My Organized-Tweet Stories, In Order of Popularity, in Their Flight from a Dying Storify to the Haven of Wakelet
Update: New wakelet stories since the ordered list below:
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.
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
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
The True Marginal Product of Studying Hard and the Perceived Marginal Product of Studying Hard 657
The Marginalization of Economists at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 618
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
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
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
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
If You Had to Choose, Would You Want Your Employee to Know Some Statistics or Know Some Calculus? 382
Claudia Sahm on Reforming the Refereeing Process in Economics 378
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
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
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
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
Stephen Williamson and Miles Kimball Debate Nominal GDP Level Targeting 272
Matthew C. Klein and Miles Kimball on the Effects of Negative Interest Rates on Savers 264
Noah Smith's Tweetstorm on Making Everyone a 'Math Person' 257
Edward J. Epstein, Miles Kimball, Brad Delong, Alex Bowles and Ramez Naam: Was Edward Snowden a Spy? 256
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
Are Central Banks Scared to Admit that the Zero Lower Bound is a Policy Choice, Not a Law of Nature? 241
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
Why Wasn't There Massive Inflation or Massive Deflation During the Great Recession? 229
Noah, Richard, Miles and Jake Talk about God and SuperGod 222
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
Twitter Round Table on Our Disastrous Policy of Pegging Paper Currency at Par 211
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
John Dearie, Miles Kimball and Others Debate High Equity Requirements for Banks 200
JP Koning and David Beckworth on Negative Interest Rates in the Repo Market 195
The Vicious Self-Fulfilling Prophecy That You Can't Do Math 193
On Religion and Conservative Ideology in Collision with Colleges 192
Gold, Electronic Money, and the Determinants of the Prices of Storable Commodities from the Ground 183
Taking Care of the Poor and Troubled Without Getting Tied Up in Knots About Race 180
Why Equity Requirements for Financial Firms Should Be Dramatically Increased 176
David Beckworth on the Zero Lower Bound as a Price Floor 175
Miles Kimball, Marc Andreessen and Others on Head Transplants and Cyborgian Immortality 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
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
'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 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
The New Abolitionists Discuss Tactics for Immigration Policy 153
Tweets about How to Turn Every Child into a "Math Person" 152
Don't Discriminate against Asian Americans in College Admissions; Emulate Them in Study Habits 150
Does Economic Stability Inevitably Lead to Financial Fragility? 148
Can Electronic Money Stimulate the Economy Even When Banks are Running Scared? 142
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
Are Low Short-Term Interest Rates Bad for the Middle Class? 139
Noah Smith Teaches Miles the Difference Between Vouchers and Charter Schools 133
Narayana Kocherlakota on the Stimulative Effects of Cutting Interest Rates 133
Analogies Between Economic Models and the Biology of Obesity 126
Ensuring Safety from Rape and Sexual Assault is Beautiful 124
Miles Kimball, Steven Verner and James Feldman Debate School Choice 124
Debating Higher Capital Requirements in the Light of the End of the Zero Lower Bound 121
Miles's Queasiness about Current Ways of Modeling Financial Frictions 120
TakingHayekSeriously and Miles Kimball on Macroeconomic Experiments in History 118
Confirmation Bias in the Interpretation of New Evidence on Salt 114
Twitter Convo: Do Blogs Enhance Public Debate about Economic Research? 114
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, Jason Becker and Jordan Weissmann Discuss Affirmative Action 106
A Debate on Monetary Policy Primacy: Tomas Hirst, Miles Kimball and Christopher Cordeiro 104
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
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
How The Talent Code Gave Colman Reilly a Myelin-Induced Toothache 96
Noah Smith: Material Deprivation is Declining Because of Redistribution and Decolonization 96
Heather Mac Donald is Wrong: Discrimination Is Not Just in People's Imaginations 93
Doubting Tomas: Electronic Money in an Open Economy with Wounded Banks 89
Charles Goodhart—Central Banking: Past, Present and Future 88
Narayana Kocherlakota: Negative Rates are the Cleaner Economic Solution 87
Bonnie Kavoussi's Tweetstorm on "Restoring American Growth" 86
Are Negative Interest Rates a Drug That Requires Ever-Increasing Doses? 86
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
Defending the Principles of Western Civilization While Excoriating Bad Behavior Then and Now 80
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
A Perspective on the Mormon Church's Official Twitter Feed 75
Negative Rate Policy in Switzerland, December 2014-September 2016 73
Jag Bhalla and Miles Kimball on the Idea of Economic Distortions 72
Miles Kimball and Anat Admati Argue for Higher Capital Requirements 69
The Role of Nonprofits in Dealing with Inequality and Other Problems 68
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
Noah Smith on the Lack of a Forward-Looking Center-Left Agenda 63
Miles Kimball and John L. Davidson Debate Economic Freedom 63
Miles Kimball, Chris Oestereich, John Horton and Wayne Vernon on New York's War on Airbnb 56
Miles Kimball and Mike Johnson: Can We Make a Difference for Climate Change? 53
Dan Abrams on the Politics of Occupational Licensing Reform 47
The Interest Rate as an Intertemporal Transportation Cost 43
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
Christine Porath: A Lack of Basic Civility in the Workplace Takes a Big Toll on Productivity 21
Legal Counterfeiting as a Way to Enforce a Ban on Paper Currency 14