go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred million dollars

The Smell of Death, by Edvard Munch, 1895

We do! The nomination window for the AEA's Distinguished Service Award will re-open in April! Brought to you by @aeacpc.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...

🔊 If you have research addressing data issues related to the study of aging, apply to the CHABLIS Institute meetings in Sept. 2026:

Congratulations to Dr. Haley Wilbert--soon to be Prof. Wilbert at Texas Christian University! @ndecon.bsky.social

Congrats to Dr. Grace Ortuzar on her dissertation defense--headed to a fantastic post-doc at NYU! @ndecon.bsky.social

C-A-T-S Cats! Cats! Cats! 🏀 (Now don’t blow it in OT)

Had a wonderful visit to the UCSB Broom Center for Demography last week, including a great chat with this group of grad students

“The government has offered no evidence whatsoever that Powell committed any crime other than displeasing the president,” the judge in the Fed case, James Boasberg, wrote.

today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason

A pox on every professor who gives an undergraduate assignment that involves INTERVIEWING ANOTHER PROFESSOR.

Our graduate students celebrating some placement success!

Happy to have contributed to this along w/ @karenguzzo.bsky.social @marthajbailey.bsky.social & Melissa Kearney. My favorite from Karen: “We spent decades shaming women 4 having kids under the wrong circumstances, 4 not having their ducks in a row. Now they are holding up their end of the bargain.”

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

The move of every single textbook and assignment to a digital version is absolutely the worst trend I’ve observed in my own kids’ education

hockey should always be 3-on-3

Brilliant to put a real wedding in the middle of the halftime show being boycotted by the “family values” ppl

A few of our colleagues checking out the now-famous St. Olaf's Ice Chapel on on North Quad. @notredame.bsky.social @kaseybuckles.bsky.social

@aeacpc.bsky.social & @aeacswep.bsky.social invite AEA members to submit proposals—funded by a Co-Impact grant—to advance inclusion and measurable institutional change in the economics profession. Grants up to $20K. Deadline: Feb 27, 2026. For details, www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”

We invaded France and no one will sell us a croissant. It’s very hard on the men.

If you're approaching low birth rates from a "how do we incentivize people to have children?" perspective instead of "how do we build a society where people feel good about their lives and futures?", you're destined to fail. 3/3

Told my teen that the PM of Canada gave a speech today “kind of like the one Hugh Grant gives in Love Actually”

Great lineup at the MEAs this year--and proud to see that @ndecon.bsky.social is a sponsor

Just explained the business model of Tupperware, Avon, (Longaberger anyone?) etc. to my teens and they could not process it. Who else went to a Tupperware party with their grandma in the 80s???

I had the opportunity to comment on Spears and Geruso's book After the Spike at an event at @ccpratucla.bsky.social last night, thanks to @marthajbailey.bsky.social. My remarks transcribed:

Progressives HAVE been weighing in. -universal health care -streamlining immigration processes -universal basic income -more funding for childcare But no one wanted to listen.

Congratulations to Elizabeth Asiedu of Howard University (@howard.edu), recipient of the 2025 AEA Distinguished Service Award! #econsky aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

I see this take around from time to time and totally disagree. ICE just murdered a woman standing up to them. No Kings is among the largest protests in history. The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership

And they 100% know this, which is why they want to ban it

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

Encountering my first run-in with the enshitification of Google Scholar - even when enclosing the title in quotes I can’t get it to pull up the 2 most recent AD facts and figures reports. Things! Used! To! Work!

What a legend and inspiration. Great job by @aeacswep.bsky.social to create the Yellen Award for public service and make her the first recipient. #ASSA2026

Excited to present at #ASSA2026 tomorrow! Come to the Marriott a few minutes before the AEA Distinguished Lecture, and I'll explore how imperfect skill transferability (think: taxi-driving doctors) might explain some of the patterns shown by Leah Boustan and her colleagues

Nothing like paying a $175 journal submission fee to get desk rejected on Christmas Eve!

Mmmhmm

Proud of Indiana today! Fellow Hoosiers, it’s a great time to break out this banger: Indiana Christmas by Straight No Chaser

Can I just say that 👏 this 👏 is 👏 not 👏 it? A policy that simultaneously devalues caregiving by suggesting one can do their job alongside providing care and devalues (mostly women's) work by implying one can easily manage care responsibilities while getting work done. events.in.gov/event/govern...

The application portal for CSWEP's CeMENTWorkshop in Chicago, IL is open. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

‘For policy, it means shifting the question from “How can we change or reverse current trends?” to “How can societies remain prosperous, equitable, and sustainable under conditions of low fertility, population aging and, in many places, population decline?”’ Yes! That’s the right question.

We're hiring an endowed chair in economic demography--please apply, or pass along to good candidates! apply.interfolio.com/173456

I used to feel bad for the aunt cleaning up while everyone else talked but now I know she just wanted to be alone

The democrats should pay people to stand in the toy and Christmas decor aisles and complain audibly about tariffs (I have been doing this for free)

Y’all, this CSWEP newsletter is a banger. Five women economists generously share their stories about navigating family and career. 🔥 @jialanw.bsky.social @kmpjones.bsky.social Sarah Hamersma, Kosali Simon, and Sarah Baird. It was an honor to "edit" (which mostly involved sitting back for good reads)

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

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.

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

One of the delights of fall is getting my coats out again and finding fun stuff in the pockets. It’s like little gifts from the past! 🎟️🍬💵