First batch of CTA Smart Streets data for 2026. $343k through the end of Feb, around double 2025's pace. Expanded pilot zone has added a lot of bike lane and expired meter ticketing along Clark, Halsted, and Lincoln on the north side.

I have been an economists for a very long time. I have always been a little surprised by how some people will talk about recession as a necessary reset or a “cleans.” There is this “let them eat cake” kind of mentality that emerges that somehow a recession is like a fast for a day and healthy.

This may have to go into "Lemon, it's Wednesday" -level heavy rotation at this point.

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

i'm so old i remember when Hillary tried to make healthcare easier and the GOP screeched at her to stay in her lane

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

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i feel like this guy is my spiritual sibling

Ill be in Milan this week for the Crypto Asset Lab 2026 conference, in case anyone wants to chat!

Gary Becker feels you, guys

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I'll be in Philadelphia for the #ASSA2026 meetings. Feel free to reach out if you want to meet in person!

I've never taken the Amtrak in north Texas. Glad to see that Texas continues to be very Texas. (Many Midwest stations look very minimal/corporate)

The way gmail now makes it an expedition to access the information for Contacts is a thing to behold. It used to be a little separate side tab. Now I have to go to a whole new website? Cmon.

This piece I wrote for @theconversation.com argues that the Summers/Epstein debacle reflects what the data show: systemic bias in the economics profession’s practices and culture. That bias influences who succeeds and who is sidelined. #EconSky theconversation.com/larry-summer...

The American Economic Association's Committee on the Job Market surveyed Economics Departments in the U.S. regarding their plans to hire assistant professors this cycle (2025-26). 29.7% said that their department was under a hiring freeze. 1/3 #EconSky #EconJobMarket

#TeachEcon: Not sure if everyone else already knew this, but going through my LinkedIn connections has been an absolutely delightful way to see what my past students have been up to.

Looking to speak with academics/experts specializing in video games studies specifically ideas around conquest, environmentalism, and land for a piece. Please repost this or give recs.

Elsevier has a 38% profit margin, and the other journal publishers aren't far behind.

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

In March 2019, we asked our US Economic Experts Panel about Modern Monetary Theory. The results of the 1st question are below: kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/mode...

Google Maps is a more impressive achievement than any given physical wonder of the world, in my opinion.

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

Grape Harvest Dates in Beaune/Burgundy, 1659-2018. Since the early 1980s, the moving 20-year avg of Burgundy grape harvest dates has dropped by 16 days. That is, harvest starts more than half a month earlier than 35 years ago.  #climatechange #globalwarming

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Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness

I hear the young 'uns have created a new form of media they're calling a "video podcast". Whatever will they think of next?

The American Economic Association should select its president through an open election with multiple candidates. NBER, BREAD, and JPAL should allow self-nominations for membership, rotate the committees that decide, and provide feedback to rejected applicants.

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

The webinar overview of the coming #EconJobMarket is now posted to the AEA website. It contains info about trends in the # of jobs, recent # of applications/interviews/flyouts/offers, and placement outcomes, as well as advice. #EconSky www.aeaweb.org/joe/communic...

Who are the economists most central to the profession? CollEc provides answers from co-authorship network analysis. Bonus: find the shortest path between any two economists. collec.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

This morning, the @chicagofed introduced new labor market indicators that combine private sector data with official labor statistics to provide a real-time view of hiring, layoffs and other job separations, and an early forecast of the unemployment rate. www.chicagofed.org/research/dat....

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

#EconSky or #PolicySky: Is there anywhere that lists which tariffs are *actually* being enforced at the moment, and when any that have been announced but are suspended/etc. are slated to take effect?

Star Trek Stargate Star Wars

Constitutional calvinball

One thing I feel like everyone needs to understand: those social-democratic Scandinavian nations we're all jealous of? Their market economies are *less regulated* than ours. More free. It's just that they collect a lot of taxes on the back end & fund social services & infrastructure.

Lots of reporting on Cook's firing at the Fed overlooks probably the most important part: the presidents of all 12 regional Feds are up for renewal in February 2026!! If Trump replaces Cook by then, he will have appointed a majority on the Board of Governors, who approve regional Fed appointments. 🧵

I love economic history because for instance, you discover that a bicycle bubble happened in Great Britain during the 1890s

The Fall seminar season is upon us. Advertise yours on the Economics Virtual Seminar Calendar. ideas.repec.org/v/ #RePEc #EconSky

Death rates from cardiovascular disease have been falling for a long time, but we rarely hear about it. @scientificdiscovery.dev looks at some of the medical innovations and changes in risk factors that are behind this: ourworldindata.org/cardiovascul...

I've seen several econs discussing the EJ Antoni nom centering his PhD institution, number of pub, or citations. This is disappointing, as several of these posters are well aware of econ's elitist nature. There is plenty of disqualifying evidence in his past X posts. Those are sufficient evidence.

My variant is that I would like the Healthcare exchanges in each state list as insurance options: 1. Medicare 2. Medicaid 3. Every federal employee option (from USPS tosenators) 4. Every state employee option All listed at full price (different from employee cost), but w/same coverage

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

Looking for economists to follow on BlueSky, in particular in your field or geographic area? IDEAS has various lists to help you. See there as well to get listed (hint: just add your BlueSky handle in your author profile) ideas.repec.org/i/ebluesky.h... #RePEc #EconSky

What are the current suggestions (beyond GitHub) for good version control for a group coding project. Or is everyone still just using Git?

In a way, it's so strange to think of procedures as being invented — like CPR in 1960 — and that they didn't exist before that. If people suddenly lost consciousness, hardly anyone would have any clue what to do. So many things that are easy to take for granted.

If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄