Lol. I just realized Andrew Cuomo sounds exactly like Al Pacino. I’ll never not hear it now.

We were talking about how the oil industry in California will never be its former self today. How production is just not coming back no matter what the regulatory climate. And I found this image from the OC register from back in 2014. Says it all.

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The impact of economic opportunity on criminal behavior: Evidence from the fracking boom" By @brittanystreet.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics

Do Markets Value Fed Independence? An Event Study.

WTH Get to it English researchers www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Alaska: Tax cuts for me, and also government spending for me.

This is a (less obviously corrupt) version of the deal Ron Johnson struck in 2017: complain about how terrible a bill is for the mass public, and then vote for it to provide a tax loophole for a small number of people.

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

Prettiest fish I’ve ever caught.

Fossil fuel execs have talked for years about how they are "saving" Africa and solving energy poverty. Probably best to listen to Africans on that score: drilled.media/news/total-m...

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

Seems like energycommunities.gov, which provided resources to help enable economic revitalization in fossil fuel dependent communities, has been taken down by DOE

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

I don't think people realize that in important respects tariffs are now higher & more inflationary than what was announced on last Wednesday. Since then we've gone from 54% to 125% on China, our 3rd largest trading partner. That outweighs delaying the increases on 70+ others.

Good time to call your senators and representatives.

One of the biggest mistakes a government can make when managing an oil boom is eliminate a tax. They r just too hard to re-implement later on.

Spent the last few days in Norway. What a beautiful country, it’s UK+Alaska…I trust everything stayed on the rails while I was gone….right?

“.. average traffic speeds .. increased by 15% following the introduction of congestion pricing .. “.. reduced realized travel times .. by approximately 8%.” #NYC

Why am I just learning that google maps renamed the Gulf of Mexico? So lame.

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Campaign Contributions and Legislative Behaviour: Evidence from U.S. Congress" By @albiparmigiani.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky

Having a bitcoin reserve is a very good idea for people who own $billions of bitcoins.

(Bloomberg) - Car owners are missing their monthly payments at the highest rate in more than 30 years. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Say you’ve got very good causal IDENTIFICATION. Can you say you have causality, can make a causal general claim, and can say what “THE causal effect” is? NO We explain why in new article at Journal of Causal Inference. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

I can confirm this is an awesome gig during grad school - I loved being the AERE social media manager. It's a nice way to meet AERE leadership, read (abstracts) of JAERE papers, attend the annual conference, etc. Current students - feel free to reach out w/ questions if interested! #EconSky 📈📉

Based on some requests, we've estimated the population in CA exposed to different levels of wildfire smoke from the recent LA fires. Tens of millions were exposed to some PM2.5 smoke, ~6m had a few days >25ug PM2.5, ~2m had a few days > 50ug. These are large numbers.

Almost 5 years since I left Alaska, but this place still brings me joy 😉. In a forthcoming Economic Inquiry article with @alexandergjames.bsky.social and B. Smith, we analyze how the Alaska PFD (unconditional cash transfer program) boosts voter turnout, especially among the poor. #cashtranfers

I think real estate prices in dc are about to fall.

Timely new paper on chemical species in wildfire smoke, expertly led by @emmaks.bsky.social . We find that smoke drives detectable increases in concentrations of 25 out of 27 species we examine, incl stuff like lead and arsenic, often distant from the active fire. Paper: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Nothing like buying TikTok to shrink the size of government.

Wealth funds r parking spots for windfalls of wealth. Creating a fund via tax revenue in order to buy something doesn’t make sense, that’s just called a government purchase…does anyone know real reason Trump wants a fund? Is it just that some other countries have one, and so he wants one too?

Who’s joining the council this year?

Holy forking shirt balls "Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "

The fate of humanity now lies with Jalen Hurts. Fly iggles fly.

Does new housing supply lead to a decrease in rents, even in high-demand markets? Read this Just Accepted article from the Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics to find out: ow.ly/1eN950UqS1B

Very glad this topic is being discussed in mainstream econ but bummed to see so little acknowledgement of the existing work on this topic in other fields, including sociology, political science + management. Examples: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Aw man just bought a new silicone set yesterday and was feeling proud of my evidence-based policymaking.

I had no idea that avocado demand contributes to the demise of monarchs

Economists are not prepared for the impact of the demographic cliff. Enrollments are already down in aggregate, they are going to fall more, and it looks like maybe professor demand is already responding

Just realized that the watch given to Holly Genaro at beginning of Die Hard was the watch Hans Gruber was grasping to before falling to his death. The watch reflected her new corporate life in California - that she needed to let go of - in order to be happy. A truly deep and touching Xmas movie.

@alexandergjames.bsky.social is on 🦋 now just a few days after I wrote this thread not tagging him. Things growing fast here.

Proud to share my first NBER working paper. 17.5 million Redfin users were randomly assigned to see or not see flood risk on home listing; the treated users went on to make offers on less risky homes. First casual evidence that homebuyers are adapting to climate change www.nber.org/papers/w33119