Economist Geoff Propheter: "Chiefs games and concerts, using the stupidest, most unreasonably generous assumptions I can't justify without laughing, only gets the state to 33% of the way to the annual debt service needed under existing tax policy."

This Trump guy needs a cognitive test

That’s more than one movie per day

IKR

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

I’m having a day

Paper Girl needs a correction

Agreed, but we’re not pro- fake citations, right?

Pat McAfee has jumped the shark

This is so fucking embarrassing.

The purpose of peer-review is not to catch fabrication; the word “missing” suggests it is. Journals should be the ones catching fraudulent citations in the editorial process

This is funny

From the inbox this morning: "In order for us to be able to keep the time taken for review to a minimum, our reviewers are requested to return their comments within 3 weeks." Today is December 11. The review is due on January 1. I declined. 1/2

Why don’t economists write papers with page numbers anymore?

I wouldn’t want to play in the pop tarts bowl either

www.wsj.com/business/med... This one will be interesting

LOL rich af Scott Bessent

Fun read if you like learning how the special people live www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I happen to think Donald Trump getting a prize from the most corrupt organization in the world is actually perfect.

And we thought they were smart www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

You can’t handle the truth vibes

The increase in demand in red states would raise prices so ok scott bessent

Me describing my “difficult data”

New working paper econpapers.repec.org/paper/aplwpa...

DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHTS, bruh

I feel bad for Peter Navarro apnews.com/article/trum...

I can’t reach my P drive from home anymore. Google drive disappears from windows explorer when the computer goes to sleep and requires a reboot to get it back. WTF is that?

Anyone use OneDrive?

I’ve been fighting with the sling tv chatbot

Now do “novel”

Apparently President AOC can unilaterally impose a carbon tax day 1.

Why did Elsevier drop Water Resources and Economics?

Just increased my weight in my profile to 205, been working out so a boy’s gotta eat

What could go wrong? www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/t...

Just sayin’

“The survey included a state‐of‐the‐art discrete choice experiment (DCE) to estimate WTP”

I’m heading to my 40th college reunion this afternoon, can’t wait to see how old everyone looks.

Does existence value exist?

How about teaching data analysis and visualization instead?

When the universities start teaching the learning shortcuts

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky. No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

The review invitation had no deadline. I accepted it and the next email says: "Please try your best to complete your review by 03-Oct-2025." So, today is a week later and the tone of the automatic email message has changed. I won't referee for this journal again.

To a journal editor:

Less Than Two Weeks Left! Submit Your Abstract for SBCA 2026 Annual Conference by October 15 Conference Dates: March 12–13, 2026 Location: George Washington University Student Center, Washington, D.C. Get Started: Submit Your Abstract Now At buff.ly/0UOfDdw

Apologies, here are the two links again: Submit your abstract: sbca.mymeetingsavvy.net/login Call for abstracts: www.benefitcostanalysis.org/annual-confe...

✨New Article ✨ In a new open access article, Tanga M. Mohr and John C. Whitehead (@johnwhitehead81.bsky.social) use attribute non-attendance (ANA) models to test for differences in discrete choice expiriments with real and hypothetical payoffs

Come on bro, this is just undignified.

You should read this for sure.

What’s up with Saban’s hair today?