Hmm. Up front concessions / 'entry fee' before starting talks? Let me remind the capitulationists: 1--you don't make concessions to an unreliable counterparty. 2--I am the wallet inspector; please make donation via DM 3--I would enjoy playing poker with you. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

There will be hundreds of driverless 18-wheelers on US highways by the end of this year, and next year thousands.

Jacques Tilly, Germany’s best known maker of political carneval floats is on trial today in Moscow (he’s safe in Germany). These are some of his floats of the past years.

The returns to a US college education are still high, with an average wage premium of 55% over high-school-only. But they have fallen for the last three years, and they're 13% smaller (8.3 percentage points) compared to the all-time peak in 2016. Data from @epi.org —> data.epi.org/wage_gaps/ho...

This editorial in the Globe and Mail sounds about right: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

In den letzten Wochen hab ich ein paar #Retrotrikots aus 1995/96 präsentiert. Ich überlegte das nochmal mit einer anderen Saison zu machen, aber dann dachte ich an die Trikots, die vergessen werden. Und die teils wirklich absurd sind! Daher: Die Top 40 schrägsten BuLi-Torwarttrikots der 90er: 1/14

Heimsieg der Frankfurter Schule gegen den 1. FC Heideggerheim als Hommage an Habermas.

David Autor (@davidautor.bsky.social) just wrote a very kind and thoughtful review of "The Means of Prediction" for the Journal of Economic Literature (@aeajournals.bsky.social): www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Idiot plot

Schwaches Spiel, aber defensiv gut. Mit Theate and Kristensen kam mehr Wucht von hintenraus, ob über lange Schläge a la Theate oder die Laeufe von Kristensen. Da wird das dann halt berechenbar vorne Und, es fehlen halt noch einige Offensiven. #SGE

Wir müssen Schritt für Schritt weg von Gas und Öl. Ich habe mit Markus Theurer in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung über die Abhängigkeit von Energieimporten, bessere Alternativen und meine Wärmepumpe gesprochen. @FAZ_NET zeitung.faz.net/data/698/rea...

Education policy doesn’t always require sweeping reforms. Getting the basics right—retaining strong teachers, adopting high-quality curricula, and ensuring students have sufficient time in school—can go a long way.

Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

Happy #JobsDay! At 8:30 am ET, @usbls.bsky.social delivers one of the most-important signals about how economy is changing Forecasts’ center: +50K jobs Unemployment rate (UR) steady at 4.3%

The 2026 edition of Canada's premier labour economics conference is in Montreal on April 17-18. Don't miss your chance to be part of it! Early bird registration deadline is next Thursday (March 5). $200 regular and $90 students. Conference program 👉 stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/news-and-eve...

Canada is the first non-European country to be granted membership in SAFE. This is unlocking new export markets abroad for producers across Canada’s defence industry and better equipping our military with the resources they need.

Da die fossilen Brennstoffe under das BEHG fallen passen alle diese Vorschläge nicht. Der Punkt des Zertifikathandels ist es doch gerade, weniger regulieren zu müssen - und das erhöht die Akzeptanz von Klimapolitik.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We know, despite Hassett's incoherent ramblings, that the incidence of tariffs fell on US consumers. The incidence of the refunds going to importers will be on tax payers. Make America Pay Again!

Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/

Southcom strikes which illegally kill people on boats in the Carribean that three months ago elicited shocked headlines in US news media are now being reported in low priority spaces buried deep in news outlet websites. Normalisation of what are in effect US military death squads.

ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts

This whole thread. On how ICE and DHS are ignoring orders to release ppl, moving them to Texas to get favorable judges, and holding them—including young children—in absolutely inhumane conditions. It’s so clear that neither ICE nor DHS are compatible w the rule of law and must be dismantled.

20% is roughly the share As McGill gives out. Is Harvard feeling the pressure from the North?

Blah blah tariff blah blah greenland blah - white noise

New Substack post: The wage compression that persisted. arindube.substack.com/p/the-wage-c...

I have been hearing recently that many people don't know about the ability to submit to AEJ-Policy (or any of the other AEJs) after submitting to AER-Insights (following the same process that existed going from the AER to the AEJs) More details and instructions here: www.aeaweb.org/journals/pol...

1/ McGill is searching for high profile candidates (advanced associate or Full) to apply for the Impact+ chairs funded by the Federal Government of Canada.These chairs are for candidates who are currently not residing or working in Canada.

The NYTimes has clearly not chosen to follow the AP's lead. The videos--which you should not watch unless you really have to, I assure you--gut DHS's claim, but the NYT *chooses* to *lead* with it.

Or the “it’s my vote to do with what I want” crowd. Or the “the two parties are basically the same” crowd. The man doing this won the job fair and square, and everyone who actively or passively brought that about bears responsibility for that.

The US, from what I hear, has about 15,000 soldiers in the region. There is no way they can "run Venezuela" directly with that.

Questions: 1. What is the reaction among Venezuela's neighbours? 2. How will they respond if Chaos breaks out in V? 3. Is the Trump admin willing or able to try to stabilize the country and prevent a vacuum? 4. If not, could China, Russia, and/or Cuba exploit a vacuum and how?

New paper looks at Indiana Covid vaccine effects. Six month gap between 11 & 12-yr-old eligibility gives us out natural experiment. Result: Large spillover among households, but not for schools.

Is it just me, or are if Statistics Canada getting increasingly difficult to deal with to access thwir data projwcts. Simple linkage requests are being denied with reference to 'capacity constraints. @cleforum.bsky.social

McGill is accepting applications of top international researchers for what are called Impact+ chairs. These are intended for outstanding researchers currently working and residing abroad and involve some real funding. Application deadline January 26th. www.mcgill.ca/provost/acad...

14 2-yr Postdoc positions at 3 unis, any field (that is under pressure in US), deadline Jan 9

Very much agree. This will end my travelling to the US for the time the rule is in effect - even though I have family in the US and regularly attend professional meetings. International economic associations, include the Society of Labor Economics should stop organizing conferences in the US.

Hey #econsky! I'm organizing a workshop at Brown this Spring in partnership with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez. The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work. And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

This is right up there with Abu Ghraib

Other eras got This Guy as Aristotle or Sir Thomas Hobbes. The Nazis had Carl Schmitt, already an enormous downgrade from the first two. And I suppose, as punishment for our hubris, we get Curtis Yarvin, the dumbest philosopher-of-power-worship that I am aware of.

Happy Sept #JobsDay! At 8:30 am ET, BLS delivers what’s usually one of the most-important signals abt how economy is changing. This one for Sept is 7 weeks late due to govt shutdown Forecasts’ center: +50K jobs Unemployment rate (UR) steady at 4.3% Also last week's UI claims released then too?

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Rui Castro, @fabolange.bsky.social & Markus Poschke review labor force transitions using Canadian data. They map flows across employment statuses, shedding light on individual labor-market dynamics. 🔗: www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

Breaking news: The SEPTEMBER JOBS REPORT comes out on THURSDAY., Nov. 20. BLS will announce revised news release dates on this page as they become available. #econsky @aaronsojourner.org www.bls.gov/bls/2025-lap...

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

#sge wielang fällt Uzon eigenttlich aus? Weiß das jemand?

Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”