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What is 2 + 3?
Mainstream economics: 5
MMT:
CONSIDER for a moment the expression 2 + 3. Now this expression is perhaps best considered in the form of an accounting formula 2 + 3 = 4 + 1, in which the left side represents assets and the right side represent liabilities.
I thought AWS S3 had a shitty, user hostile API.
But, wow, Google Cloud Storage is so much worse. You can't even download files without downloading a command line tool
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Replying to @jdcmedlock
Time to repost a @vhranger classic. singlelunch.com/2018/07/27/b…
My forecast for the Lou Pai "got away with it" memorial award for tether is JL Van Der Velde.
Of course for the FTX saga, @AlamedaTrabucco won it handily with his incredible move of "leave to be on a boat 6 months before collapse"
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Elon Musk bought Twitter to stop the woke mind virus, trained an AI on its data, and accidentally created the woke mind coronavirus
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Nostalgia Overload: Today’s Throwback Google Doodle Shows A Guy In 2013 Getting Usable Results From His Google Search clickhole.com/nostalgia-over…
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Ongoing thread of Matt Darling (@besttrousers) stoically owning over-confident people with basic stats and econ 🧵
Look, he has some league of legends to play, cut him some slack
Replying to @innercitypress
[During the lull, Bankman-Fried is sitting slumped at the defense table, seemingly-glumly typing on his laptop]
Unemployment is at its lowest point in history
Q3 GDP growth is one of the highest in history
The only metric that's in recession is vibes
Gen-Z is losing their minds in their first recession…
I’ve been through three of these as an adult… they suck, they last a couple of years, but they make you stronger.
Just focus on adding skills and put in 2 more hours a day than your hardest working peers and you’ll come out in the top 10% of your cohort
Or check out and teach yoga/skiing and sleep on someone’s couch (not kidding, it’s an option!)
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The United States is not in recession, GDP grew in real (inflation adjusted) terms over the three months prior to this tweet being posted and at a rate greater than prior quarters
abcnews.go.com/Business/us-ec…
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"first recession"
Gen-Z is losing their minds in their first recession…
I’ve been through three of these as an adult… they suck, they last a couple of years, but they make you stronger.
Just focus on adding skills and put in 2 more hours a day than your hardest working peers and you’ll come out in the top 10% of your cohort
Or check out and teach yoga/skiing and sleep on someone’s couch (not kidding, it’s an option!)
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The United States is not in recession, GDP grew in real (inflation adjusted) terms over the three months prior to this tweet being posted and at a rate greater than prior quarters
abcnews.go.com/Business/us-ec…



























