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You’re Buying American Farmers a LOT of ‘Election Candy’ - Instead of reversing the policies hurting the agriculture industry, the president is throwing our tax dollars at the problem. // thedispatch.com/newsletter/d…
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Interesting poll in NYTimes: for all of Trump's claims about election fraud and subversion, the public is more concerned that it would come from Republicans, not from Democrats. nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/po…
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The Trump presidency is an unprecedented victory for socialism. Not only for what it's doing, but because the Republican party can't object on ideological grounds.
Paves that road to socialism, w/o good intentions.
Of course, of course: "Trump turned the government into an investor. Democrats have shopping plans, too." semafor.com/article/10/21/20…
"We’re through the looking glass"
"The sky’s the limit"
"The Trump administration has opened up Pandora’s box"
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One day left to register for the next FRI Hot Topic Hotline, which is tomorrow from noon-1 pm CST. Our free webinar is "Effects of Intermittent Ramping on Generation Emissions," and you can register here:
mizzou.us/FRI-webinar-Rampin….
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Coming up this Friday, Oct.23 - it's our next FRI Hot Topic Hotline! Join us from noon- 1pm CST for "Effects of Intermittent Ramping on Power Plant Emissions." Register here:
mizzou.us/FRI-webinar-Rampin….
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Check out our very own CRES affiliated scholar Zack Miller, quoted here in this Newsweek story on electricity rates:
newsweek.com/how-el-nino-cou…
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A record nobody should be celebrating.
For the first time since @theFIREorg began tracking campus deplatforming attempts, more than 200 efforts to shut down invited speakers have been recorded in a single year.
And 2026 isn't even over yet.
"What we found was striking: not a single country, going all the way back to 1789, has sustained a high level of political freedom under socialism." And by socialism, they mean the degree of socialism/state ownership, not an all or nothing binary.
thedailyeconomy.org/article/…
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Man, elections are expensive. 😔
Roughly $45-50 billion in ad hoc/emergency aid since early 2025.
Key pieces: $9.3B ECAP, $13.7B SDRP, $1.8B specialty, ~$2.5B state grants, $12B Farmer Bridge Assistance, plus the new $8B Harvest Fuel Relief (just made available). USDA itself cited over $40B delivered by mid-2026 before the latest package.
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@grok how much "emergency" spending has Trump & congress sent to US farmers since the beginning of 2025?
This didn’t age well.
Turns out Texas is STILL the best team IN THE COUNTRY.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Texas lost this game
espn.com/college-footba…
Pretty crazy that more GOP voters agree with socialism than do Dem voters. Probably only because of who the POTUS is. But still, that the GOP would ever be more supportive of socialism than the Dems is pretty striking.
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Very exciting to update this chart with the 2025 data!
Millennials at age 40 have about 60% more real net worth than Boomers did at age 40, and almost 100 percent more than Gen X
THE 2025 FED SCF DATA HAS FINALLY BEEN RELEASED!!!
federalreserve.gov/econres/s…
Some ag producers get it better than others // The number of wine grapes harvested in California could fall by as much as half this year. Winemakers say that’s a good thing. wsj.com/business/this-years-… via @WSJ
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The FRI Hot Topic Hotline is back! Make plans to join us on Friday, 10/23 from noon- 1 p.m. CST for the webinar, "Effects of Intermittent Ramping on Power Plant Emissions." Register here:
mizzou.us/FRI-webinar-Rampin….
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Because I've been cursed to argue about this forever, here's my 2024 report listing all the reasons eliminating the FICA cap would not fix Social Security's funding gap - but it would create a lot of new problems. manhattan.institute/article/…
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The great tension in #economics is between those, today unfortunately a majority, who think of the economy as a mechanistic system, a motor to be run, used, repaired, and fueled, and those who recognize that the economy is fundamentally human and social. #econtwitter
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Personalized pricing benefited 62.5% of riders in one study, even as total consumer surplus fell.
@ericfruits & @geoffmanne use that result to examine who gains, who pays, and what the evidence means for the FTC’s proposed guidance in ICLE’s latest TL;DR. 🔗⬇️
