This rocks!

There could not *possibly* have been a better choice. Great news. #econsky

So are we still teaching about the post war order? Asking for a friend with slides on the wto.

The MSU Department of Economics is pleased to announce that @imbernomics.bsky.social begins his new role as chair today: spr.ly/63325fS7c3. #MSUEconomics #MSUSocialScience

Here’s a graph from the Economist showing GDP data from official government sources versus private estimates. Free countries, like the US, don’t manipulate econ data. Less free countries do. Trump is seeking to break that for short-term PR. (Yes I know GDP is BEA and not BLS.)

I am looking for a research assistant to work with me on the development of U.S. housing markets. Experience with ArcGIS, Stata useful. We build datasets that allow us to understand housing affordability, the impacts of transit and zoning, and more: rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FRS/jo...

Sounds like ChatGPT is down. You know what doesn't go down? MapQuest printouts.

@akhilrao.bsky.social it's your jam

EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky

🚨 New working paper 🚨 In large cities, wages are higher. But so are inequalities. In fact, low-wage workers earn lower real earnings there. Why? What drives spatial wage disparities? Why some workers work at lower real wages in large cities?

Siri, cancel all my meetings.

hey @arpitrage.bsky.social and @jeffrlin.bsky.social

Research is searching again through your Whatsapp conversations with coauthors to figure out something you knew 6 months ago.

Rip

This would legit be awesome.

Still time to sign up for ESTIMATE, which starts in less than two weeks. Those near East Lansing can attend in person! An online option also is available. Still planning on the Saturday evening soccer match .... econ.msu.edu/academics/es...

No.

Every day I'm less worried about AI replacing people. I'm just optimistic that our new AI overlords will find good uses for us.

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

If Germany did it, so can we.

And literally sending the World's top minds away while they're at it. These students are *our* future.

Future content creators are going to be paid to participate in mock-ups of Q&A forums, to feed the LLMs

"By mid '25, traders were actively encouraging non-financial firms to skirt regulations and invest in seemingly profitable ventures with crypto firms, laying the groundwork for the proliferation of the subsequent panic to other sectors." --p. 10, The Origins of the 2026 Financial Crisis

Apparently Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines and Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea are the standard-bearers of the conservative and liberal wings of the church, and were both present in the Conclave. So, the Church appropriately cloistered their standard-bearers.

Modeling the conclave? You’ll need cardinal utilities

The Globalization Cluster at Dartmouth is hiring a pre-doctoral fellow for a two year position starting this summer or fall. International candidates welcome. Take courses. Great placement record. Friendly group! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/167442 @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social

Guys, come on, the Q effects of a tariffs are negative. Also, in the spirit of the CEA, you can assume a trade elasticity of 4 and then divide that by 4 for no reason, so assume a pass-through rate of 100%. So 50.5 Dalmatians.

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie 24 angry men

Are there other examples of tariffs on services?

2022, alarmed: Half of social media is bots! 2026, triumphant: Half of social media is bots!

I need the “Campaign in prose. Govern in econometrics.” t-shirt.

Has anyone tried proclaiming loudly and with conviction "Oh, this is the bad place!" yet?

Me opening e-flyers: Ah, the halcyon days of free trade, they had no idea how quickly it would all evaporate.

The world was really crazy before we standardized time zones.

The recipe for a "Fuzzy Matching" calls for ginger ale but lots of folks use gin.

📢Heavily revised working paper on AI + Zoning — with @alexbartik.bsky.social and Dan Milo, we have a new draft of our paper which expands on our method to understand housing regulations with AI. Incudes a new public data release with more housing regulation data:

If nothing else, the past 100 days have gotten us exceptional resignation letters.

a postdoc is when you get a doctorate in Posting

Factories built for WWII improved local job markets and were a path to the middle class for decades, but there's no guarantee attracting manufacturing today would do the same. New research from @andygarin.bsky.social and Jonathan Rothbaum for our Early Career Research Awards #ECRA program #Econsky

thinking of becoming a full on pocket constitution guy

On brand.

Unfortunately the other site still has important conversations going on sometimes. @bengolub.bsky.social is mostly to blame here for bringing up really good points and explaining them very eloquently, as usual.

Is that a NAFTA sour?

We don’t have a Densely Speaking account here (there’s still one at the other site), so I’ll plug here - together w/ @jeffrlin.bsky.social, I host an occasional podcast where we interview scholars about cities, economics & law. New episode on the role of highways in segregating Chicago drops Monday.