Dan Ludwinski
@dludwinski.com
Assistant Professor of Economics at Emory University's Oxford College.
I love teaching, and research healthcare.
I love teaching, and research healthcare.
Made my tight connection in Amsterdam! I was worried about the EU's new digital Entry/Exit System, but I think landing at 530am local time meant the lines were minimal. Next stop, Prague!
August 20, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Made my tight connection in Amsterdam! I was worried about the EU's new digital Entry/Exit System, but I think landing at 530am local time meant the lines were minimal. Next stop, Prague!
Off to Europe! Starting with a few days exploring Prague, Vienna, and Budapest before heading to the EARIE conference in Germany to present some of my research.
Looking forward to good food, lots of walking, seeing some new places, and eventually presenting some very interesting work!
Looking forward to good food, lots of walking, seeing some new places, and eventually presenting some very interesting work!
August 19, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Off to Europe! Starting with a few days exploring Prague, Vienna, and Budapest before heading to the EARIE conference in Germany to present some of my research.
Looking forward to good food, lots of walking, seeing some new places, and eventually presenting some very interesting work!
Looking forward to good food, lots of walking, seeing some new places, and eventually presenting some very interesting work!
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New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
August 12, 2026 at 4:42 AM
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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I'm a bit white today because I just haven't been in the sun for a bit. You know how it goes. Once I get back down to Mara Lago I'll be fine!
June 15, 2026 at 1:50 AM
I'm a bit white today because I just haven't been in the sun for a bit. You know how it goes. Once I get back down to Mara Lago I'll be fine!
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Yes! This is overdue!
I'm famous just because people shake me so much. They go for that firm handshake. I hate it!
June 15, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Yes! This is overdue!
Well, getting grades in by midnight just became a big challenge.
Instructure / Canvas has been hacked big time!
Instructure / Canvas has been hacked big time!
May 7, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Well, getting grades in by midnight just became a big challenge.
Instructure / Canvas has been hacked big time!
Instructure / Canvas has been hacked big time!
We finally found the y2k bug!
Learned from my 101-year-old grandfather that one problem of being a centenarian is that airlines apparently only have a 2-digit age variable, meaning that every time he shows up at the airport, the data in the system at the check-in counter thinks he's a 1-year-old unaccompanied child.
April 27, 2026 at 1:31 AM
We finally found the y2k bug!
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False. However, you are the only country stupid enough to elect a convicted felon and accused pedophile, whose only claim to fame is that as a third rate reality TV star.
April 1, 2026 at 4:38 PM
False. However, you are the only country stupid enough to elect a convicted felon and accused pedophile, whose only claim to fame is that as a third rate reality TV star.
I hate April fools day.
That's it.
That's it.
April 1, 2026 at 10:10 PM
I hate April fools day.
That's it.
That's it.
Is BLS not publishing Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) for 2026? Nothing is listed on their schedule.
Can someone with knowledge let me know (@justinwolfers.bsky.social)?
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
Can someone with knowledge let me know (@justinwolfers.bsky.social)?
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
January 11, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Is BLS not publishing Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) for 2026? Nothing is listed on their schedule.
Can someone with knowledge let me know (@justinwolfers.bsky.social)?
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
Can someone with knowledge let me know (@justinwolfers.bsky.social)?
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
Saving this article to talk about opportunity cost with my econ 101 students.
www.pcworld.com/article/2998...
www.pcworld.com/article/2998...
December 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Saving this article to talk about opportunity cost with my econ 101 students.
www.pcworld.com/article/2998...
www.pcworld.com/article/2998...
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If this were true, then the Fed should be raising interest rates to combat inflation and prevent the economy from overheating (AD>AS). Any genuine economist would know this...
Instead the administration is pushing for lower rates. I leave figuring out the discrepancy as an exercise for the reader.
Instead the administration is pushing for lower rates. I leave figuring out the discrepancy as an exercise for the reader.
Lutnick: "Jay Powell is too afraid to lead the greatest $30t economy in the world. We should be leading with our front foot. Instead we are always leaning back as if something bad is happening. We are doing great. Nothing bad is happening. Greatness is happening. We're growing 4% GDP! Come on."
December 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
If this were true, then the Fed should be raising interest rates to combat inflation and prevent the economy from overheating (AD>AS). Any genuine economist would know this...
Instead the administration is pushing for lower rates. I leave figuring out the discrepancy as an exercise for the reader.
Instead the administration is pushing for lower rates. I leave figuring out the discrepancy as an exercise for the reader.
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I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
I am ashamed at how my alma mater is caving in the face of authoritarian pressure.
Cornell has reached an agreement with the federal government to restore our funding:
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
An agreement to restore Cornell’s federal research funding | University Statements | Cornell University
statements.cornell.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I am ashamed at how my alma mater is caving in the face of authoritarian pressure.
ICE agents are so much more lawless than the people they target.
Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?
Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates
The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
ICE agents are so much more lawless than the people they target.
I'm so glad that Trump restored the meritocracy.
Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job
US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I'm so glad that Trump restored the meritocracy.
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The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
September 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
Waiting with bated breath to see if Trump fires someone after the GDP numbers were revised up...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/e...
The US economy grew at a 3.8% rate in the second quarter, significantly stronger than previously reported | CNN Business
The US economy’s comeback in the second quarter was just revised higher again, and economists estimate that momentum carried on in the third quarter, underscoring the resilience of the world’s largest...
www.cnn.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Waiting with bated breath to see if Trump fires someone after the GDP numbers were revised up...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/e...
This is the real defunding of police.
New numbers show ICE is devouring US law enforcement: 1 in 5 US marshals, 1 in 5 FBI agents, half of all DEA agents, and over two-thirds of all ATF agents are now assigned to ICE enforcement. These are agencies with critical jobs they're now NOT doing.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-is-eat...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-is-eat...
ICE is Eating the Soul of America
Four things that show ICE increasingly considers itself outside the law
www.doomsdayscenario.co
September 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This is the real defunding of police.
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A lo-fi bit of horse trading to bring back Obamacare subsidies for six months only to see them cut again is a bad strategy for Dems on every front.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats...
What’s Unmentioned in the Intra-Dem Shutdown Debate
As we’ve been discussing for a week there’s a big argument among...
talkingpointsmemo.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
A lo-fi bit of horse trading to bring back Obamacare subsidies for six months only to see them cut again is a bad strategy for Dems on every front.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats...
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Please, the U.S. Open asked us not to share any video of the president being booed heavily by an entire stadium, please respect their wishes, please
September 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Please, the U.S. Open asked us not to share any video of the president being booed heavily by an entire stadium, please respect their wishes, please
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The more this settles in, the more its danger and gravity becomes clear.
1. This was a crime, whether under domestic law enforcement, international law or war law.
2. By its very logic, there is nothing preventing them from doing the same within the US.
3. They are bragging about it.
1. This was a crime, whether under domestic law enforcement, international law or war law.
2. By its very logic, there is nothing preventing them from doing the same within the US.
3. They are bragging about it.
Shot:
"In his first term, [Trump] praised then-President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines for doing an 'unbelievable job on the drug problem' in the nation where Mr. Duterte’s government had sanctioned gunning down suspected drug dealers in the streets."
"In his first term, [Trump] praised then-President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines for doing an 'unbelievable job on the drug problem' in the nation where Mr. Duterte’s government had sanctioned gunning down suspected drug dealers in the streets."
Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The more this settles in, the more its danger and gravity becomes clear.
1. This was a crime, whether under domestic law enforcement, international law or war law.
2. By its very logic, there is nothing preventing them from doing the same within the US.
3. They are bragging about it.
1. This was a crime, whether under domestic law enforcement, international law or war law.
2. By its very logic, there is nothing preventing them from doing the same within the US.
3. They are bragging about it.
This is why they fired the lawyers.
1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat.
Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.
Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.
Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
Legal Issues Raised by a Lethal U.S. Military Attack in the Caribbean
The Trump administration’s extraordinary lethal attack on this purported smuggling vessel raises significant potential legal issues.
www.justsecurity.org
September 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
This is why they fired the lawyers.
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Which, of course, is why he’s test-running military deployments in American cities. Eventually everybody realizes the rules no longer mean anything, and it comes down to main force.
September 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Which, of course, is why he’s test-running military deployments in American cities. Eventually everybody realizes the rules no longer mean anything, and it comes down to main force.