Eric Rauchway
Historian. Florida man. Keep Bluesky weird.
http://ericrauchway.com
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- I have a very, very short introduction to the Great Depression and the New Deal in @oah.org 's magazine The American Historian 🗃️
- The Hitler diaries forgery, professional historians, the Indian Institute, and Coming of Age in Samoa 🗃️ erauchway.github.io/posts/samoan...
- Historians and the isolationists: polling 🗃️
- Andrew Hickey, practitioner of old-school American Studies (laudatory) 🗃️ erauchway.github.io/posts/hickey...
- This is it, this is the post that's going to drive me off here
- the highest ever, people are saying
- the poor folks at @budgetlab.bsky.social just recalculated everything
- re “blink wednesday”
- WHAT COMES NEXT AFTER BLINK WEDNESDAY In today's Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about where things stand now. Sub to the newsletter here: www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
- taking yesterday’s revision into account, per @budgetlab.bsky.social
- everyone should have the benefit of this innovation
- teaching World War II this quarter; a student asked me about Bomber Mafia so I just gave them @alanallport.bsky.social 's email address
- uncertainty at record levels, terrifically high, like you’ve never seen before
- hello IT I pulled the plug on the hegemony and now it won’t turn on again
- 👊🇺🇸🔥
- “they thought Elon was actually competent”
- Since tariffs, I noticed a surprising trend: elite Trump supporters saying they might have made a mistake. So I asked them what they were thinking, both in November and today. One big takeaway: they thought Elon was actually competent. That error proved catastrophic. www.vox.com/on-the-right...
- you do not under any circumstances gotta hand it to
- Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in D.C. today: "And let’s usher in, as President Trump says, a ‘Golden Age’ of American manufacturing.'” This is nuts. Democrats really, really have to learn, as Robert Frost put it, to take their own side in a fight. www.thebulwark.com/p/clown-in-a...
- also the greatest UC faculty member ever
- Tom Lehrer remains among the most insightful commentators on contemporary politics, which is saying something since he hasn't engaged in political commentary since 1972. Hope he's enjoying his 97th (!) birthday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAwh...
- Reposted by Eric RauchwayAt least Ford just told New York to drop dead
- this was of course the reason for the 1937 judicial reform bill
- “Trump’s imposition of swingeing US tariffs has unleashed mayhem…upending assumptions governing the world trade order since Bretton Woods. As Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the Treasury, said at the weekend: ‘Globalisation as we’ve known it for the last couple of decades has come to an end.’”
- has anyone reached Tim Apple
- “.. when asked by a reporter if Trump wants iPhones to be made domestically, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt replied: ‘Absolutely. He believes we have the labor, we have the workforce, we have the resources to do it.’” 🤡 @barrons.com $AAPL www.barrons.com/articles/app...
- If Bluesky has taught Americans anything it is that Brazil is a nation of winners
- It’s Yip Harburg’s birthday! He wrote the lyrics to “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and “Brother Can You Spare a Dime”
- and what’s your book called, Mr. Hassett
- Reposted by Eric RauchwayI haven’t seen the movie, but I’ve looked at my phone in front of the book
- you could even say the _exorbitant_ privilege
- Reposted by Eric RauchwayI was told there would be no gender ideology
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- “someone else”
- At event today, CEA chair Stephen Miran was asked about notorious tariff formula Said CEA proposed a bunch of ways to estimate non-tariff barriers, but Trump ultimately instead chose a formula designed to close deficits, proposed by "someone else in the administration" www.hudson.org/events/chair...
- Reposted by Eric RauchwayPERFECT TIMING 🍇
- Reposted by Eric Rauchwayshout out to the many people who told me during grad school to stop studying tariffs and customs and to choose something more relevant
- Reposted by Eric RauchwayShout-out to all the students who've told me that tariffs are "boring"
- rational markets:
- outstanding
- somehow I missed that Bowser became president of Nintendo
- it’s the little signs of spring
- Reposted by Eric Rauchway"Jokes" that people have to "get" foster a culture of exclusion and undermine the solidarity necessary to achieve social change. Reply earnestly if you agree!
- “I don’t think this was foreseeable”
- Reposted by Eric RauchwayA man walked up to me and said sir, he had tears in his eyes, this big Marine, sir, I’ve never seen such a great depression.
- Reposted by Eric RauchwayI have poured from the vintage where the grapes were stored and which you were saving for the coming of the lord forgive me they were so wrathful and so battle born
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- I know you all love Big Short but Margin Call, it’s the best
