March 9, 1992 was quite good

On behalf of the Department of Economics at Miami Herbert Business School, I'm happy to announce that Christina Qiu from Yale will be joining us in Fall 2026. Christina’s research examines the economic impacts of digital technologies. christinamqiu.github.io Welcome to Miami and the U!

On behalf of the Department of Economics at Miami Herbert Business School, I'm happy to announce that Christina Qiu from Yale will be joining us in Fall 2026. Christina’s research examines the economic impacts of digital technologies. christinamqiu.github.io Welcome to Miami and the U!

Oh wow “In the fall of 1992, in an attempt to shake things up, it was decided that Fugazi would take up Steve Albini’s standing invitation to do a free recording at his Electrical Audio Studio, which at the time was located in the basement of his house…” fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

Markwayne

The topic on everyone’s mind today: frequency domain methods. I use them in "Uncertain Network Dynamics". Since they’re less common in economics now, here’s a visualization. The transfer function G(jω) is the Laplace transform of the impulse response g(t). At ω=0, G(0) is the area under g(t). [1/3]

Keepin' your head above water, Making a wave when you can.

Hong Kong morning

After the seminar: “Hey want to climb a mountain?”

Miami Macro 2026: We are happy to announce that 𝗘𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗟𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗿 (University of Virginia) will provide a keynote "𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻’𝘀 𝗙𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀: 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗚𝗼 𝗜𝘁 𝗔𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲" Submit your paper at the link below by March 15

Here we go Hong Kong: 3 talks at 3 universities in 3 days (CUHK, HKU, HKUST)

MIA➡️LAX ➡️HKG 37 hours “nominal” time: 24 hours travel time + 13 hours time change

Unlikely hero: Botley® the Coding Robot

Confronting existential questions at a swim meet: hydrology ontology

I know the stats, but this seems hyperbolic: “The U.S. is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. The poorest Americans live better in the 21st century, on average, than the richest man in the world did in the 19th century. It isn't even close.” www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

First political event I ever attended was a Jesse Jackson speech in Eau Claire ahead of the 1988 Wisconsin Democratic Primary, and I shook his hand afterward.

Carrying on with the seminar after your paper’s been torn apart

Mornings can be nice

🎶 I can feel it coming in the air tonight…🎵

Building on last year's success, the Department of Economics at the University of Miami will host the Miami Macro 2026 Conference “Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a New Era” on April 24, 2026. Join us in Miami! Submission deadline is March 15. See full CFP here: www.noahwilliams.xyz/conferences/...

“College… the best NINE YEARS of my life”

A dean's solution to higher ed "problems": get your faculty to click through another acknowlegement

I miss the innocence I've known Playing KISS covers, beautiful and stoned

One way to disconnect a hose

Had not known until now that “Love Will Tear Us Apart” was written in response to “Love Will Keep Us Together”. Obvious in retrospect, just hard to think of Joy Division and Captain & Tenille in the same world

Who wants to go iguana collecting?

Opa!

He could, in fact, do much worse

Another lawyer at the Fed

When the coin comes up heads three times in a ⓡow

This piece by Nagel on Wittgenstein circulated again recently and while it’s excellent, they should have kept more of the original ads philpapers.org/archive/NAGW...

Ears back to survey the situation

Song by Prince Sung by Chaka Khan Rap by Melle Mel Harmonica by Stevie Wonder (Plus the cast of Breakin’ in the video) youtu.be/YW0sxgYAmLM?...

Ibis in the morning

Are we still doing 2016 vs 2026? Here’s mine

Timing of this conference was exquisite

The publication process in economics:

New paper: “Uncertain Network Dynamics” I analyze the dynamic transmission across a network of shocks with uncertain dynamic properties, which can capture both exogenous stochastic shocks & uncertainty in the network structure. Paper here: drive.google.com/file/d/12ogG...

As a Packers owner*, I say that it is time to move on from this coaching staff *(1 share, no resale value, limited voting rights, basically a donation)

ACC college basketball is still a lot of fun

Seems we’re about here now. Potential employment growth under low immigration: 0-40,000 per month. Source: @wendyedelberg.bsky.social and @stanveuger.bsky.social www.aei.org/wp-content/u...

Latest edition of “Bubble Watch: Miami”

When you drive a beater car but it passes inspection

When I got tix for Nuggets-Sixers, seemed like a great matchup with Jokic vs Embiid. Unfortunately *all* Denver starters (& more) out with injury. Below is all we saw of Jokic. Biggest shock was Denver still won.

House from 1703 for sale in Elfreth’s Alley, Philadelphia 139elfrethsalley.com

The AEA is not what it used to be

Got soft. This would’ve been a warm January day a few years ago, now I’m frozen