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17 Nov, 6 tweets, 3 min read

No amount of $ is too much for this kind of legal expertise

"A $20,000-a-day rate would have made Mr. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who has been Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer for several years, among the most highly compensated lawyers anywhere."
nytimes.com/2020/11/17/us/…

<I have a whole version of this bit in my head>

Audience: "That looks like panel data. What kind of standard errors did you use?"

Rudy Ph.D., a scholar who last did research in the early 1990s: "The normal ones."

Audience: "You didn't cluster them?"

Rudy Ph.D.: "Cluster who?"

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