Economists Do It With Models

Hi world, it’s Jodi. I’m an idiot and deleted my site by accident but am in the process of putting it back together. Stay tuned. :-/

So I tweeted a thing:

I guess I should also point out that dropping insurance coverage is not "denying access" to birth control for a lot of people.

— Jodi Beggs (@jodiecongirl) October 7, 2017

(If you click on the tweet, you’ll see it’s part of a larger thread that also didn’t go over terribly well.) I then thought that my need for semantic precision didn’t get me yelled at on the internet *quite* enough, so I wrote a thing. It’s mostly a rant about words, but I swear there’s at least one economic point at the end.

In related news, you’re probably not shocked to know that I’m pretty into homonym humor:

Cannibalism. pic.twitter.com/7VYo3I1AdS

— You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) October 7, 2017

You’re welcome, nerds.

I feel like we can all use some humor today, but I worry that I’m kind of doing it wrong…

I thought this was the whole business model behind the InfoWars store? (My affection for freeze-dried fruit has led me to know more about the survivalist part of the internet than I care to admit.) Seriously though, it’s both interesting and depressing to think about how people’s views on the future of society (reasonable or not) manifest themselves in the economic world- we usually consider such “animal spirits” at a macro level, but they affect not only how much people make and buy but what they make and buy. In related news, gun stocks are up today. Sigh.