My Organized-Tweet Stories, In Order of Popularity, in Their Flight from a Dying Storify to the Haven of Wakelet
For me, Twitter has been and remains a good way to see what other people think about ideas I care about. For me, a good argument is when I either prevail or learn something. By that standard, I have had many, many good arguments on Twitter. The art of having a civil argument, and the even more difficult art of replying civilly to someone who is being uncivil, is something in short enough supply these days, that it has often seemed worthwhile to preserve a Twitter discussion as a story of organized tweets. For almost six years, I did that using Storify. But Storify is being abandoned by its parent company.
Fortunately, Wakelet has taken up the torch of providing a free website where tweets and other material can be organized into stories. Staff at Wakelet were good enough to transfer all of my Storify stories over to Wakelet. I should make clear that they chose the pictures at the top of each story, and I have decided to leave those pictures be. The most misleading result is that almost every story with "electronic money" in the title has a picture cryptocurrency symbols. When I talk about electronic money, I am talking about the checks, credit cards and debit cards that are already in common use. The key idea, as explored in everything you can see in "How and Why to Eliminate the Zero Lower Bound: A Reader’s Guide," is to make dollars in the bank—and more directly those dollars in the bank that are backed by reserves at the central bank—the unit of account rather than paper currency dollars.
I am probably kidding myself, but one of these stories may even have had a good effect on the world. I like to think that my story "The Marginalization of Economists at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau" had some small effect in the strong status that economists now have in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. I visited in 2016 and now think very highly of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and very much hope it survives the political siege it is under. My post "On the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau" is a philosophical defense of what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is trying to do. In general, I am far to the the right of Elizabeth Warren in my political views, but I honor her for two important contributions: pushing for the establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and pushing for much tougher capital equity requirements and stricter leverage limits on financial firms in order to avoid another financial crisis.
To make sure all of my organized-tweet stories remain accessible, I list everything moving over from Storify to Wakelet below, in order of the number of pageviews it received, as listed after each title. Each title links to the Wakelet page for that story. Remember that you can search within this blog post using the normal text search command (Apple F on a Mac) for any particular title you are looking for.
Even if you never click on any of the links, I think you will learn a lot just by reading through the titles. First, the pageview data gives a window into what people are interested in. Second, scanning through the titles will give you picture of my views and concerns about a wide range of topics; including topics I have never written a regular blog post on.
- A More Personal Bio: My Early Tweets 2962
- How the Mormons Became Largely Republican 2575
- Did the Gold Standard Help Bring Hitler to Power? (Twitter Round Table) 2009
- Noah Smith, Miles Kimball and Claudia Sahm on Math in Economics 1245
- How the Calories In/Calories Out Theory Obscures the Endogeneity of Calories In and Out to Subjective Hunger and Energy 961
- Miles Kimball and Brad DeLong Discuss Wallace Neutrality and Principles of Macroeconomics Textbooks 819
- Roger Farmer, Noah Smith, Miles Kimball, Tony Yates and Others on Math in Economics 736
- Umair Haque on Liberalism 676
- Why Does the Left Hate Markets? 672
- The True Marginal Product of Studying Hard and the Perceived Marginal Product of Studying Hard 657
- Jonathan Portes, Brad DeLong and Noah Smith Set Me Straight When I Praise John Cochrane's Shoddy OpEd 646
- The Marginalization of Economists at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 618
- Does the Fed Really Want 2% Inflation? 615
- The Time Miles was Called a "Neoliberal Sellout" by Matt Yglesias and was Glad for the Compliment in the End 565
- Why the Nominal GDP Target Should Go Up about 1% after a 1% Improvement in Technology 560
- Miles Kimball and Noah Smith on Balancing the Budget in the Long Run 552
- Noah Smith's and Matthew Yglesias's Unpopular Opinions That I Mostly Agree With 552
- Critiques of Economics 535
- Putting the Perspective from Jason Fung's "The Obesity Code" into Practice* 521
- Daniel Altman and Miles Kimball: Should We Expand Government or Expand the Nonprofit Sector? 495
- Brad DeLong on the Six James Buchanans 480
- Miles Kimball, David A. Levine, Robert Waldmann and Noah Smith on the Design of a US Sovereign Wealth Fund 471
- On Schools of Thought in Macroeconomics 457
- The Paul Ryan Tweets 453
- Narayana Kocherlakota and Miles Kimball Debate the Size of the US Output Gap in January, 2016 441
- Should We Have Tight Monetary Policy in Order to Help Virtuous Savers? 425
- Which is More Radical? Electronic Money or a Higher Inflation Target? 415
- Noah Smith on Multiculturalism and Assimilation 405
- On the Freshwater Style of Using Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models 402
- Unlearning Economics, Sanders Wagner and Miles Kimball: Nature, Nurture and Individual Agency 390
- Is Hari Seldon a Bad Influence on Macroeconomists? 383
- If You Had to Choose, Would You Want Your Employee to Know Some Statistics or Know Some Calculus? 382
- Is Math Used to Illuminate or Obfuscate in Economics? 381
- Claudia Sahm on Reforming the Refereeing Process in Economics 378
- Twitter Melee on Minimum Wages 364
- Chris Blattman on Lab Experiments and Field Experiments 361
- Noah Smith and Company: What Economic Things are Better Now than They Used to Be? 360
- Tomas Hirst Recoils at the Starkness of Efficiency Wage Theory 350
- Do Nordic Countries Do Well Because of Democratic Socialism or Because of Nordic Culture? 330
- On the Deregulation of Social Science Research 328
- Business Cycles: A Shocking Discussion 327
- Jason Smith and John Cochrane on the Refereeing Process in Economics 327
- Miles Kimball Debates Danielle DiMartino Booth and Her Friends about Monetary Policy 322
- Daniel Altman and Miles Kimball: Is It OK to Let the Rich Be Rich As Long As We Take Care of the Poor? 320
- On Fighting Obesity 318
- Miles Kimball and David Andolfatto Defend John Cochrane Against the Wrath of John L. Davidson 318
- Miles Kimball's Comments on the Scott Sumner/David Andolfatto Debate 306
- Noah Smith: California Shows the Racial and Ethnic Future for the US 299
- Where is the Republican Party on Monetary Policy? 285
- What is Consumption for the Purposes of a Consumption Tax? 282
- Noah Smith, Brad DeLong and Miles Kimball on Wallace Neutrality 279
- The Balance Between Persistence and Finding Your Own Comparative Advantage 279
- Sticky Prices, Sticky Inflation and the Cost of Inflation as Reflections of Cognitive Costs 277
- Gender Roles, Economics and the Labor Market 277
- Stephen Williamson and Miles Kimball Debate Nominal GDP Level Targeting 272
- Genes vs. Hard Work in Learning Math 271
- Matthew C. Klein and Miles Kimball on the Effects of Negative Interest Rates on Savers 264
- Anti-Construction is Anti-Poor 261
- Noah Smith's Tweetstorm on Making Everyone a 'Math Person' 257
- Twitter Debate on Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy: Take 1 257
- Edward J. Epstein, Miles Kimball, Brad Delong, Alex Bowles and Ramez Naam: Was Edward Snowden a Spy? 256
- Monetary Policy and Financial Policy Discussions Sparked by the Kimball and Konczal vs. Peter Schiff HuffPost Live 251
- Responses to the Great Recession 249
- Showing How Charles Murray is Wrong Instead of Shouting Him Down 249
- Preaching in the Temple: Presenting "Breaking Through the Zero Lower Bound" at the Fed 248
- Socialism and Capitalism: A Conversation of Miles Kimball, Unlearning Economics, Adam Gurri and Daniel Hart 245
- What is Monetary Policy? 243
- Are Central Banks Scared to Admit that the Zero Lower Bound is a Policy Choice, Not a Law of Nature? 241
- Why I Won't Join the AARP 239
- Beatrice Cherrier on the Weaponization of the Lucas Critique 235
- On Bringing the Questions and Concerns of Sociology into Economics 234
- Tomas Hirst and Miles Kimball on Fiscal Stimulus vs. Negative Rates 234
- Immigration Tweet Day, February 4, 2013: Archive 233
- Twitter Round Table on Targeting Core Inflation 230
- Why Wasn't There Massive Inflation or Massive Deflation During the Great Recession? 229
- College as a Marriage Market: A Twitter Discussion 229
- High Bank Capital Requirements Defended 228
- Noah, Richard, Miles and Jake Talk about God and SuperGod 222
- Is There Any Excuse for U-Shaped Average Cost Curves? 221
- Electronic Money, Nominal GDP Targeting, and the Transmission Mechanisms for Monetary Policy 221
- Daniel Altman and Miles Kimball on the Long-Run Target for Inflation 220
- Eliminating the Zero Lower Bound: An Introduction 215
- Twitter Round Table on Our Disastrous Policy of Pegging Paper Currency at Par 211
- Rich People Do Create Jobs 208
- Adam Ozimek, Miles Kimball and Neal Hockley on Paternalism and Other-Regarding Preferences 206
- Miles Kimball, Roger Farmer, Stephen Williamson and Joe Little on Recent Japanese Monetary Policy 204
- Minimum Wages vs. Wage Subsidies 203
- John Dearie, Miles Kimball and Others Debate High Equity Requirements for Banks 200
- TakingHayekSeriously on Neo-Kantianism on Campus 200
- JP Koning and David Beckworth on Negative Interest Rates in the Repo Market 195
- Paper Currency Policy: A Primer 193
- The Vicious Self-Fulfilling Prophecy That You Can't Do Math 193
- Negative Interest Rates, Helicopter Drops and NGDPLT-- Matthew Klein, David Beckworth and Miles Kimball 192
- On Religion and Conservative Ideology in Collision with Colleges 192
- Seignorage and Fractional-Reserve Banking 192
- The Moral Case for Immigration Reform 191
- Ritwik Priya's Estimates of the Cost of Paper Currency Storage (and Miles Kimball's Discussion of Izabella Kaminska's... 186
- Anat Admati Defends High Bank Equity Requirements 186
- The Politics of Electronic Money: Take 1 184
- Gold, Electronic Money, and the Determinants of the Prices of Storable Commodities from the Ground 183
- Defending Negative Interest Rates Against All Comers 182
- Taking Care of the Poor and Troubled Without Getting Tied Up in Knots About Race 180
- Allowing Construction of More Housing Units Within a Quick Bus Ride of Jobs as an Imperative of True Social Justice 177
- Arguing about Gay Marriage 176
- Why Equity Requirements for Financial Firms Should Be Dramatically Increased 176
- David Beckworth on the Zero Lower Bound as a Price Floor 175
- The Historical Effects of Monetary Policy Mistakes 173
- Miles Kimball, Marc Andreessen and Others on Head Transplants and Cyborgian Immortality 173
- Reihan Salam and Miles Kimball Disagree on the Right Benchmark for Judging the Progressivity of a Value Added Tax 173
- Against the Mortgage Interest Deduction, Zoning as a Tool of Exclusion, and Occupational Licensing 172
- Noah Smith and Miles Kimball on Exploring the Mystery of Consciousness and Bokononism 170
- Noah Smith on Why Economists Need to Take Racism Seriously* 169
- How Neoliberalism Got Itself Into Political Trouble 168
- David Aron Levine and Miles Kimball on the Effects of Low Interest Rates on Pension Funds 166
- Neutral Monetary Policy as Part of the Foundation for a Free-Market Economy 165
- Are Rape and Sexual Assault About Power and Lust or Only About Power? 165
- A House Mystery: Why Does House Construction Go Up in Booms and Down in Recessions? 165
- Diego Espinosa and Miles Kimball on Bitcoin and Electronic Money 165
- Answering Skeptics about Negative Rates 163
- 'Forget Calorie Counting. It's the Insulin Index, Stupid' in a Few Tweets 159
- Tom Nichols and Eric Weinstein on the Public's Attitude toward Experts 159
- Do the Minimum Wage and Other Labor Market Rigidities Hamper the Assimilation of Immigrants? 157
- Velocity 157
- Debating 'Forget Calorie Counting; It's the Insulin Index, Stupid' 156
- Twitter Round Table on Contrarian Sovereign Wealth Funds as a Way to Tame the Financial Cycle 156
- Miles Kimball and 'Jimmy Madison' Debate the Minimum Wage 156
- Twitter Melee Over Negative Interest Rates 156
- Ontology and Cosmology in 14 Tweets 155
- Twitter Debates Sparked by Miles's and Yichuan's Second Quartz Column on Reinhart and Rogoff 155
- A Discussion on the Politics, Ethics and Psychology of Immigration Policy 154
- Q&A about Negative Interest Rates--The Centre for Monetary Advancement and Miles Kimball 153
- Cyptocurrency Conference Tweets 153
- The New Abolitionists Discuss Tactics for Immigration Policy 153
- Tweets about How to Turn Every Child into a "Math Person" 152
- Electronic Money, Helicopter Drops and Seignorage 151
- Don't Discriminate against Asian Americans in College Admissions; Emulate Them in Study Habits 150
- Adam Posen, Miles Kimball, Ritwik Priya and Tomas Hirst on Electronic Money vs. Central Bank Asset Purchases 150
- Why I Am Not a Neoliberal—In Tweets 148
- Does Economic Stability Inevitably Lead to Financial Fragility? 148
- Twitter Roundtable: Will Donald Trump's Administration Be an Economic Disaster or Only a Moral Disaster? 148
- David Beckworth Recommends RATS--"Regression Analysis of Time Series" Software--for Vector Auto Regression 147
- Greg Ransom on Hayek and Modern Macro Models 146
- Implementation Issues for Electronic Money 144
- Technique and Substance in Economics 143
- Noah Smith on the Idea of a Colorblind Society 143
- Representative Agent Defends Negative Interest Rate Policy by Citing a Non-Representative Agent Model 143
- Twitter Round Table on Consumption Taxation 142
- On Rent Control in San Francisco 142
- Can Electronic Money Stimulate the Economy Even When Banks are Running Scared? 142
- Twitter Roundtable on Deep Negative Interest Rates 141
- Will Negative Rates Cause Malinvestment? Will They Harm Banks? 141
- Eric Lonergan and Miles Kimball Discuss the Transmission Mechanism for Negative Interest Rates 141
- Miles Kimball and JW Mason on the International Role of the Dollar 141
- Twitter Discussion of Inequality 140
- Noah Smith: No Group of Americans is the Problem; Ideas Are Problems, Organizations Are Problems, Systems Are Problems 139
- Are Low Short-Term Interest Rates Bad for the Middle Class? 139
- The Politics of Electronic Money: Take 2 135
- Soncharm Scolds Me for Sounding Too Sure of Myself 135
- Noah Smith Teaches Miles the Difference Between Vouchers and Charter Schools 133
- Narayana Kocherlakota on the Stimulative Effects of Cutting Interest Rates 133
- Exchange Rate Interventions as QE 133
- Climate Change Science and Climate Change Orthodoxy 129
- Analogies Between Economic Models and the Biology of Obesity 126
- Danielle DiMartino Booth, Michael Lebowitz and Miles Kimball on the Dominance of the Fed by Economics PhDs 124
- Ensuring Safety from Rape and Sexual Assault is Beautiful 124
- Miles Kimball, Steven Verner and James Feldman Debate School Choice 124
- Wikipedia, Linguistics and the Price System 124
- Debating Higher Capital Requirements in the Light of the End of the Zero Lower Bound 121
- Does the Online World Allow Us to Change the Past? 121
- Miles's Queasiness about Current Ways of Modeling Financial Frictions 120
- TakingHayekSeriously and Miles Kimball on Macroeconomic Experiments in History 118
- Monetary Policy in the Light of Likely Nominations of Marvin Goodfriend and Randal Quarles to the Federal Reserve Board 117
- Confirmation Bias in the Interpretation of New Evidence on Salt 114
- Twitter Convo: Do Blogs Enhance Public Debate about Economic Research? 114
- Underneath What Looks Like Discontent with Central Banks is a Lot of Discontent with the Financial System 113
- The Fed Should Not Raise Rates Again Until It Says It Would Lower Rates Promptly If Later Data Suggests It Should 113
- Twitter Roundtable on Federal Lines of Credit and Monetary Policy 111
- Europe Needs Negative Rates, Higher Equity Requirements, Balanced Budgets and Supply-Side Reform 111
- A Bit of Personal History of Thought: Zero Lower Bound-->Quantitative Easing-->Electronic Money 110
- Up for Debate: There Is No Such Thing as Decreasing Returns to Scale 109
- Miles Kimball and Soncharm on Jesus in Politics 108
- Bringing Social Justice to Home Owners' Associations 106
- Miles Kimball, Jason Becker and Jordan Weissmann Discuss Affirmative Action 106
- Noah Smith on Racial Politics 105
- A Debate on Monetary Policy Primacy: Tomas Hirst, Miles Kimball and Christopher Cordeiro 104
- Vaidas Urba Stress Tests Sovereign Wealth Funds 103
- The Twitter Campaign for Repealing the Zero Lower Bound: September 2013 102
- Miles Kimball, Matt Yglesias, Brad DeLong and Ryan Decker Talk about Mitt Romney 102
- David Andolfatto, Miles Kimball and Mike Johnson: What Ails Housing Construction? What about Monetary Policy? 100
- Is Having the Young Pay for the Old 'Insurance'? 99
- The Argument that the Free Market Will Rectify Discrimination as a Guide to Business Opportunities 98
- Amod Agarwala and Miles Kimball on Equity and Debt Finance 98
- The Tweets on Faith 97
- On Abolishing the Penny 96
- Mormon Afterlife Tweets 96
- How The Talent Code Gave Colman Reilly a Myelin-Induced Toothache 96
- Noah Smith: Material Deprivation is Declining Because of Redistribution and Decolonization 96
- Reaching for Yield 94
- Heather Mac Donald is Wrong: Discrimination Is Not Just in People's Imaginations 93
- TakingHayekSeriously and Miles Kimball on Open Borders 93
- Everyone with a College Degree Should Be Equipped to Give the Arguments for Reasoned Discussion and Free Speech 92
- Twitter Roundtable on Insider Trading 92
- Doubting Tomas: Electronic Money in an Open Economy with Wounded Banks 89
- Charles Goodhart—Central Banking: Past, Present and Future 88
- Could Donald Trump Be Forced to Choose Among Existing Federal Reserve Governors for Chair If He Replaces Janet Yellen? 88
- Narayana Kocherlakota: Negative Rates are the Cleaner Economic Solution 87
- Bonnie Kavoussi's Tweetstorm on "Restoring American Growth" 86
- Richard Florida on the Level of Competition in Physics 86
- Are Negative Interest Rates a Drug That Requires Ever-Increasing Doses? 86
- Miles Kimball and Noah Smith on Job Creation 85
- Miles Kimball and John L. Davidson on CEO Pay 85
- Supply-Side Reform: A Portfolio of Tweets 83
- Twitter Convo About Miles's Dustup With Paul Krugman About the Dangers of Debt 82
- Twitter Roundtable on Jeffrey Friedman's 'Public Choice Theory and the Politics of Good and Evil' 82
- What is "the West"? 81
- Defending the Principles of Western Civilization While Excoriating Bad Behavior Then and Now 80
- Twitter Debate on "Politicism" (Political Prejudice) 79
- Twitter Roundtable on the Power of Negative Interest Rates Compared to Other Stimulative Policies 79
- On the Future of the Economics Blogosphere: Running Tweets by Audience Members 77
- How Electronic Money Can Eliminate Inflation 76
- A Perspective on the Mormon Church's Official Twitter Feed 75
- Negative Rate Policy in Switzerland, December 2014-September 2016 73
- Michael Martinez: If Banks That Tricked Consumers into Fees Were Eliminated, There Wouldn't Be Any Banks Left 72
- On Exercising Free Speech to Express Bearish Opinions about the Stock Market and the Best Approach to Regulation 72
- Jag Bhalla and Miles Kimball on the Idea of Economic Distortions 72
- Twitter Roundtable on Monetary Policy Tools and Targets 72
- John L. Davidson on Persuasion of Juries and Voters 71
- The Ethics of Immigration Policy, Revisited 70
- Miles Kimball and Anat Admati Argue for Higher Capital Requirements 69
- Could Andrew Jackson Have Averted the Civil War? 69
- The Role of Nonprofits in Dealing with Inequality and Other Problems 68
- Who Should Foster the Public Weal? Weighing National Government, State and Local Government, and the Nonprofit Sector 67
- Discussion of John L. Davidson's Guest Post "The Institutional Realities of House Construction" 67
- On the Relationship Between Government and Financial Firms 66
- Peter Conti-Brown on the Effect of Ideology on the Federal Reserve Board 65
- Discussing the Virtue of Scientific Disrespect 63
- Noah Smith on the Lack of a Forward-Looking Center-Left Agenda 63
- Miles Kimball and John L. Davidson Debate Economic Freedom 63
- The Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research 60
- Denmark's Brilliant Stabilization Policy 59
- Don Luis Espinal on the Hatred of People with an Accent 58
- John L. Davidson Disses Economists and Resists Increasing Saving as the Best Route to More Balanced Trade 57
- Anonymity for Central Bank Digital Cash? 56
- Miles Kimball, Chris Oestereich, John Horton and Wayne Vernon on New York's War on Airbnb 56
- L. Naples on the Human Potential Movement 54
- Miles Kimball and Mike Johnson: Can We Make a Difference for Climate Change? 53
- On John Locke and Land Claims 53
- Dan Abrams on the Politics of Occupational Licensing Reform 47
- Thirumaran Defends Narendra Modi's Reputation 45
- Umair Haque and Miles Kimball Discuss Stagnation 44
- The Interest Rate as an Intertemporal Transportation Cost 43
- Technocracy vs. Political Passion 39
- Larry Summers and the Zero Lower Bound 38
- One-Tweet Wonders 35
- Integrity as the Foundation of Freedom 33
- Christianity is Not Helpful for Those Who Want to Look Down on Foreigners and Other Races 33
- Jason Smith and Miles Kimball: Technical Difficulties for Boost-Phase Interception of Missiles 29
- Proclamation of Immigration Tweet Day: Monday, February 4, 2013 29
- David Eli and Miles Kimball on Health Care Policy 25
- Christine Porath: A Lack of Basic Civility in the Workplace Takes a Big Toll on Productivity 21
- Tweets Too Flattering and Nice Not to Save 19
- Legal Counterfeiting as a Way to Enforce a Ban on Paper Currency 14
- Tweeted Reviews, April 14, 2013— 6
- Miscellaneous Maxims 3
- A Tour Through the Topical Sub-Blog Links on My Sidebar 2