
Jamie Carroll
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Jamie Carroll
@thejfc
Follower of Christ. Husband. Father. Lawyer. Former Clarkston City Councilman. Opinions expressed here are my own (whose else would they be?)





The rest of you are just visiting.

Can everyone in the Democratic field for Georgia Governor start going on attack against Keisha Lance Bottoms? I mean she’s literally the most vulnerable Democrat in the field yet no one has come out to attack her. 🤯


Vance: "You want to lower the cost of homes for American families? Why don't you stop giving 30 million homes to illegal aliens? Why don't you seal the border and make sure those homes go to American families for a change? That's how you lower the cost of housing."





David Reich on how much ancient DNA evidence has overturned so much consensus thinking how ancient cultures spread. "It wasn't peaceful, it wasn't friendly, it wasn't nice. Some of our archaeologist co-authors were just really distressed."



A fundamental lesson from my posts these last two weeks on modernization, industrial policy, and development is that development economics should be about understanding why South Korea got rich but Bolivia did not. The current field has largely given up on that question. Sharply identified RCTs on small micro programs are a fine way to publish in the AER and get tenure at a fancy university, but a profession that knows everything about microfinance impact evaluations and almost nothing about industrialization has misallocated its own intellectual capital on a pretty heroic scale. Four images of Seoul:





🚨 NOW: Sec. Sean Duffy JUST WENT OFF on the Biden admin and Elizabeth Warren for CANCELING the Spirit and JetBlue merger in 2024 that would've saved the budget airline Now we have LESS COMPETITION, despite them claiming the merger would've harmed consumers. YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP "Elizabeth Warren cheered the BLOCKING...saying this was a 'Biden win for fliers.'" "We CARE about pricing! We care about competition. But if the markets say there needs to be a merger because of health issues with an airline, we HAVE to make sure we make the right choices." "History has judged the denial of the JetBlue-Spirit merger under Biden as a MASSIVE MISTAKE!"







Should an organization that believes President Biden can amend the Constitution via Tweet have a monopoly on over seeing law schools? What about if the organization is partisan and also raises law school costs? U.S. Attorney @BradenBoucek & @FTC team up to say No!


WSJ: Young Buyers Are Fueling a Million-Dollar Home Boom in Louisville - The Kentucky city has seen a wave of newcomers looking to buy more affordable luxury properties wsj.com/real-estate/lu…



There’s no reason The Beltline has zero rail connection, you can’t even really consider using MARTA to get there smh




