When an economist becomes president: “He gets bored in long meetings… He doesn’t like meeting with governors and mayors. He likes to play with his dogs and read Econometrica,” an academic journal. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

The Friends of BLS steering committee is sponsoring a member webinar noon to 1pm ET Thurs, Oct 23. We aim to build nonpartisan support for a strong BLS & need your perspectives & energy. Former Commissioners @ericagroshen.bsky.social, William Beach, & @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social will... #EconSky

I am sorry to hear this. These volunteer academic experts have worked hard, motivated by a genuine passion to improve the quality of government statistics. Quite the opposite should be occurring—academic experts could play an even more important role as agency budgets are reduced.

Excited to share our new paper on the employment and consumption effects of recent student loan forgiveness with @mikedinerstein.bsky.social, Sam Earnest, and Constantine Yannelis 🧵👇

Hugely excited to see this paper land If you haven’t seen it: there is no clear evidence of a recent spread in freelance/gig work besides platform based driving. And one needs to beware when trying to measure trends using self-reported tax data like form 1040 Sched C or SE!

Thanks @aaronsojourner.org! excited to see it accepted!