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I wrote the cover story of the February issue of The Atlantic. It builds on a lot of reporting I did throughout 2024, and I'm really proud of it. It’s called: THE ANTI-SOCIAL CENTURY The thesis: Rising solitude is the most important social fact in American life today. The

Athletes, like everyone else, don’t like paying taxes. reason.com/2025/01/11/ath…

College Football, 1997: #2 NE beats #3 TN (Orange Bowl) #1 MI beats #8 WSU (Rose Bowl) ==> Split National title w/ AP & Coaches polls AHHHH!!!! The horror!! Why didnt #1 play #2! There has to be a better way… FF to 2025: Championship: #7 ND plays #8 OSU We’ve solved it!

Youth sports are out of control. I was the 9th overall pick in the MLB Draft. I played professionally for more than 10 years. Here is how I am navigating youth sports as a parent to four kids:

The grass is always injured on the other side

I have a new piece in Foreign Affairs titled, "The Post-Neoliberal Delusion and the Tragedy of Bidenomics". They were generous about giving me a lot of words but were less generous with charts--so this long thread partially rectifies that. (And links to the piece at the end.)

Really wishing the best for all my friends, colleagues, and former graduate students working at federal agencies and federal contractors. The past couple weeks have been chaotic and unprecedentedly harsh from all I’ve heard. They deserve better.

Hard to think of better Monday morning news than this — welcome back Zach!

Can’t wait to watch the upcoming battle of “Team Transition” where everyone agrees to switch sides and pretend prior arguments never happened

Unemployment insurance complexity continues to be a barrier to access. Issues include lack of clarity about program eligibility, inconsistencies in program information and service delivery, and mismatches between eligibility requirements and work patterns. minneapolisfed.org/article/2025/h…

Softening my stance on occupational listening this week. Maybe you should not be able to declare yourself an “economist” simply because they have thoughts about the economy...

Kinda feels like Denver should just hire Taylor Jenkins and Memphis should hire Mike Malone, right?

I’m sorry but the “problem” of too much home equity is just a ridiculous negative-bias storyline. Several concerns (property taxes and insurance costs) are unrelated to equity but home value. What evidence do they show this is actually bad? wsj.com/economy/housin…

Anxiously awaiting for the announcement: Dallas Wings trade Paige Bueckers to LA Sparks for Lisa Leslie and bag of sand

Vincent Geloso First - this is more my area of expertise - it is frankly pretty extreme to claim that theoretical arguments can do anything convincing on this issue. The theoretical channels for government investment to be complementary to private investment are so ample that any argument to

Housing costs in the Twin Cities area have soared since 1997. But according to a new analysis by Erik Hembre, housing quality has also increased over the same period, and households across the income spectrum are experiencing the improvements. Learn more: bit.ly/44gAo9V

No way. The Mavs???

So….Flagg for Bradley Beal seems about right?

Housing costs in the Twin Cities area have soared since 1997. But according to a new analysis by Erik Hembre, housing quality has also increased over the same period, and households across the income spectrum are experiencing the improvements. Learn more: bit.ly/44gAo9V

Giving kids access to Medicaid... ■ decreases mortality, ■ increases employment, ■ decreases receipt of disability transfers... ...up to 50 years later. "Medicaid has saved the government **more than its original cost** and saved more than 10M quality adjusted life-years."