Alex Mechanick
@apmechan
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Currently @NiskanenCenter. Previously OIRA front office in @OMBPress_46, Judiciary Committee for @SenBlumenthal, and Global Modeling Studies in @federalreserve.
Joined August 2011
RT @JustinWolfers: The 2018 steel tariffs just called to remind you that steel is produced by a tiny sliver of the economy, but used as an…
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"Truly building back better will require harnessing the Biden administration’s ambitions for economic transformation without discarding conventional economic considerations of budget constraints, tradeoffs, and cost-benefit analysis"
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RT @KClausing: In light of latest of steel/aluminum tariff threats, it's a good time to review the evidence. This work finds job losses i…
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American firms use steel and aluminum (mostly imported from allies like Canada) to make products that we export. This will make US consumers poorer and hurt US manufacturing.
Trump says he will announce 25% tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminum tomorrow.
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Elon's "Muskrats" empowered to disrupt and even dismantle federal agencies: Twentysomethings who disparage interracial marriage, a college hackathon runner-up and a 19-year-old fired from his previous job. @teddyschleifer @NickNehamas @kateconger @ryanmac
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A court marital (with potential appeal up to SCOTUS) can order a military general to stop committing war crimes. A district judge (same) can order an AG to halt a malicious prosecution. JD is laying the groundwork for a constitutional crisis and an authoritarian presidency.
If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal. Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.
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RT @cremieuxrecueil: The Chinese Exclusion Act provides a neat glimpse into all sorts of facts about how labor markets work. When the act…
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RT @JerusalemDemsas: People frequently categorize moral failures as separate and unrelated to intellectual ones. It's a real category error…
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RT @CitizenCohn: Definitive analysis of the proposed — and likely illegal — NIH rate/allowance cut from former HHS general counsel @sbagen…
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RT @JerusalemDemsas: I cannot express how braindead you have to be to think people are concern trolling. It’s both a moral and intellectu…
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RT @NatPurser: one of the great reasons not to have self professed bigots in positions of power is that racism is a cognitive distortion, s…
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FDR was not afraid of taking action to increase presidential control of Executive Branch policy. But he did so thoughtfully, understanding the value of a protected civil service to effective policy implementation. The Trump administration acts without understanding.
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* However, on the details, I don't agree that we should repeal the PRA. We should amend it to make it less burdensome, to reflect the optimal balance of the benefits and costs of its various requirements.
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RT @Atul_Gawande: We already see the shutdown's cost. Kids with drug-resistant TB, turned away from clinics, are not just dying - they're s…
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RT @JoshuaTMcCabe: California can’t fix its ineffective tax credit kludgeocracy by adding more kludges. Its time for policymakers to consid…
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