Higher education can—and should—fight the Trump administration, but the age of lavish government support is coming to a close, Aziz Huq argues.

Universities are desperate to find new ways to generate revenue to pay for their sports departments.

How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

These dogs were spotted taking a group photo in their Halloween costumes. We're impressed by the dog walker's dedication to getting the shot, but that ghost definitely wishes he could actually disappear. 14/10 for all (TT: franklinbarkzoo)

#AI destroys everything, and I'm going to make a prediction. I have no idea when, but eventually, this absurd AI bubble will burst. Here a couple of great books on other bubbles. "Tulipomania" by Mike Dash "Dot.Con: The Real Story of Why the Internet Bubble Burst" by @johncassidysays.bsky.social

The new prices make it official: Americans will need to pay more for insurance next year if extra subsidies are allowed to expire. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ford CEO Jim Farley said China's auto industry has "enough capacity" to serve the "entire North American market, put us all out of business."

Two professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said they grew suspicious after receiving identical apologies from dozens of students they had accused of academic dishonesty. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

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Have finally deactivated our Twitter account. It was great whilst it lasted & good for promoting our podcast but at the end of the day, we can't justify being there anymore. Hopefully enough folk can see our work via BlueSky, Insta & other platforms. 🤞#EconSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

If you’ve read Mankiw’s introductory economics book, then you already know that net exports equal net foreign investment as an accounting identity. This administration can’t decide whether it’s pushing or pulling, as is patiently explained in this brief: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Free access. www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

OpenAI’s for-profit arm finalized its conversion into a public benefit corporation and reached a deal with Microsoft that will see the tech giant take a 27% stake in the AI startup.

11 states w/negative GDP growth, 10 states w/negative employment #EconSky econbrowser.com/archives/202...

Sources: Survey data are collected by Council for Community and Economic Research. The composite cost of living index for each state is derived from these data by the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center. meric.mo.gov/data/cost-li...

“Each generation has had to learn how to work with its newly acquired cognitive prostheses, whether stylus, scroll, or smartphone,” Kwame Anthony Appiah writes—but what’s different with AI is its speed and the intimacy of the exchange with it.

Europe will get a rigorous economic health-check this week, helping gauge the impact of US tariffs on growth and inflation as policymakers convene to set interest rates.

Hands are the physiological element that most distinguishes humans from other animals and from robots. It is unlikely anytime soon that robots will have hands with comparable dexterity and versatility. www.wsj.com/tech/the-han...

“There’s a lot more that can go wrong with Nvidia than can go right,” Goldberg said.

CPI release - instantaneous inflation per @janeeckhout.bsky.social plus grocery & furniture prices #EconSky econbrowser.com/archives/202...

ROSENBERG: Today’s Univ of Michigan consumer confidence was “the third decline in a row .. the lowest since last May. This is in the lowest 1% share of readings of all time! “.. Auto and home buying plans have only been as weak as they are today less than 5% of the time in the past.”

There are now almost a million NEETS (young people not in education, employment or training) aged 16-24. This means by 2025, more than one-in-eight young people were NEET, up from one-in-nine in 2019.

Will AI kill entry-level jobs? Not necessarily. History suggests young workers may actually be best placed to adapt.

At a Colorado clinic, neither appointments nor private insurance is desirable—Medicaid is preferred. The clinic sustains itself with no issues. Helen Ouyang reports on what makes this possible, and why cuts to Medicaid won’t greatly affect the practice.

✍️ New article! What do a tonne of potatoes, gravel, coal, and copper have in common? Not much, except that they all weigh the same, and are treated exactly the same in a metric called the “material footprint”.

Will this settlement be an outlier or precedent for other R1 research universities? Free access article. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

We might be “experiencing an AI bubble,” Rogé Karma argues. “If that bubble bursts, it could put the dot-com crash to shame—and the tech giants and their Silicon Valley backers won’t be the only ones who suffer.”

ECB President Lagarde says so far, consumers are feeling only about a third of the eventual hit from Trump's tariffs. The "two-thirds borne by ... the exporter and the importer is based on a squeeze of their margins," she explains. When that gets "too tight," they'll pass the rest to "the consumer."

College grads from low-income families earn much less than their high-income peers. The differences in the first job post-college explain nearly 2/3 of the earnings gap, from @jscottclayton.bsky.social, Veronica Minaya, C.J. Libassi, and Joshua K.R. Thomas www.nber.org/papers/w34366

Greatest baseball game ever played? www.wsj.com/sports/baseb...

Wall Street thought Bitcoin might be a new kind of portfolio diversifier. Crypto's recent selloff has raised questions about that premise

Listen: Philippe Aghion on the research ‘goldmine’ he & Peter Howitt found on innovation and economic growth, and why the work of Joel Mokyr is so helpful. All three now joint Nobel prize winners! On the POID podcast with Ruveyda Gozen @johnvanreenen.bsky.social

The battle over how AI is built — and who gets paid along the way — could ultimately be the industry’s undoing — unless the US figures out a solution

The New York City office market is surging, with Manhattan leasing activity in 2025 topping its 2018-2019 levels.

President Trump ushered in new tariffs on imported furniture, kitchen cabinets and lumber on Tuesday, adding a fresh round of levies as he once again threatened to expand his trade war with China.

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General Motors said Tuesday that it would record a $1.6 billion hit to its earnings, mainly to reflect the drop in value of plants, equipment and other assets related to its electric vehicle operations.

What we die from vs. what we hear in the news. Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.

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SCOOP: The Bureau of Labor Statistics is preparing to release the September C.P.I. report despite the shutdown. (Exact date still unclear -- almost certainly not the original Oct. 15 date.) #EconSky #NumbersDay

Federal deficit was $1.8 trillion in FY25, says CBO.gov, $8 bb less than FY24. Revenues increased 6%. Outlays rose 4%. Outlays were higher in largest benefit programs and net interest on the public debt (which surpassed $1 trillion) offset by less spending on student loans, deposit insurance, SBA

The stock market as we know it is on the brink of a transformation as companies such as Robinhood and Coinbase push to put company shares on a blockchain

Economists have a name for the crisis of "disconnected youth": They're called NEETs, and we know how to help them

UK becomes BYD’s largest international market after sales surge on.ft.com/46DLVRx

French prime ministers resigns three weeks after appointment on.ft.com/4pXeLDS