The American Economic Association's Committee on the Job Market surveyed Economics Departments in the U.S. regarding their plans to hire assistant professors this cycle (2025-26). 29.7% said that their department was under a hiring freeze. 1/3 #EconSky #EconJobMarket

Just days after Democrats posted a video advising troops they should not follow illegal orders The @washingtonpost.com reported that Pete Hegseth ordered troops to kill everyone aboard a boat in the Caribbean Which numerous experts opined was an illegal order Psychopaths bsky.app/profile/slot...

CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.

Every year I track the number of CS faculty jobs ads in the November issues of CRA News. It's not a perfect measure but it is forward looking to the upcoming job season. This year at 27 pages is down 69% from last year, 83% from the peak in 2022 and the lowest since 2011.

This is horrifying.

A former consultant and DOGE staffer is now serving as chief of naval research, the top post at the Office of Naval Research, after Trump booted a decorated admiral from that position. An early, newsy Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

Don’t miss the current issue of the @aeacswep.bsky.social newsletter, with a focus on visibility and voice in the economics profession. Available now at aeaweb.org/about-aea/co....

I have a very bad feeling about this...

If you are faculty, alumni, staff, student, or a student's parent at any of these places, you have an unusual chance to influence the future right now by communicating with your administration clearly about what's at stake.

This sign spoke to me. (apologies for being such a bad photographer that I cut this fellow former Republican’s head out of the photo)

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Look man, sometimes you have to break some eggs and burn down your house and drive a bulldozer through your entire neighborhood to make an omelette.

This op-ed is excellent and I encourage everyone to read it. Universities must reject the Trump compact. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

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This is eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric. There’s nothing ambiguous about it. And it didn’t come from a random Bluesky account with 28 followers. It came from a sitting member of Congress. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...

You can abhor Charlie Kirk & his beliefs and unequivocally condemn murder. You can do both. It shouldn’t be hard. It’s what grown up, civilized, tolerant people do.

Fascism.

This is real, somehow

BU Econ is hosting the second edition of WERISE (Women in Economics: Research, Ideas, Solutions, Executions). See below for details, feel free to RT/quote and spread the word! x.com/bu_economics...

I'm advertising for 2 full-time pre-docs at the Manos Institute for Cognitive Economics at UNSW. If you've got a strong honors degree in economics or computer science check us out at cognitiveeconomics.com. external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5346…. @cognitiveeconomics.bsky.social

Important. Clear, concise, imperative. Please watch.

Exactly what I was wondering

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

WILD story. An 82-year-old from Chile lost his green card. In June, he went to pick up a new one at a USCIS office. While there, he was handcuffed and detained by ICE. An unknown caller claiming to be a lawyer told family she could help. Later, she said he’d died. Now he’s turned up — in Guatemala!

Michelle Obama: this Congress-passed law improving school lunch heath standards is good Right: THIS IS MARXISM Trump: I will change the ingredients of Coke by threatening executives with deportation Right: MY LIFE FOR YOU

Local optimum: do not touch Russian money Global optimum: seize Russian money & transfer it to #Ukraine #UkrainianView

Join us next week in celebrating #mathematician Steve Smale on his 95th birthday at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computation in Berkeley, July 21-22, 2025: simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/sm...

America’s two-party system has long been a barrier against an extremism. Polarization is making it an accelerant instead.

This is worth keeping an eye on. www.weholdtruths.com#truths

The #Celtics should sign Damian Lillard now www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/03/s...

BREAKING: American evangelicals are considering worshiping Satan after discovering how woke Jesus Christ was.

On June 30, 2025, Guido Imbens stepped down as Editor. We express our immense gratitude for his six years of exceptional service and leadership.

We are thankful to Marina Halac, who will transition from Co-editor to become the Editor, starting July 1st, 2025. She will continue to handle papers on a wide range of topics in economic theory.

On June 30, 2025 Simon Board stepped down as Editor. We are very grateful to him for his contribution. The journal has greatly benefited from his hard work and thoughtful editorial decisions.

We are thrilled to have Federico Echenique (University of California, Berkeley) join the editorial board as Editor, starting July 1st, 2025. He will be handling papers in a wide range of topics, including matching, mechanism design, and decision theory.

Good point. A central collection of syllabi would be very useful for many reasons…

Co-editors Kate Ho and Chad Jones left the editorial board at the end of June 2025. We are very grateful to them for their contributions. The journal has greatly benefited from their insight and energy.

We are thrilled to have Aureo de Paula (UCL), Keisuke Hirano (Penn State), Pete Klenow (Stanford), & Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern) join the editorial board as coeditors, starting July 1st. They will handle papers on a wide range of topics in IO, econometrics, macro, and economic theory.

Here is Why I’m Sending Issues of ‘The Onion’ To Every Member Of Congress. Click here to read The Onion’s open letter to Congress: theonion.com/letter-to-co...

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

A University of Florida law student won an academic honor after he argued in a paper that the Constitution applies only to white people. From there, the situation spiraled.

Stay for the last line

@radiofreetom.bsky.social Brillant.

BREAKING @prri.org poll. My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support. 1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process. prri.org/spotlight/ne...

“Democrats can say what they want about me, but I would have absolutely called the shooter a Marxist and made tasteless digs at Gov. Walz had my loved ones recently been killed in cold blood,” said Mike Lee theonion.com/mike-le...

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