Gene Epstein

According to @DougHenwood's own source, Bureau of Economic Analysis, "value added" in manufacturing, after inflation adjustment, ran $2.4 trillion in 2017 dollars in the year 2024 vs $1.4 trillion in 1997 (chart). Click on chart to enlarge for close look at all detail. https://t.co/zE0PIBciZU

Doug Henwood @DougHenwood

More on the decline in manufacturing: the share of various industries in total value added (VA). (VA = difference between the selling price of a good or service and cost of its inputs.) Manuf'g, motor vehicles, and goods generally are in a long decline. Tariffs won't fix this. https://t.co/YhApONcRjB

"Now Elon has this free-speech evangelist gloss on what he's up to," says Sam. So "glossy" in defense of free speech that @elongmusk features Ham-Handed Harris disdainfully dismissing Elon as a dangerous doofus on the social media platform Elon has acquired!

Department of Government Efficiency News @DOGE__news

Sam Harris: "You cannot say that someone like Elon Musk is an intellectual." What's your message to Sam? https://t.co/tSIWrB5kVx

Tickets selling fast for the net three Soho Forum debates, moderated by me! https://t.co/8JCdGNLrE1

"Sports-betting has zero-upside"?! I happen to be a risk-averse person who invests quite conservatively. But for many, betting (on stocks, bonds, sports) is fun & exciting. Some are self-destructively addicted to it, but I wouldn't ban it any more than I would ban alcohol.

Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort

Sports betting is one of the strongest challenges to my libertarian impulses. It has zero upside. Scorn the low-IQ underclass all you want, but society is better when they can pay their bills. https://t.co/Lo76Ri0SPR

RT @BjornLomborg: Wind and solar need to be backed up, close to 100%, making them nearly pointless Great summary of the impossibility of e…

I tuned out Sam Harris once I heard him defend his views with the classic ploy: hypotheticals divorced from reality. He should've admitted: The truth turned out to be A & therefore I was wrong. But what if B were true? If B were true, I'd be right, even though B was untrue!

Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith

Sam’s correct. The only reason that anybody even knows who I am is because of Joe Rogan. I should have earned it the old fashioned way: by having my mother create the Golden Girls. Fucking clown. https://t.co/ggEdIs76GB

Thanks for the tribute, @ComicDaveSmith! @BobMurphyEcon is one of my favorite living economists & I give YOU a 97% grade! And glad you see it's not enough to combat antisemitism by paying tribute to a Gentile economist like Bob! You gotta mention a fellow Jew like me as well!

Christian Malazarte @ChristianMalaza

.@ComicDaveSmith mentions @BobMurphyEcon and @GeneSohoForum as his mentors in economics. https://t.co/RIqNrjvJZ5

Alexander Hamilton made "infant industry" case for protectionism like tariffs: Infant firms lose $ & must thus be protected until they can reach profitability. But any entrepreneur can tell you that's applies to virtually ALL start-ups! Hence private $ must adequately fund them!

"In Trump’s telling, the tariffs are necessary to counter trade barriers that other countries have placed on America. To some extent, he has a point: Other nations do have higher tariffs than the US does." NO POINT! US tariffs ADD to the general harm. https://t.co/Ek7FfEZU58

"The postwar heyday of manufacturing endured into the 1970s." @talmonsmith might have added that, based on the Federal Reserve's Index of domestic manufacturing (chart), US manufacturing output is now more than DOUBLE the levels of those "heyday" 1950s, '60s & '70s (red line). https://t.co/cRe1hb2w1Y

Ghost Dansing 🐀☠️ 👻👽 ghostdansing.bsky.social @ghostdansing

Trump Is Promising a Manufacturing Renaissance. Is That Even Possible? https://t.co/bHUiIcKX2t

19 y.o. when Kennedy was killed, I read extensively & attended talks by challengers of official line. CIA DID have reason to kill JFK, given real fear that he would withdraw from Vietnam & greater confidence that LBJ would escalate. But how would CIA get left-winger Oswald to do

Far more repulsive: Andrew Nursing-Home Killer Cuomo "fighting antisemitism," which he'll conflate w/criticizing the Israeli gov't. My name is Epstein (no relation to Jeff!), have been living in Manhattan since 1967 & look unmistakably Jewish. Streets much safer than 1970s-80s.

Andrew Cuomo @andrewcuomo

Antisemitism across the world, in our nation, and even here in New York City is repulsive. I will fight antisemitism wherever it exists. We will ensure no one feels victimized or threatened. 🧵

Beef, these countries are bilking their own citizens. One response to avoid for the US: Don't bilk your own citizens w/your own tariffs. Milton Friedman was also great on this in Free to Choose, book & 1980 TV series. NO TARIFFS at all, making us a beacon to the free world!

Beef Supreme @onlybeefsupreme

@justinamash These are all great, but how do you reconcile them against the one-sided protectionist market policies of foreign nations? As a whole, they're right, but applied against the current landscape, they're working against reality, and we're getting the raw end of the deal. No?