that Jerome Powell video goes so much harder because it looks like it was filmed in 1986.

Random woman walking down Market street mumbled “Jesus fucking Christ” to no one in particular, to which I responded “I know right” and I can only imagine that she was channeling the ghost of Ben Franklin.

american democracy was this 🤏 close to making it to 250 years. RIP.

Headed to #assa2026? Hit me up if you’re interested in skipping the “research” “presentations” and trying all of the vegan/vegetarian cheesesteaks in Philadelphia instead.

Wordle 1,652 X/6 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 Statistically, this is harder than guessing correctly on the first go I think.

why does coffee pot coffee taste so much worse than pour over? same beans, etc. what gives?

you really got to hand it to her… I haven’t been this interested in a 60 Minutes segment in… well, ever.

just spitballing here, but maybe we shouldn’t have guns on campus? (this fraternity is adjacent to my building on campus)

I am not an AI doomer, but one of the bummers about academia these days is that I constantly feel like I am just grading LLM output, whether true or not. 📈📉

good news about not going all in on World Cup tickets in ATL before groups were announced is that resale prices for that Cape Verde—Uzbekistan match will probably be pretty low.

i dunno guys, this "FIFA" organization is starting to feel a bit evil to me

random Q for the #econsky education folks. is there a large database of university/college and/or K-12 academic calendars, including start dates, end dates, school breaks, etc., ideally going back a decade?

I am absolutely livid with the political propaganda in my kid’s school this week. They’re grooming the kindergarteners into being falcons fans.

in the last two weeks, I’ve made snide comments to at least four drivers facetiming while passing them on my bike.

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me, writing the AI policy for my syllabi:

life was easier when the bills were just bad every week

after much deliberation, I succumbed and bought the $89 amazon doctoral regalia rather than renting it for $75 or buying the real stuff for $1370.

well, it finally happened #econsky. my partner is out with friends, my kid’s aftercare spot is doing an “after dark” special, and I’m… eating dinner and drinking a beer solo while reading an @ecmaeditors.bsky.social paper on my phone at the bar.

today, i allowed myself some excitement about research for the first time in a long time by looking at some dormant papers that need to be revised and sent back out, just as a little treat, as i feel the end of the semester approaching. 📈📉

#econsky The School of Economics at Georgia Tech is searching for a new Chair. (We always do external searches...). Don't be spooked by the upcoming deadline for full consideration: Oct 31. I am on the search committee and happy to answer any questions! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

#econsky The School of Economics at Georgia Tech is searching for a new Chair. (We always do external searches...). Don't be spooked by the upcoming deadline for full consideration: Oct 31. I am on the search committee and happy to answer any questions! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

*tunes into @pbswisconsin.bsky.social hard af*

sure, things are terrible in america, but I got quoted by local public radio about riding bikes to school with my kindergartener. www.gpb.org/news/2025/10...

apropos of nothing, if any Swiss universities want to pay me many millions of dollars/francs to move to Europe, my email is publicly available.

having spent the day fighting jet lag by drinking espresso, eating stroopwafels and French fries, and drinking Dutch beer, while watching bicycles whiz around, I regret to inform you that it is no longer a fair coin flip.

coin flip on whether I decide to come back at this point. I’ll just send for the family and dogs.

alright fam, I am heading to Amsterdam Sun–Wed for a workshop (assuming, questionably, that US citizens are still allowed to travel internationally). in the very few unscheduled hours I have, what should I do/see? 📈📉

took a Tylenol PM last night, for solidarity.

one very low-stakes annoyance I have is how fantasy football win projections assume that points accumulate linearly throughout a game. I don’t have a better idea, but incorporating some larger margin of uncertainty feels appropriate.

had to ride my electric vehicle to the meeting with southern company’s chief economist. just to impress.

smdh at all y’all disney+ cancellers. you’ve been paying and not just ripping bluey of your sister’s account all these years?!

what’s the point of all this capitalism in healthcare if they still can’t make an antibiotic in a flavor that my kid will swallow.

idk who “we” is or where “here” is, but I am going to borrow this line. 📈📉

one of the worst parts of being a journal editor is that you develop a greater sense of empathy for other editors and thus end up saying yes to way too many referee requests. #econsky

idk I feel like they should make one of these guys the league mvp or something. tough to choose which I guess.

go bills

i really wanted to bluesky to work, but here i am, on a friday, making jokes on linkedin

5yo: dad! today two DOCTORS came to talk to us at school! me:

"The Economics of Equity and Affordability in Residential Water Pricing". Useful review by @cjwich.bsky.social

passwords were cool while they lasted, but now we live/die by the 6-digit code.

got to blow a few undergraduate minds today by telling them that a competitive eq’m maximizes net surplus because you’re just taking first derivatives of total bennies and total cost curves and setting them equal to each other. woke indoctrination starts after labor day, naturally.

me---behind on teaching, research, advising, editing, and referee duties---upon receiving a request to review a cool paper 📈📉

on this computer, i only read the classics

Fulton County Animal Services: “Free puppy Fridays!” Extremely economist voice: “You know, there’s no such thing as a free puppy…” Anyway, what up Frankie.

i really want LLMs to be able to recreate a screenshot of an econ figure in tikz code accurately. alas...

somehow I just discovered that I managed to design my courses around an imaginary fall break a week after our actual fall break. perhaps it was because our fall break does not fall on the federal holiday or the fall break for atlanta public schools. that, of course, would make too much sense.

ah, my teaching philosophy? stress out for a while, try to stay organized, then black out and hope i say mildly intelligent things in the classroom.