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Excited to start today as chief economist at @stripe. Looking forward to working with & learning from the brilliant people there to produce data-centered insights and research.
Ernie Tedeschi
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Ernie Tedeschi
@ernietedeschi
Personal account. Chief economist at @Stripe. Former Director of Economics at @The_Budget_Lab. Former Chief Economist at @WhiteHouseCEA.
Joined April 2009
- OK you've convinced me. Let's do it.Chile is so long that it could serve as a bridge connecting Spain to Canada across the Atlantic Ocean
- Giggling at the idea of the Founding Fathers learning their nation would create a Catholic pope in 250 years.
- “I have the concepts of a plan and you will be hearing more in the near future.”
- Would rather live in Detroit today than Rome 2000 years ago and it’s not a particularly close call.What happened to our cities?
- DOGE already wildly successful, trimming its own executive leadership by 50%.VIVEK RAMASWAMY IS OUT AT THE DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY - POLITICO
- One reason why US universities, esp. public ones, are leaning more & more on foreign students is because state and, now, federal funding is being cut, and they can charge foreigners more. Foreign students are literally subsidizing American students.American universities but for Americans
- The Biden-Harris Administration literally expanded the Child Tax Credit to $3,000 per kid ($3,600 per child under 6) in 2021 and made it fully refundable that year, cutting child poverty to its lowest rate ever. They've been pushing Congress for a permanent expansion ever since.JD Vance: “Why do we have the Harris campaign coming out saying we should not have the child tax credit, which lowers tax rates for parents of young children? Democrats have become anti-family. It’s built into their policy. It’s time we called that out.”
- There have been few moments in American history where the "are you better off than four years ago" question has been so trivially easy as now.Four years ago today I went to the grocery store.
- Replying to @JosephPolitanoShocked that Rome would be associated with a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual polity. /s
- Folks, a 10% broad tariff on everything plus 125% on China, is a **25pp increase in the effective tariff rate**, even accounting for USMCA exemptions. That's almost exactly where 2025 tariff policy was this morning. It was just less concentrated on China & more weighted overseas
- This writer’s last 24 hours have been a living, breathing Civ V cultural defeat.
I see that people are telling me there is a Starbucks in Paris as evidence of American cultural power. My friends, that’s nonsense. First, Starbucks is if anything evocative of European coffeehouse culture. Second…
