It’s always great to see that the world supply of soy (or virtually any other commodity) is indeed perfectly elastic. Gotta say that this tariff brought in a heap of revenue. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued. Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially. Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

Great write-up of new research by @riacton.bsky.social !

Very happy to see my review of the racial residential segregation literature with John Parman in the latest issue of Journal of Economic Literature @aeajournals.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

A careful study of every populist episode since 1900 finds catastrophic consequences, which play out slowly. On average, incomes fall behind by nearly 15% over 15 years. For the U.S., this is a cost of about $13k per person per year. Over a lifetime, that's million bucks.

If Trump were operating in the best interests of America's businesses, his move to fire Lisa Cook would cause stocks to shrug, or maybe rise. But they're saying: This is dangerous. This move serves Trump, but not America. Our economy is at risk when the President undermines the Fed.

Now’s a good time to share one of several recent @planetmoney.bsky.social episodes about the importance of Federal Reserve independence from partisan electoral politics. www.npr.org/2025/04/23/1...

I just gave! Alums, employers and friends: please consider donating - every dollar counts these days and helps give our students amazing experiences and top skills!

See the rise from the yellow to red, that's the price of tariffs. Squint & see the dip in the yellow line. That's how much of the new taxes (tariffs) foreign companies are eating. See the gap between the red and the yellow, that's roughly how much US consumers & businesses are eating.

When the uber home (hard to find) comes late and the seat looks like this:

It really is Ground Hog Day. My garden is… a little less big than it was yesterday…

This week we ‪(with @ajhollingsworth.bsky.social talk with @talgross.bsky.social on The Hidden Curriculum on productivity and how to improve our teaching and some ideas for new exercises for your class!

A monarch today!

Post secondary economics teachers are more at risk than switchboard operators of having their jobs made AI irrelevant. Thoughts #econsky www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Such a great project! Congrats to this amazing team and to MU alum Margaret Layding for helping us develop it!

Wow fellow Ohioans- this will have a major impact.

Caturday on the coffee table. Just missing the coffee.

When my kids were younger, they asked why we call it “rolling up the windows” in the car….

Happy Caturday!

The recent disaster and loss of lives in Texas is so sad. But I’m reading that the cuts to weather personnel are related to a “decades-long effort to privatize weather information.” But I’m thinking that weather information is almost a quintessential public good? www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

Happy Caturday. This animal has learned a new trick. 😱

Seen uptown and spot on!

Yet another prime example of how useful economic history is for modern economics. Excellent summary by Barry Eichengreen of how crypto can return us to the (not) glory days of wildcat banking. This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...

All the rain and I guess my walnut tree couldn’t hang on to its sloped perch. No damage to house. Firewood, anyone?

What is a group of woodpeckers called? Because I have one in my backyard. I am thinking a “hammer of woodpeckers” might work.

The 12th Australasian Cliometrics Workshop will be held 14 Nov 2025 at Monash Uni, Melbourne. Proposals accepted thru 14 July, full papers due 31st Oct. More info: Quoc-Anh Do ([email protected]) & Laura Panza ([email protected]) ECR & grad students particularly encouraged 📉📈🗃📗 #AcademicSky

Graeter’s is one of the many things that makes Cincinnati great! Looking forward to trying this soon!

Sunbeam coma.

My daughter got me this for a Mother’s Day present and I love it!

Elegant Caturday.

Is there a name for the stress associated with putting a command hook on the wall?

A beautiful day to move my citrus from the grow light in the basement outside!

Caturday

Pope Olive Bread IX. @ajhollingsworth.bsky.social is Pope Olive Bread XII. Same lineage- must be related to the fact we had same diss advisor.

Your Pope name is the last thing you ate + the # of letters in your first name Pope Breakfast Hash IX which is amazing because that means 8 others know the glory of potatoes, onions, bell peppers, jalapeños, cheese, and over easy eggs

Rainy Caturday.

Happy Caturday!

Hi Bluesky! A scientist friend just joined and is interested in science starter packs. Any suggestions?

@joshua-goodman.com I finally found the pic of my cat that reminds me of your meme. Meet Grimm.

Great work by @miamiecon.bsky.social colleague @jimflynn9.bsky.social , @bartonwillage.com and Bethany Lemont.

Great article by @douglasirwin.bsky.social www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

In addition to tariffs and tornadoes I just discovered that my 5 year streak of no covid ever has ended. :(

When @douglasirwin.bsky.social says the effects are going to be big, it means they are going to be huge.

A VoxDev piece on our work with Yi Lu and Tianyi Wang on robots and workers in China

Timely. “The tariffs did not boost local steel employment but substantially depressed local employment in steel-consuming industries for many years after Bush removed the tariffs. The tariffs also led to a persistent exit of steel-intensive manufacturing establishments”

When your kid gets to the brownies first…

I'm helping co-organize ~5 history sessions for the SEAs again! Submit here: forms.gle/vpYEgEaYtCtd... Great venue, especially for earlier stage work and for grad students. Please submit!

In a 1932 essay, the economist Percy Wells Bidwell discussed the role of tariffs in fueling the Great Depression: “if protective tariffs were in reality a cure for business crises, they would long ago have had a chance to demonstrate their efficacy.”

Miami Econ is now part of the Bluesky world! We are excited to join! Help us spread the word!