@zachacrowell.bsky.social - Zach Crowell

05 Jul 2026 23:01 +0000

In this candy land economy with cobb-douglass production, consider a capital shock doubling the number of dice. Solve in equilibrium for candy wages and total production. Bonus, what happens to the golden gumdrop savings rate? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

29 Jun 2026 15:30 +0000

Not the most pressing issue, but good demonstration how details (an apparent lack of training for transit police and a lack of funding for clerical workers) are key to making policy work. Also highlights the current policy as mere security theatre. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

22 Jun 2026 20:53 +0000

"Rather than try and get out of (or at least perceive) the straitjacket they had put themselves in on the economy, their political strategy was what I term reactionary centrism. In a nutshell, this posits that electorates are moving right because they have ‘reasonable concerns’ about immigration." [contains quote post or other embedded content]

03 Jun 2026 15:29 +0000

Living life in the Recession Capital. Thank you DOGE! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

19 Mar 2026 00:11 +0000

Re why I strongly support min wage but not rent control. Yet the politics are largely the reverse: [contains quote post or other embedded content]

31 Oct 2025 16:54 +0000

This is why I think basic game theory is a good lens to view the tariffs. China sees the US's threats a un-credible bluffing and simply holds until the US backs down to a lower level than the start. It's interesting to not see countries forming anti-US trade blocs to counter these wild bluffs. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

19 May 2025 20:27 +0000

Good article taking an overview of the various ways pollsters struggle to correct for non-response bias from low trust voters : archive.is/hny9k https://archive.is/hny9k

02 May 2025 18:22 +0000

A good summary of the direct, indirect, and opportunity costs. I didn't have a strong opinion before, but the more I hear about this deal the worse it seems. DC could do much better by finding a non-stadium use for the land, and in particular do something real about our housing crisis: [contains quote post or other embedded content]

29 Jan 2025 19:31 +0000

"Gavi has budgeted $1.4 billion to vaccinate 52 million children by 2030. According to the Center for Global Development’s calculations, it would need another [$3 billion] to vaccinate all [<3 year olds] in malaria-endemic countries." https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/395355/malaria-vaccines-rollout-children-rtss-r21