college kids drinking. These legal adults, who can vote and serve in the military, are not deemed old enough to drink. As a historian, I understand the merits of MADD and their campaign against teenage drunk driving but in the the age of Uber, these laws have become ludicrous.

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@AlexisCoe But I think the background in writing, in narrative, and the ability to use it to his advantage in a changing media environment is what reminds me of JFK. Please write a piece about this. Only you can do it justice

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@AlexisCoe 💯 He’s been my prediction for Dem nominee for two years now. He’s got the Camelot magic

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@Richard_Schiff @TedLasso @brendanhunting @jasonsudeikis @WestWingWeekly Top 5 moment this season. And your appearance on the Westies was so choice as well

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@paulswaney3 @Vinny_Daniel0 Jin Ramen

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@bigredtds @trentpolk23 @SleeperMets Just optionability. You need 8 solid starters, some of them are going to be at AAA. If he blows Manaea out of the water in spring training, he forces your hand, great.

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@trentpolk23 @SleeperMets Same as mine but I would start Manaea and keep Thornton and Tong in AAA at season start

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@MatthewChang @ryanraysr @paulswaney3 Me too