I don’t think that’s what he meant. I interpreted it as he is going to inform his decisions with evidence, coming from econometric analysis. Perhaps I’m wrong though?

Trump thinks he deserves a Nobel peace prize

Just saw a new Trivago ad where they replaced the guy with the massive white teeth. Wonder what happened there.

“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold

Hold on, the baby is IN THE PLACENTA? Someone call a doctor for this woman.

I think it's standard scientific practice to do a cross-country correlation, assume the relationship is causal, have the president tell everyone not to use a specific medicine, and then follow up with some studies to hopefully prove it. Isn't it?

I don’t know why people keep forgetting that after you fuck around, you find out. This has been known for some time now.

Every October and March someone brings up abandoning daylight savings. It’s not going to happen.

Dear god, how much more stuff can they possibly monetize on a flight?

Daughter's grade 4 French teacher is an elite marathon runner, and is starting a junior runner club for her students. I wonder if she'll notice if I show up for some tips?

Tax-Reported Charitable Giving in Canada, 1987–2018 Ross Hickey @rosshickey.bsky.social , A. Abigail Payne, Justin Smith @justinsmithecon.bsky.social doi.org/10.3138/cpp....

Just played hockey for the first time since March, which coincidentally is my first real physical activity since March, and my entire body is broken.

The craziest part is that he thinks he's the man and everyone there respects him, when in reality they all think he's a stupid asshole and want him to just go away.

Trump says many dumb things, but he’s at his dumbest whenever he’s talking about anything medical.

How is it possible that this person is the president of the United States?

Hi Bluesky! I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)! It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D). Thread below 👇 (1/)

I don’t know if this is real, but if it is I’m trying it

I didn’t think it was possible for this guy to further beclown himself, but here we are

Since I don’t view Carney as a raging, unstoppable moron, I doubt he will do any such thing with Doug Ford’s insanely stupid tunnel idea.

Do I have to learn what a groyper is now?

He didn't just lie, he told the stupidest, least believable lie of all time.

Got a bit worried when I first read this headline as a person who drank 6-8 cans of artificially sweetened pop every day for 20 years. Good to know it’s BS and my cognitive ability will remain steady at a grade 5 level.

I think 1 and 2 should be reversed, even though my sister was once a cheesemonger

Came across this sign on my way upstairs just now.

Wow. How can people be this dense?

Travelling a long way on an airplane has really deepened my hatred towards basically every other person on earth

Okay so when connected through Dubai last week I was thoroughly unimpressed with the airport. It must have been a satellite terminal because I’m at the main one this time and it’s way more interesting

Kenya: very big on the hot towels/wet wipes for your hands *before* eating

Is “reject and resubmit” an actual thing now? This used to be what people said when they got rejected and thought that the editor might be willing to take another look even though it wasn’t explicitly mentioned.

People in Kenya are extremely friendly.

Random things you see in Kenya that you don’t see in Canada: a guy moving a full sized couch on the back of a motorcycle. As in, sideways resting on the seat.

At an international conference, and when I tell people I work at Wilfrid Laurier University, I get one of two reactions: 1) people asking me where it is 2) people pretending they’ve heard of it but both of us know they haven’t

Current lunch spot

And economics* *not a real Nobel

Naturally the very first thing I do in Nairobi is roll my ankle walking out of the hotel. Can walk okay for now but hurts and is pretty swollen

I’m Dubai for a short layover and can confirm that the duty free shop is leaning hard into the dubai chocolate

Men’s “one a day” gummies. Directions: chew TWO gummies daily. Should I sue?

WTF?

I don’t think I have ever publicly criticized any Presidential nominee before. But E.J. Antoni is completely unqualified to be BLS Commissioner. He is an extreme partisan and does not have any relevant expertise. He would be a break from decades of nonpartisan technocrats.

If the 55km, three-level tunnel is the worst way to solve the congestion problem on Highway 401, paying truck tolls is the second worst. It will not make the 401 less congested. Instead, additional cars will fill the void until it was just as crowded as before, and now we're paying truck tolls.

Making tax credits more generous will make donors more generous as well - for a brief one page description of our paper see here: crdcn.ca/app/uploads/...

Has anyone pointed out the most important thing, which is that the economics prize is not a REAL Nobel?

"it's just a five second loop for the pause screen of an insanely difficult ninja turtles ripoff on nintendo, you don't have to put too much effort into it" david wise: ok www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRPX...

Turns out Hassett did a PhD at UPenn under Alan Auerbach, and also worked at Columbia business school. So he clearly knows better than all the crap he’s been saying. Really sad.

This man who just said this fired the BLS head because he didn’t believe the numbers

If I've learned anything from my various macroeconomics courses over the years, it's that you definitely want to drop interest rates when the economy is at full employment.

Pedantic bastard here. What Trump is doing is extortion, but not blackmail. I’ve been seeing this error a lot lately. Blackmail involves threatening to reveal damaging information to force someone to do something, which is not happening here.

bro shut UP

I think my favourite part of all these Trump trade “deals” is that they involve more financial investment in the US, which based on balance of payments accounting means larger trade deficits. Let’s see how he handles that when it happens.

For the love of god, what bill does he think he’s sending to other countries? I’ve been thinking that he’s gaslighting people by saying other countries pay the tariff, but does he actually think he sends them an invoice and they pay it?