Judging by how everything is going, we’ve mastered social behavior and can move on to more solvable problems.

This seems to me to capture *everything* about coding with agentic AI: “A lot of the work is right-sizing tasks such that they’re big enough to be genuinely useful compared writing the code yourself, but small enough that the model can complete it (ideally before compaction).”

Eleanor Roosevelt’s gun permit (which she got it around the time the klan put a $25k bounty on her head). What a vibe

You can vibe code your way to a working prototype. You cannot vibe code or one-shot your way to a competitive product that works at scale. The hard part isn't writing code; it's the architectural supervision.

Anyway, if you are still writing and understanding your own code in 2026, you have my deepest appreciation & gratitude.

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From the thread: > Surprisingly, ChatGPT was much better at explaining and helping with Claude Code than Claude itself. For example, Claude gave me incorrect info about how to set up its permissions files.

"This doux commerce hypothesis is consistent .. claiming that market interactions—unlike those within families or in-groups—foster impersonal prosocial norms that support cooperation beyond kin and local networks, and it aligns with recent evidence stemming primarily from small-scale ... societies."

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.

New QJE for the minimum wage literature uses IRS data to study effects on small and medium size businesses. The effects seem…very good academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

I can’t wait to watch these! Knowing Andy, they’re going to be great.

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

So much to think about and prompt students’ thinking here. Regardless of how each of us may prompt students to use the resources to help them develop a deeper understanding of their choices.

On the micro side, it should be IO by a country mile and then Labour.

fewer new case studies for my regulatory politics class plz

It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.

One small thing I’ve been doing on every work call is starting out with blatant honesty about what is happening here without care of where they fall on the political spectrum. I meet with people across the country & world on the regular and they need to know the truth.

President Trump has justified many significant moves of his second term with false claims and overstated boasts. Here's a fact check. nyti.ms/4qEbf1q

Wait wait wait… the final boss at Nintendo of America was named Bowser? 🤯

“The system that made America the richest country in the history of world has failed America”

Even the cosmologists expected this

By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

Martin Luther King, Jr. National favorable rating via Gallup: AUGUST 1966: 33% 👍 to 63% 👎 AUGUST 2011: 94% 👍 to 4% 👎

This is probably the most accurate description. Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.

John Cassidy: Powell put to shame heads of law firms, universities & public companies who have caved to the White House. He demonstrated that, at least in economic arena, there are still some institutional constraints that Trump cannot sweep aside, or not easily. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

We’re at a point where someone can say their grandmother was protesting for maternity and childcare issues. Yowza! I’m old. Also, read the thread. Not happy. Let’s pay homage to (at least) those women of a generation (oh, two generations) ago, and continue to advocate for these needs of society.

A few publishers include the author's RePEc Short-ID in their metadata, and the work is then added automatically to their profile. But for the vast majority of the works, authors have to recognize and claim them. authors.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

An observation about the new open enrollment numbers: The decline from 2025 appears to be more pronounced among HealthCare.gov states than among those with state-based marketplaces. Not necessarily surprising, some SBMs took steps to at least partially shield enrollees from premium increases.

Thinking about the destruction of public health and how it boils down to Republicans deciding to experiment with the health of hundreds of millions of us. Thom Tillis (R, Invertebrate): “The main reason I supported Kennedy was because Bill Cassidy thought that we should see how it plays out”.

Postscript, published today

These numbers come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I trust them not to be politically biased. BLS is still being run by the same people, using the same procedures, as before Trump. I'm in touch with people inside the agency I'm confident would speak up if there were interference. #EconSky

ICYMI: Here's video of the panel -- "The State of Government Economic Statistics" -- that I moderated at the ASSA meetings. Karen Dynan, William Beach, Loretta Mester, Seth Carpenter, and Jed Kolko www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202...

We distinguish ourselves from a dictatorship in every act of remembrance of what we are told to forget.

Helpful thread for thinking about minimum efficient scale. For anyone, but in particular for me in my Industrial Organization (Market Structure and Strategy) class this coming semester.

People who say "you can't possibly read everything you cite" are saying a lot about themselves, IMO. It doesn't have to be a heavy lift. I spend about half an hour a day processing new-to-me papers by organizing them in my reference managers & adding topical tags so I can create bibliographies.

move slow and fix things

I pitched my NYT editor that folks really need to understand that the deadweight loss of tariffs rises in the square of the tariff rate. Despite the wonkiness of it all, they said yes--as long as you can explain that intuitively. Lemme know how I did:

There’s a lot of highly educated and skilled people going to be contributing to the health and wellbeing of countries all around the world. America’s loss is our gain.

MTA to Feds: Drop dead

Springtime for Donald is gonna be a smash hit.

It’s fun starting a new hobby with ADHD because I never know if I’ve found a new lifelong passion or if I’m going to spend $2000 on stuff and immediately lose all interest

This is all that is left of the USAID website. A cruel, illegal statement falsely asserting authority to instantly eliminate all 10,000 USAID public servants worldwide. Cooked up in secret on a Saturday night, no advance notice, no public debate, no justification. See for yourself: www.usaid.gov

This may apply well here, but it’s also a harsh generalization! (Which I am not sophisticated enough to judge. But still.)

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