“Economics Roundup #4” by Zvi

Previous Economics Roundups: #1, #2, #3

Fun With Campaign Proposals (1)

Since this section discusses various campaign proposals, I’ll reiterate:

I could not be happier with my decision not to cover the election outside of the particular areas that I already cover. I have zero intention of telling anyone who to vote for. That's for you to decide.

All right, that's out of the way. On with the fun. And it actually is fun, if you keep your head on straight. Or at least it's fun for me. If you feel differently, no blame for skipping the section.

Last time the headliner was Kamala Harris and her no good, very bad tax proposals, especially her plan to tax unrealized capital gains.

This time we get to start with the no good, very bad proposals of Donald Trump.

This is the stupidest proposal [...]

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Outline:

(00:10) Fun With Campaign Proposals (1)

(06:43) Campaign Proposals (2): Tariffs

(09:34) Car Seats as Contraception

(10:04) They Didn’t Take Our Jobs

(11:11) Yay Prediction Markets

(13:10) Very High Marginal Tax Rates

(15:52) Hard Work

(17:53) Yay Price Gouging (Yep, It's That Time Again)

(22:36) The Death of Chinese Venture Capital

(24:52) Economic Growth

(25:17) People Really Hate Inflation

(29:23) Garbage In, Garbage Out

(30:11) Insurance

(32:07) Yes, You Should Still Learn to Code

(32:29) Not Working From Home

(34:02) Various Older Economics Papers

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First published:
October 15th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ru9YGuGscGuDHfXTJ/economics-roundup-4

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