Nathan Tankus

@NathanTankus

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    Aug 12

    I'm going on temporary hiatus due to personal circumstances I would rather not discuss. I'm not abandoning writing by any means, I just need to get my personal circumstances in order. It shouldn't take that much time.

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  2. 11 hours ago

    Omg ofc there's a chapter called imperfect competition

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  3. 11 hours ago

    Yesterday was reading political power and social classes but this just came in the mail.

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  4. 11 hours ago

    Been mostly focused on logistical things but I have taken some alone time during my hiatus to do some reading separate from my current events coverage. The recent state theory tweeting from others really made me want to read through the Milliband-Poulantzas debate cover to cover

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  5. 13 hours ago

    He's talking about old movies now though so he relaxed. He's in his happy place.

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  6. 13 hours ago

    My dad is doing his first zoom meeting for a podcast and it is very adorable how nervous he is

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    21 hours ago

    CalFire admits in presser this morning that they have NO resources to fight this. Like, NONE. Guess why? Bc the prison populations, who have for decades been California’s primary firefighter hand-crews on wildfires, are too sick with Covid to go.

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  8. 16 hours ago

    Making economics about needs and wants, cultural and social context, rather than just putting everything on the same plane of "preferences" , making it the study of social provisioning and deprivation... would make it heterodox economics.

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  9. 16 hours ago

    find this thread a little strange to be honest.The whole point of these economic tools is to move focus away from economic inequality towards a specific conception of resource allocation mediated by relative price.The income issues are to be avoided,deemphasized,"compensated for"

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    Its not just tone death to most kids reality but it makes economics seem like a silly, contrived way of thinking. In reality economics is an extremely useful tool for everyday life, but it can be hard for students to believe that when they see such unrealistic, toy examples.
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    20 hours ago

    If you liked the Fed buying MTA debt at 1.92%, you'll *love* the Fed buying MTA subway tokens at 0%

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    Aug 18

    We’ll move to an all online format after the deadline passes for full tuition refunds.

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    Aug 18
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    Yeah I still don't have all the details, but at first glance it looks like the MTA was given an A+ composite rating. If that's the case, Kroll really helped here. S&P: BBB+ Moody's: A2 Fitch: A+ ... Kroll: AA+

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    Aug 18

    BOOM: *NY MTA SELLS $451 MILLION OF BONDS TO FED MUNI-LENDING FACILITY AT LOWER YIELD THAN BANKS BID Interest cost of 1.92% vs. 2.79% from banks

    wow! via *NEW YORK MTA REJECTS BANKS' BIDS ON NOTE SALE, COULD SELL TO FED
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    Aug 18

    My $.02 is that heretofore, fiscal policy isn't different, especially in the US. It has the potential to be different, if the political winds such that income replacement/automatic stabilizers become permanent features of the policy landscape. But we're a long way from that.

    This QE isn't "different", fiscal policy is "different"
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  15. Aug 17

    very good point

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    Minds are more made up in 2020 too. Hillary and trump accounted for ~80% combined in a bunch of those polls and most of them this cycle are ~90%.
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    Aug 17

    This is encouraging.

    THREAD: I wanted to look at some "battleground" state polling because I've been hearing people freaking out about Biden losing.Obviously everyone is traumatized from 2016.However,I knew in 2016 the election was a toss up at best by looking at the poll averages. So let's do that!
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  17. Aug 17

    but I don't actually think we have a good idea of who net benefits from either of those things.

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  18. Aug 17

    oh just wanted to give a reminder that Biden just needs to win Florida and one of the midwestern states, otherwise repeating Hillary's wins and losses, to win this election. My reading of this is he's exceedingly likely to do so barring evictions/USPS radically shifting things.

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  19. Aug 17

    There's no sign **from the polls** to be worried and generally, with the exception of Wisconsin,polls did well in 2016- eople just weren't reading them well.Obviously democrats are notorious for screwing up but the big picture thing is Biden's net favorability is so wildly better

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  20. Aug 17

    I could post North Carolina and Arizona but I think there isn't much point. The democrats aren't banking on these places and while they're doing better there than last time, its nowhere near as stark as the examples above.

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  21. Aug 17

    Florida is really stark. Trump was ahead in Florida on average for all of July of 2016! Meanwhile Biden has kept the lead there and its not very close. The narrowing brings it barely within the margin of error, and it will widen again.

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