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Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems
There are many ways inflation makes people worse off even when real incomes recover, especially for essentials.
Feb 9
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Stop Blaming DoorDash for the Affordability Crisis
One DoorDash Discourse to rule them all: Food away from home is down. Groceries are up. This is especially true for young people. Affordability is a…
Feb 2
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January 2026
Young College Graduate Unemployment Is Worse Than the Slowdown Explains
Unemployment for workers in their 20s with BA+ degrees is running 2 percentage points higher than historical patterns predict.
Jan 29
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What Progressives Want to Know About Abundance
Off Twitter/X, the concerns are about boundaries, business, omnicauses, and what complements liberal priorities versus what replaces them.
Jan 23
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My 2026 Substack Goals
A plan for writing through a consequential year, with reasonable goals and personal disclosures.
Jan 20
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December 2025
My Meme of the Year and Other Highlights of 2025
Writing, Oregon Trail anxiety, parenting, doomscrolling avoidance, and watches.
Dec 30, 2025
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Everything-Bagel Authoritarianism
If you want to dismantle a liberal, pluralist democracy, you need to be able to tell parts of your far-right coalition “no.”
Dec 23, 2025
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A Year In, the MAGA Labor Market Story Has Fallen Apart
The administration bet on government cuts, tariffs, deportations, and a gendered theory of growth. The data say otherwise.
Dec 19, 2025
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Does a Target Range Make Sense of the Fed's Actions?
Why the Fed may be acting as if inflation has a band, not a point. And why bands are good!
Dec 13, 2025
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The Baby Euler Equation
How rational expectations model the fertility gap and clarify the debate over pronatalism.
Dec 9, 2025
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The Eldest Millennials Had the Same Fertility as the Youngest Baby Boomers
How U.S. fertility is happening later, not less.
Dec 4, 2025
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Mass Deportation Will Save Renters Less Than $5 a Month
President Trump wants to deport his way to affordability. But immigration can’t explain the housing crisis, and deportation won’t fix it.
Dec 1, 2025
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