the psychopathic tankies who feel the need to turn every debate over the economy into a blizzard of abuse think they’re winning, because they’re making more death threats, but what they’re actually doing is demonstrating why views on the economy have become so distorted

logiclords always seem to think that you can’t be correct unless you’re nice.

No offense, but it’s been social media and peer information bubbles from the very start, some of us identified the problem immediately. “Mortgages and interest rates,” by contrast, are being adopted as an explanation because it’s the last alternative even remaining

Maybe you’re just in a cope bubble of people who are well off and can abstract economic struggle into a 2016-esque theory of your social media grievances. You’ve been working at a university think-tank for 10 years. Get real.