Amidst so much insanity and cruelty, Trump's rug-pull on IVF hardly rates. But it's still pretty awful for people who want or need IVF to have babies. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->

Bill Pulte is almost a decade younger than me and looks like that?! Go for a run and eat some veggies bro!

Total fucking bullshit

The building on the right is now the Black Cat. This was in the aftermath of the assassination of MLK, Jr. #FreeDC

In light of the focus on gold purchases by central banks, important window to developments from the World Bank Treasury Reserve Management Survey Report 2025; survey response picks up reported increase in #gold holdings, but ...

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

j. edgar hoover is looking up from hell and screaming about this outfit. i think the guy could probably look past a nonwhite as director of the fbi. but dressing like shit? that is a bridge too far for hoover.

“D.C. is a city of people who really care about things... I think it's a really incredible city to try and launch something like this in.” @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social interviewed our co-founder @abigailhiggins.bsky.social — among others — for this piece about how community fuels our team's work:

Accessible to all! ...my paper in Journal of Econ Perspectives on World Bank's 1993 East Asian "Miracle" report ("Too Much A Product of Its TIme?") (www.aeaweb.org/full_issue.p...). @cgdev.org @mclem.org @arvind2011.bsky.social @justsand.bsky.social

36 years ago No Control is the fourth album by American punk rock band Bad Religion, released November 1989 through Epitaph Records. #punk #punks #punkrock #nocontrol #badrelegion #history #punkrockhistory

all of this is also true for sexism. you tell me you think women are biologically less smart and i’ll suspect that i could probably convince you to drink your own piss

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

Seeing a worrying trend in the economics of money laundering literature where publications are coming out where authors have either severely misunderstood or are misrepresenting the policy variation they are exploiting It seems like editors don't know any better and aren't finding referees who do

Really impressive IMF Mundell-Fleming Lecture by Ricardo Reis on financial repression. A methodological takeaway: the continued usefulness of Harberger Triangles in economic analysis (he mentioned in Q&A the use of Chicago price theory in his lecture). www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS7o...

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

on.ft.com/49dRS9z Non-bank lenders may be fair-weather friends Check out this piece @financialtimes.com where we discuss our recent research on nonbank lending during crises

Adjunct’s Law: there is never money for your raise or health benefits but there is always money for bullshit

Suriname / $1.6bn bond issuance offering document. The Use of Proceeds statement is convoluted (it's usually two sentences about "general budgetary purposes") -- the feature here being establishment of a Debt Service Prefunding Account. www.luxse.com/pdf-viewer/1...

Greg Graffin, of Bad Religion, turns 61 today. 📸 JSP at Sea Hear Now Festival 2019 #PunkRock #MusicPhotography @punkrockhistory.bsky.social

Really useful new paper by Dany Bahar @cgdev.org. Venezuelans comprise 2.5% of the population in Ecuador but only 1.3% of detentions. Most crimes are also non-violent and economically motivated, given many Venezuelans lack legal status. www.cgdev.org/publication/...

Flash back to the time a young lawyer with the same name sent me a panicked email because SSRN had attributed his law review articles to me and shut down his profile.

the bathroom thing is worse than tearing out the east wing sorry

Happy Halloween 🪦

Anti-LGBTQ resolutions aka "LGBT-free zones" in Poland have increased residents’ intentions to migrate, both within the country and abroad. Together with @paweladrjan.bsky.social, we use unique data on all clicks on the global job site Indeed. Link: docs.iza.org/dp18217.pdf Main findings ⬇️ 1/7

Our generation’s Virginia Woolf typing out a social media ad that says “it’s giving GIVING: gobble up these turkey day discounts” and throwing herself in the east river

Did Mamdani turn out this way because his dad is Mahmood Mamdani and his mom is Mira Nair or is it because of four years at Bowdoin, where Mahmood Mamdani and Mira Nair are almost certainly on several syllabi News at 11

New at JIE: "The macroeconomic cost of temperature risk" by Piergiorgio Alessandri, Haroon Mumtaz doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...

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The World Bank plans to reform its research structure—but @charlesjkenny.bsky.social and @eeshani.bsky.social warn the changes could undermine its ability to deliver rigorous, independent analysis free from client or internal pressure. More ⬇️ https://go.cgdev.org/43vNSgK

bullet in US-jpn fact sheet “Japan will pursue new sanctions frameworks to target vessels linked to shadow fleets and disrupt shadow fleet activity in close coordination with the United States and G7 partners.” 🤔 is US back on shadow fleet enforcement? www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Good bloomberg report on the Investment piece of the US-korea deal- and how it is exacerbating capital flows Notable how different all of the investment agreements seem to be across different US partners. Another example of decentralized US sov wealth? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

mom said it’s my turn on the White House bulldozer

I would have thought a PhD in “business economics” would prepare you to be a business economist, i.e. work for a firm, but apparently not!

RIP hanging out at the video rental spot

"It was unclear why Adm. Holsey is leaving now, less than a year into his tenure....But one of the U.S. officials...said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Belatedly realizing the Jornal of International Economics is in here!

Members of Steel Pulse, The Clash and Sex Pistols demonstrating outside National Front Leader Martin Webster’s house in 1977 Photo by Caroline Coon #punk #punks #punkrock #PunksAgainstRacism #steelepulse #TheClash #sexpistols #NaziPunksFuckOff #punkrockhistory

Absolutely love this aesthetic. RIP

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(1) banger (2) i wish non-economists would realise just how much time each economics paper takes to write (because of our norms about how thorough each paper has to be)

The greatest thing I own or will ever own is this old retail standee where Dracula casually reveals a coffin full of Doritos and Pepsi.

The NSF GSF was the best and most important fellowship an aspiring PhD could hope to get when I was in grad school. It allowed people at the not-fancy schools (I was at UCSC) to potentially have support that the people at places like where I currently work (Stanford) take for granted.

British politics was doomed from the day that Gordon Brown was forced by the media to apologize for calling a bigoted woman a bigot *in private*.

NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk

when someone's peeling an apple before eating it i wanna tell em, hey put the knife away, you're thinking of oranges

“Decepticons team up with Mum-Ra”

A good resolution after the summer: get back into writing blog posts for the Banque de France. To start with: "𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲-𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺?" www.banque-france.fr/en/governors...