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Ryan Cummings

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Ryan Cummings

@weakinstrument

Chief of Staff @SIEPR. PhD'ing @UW. I research energy markets during the transition and consumer sentiment. Views my own.

Palo Alto, CA

Joined March 2020

Ryan Cummings
@weakinstrument
Nov 1, 2025
A candidate putting out ads where they are personally speaking English, Spanish, Urdu, Hindi, and Arabic is one of the most American things I’ve ever seen in politics. You absolutely love to see it.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@ZohranKMamdani
Nov 1, 2025
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
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Ryan Cummings
@weakinstrument
Sep 15, 2025
If this is true, this is the largest public corruption scandal in the history of the United States and it's not even close. nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/…
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Ryan Cummings
@weakinstrument
Aug 2, 2024
Me two weeks ago: Tim Walz? Is that the guy in MN who gave kids free breakfast? Me now: the 1999 Mankato High School football team’s power I formation on the goal line was the result of a generational coaching talent whose brilliance clearly carries over to many areas of life.
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Ryan Cummings
@weakinstrument
May 2, 2025
OMG. I think Garrett is correct POTUS's team is showing him the cost of *wholesale, unfinished* gasoline, which does not include the cost of oxygenates (e.g., ethanol) and all distribution+marketing costs, and telling him this is the price of gasoline you are paying at the pump.
Garrett Golding
@gjgolding
May 2, 2025
Oh man. I think someone is showing the President RBOB charts and telling him that’s the price of gasoline.
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Ryan Cummings
@weakinstrument
Oct 16, 2024
The ability of the Biden Administration to get the Port of Baltimore fully open *within 3 months* of the complete collapse of a critical piece of infrastructure is truly a feat of public administration. defense.gov/News/News-Stor….
EIA
@EIAgov
Oct 16, 2024
#TodayInEnergy - U.S. #coal exports from the Port of #Baltimore rebounded two months after bridge collapse ➡️ eia.gov/todayinenergy/…
Army Chief of Engineers Details Efforts to Reopen Baltimore Port
From war.gov
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Ryan Cummings
@weakinstrument
Dec 15, 2024
Tax evasion, tax evasion, tax evasion, financial city-state, oil rentier kingdom, oil rentier kingdom, money laundering, money laundering *and* tax evasion, the United States.
Dr. Paul J. Sullivan
@DrPJSullivan
Dec 15, 2024
Note Ireland
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Ryan Cummings
@weakinstrument
Aug 2, 2025
The Trump Administration has cancelled the research grant of America's foremost mathematician, in case you had any lingering doubt as to whether or not they were committed to actually advancing science.
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Ryan Cummings
@weakinstrument
Apr 4, 2025
The past two days have been nothing short of historically bad. They have been worse than 99.9% of other trading days since 1929. This was the 5th worst 2-day window for stocks since 1945. It is arguably the singular major drawdown resulting from a policy choice by the President.
Ryan Cummings
@weakinstrument
Apr 3, 2025
If you do this since 1929, it's even worse. Today was worse than 99.6% of trading days since 1929. It was the 95th worst day of all time (out of >24,000 days), and the 35th worst day since 1945.
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Ryan Cummings
@weakinstrument
Nov 2, 2025
Replying to @SKRollins and @LukewSavage
I believe he speaks either Urdu or Hindi (or both) fluently! But the rest he’s just reading lines but nailing the accent.
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Ryan Cummings
@weakinstrument
Dec 16, 2024
[Delaware mentioned]
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Ryan Cummings
@weakinstrument
Apr 8, 2024
I swear all the OG economists had bios like this where they left their job in the soot factory at age 12 to go fight nazis or something. Now every economist bio is like “his father invented oil, while his mother is the D. Warbucks endowed professor of economics at Harvard.”
Oliver Kim
@oliverwkim
Apr 7, 2024
Happy birthday to Albert Hirschman, who would be 109 today. Hirschman—anti-fascist, resistance hero, later a development economist—may be the most interesting person to ever take up the profession. 🧵 and blog post on his remarkable life and work.
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Ryan Cummings
@weakinstrument
Feb 10, 2021
Other advice for 2nd years: for paper presentations, make sure you use Mathpix Snip. It lets you screenshot equations and then automatically produces the underlying LaTeX code for that equation. This literally saved me dozens of hours in my 2nd year.
Ashvin Gandhi
@ashdgandhi
Feb 10, 2021
I've seen surprisingly little #EconTwitter advice for second years, so here's a short thread with three pieces of advice I found helpful when reading papers to prepare for field exams. [1/4]
Ryan Cummings
@weakinstrument
Sep 17, 2025
Miran saying we need both 5 cuts AND (probably) saying the economy is going to be grow above 2% for the next 3 years. Lol, lmao even.
Alex Jacquez
@AlexSJacquez
Sep 17, 2025
Miran at five cuts lmao
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Ryan Cummings
@weakinstrument
May 14, 2024
Inflation the past three months was 3.11%, 3.17%, and 3.48%. This means that consumers have seen prices increase by 9.75% over the course of just one quarter.
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