I'm assuming that the guy who was out walking around in a t-shirt and shorts at 8:15 this morning while it's 20 degrees outside is one of those New Englanders who wanted to go to the SEC that I've been hearing about.

And 2020 was their best year since 2008!

I doubt that I'll ever win a FIFA Peace Prize, but I hope one day to get a Swiss Bank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Pele.

I have signed on to an Amicus brief -- spearheaded by Marc Busch at Georgetown -- that was filed with the Supreme Court yesterday in the IEEPA tariffs case (Trump v. V.O.S. Selections). 1/2 www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Got eduroam working on the first try -- ama #EconSky

Got my hopes up for a minute.

I feel like maybe somebody should have said something.

What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)? Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...

Addendum: I've also literally tried writing a paper that combined economics and Catholic theology, and I had a really hard time finding a place that would publish it.

#EconSky My meta-economic theory is that, in the last couple decades, the increases in big data, computing power, and AI and machine learning have significantly lowered the marginal cost of doing empirical work that would have seemed daunting when I was a grad student, let alone the generation 1/

Historically, I've been more of a practitioner of early childhood economics than a scholar. But every so often it intersects with trade policy, and I was interviewed by Babycenter.com: www.babycenter.com/family/money...

We are excited to welcome @billhauk.bsky.social of @sc.edu to the network! Hauk's research focuses on international trade, foreign direct investment, economic growth, and political economy. Learn more: scholars.org/scholar/will...

If Moo Deng were to move to the oldest continuous European settlement in North America, she could be Hippo of Augustine.

Research in International Trade be like: #EconSky theonion.com/study-97-of-...

ICYMI, the U.S. Constitution gives lawmakers the power “to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations.”

"I'm not like a regular professor, I'm a cool professor!" I say to myself, referencing a movie that was released when my average student was about 4.

Semi-serious suggestion -- legislation should be written on GitHub. www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nbcn...

Toys are getting pricier as tariffs kick in www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Fingers crossed that it means that the Spaceballs sequel is already finished

Ok. This guy wins.

NPR's Marketplace's segment "I've Always Wondered..." asked me why prices always (seem) to go up. Why do prices always have to go up? www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

Lord, give me an end to sequels and prequels and remakes and reboots and reimaginings and extended universes and self-referential auto-cauda-cannibalistic IP development. But not yet, Lord, not yet.

I told you we’d be back

People don’t just associate with being down with Georgetown, they themselves are down with Georgetown.

Huh, policy uncertainty has real effects. If only somebody had said something.

Post of the day.

June 4th: I appear on CNN talking about tariffs June 5th: #posthocergopropterhoc

For my legions of fans in the audience who have basic cable (or HBO Max streaming, I think) subscriptions, I will be on CNN's morning show LIVE tomorrow at 8:05 eastern talking about steel, aluminum, and the tariffs thereon.

ABC News quotes me in an article about steel and aluminum tariffs from yesterday. The one thing that I'd add is that these numbers are my best guesses extrapolating from previous tariffs. The "uncharted territory" quote at the end was my hedge on that. abcnews.go.com/Business/tru...

Successfully logged in to Editorial Manager on my 5th try!

Recession Forecasts Jump After Herds Of Panicked Economists Start Running Off Cliffs theonion.com/recessi...

I wrote a doctoral dissertation once on trade policy making. None of this was in it.

US Court of International Trade just issued decision in case against Trump tariffs filed by Liberty Justice Center and me. All "Liberation Day"/IEEPA tariffs ruled illegal, and blocked by injunction! See link for opinion. I will have much more to say soon: www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/fi...

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

Sending thoughts and prayers to my St. Louis people!

Oh good, now come the struggles of the media to write accurate sentences about the Order of St. Augustine rather than sentences like "the order was founded by St. Augustine in 1244."

Today's front page.

He was also apparently a math major, so taking Real Analysis improves your chances of becoming Pope. #EconSky

This is divine ratification of Chicago-style citations.

Chicagoans learning about the new Pope!

Add a tariff, ruin a movie: Trade Wars Episode IV: A New HS Code Trade Wars Episode V: The Exporter Strikes Back Trade Wars Episode VI: The Return of the WTO Apellate Judges

ALL FLEETWOOD MAC SONGS THAT DO NOT FEATURE A STEVIE NICKS LEAD VOCAL ARE NOW TARIFFED AT 250%

Remove a letter, ruin a movie. (Actually, this could work)

This wasn't one of the instruments of trade policy that I looked at in my dissertation.

As a Catholic and a resident of South Carolina, I would like to express my opinion that Donald Trump should not be Pope. Thank you for your attention.

Ok. Here is a very specific request, though. Randomize the heck out of it so we can finally calculate price elasticities required for welfare calculations in trade models

The universal motivator: Threatening people with geography lessons.

People are NOT understanding what empty cargo ships from China means. It means no work for dock workers. No work for truck drivers, no work for retailers, fewer dollars circulating. The cascade effect is just mind boggling.

Watching Pope Francis's funeral on YouTube when Flavor Flav breaks in with an ad for Raising Cane's chicken.

Shhhh!!!! Don't tell my students! Economists don’t know what’s going on www.economist.com/finance-and-... From The Economist