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Nick Pretnar

@nickpretnar

Economist | Focusing on growth and time use | PHD from @CarnegieMellon | Asst. Director LAEF @UCSB

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"We're flawed because we want so much more. We're ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had." -- Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 4; Episode 8, "The Summer Man"


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This Taylor-Serrano fight rn #PaulTyson


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Watching Gen Z men veer right hits different for Millennials. We lived through Columbine, 9/11, the Iraq War, 2008 crash, 2016 election, covid, abortion bans, & now this. We watched institutions repeatedly fail us while older generations selfishly protected the status quo. 🧵1/


Before this election I thought America was already great. I just learned that I was part of the minority, that most people in this country do not think it’s great, but they think it used to be. They think it’s patriotic to want to make it better by making it the way it used to be


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👀 BREAKING: This ad, when tested, moves under-30-men by 2+ points away from Donald Trump. That’s HUGE MOVEMENT! Please share widely! Guys don’t want to be controlled either. #MAGAInYourSheets


Such a news worthy story … Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds - BBC News apple.news/AGDYDvoWHR3-O3…


Kamala sorta kinda flexing her hipster bonafides on Colbert with a Miller High Life. Could’ve had a PBR and taken it all the way, but I guess this will do … axios.com/2024/10/09/kam…


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With a port strike looming, here's ILA President Harold Daggett talking about the economic damage he's willing to inflict. "In today's world I'll cripple you. I will cripple you and you have no idea what that means." (Wife thought I was watching a movie) youtube.com/watch?v=822WNv…


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The Longshoremen aren't trying to shoehorn zero automation into their contracts because their jobs are so important, but because their jobs are already borderline obsolete and in fact make our ports worse off

Watching how fast the line of trucks moves at :39 seconds should piss off every single truck driver who’s ever been to a port in the US.



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Dockworkers union president Harold Daggett, who is promising to "cripple you" by shutting down all ports on the East and Gulf Coasts during a hurricane recovery, got paid $855,261 last year.

With a port strike looming, here's ILA President Harold Daggett talking about the economic damage he's willing to inflict. "In today's world I'll cripple you. I will cripple you and you have no idea what that means." (Wife thought I was watching a movie) youtube.com/watch?v=822WNv…



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#BREAKING - EXPOSED: Harold Daggett, the president of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), who has publicly stated intentions to “cripple” the U.S. economy with the port strike, owns a 76-foot yacht and a Bentley, with an annual salary exceeding $900,000. Despite…

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The idea that we can accurately attribute housing price increases to ONE factor (e.g., illegal immigration) is ridiculous. @JDVance is not an economist. Real economists know that general equilibrium outcomes are a result of many things happening at once.


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