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Jeremy Horpedahl 馃馃搲

@jmhorp
Dad, Economist, and Arkansan. Associate Professor @UCAbusiness, Director @ACRE_UCA, Adjunct Scholar @CatoInstitute. Tweets are mine
Conway, AR
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    May 16, 2025
    Four charts to overcome your pessimism about how recent generations are doing economically
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    Mr. Trump, you are on the right path, but I don't think you have taken it far enough. If the nation loses $40 billion when we buy products from Canada, isn't it equally true that New York loses money when it buys products from Ohio? And isn't it true that I lose money when I buy
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    Aaron Rupar
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    10h
    Trump: "We don't need their product. So if we cut off trade with that country, we just made $40 billion. You do a few countries like that, and we become a big money machine." 馃檭
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    Lots of great data in this presentation, but this is an important one for understanding the poverty of the past: the working class in England in the late 18th century spent almost 80% of their income on food and drink
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    Jes煤s Fern谩ndez-Villaverde
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    In today鈥檚 lecture in my course on global economic history, I will begin by covering population and economic growth throughout economic history. For 99.99% of human history, higher income brought a larger population. That link broke only during the last 150 years or so. For
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    11h
    And relative to 1989, when Yelstin visited Randalls in Houston, almost everything in the grocery store is more affordable today
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    Emma Camp
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    14h
    If you want evidence that capitalism is a force for good, just visit a grocery store. My ode to the humble American supermarket, for @WSJFreeEx
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    Aug 31
    Let's count the reasons this is dumb: 1. You couldn't legally invest in gold in 1971 2. You can live in a house, but not in a gold vault 3. $25K invested in the S&P 500 in 1971 would be worth $8.5 million today
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