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”

The Fed isn’t getting lots of data during the government shutdown, and the data it does have are confusing. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

1980: NHS spending as a % of GDP: 5.1% Defence spending as a % of GDP: 5% 2024: NHS spending as a % of GDP: 10.9% Defence spending as a % of GDP: 2.2% This is such a common applause line, but it’s also total bullshit.

Is there anything more than vibes to the idea that unemployment is up among the young, due to AI? Yes, I am aware that there evidence of impacts in specific occupations like software development. I'm interested in the claim that there's been a change in aggregates. #econsky

The people behind the inflated protests are performing a monumental service to democracy & peace in the US. The Regime wants riots, but these animal characters are not only an effective protest, grabbing attention & mocking ICE, they seem to reduce the risk of violent protests. It's perfect.

I learnt a lot reading these 750 easy-to-digest expertly-written words on why these guys won their Nobel prize.

Come and join us! Our search focuses on econometrics or IO! Montreal, imo, best city in North America and 🇨🇦 is a welcoming, awesome country.

This is not a good year to go on the academic job market.

Three big announcements concerning new data from the AEA on the #EconJobMarket First, there are now live dashboards on AEA JOE that show the # of jobs listed on JOE each week, with comparisons to recent years. These will be updated weekly. www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... #EconSky 1/many

SCOOP: The Bureau of Labor Statistics is preparing to release the September C.P.I. report despite the shutdown. (Exact date still unclear -- almost certainly not the original Oct. 15 date.) #EconSky #NumbersDay

Good article What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong - on.ft.com/3IXwY3F via @FT

Bajillionaires of the world, we don't need more employment growth nowcasts during the government shutdown. But we do need a very-large-sample monthly survey of US households to determine employment / unemployment status. macromostly.substack.com/p/we-dont-ne...

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Meet the Vancouver School of Economics’ 2025/26 PhD job market candidates! View their profiles here: economics.ubc.ca/people/phd-j... @plbeauregard.bsky.social

Hi all, just sent out this free post to explain what matters (and what does not) in the Ukrainian campaign against Russian oil refineries. It discusses why the campaign now seems more successful, but also what else needs to happen to have a greater strategic effect. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

We’re hiring @ LSE We have *multiple* economist positions—assistant and associate professor—here at LSE International Development. Our economics group is expanding and we have exciting stuff planned. We’re keen on big picture economists. Feel free to DM me questions.

🚨 Hiring Tenure-Track Assistant Professors in Econ at the University of Copenhagen! 🚨 Join a great group in an exciting (and friendly) city 😀! Details will follow. Pls repost and get in touch to hear more. All fields, and I’m esp. interested in hearing from DEV candidates 😀! #EconSky

This is bad, but also vital to remember: it’s an EO. It’s not a new law. It’s just instructions to his appointees. Who remain constrained by the Fed criminal code. And, to preempt the doomers: Those. Laws. Are. Holding. That’s why Trump’s losing it over Comey in EDVA.

How can it be that the US and Israel are completely isolated internationally and somehow tylenol is the top story of the day?

If the UK does not take this good advice, maybe Canada will? Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver are great places for tech hubs - lets compete for them by enabling skilled migration and students.

‘Leuthen…demonstrates how an unexpected battlefield victory can galvanize & change international relations and diplomatic affairs: perhaps like the success enjoyed by the Ukrainian armed forces in the days immediately after the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022.’ warontherocks.com/2025/08/the-...

I bet he was also active on EJMR

If Mikal backs me up, I cant be a wrong!

Youth unemployment in Canada is on the rise and becoming a topic. The conservatives try to blame immigrant workers and the temporary foreign worker program. I believe this is a cyclical issue. Here is what I have to say yesterday: youtu.be/kwKnp2zzIKc?...

Mark your calendars, next big No Kings protest is October 18

Die Transfererlöse aus der Premierleague kommen den "Ausbildungsvereinen" der Bundesliga (#SGE, #VFB, #Leverkusen) zu Gunsten und erschweren den Bayern das Geschäft. Wäre doch Klasse wenn das evtl die Dominanz der Bayern in der Liga bricht.

Come on Canada, start taking advantage of this.

Is this a fluke, or is this happening in local special elections around the country? Where could I find out?

The decisions of Lisa Cook (Fed) and of Dr. Monarez (CDC) to not just cave to the attempts to remove them is exactly what is needed. According to the NYT today, Robert Kennedy tried to fire Dr Monarez, but as a Senate confirmed appointee she will only go if the President personally instructed her.

#IStandWithDrLisaCook #EconSky

If one day we remember this time as a brush with American Fascism instead of a full-blown descent into it, it will be thanks to people like Lisa Cook. One could take the “pragmatic” self-preserving approach that we have seen from so many who have bent the knee. Saying “absolutely not” is heroic.

From the perspective of someone outside the US, it is inspiring to see Lisa Cook standing up against a naked power grab.

The exchange between Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and the Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó is really something to behold of. The ratio is also interesting.