Gallsworthy 1924 “It was all of a piece with the modern state of things…the steady men pushed to the wall.The men to whom a pound was a pound, and not a mess of chance and paper.The men who knew that the good of the country was the strict, straight conduct of their own affairs. They were not wanted”

American doctor from Brown University who survived Ebola in 2014 and has worked extensively in the region: US expertise and resources are needed here to help contain large outbreak, including a new vaccine. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Azzimonti and Titcomb find nearly full passthrough of tariffs into prices at the border, very little impact as yet on local labor markets from to rising input costs. www.richmondfed.org/publications...

Heartbreaking

Submissions for the #UEA2026 meeting in Chicago are due in one week. You can submit individual papers or propose a complete session. Session proposals get flexibility on timing/format! urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea...

Using 180 years of US data to show that tariff increases reduce imports, output, and manufacturing, with effects operating through both supply and demand channels, from Tamar den Besten, Regis Barnichon, Diego R. Känzig, and Aayush Singh www.nber.org/papers/w35102

WATCH OUT WORLD Sixteen (16!!) of the globe’s top international lawyers are about to learn HOW TO WIN A TRADE WAR you can too! PRE-ORDER HERE 👉 www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to...

China has increased its use of export controls, underlining Beijing’s willingness to leverage its power over supply chains as Xi Jinping prepares for talks next month with US President Donald Trump. by Joe Leahy, Cheng Leng and Wenjie Ding

Well argued and important piece by Maury Obstfeld pointing out that despite many wrong arguments to the contrary, the role of the dollar is not the cause of the U.S. current account deficit. Others wanting to hold dollars does not require a trade deficit. It never has.

New @nberpubs: "Tariffs in 2025: Short-Run Impacts on the U.S. Economy" www.nber.org/papers/w35064 "90% of the tariffs are passed through to tariff-inclusive prices paid by U.S. importers"

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Horrific—certainly the opposite of pro-family or pro-life given the critical importance of human milk and parental care in the health outcomes of preemies. Moms post-c-section often depend on a partner to get to the hospital & help care for preemies remaining in the NICU. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

About 8 in 10 Americans who re-enrolled in Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage say their health care costs are higher this year, including about half who say their costs are "a lot" higher, according to a survey from the health care research nonprofit KFF. https://to.pbs.org/47HpDOI

Even the doctors? Trump’s Immigration Policy Sidelines Foreign Doctors Amid Shortage www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/u...

A travesty: Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/c...

Trump Slashed Science Funding. Now the U.S. Could Face a Costly Brain Drain. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/b...

War Will Push U.S. Inflation Above 4% This Year, O.E.C.D. Says www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/b...

Pro-life

Pregnant in ICE Detention: Handcuffs and Pleas for Medical Care www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

Officials say an Afghan immigrant whose family said had worked with U.S. forces in his home country died at a Texas hospital after having been detained by immigration authorities.

Things are not okay.

War in the Middle East Threatens Global Food Production www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/b...

How are exporters in Asia trying to withstand the turmoil caused by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs? Hear from Indonesian palm oil exporters, Malaysian electronics and electrical manufacturers, Vietnam’s seafood and shipping companies, and more. trib.al/FynYjj9

NEW: The Trump administration took steps late Friday to try to delay the legal proceedings on tariff refunds by as much as four months www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/b...

On food assistance, we updated a paper explaining the benefits of SNAP’s broad-based categorical eligibility policy, which allows states to broaden SNAP eligibility and better support millions of people, as the Trump Administration seeks to eliminate it: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

We’re moving from one phase of illegal, erratic trade policy — to a new phase of illegal, erratic trade policy. @nationalreview.bsky.social #Section122 www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump...

"A Government Tariff Refund Bait and Switch" www.wsj.com/opinion/a-go... This x 10000:

“The historic ruling is critically important beyond its implications for current trade policy,” argues Douglas Irwin, an economics professor, in a guest essay

The US clean energy manufacturing investment bust really is dramatic, and not slowing down. Great investment tracker maintained by @jayturner.bsky.social and students. www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...

The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000. So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000. Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

AOC: "I think we have to recognize that we are in a new day and in a new time. But that does not mean that the majority of Americans are ready to walk away from a rules-based order, and that we're ready to walk away from our commitment to democracy."

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May 2025)

2025 could be year decades of US tobacco control was reversed, say experts - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

With fewer international visitors coming to the U.S. and the company’s streaming unit firing on all cylinders, Disney contemplates a day when its U.S. theme parks aren’t the company’s biggest growth driver.

NYT analysis confirms Pretti’s gun was gone by the time they shot him to death. 10 shots. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Gentle reminder that there is still an alternative, anytime Congress chooses to take it: www.npr.org/2024/02/04/1...

This is not pro-life or pro-law&order, or even pro-border-security.

I’ve reached out to both Gov. Walz and Sen. Klobuchar following the latest shooting involving federal agents in Minnesota. Marylanders have witnessed this cruelty in our own communities – during a school drop-off in Salisbury and in Glen Burnie on Christmas Eve. These are not isolated incidents.

The ICE operations in the Twin Cities are also affecting children who are caught up in the surge of personnel and detentions. https://to.pbs.org/4jXF7TO

US states that follow suit are actually protecting ALL Americans. Because the federal government will not. thehill.com/homenews/sta...

"For more than 75 years, the fondest dream of Russian strategy has been to divide Western Europe from the U.S. and break the NATO alliance. "That is now a possibility as President Trump presses his campaign to capture Greenland." -- The WSJ editorial page. 🎁 link www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Section 1250A of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, a law that passed with broad bipartisan support, explicitly prohibits Trump for suspending or terminating US participation in NATO. Nor can he denounce NATO. Nor can he withdraw from it.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.