Treb Allen

The most essential stabilizing feature of a society is a status hierarchy that young people—especially young men—can reliably climb by following a clear and pro-social set of rules. 1/

I’m sharing an actual recent peer-to-peer call that shows what physicians and patients face when trying to get a surgery approved. This call felt as absurd as it sounds. The peer-to-peer call was to advocate for surgery to prevent and treat lymphedema for a patient with breast…

Ok, so Republicans just introduced a 900 page bill none of them have read. But my team is going through it line by line and on this 🧵you can see the hidden provisions we found. Will update all day. 1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.

It cannot be emphasized enough that the JCPOA had Iran's nuclear program contained and did so without a war. We had this under control and Trump blew it up.

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor. This is a day I hoped I would never see in America. I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward…

Fisman (2001): We can show that Indonesia is corrupt, because the share price of Suharto-connected firms plummets when Suharto gets hospitalized. 1/

📢 NEW DATA! Javier Flórez, Mario Larch, Sebastien Bradley, and I are very happy share the update of the most disaggregated dataset of consistently constructed international and domestic trade flows -- GRANTPA. So, let’s estimate GRAVITY with GRANTPA. ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/2…

Thread 🧵1/4 The terrorizing and expulsion of foreign students from U.S. universities may prove the most disastrous policy blunder in American economic history—and unlike a silly tariffs on penguins and others, it will be extremely hard to reverse.1/8

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

I stand with Harvard. More than Harvard, more than universities, more than science lie in the balance. This is an abuse of power the kind the US so uniquely avoided for so long.

The Globalization Cluster at Dartmouth is hiring a pre-doctoral fellow for a two year position starting this summer or fall. International candidates welcome. Take courses. Great placement record. Friendly group! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/167442 @DartmouthEcon @TuckSchool

I am hiring a full-time RA to work with me at UC Berkeley on projects related to public finance, before embarking on a PhD in economics. Flexible starting date (Jul-Sept 2025) & open to international applicants. Job and salary description + application: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04826

HOLY SHIT! Did you see the end of @60Minutes tonight?

Please read Jessica's piece. You are not making America Great Again when you're boosting the deficit by trillions. DOGE was theater. It conned MAGA into believing Trump is a budget hawk when he's about to blow up our debt (even worse).

My @TheAtlantic article on the dangers of unrestrained federal debt have people asking: "Fine, so where's YOUR plan to fix the deficit???" You're in luck! Below is a thread and link to my 30-year blueprint to stabilize the debt - detailed, specific, fully-scored, & bipartisan.

Remember five minutes ago when people pretended that tech bros could balance the budget by canceling PoliticoPro subscriptions, dismantling USAID, and firing some federal workers? Anyway, here’s @JessicaBRiedl with a (fiscally terrifying) dose of reality. theatlantic.com/economy/archiv…

Gutting scientific funding and scaring away talented immigrants while raising the cost of manufacturing stuff in America is, genuinely, like something we’d be forced to do after losing a war to a geopolitical adversary that deviously sought to hamstring US technological power for…

Ask yourself—what’s going to stop the government from deporting you to a prison in El Salvador? How would you prove it’s an error if you don’t have due process? If it can happen to anyone, it can happen to you. The people get it. Either everyone has due process—or nobody does.

Applications for the Dartmouth Globalization Ph.D. Fellowship are due tomorrow. globalization.dartmouth.edu/programs/globa…