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Noah Smith

Economics writer and author of the Noahpinion newsletter; former Bloomberg Opinion columnist.

1 book on the record · 4 Oct 2026 – 4 Oct 2026 · @Noahpinion

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.