36th year at Dartmouth …and
Prof of econ dartmouth and ex MPC Bank of England working a lot now on the declining wellbeing of the young around the world I am here https://sites.dartmouth.edu/blanchflower/ And now grandad of eleven Blanchflower@dartmouth.edu
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36th year at Dartmouth …and
I am really interested in ideas of what we can do to improve the mental health of kids and adolescents
So glad to see you leading efforts to address this. I’m seeing examples of this everywhere among the children of my peers. Big issue. Thank you.
This is nice - the young are in trouble and nobody seems to be doing much about it Haidt is sorting smartphones in schools bu what about 20 yr old workers...? fortune.com/2025/09/01/g...
I started to take it but it was clearly a pathetic joke
Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o... I don’t often agree with Bernie but this is spot on RFK is a baby killer
Public Health Disaster Everyone Saw Coming www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o... How on earth did we get here, and where do we go next? Whatever the answers, it’s clear the nation’s leading public health official does not have any real interest in — or possibly any real understanding of — public health.
The woman is fibbing
Thank goodness we still have the foreign press, since American journos are unwilling to report clearly on the Gang that Couldn't Think Straight.
It is amazing that the us government is filled with a bunch of worthless mindless sycophantic numbskulls Noem Miller RFK Hegseth and all the pandering incompetent mindless fascist ex Fox News cretins appalling
We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o... RFK is a baby killer
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The woman is a moron
We don’t admit anyone for a medical program as an undergrad
I am teaching a new class …not sure why I agreed but just finished writing the syllabus…..
Haha
Going snooking 9-11th sept…!
Oil price shocks meant big price hikes and this caused much disruption as infrastructure based on cheap gas Unions had huge increases in membership in 70s & able to change the capital /labour ratio. The capitalists didn’t like that so thatcher went after unions & generated lots of monopoly powers
That too
surely you meant 'insane bollocks' ?
The evidence on the mental health of the young in America is deeply depressing and immediate action needs to be taken just as Trump and his GOP goons cut spending on mental health by $12billion Bastards
Another brain dead fascist moron liar
More inane bs from brain dead morons
More fascist inane bollocks
I wonder if Susan Collins will follow the lead of Joni Ernst and drop out because she knows she'll be trounced and most of her constituency hates her.
I did too I kept failing the questions…
Wasnt he the guy who did his own brain surgery with a hammer?
The guy is a dangerous fricking mad killer
Sad and true
bye bye hopefully she will go back to the Iowa cornfields where we never have to listen to her fascist nonsense ever again - just dumb
nobody in the world will miss her stupidity
What Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the Senate Finance Committee as its members considered his nomination:
Mike - i think he is probably right that we will see negative empt growth likely on both household and establishment accounts This paper of mine on calling downturns seem important..... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
No words. This is… a) …laughable b) …dangerous c) …damaging
Just bollocks as govt borrowing costs are lower because president can’t do this
Apparently nobody at the cdc has briefed Kennedy on any of this stuff
been thinking about all the crap work that has been done on flourishing which I think is mostly dumb as is not the opposite of not flourishing So the question is whether we should try to help those who score from 8-10 on a flourishing scale 0-10 or those kids who are in deep trouble who score <2…
And @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social ….!
A widely documented ‘unhappiness hump’ that peaks in midlife and then declines may have disappeared due to worsening youth mental health, suggests a new study by Prof @alexbryson.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social and Prof @dannyblanchy.bsky.social. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/au...
He is probably right looks like a turning point down where revision to non farm payrolls are always big negatives
Meiselas: It seems that the outcome that Republicans want is whatever the worst possible outcome could be. More disease, more deaths, more murders, a horrible economy. And let’s literally pick the worst people for each possible position at every level.
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
nobody in the world cares what collins says she is another fascist goat
stupid fox news fascist fraud
I guess the grand jury thought it was funny
The court was busy and couldn't sandwich this distraction in between the other cases.
Vance is a scumbag
Mighty leader bollocks
Good stuff mate
Mad
He is a fricking deluded lunatic crackpot
oh great sandwich guy makes trump and his fascist goons look idiotic www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Our new paper just out from Plos One showing the collapse in the mental health of the young This is scary and here are details of the Global Turning Point major conference with the UN on this i am organizing for the fall home.dartmouth.edu/events/globa... journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
The first I heard of the term 'moron premium' was the most excellent fisherman @dannyblanchy.bsky.social with reference to the lettuce effect?
Always they called me afterwards and said they loved it haha
I guess I did ok www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
Exactly
WOLFE: ".. we assume Cook will seek an injunction against this move, and we think she is likely to get one from the DC District Court. This would preserve the status quo until SCOTUS weighs in .. Therefore, we assume Governor Cook remains in her seat — and it seems the market assumes that as well."
Baghdad Bob times 25 sycophantic morons Who are these sniveling pathetic fascist cretins?
And according to jfk whales……
This guy is deranged Nazi
Flying whales keep running into windmills sails turning on the wind Blithering moron
I was on Bloomberg tonite!
good .....send them bastards to jail
ok so you go after black mayors and the only black member of the fed And you send troops into majority black cities And you try and stop blacks voting Jim Crow would be proud RAcism knows no bounds in Trump's America
wow...
The Oval office now looks like a brothel to me? All that gold plate shit www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
How can a vice president of the USA be so ignorant of recent history. Did he think that Hitler negotiated a cease fire and then promptly killed himself? The man is an illiterate oaf.
Sticking it to him.. #politics #activism
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I honestly don't know what I did to deserve this incredible tribute. I can only say I'm honored, flattered, and humbled—and, of course, deeply grateful to everyone who made this accolade possible. I pledge to do my utmost to live up to it. 🙏🏼🤗
i sat next to John Bolton one night at dinner and he scared me but I must stick up for him now. He is smart as hell, but I disagree with him on many issues. But this is outrageous that the FBI and Trump are going after him. This is what happens in authoritarian dictatorships. Fascism on display
Oh look… Chuck Todd wants to act shocked and appalled now!
I deeply resent having to defend John Bolton but “the president sends his goons on a fishing expedition to raid anyone who criticizes him” is in fact very alarming
Make America great again so we can re introduce slavery?
Brain dead morons working in the White House
Fishing was a struggle but had an incident with a guy telling us we couldn’t fish near his dock…on a public lake…!
Looks like a tortoise to me
Gavin Newsom responds to Fox's OBSESSION with him
Quite the day golf this morning fishing this afternoon,,,
Excellent
Inspired by the recent redecoration of the Oval Office. 😂
This Newsom meme will get the orange menace right in the nards. #politics #humor
Us 🤝 Gavin Newsom open.substack.com/pub/demwinsm...
www.theguardian.com/business/202... So she changed her permanent residence so bloody what
Johnson appalling joke
Over the past two years, we've taken a targeted approach to reduce violent crime by implementing common sense solutions that look at the whole picture. And it's working. From Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, our cities are seeing homicide rates drop and our communities healing.
What did you do?
The depths to which gop have sunk party of clueless liars
The amusing thing about this clip is the infrastructure bill was literally the first and only thing Nancy Mace brought up in terms of her accomplishments in Congress. Her biggest win for her district was legislation she voted against.
Assume this is all just cheap gold plate?
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have been rising for the young in the USA and are strongly and significantly associated with poor mental health in adulthood. Find out more here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @dannyblanchy.bsky.social
Sensible….
amazing that GN is geting under their skin for doing the same thing as fascist trump
nice our new paper on abuse and cyber-bullying in Plos one just out with @alexbryson.bsky.social doi.org/10.1371/jour...
slavery of course was great...? er not
Gavin Newsom responds to Fox's Dana Perino melting down over his tweets:
