Canadian content restrictions are import restrictions with the equivalent of thorny rules-of-origin details. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/669-...

Who wants to tax a billionaire? My attempt to anger *everyone* in a fraught debate www.ft.com/content/bf18...

My RSS subscriptions largely reflect choices that I made 5+ years ago. That's probably suboptimal. I suspect I ought to follow some substacks, for example. What RSS feeds should I be following for my interests?

Why does R have a `log1p()` function?! log1p(x) computes log(1+x). I sure hope it's for good numerical precision reasons (www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/06...) and not so that people can more easily run log-log regressions with zero-valued outcomes...

New: Market Size and Trade in Medical Services, revised and expanded. Now with demographics-based IVs and a case study of mesothelioma care that also show regional increasing returns. Dollar for dollar, travel subsidies save more lives than output subsidies. www.jdingel.com/research/DGL...

RSS has been around for decades, but it’s still one of the most powerful tools around to take control of your media and social consumption. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "General Equilibrium Effects in Space: Theory and Measurement" by Rodrigo Adão, Costas Arkolakis, and Federico Esposito.

New in RSUE: The urban wage premium in historical perspective, by Kyle Butts, Taylor Jaworski, Carl T. Kitchens. #econsky #urbanecon

If you use PACER, your social responsibility is to include the RECAP extension on your browser to that every court document you pay to examine gets uploaded to CourtListener for free access by others. free.law/recap/

Tens of thousands of Iraq and Senegal fans at the game in Toronto yesterday. Numbers who applied for visas to travel to Canada from Iraq: 75 (65 rejected). From Senegal: 170 (145 rejected).

US House overwhelmingly backs affordable housing bill reut.rs/4ajtiDN

A federal judge who has reviewed a slew of subpoenas issued to Minnesota Gov Walz and a series of other prominent Democrats has concluded that this was all part of an act of peevish retaliation over their criticism of Trump's ICE crackdown in Minnesota and has quashed the subpoenas.

This is a chart I wish the remote work discourse would more fully internalize. It shows the employment level among prime-age Americans with disabilities rising by nearly one quarter post-pandemic (from ~31% to approaching 39%). It's up even more from 2016. This is almost certainly hybrid work & WFH.

🇫🇷 🇺🇸 US President Donald Trump has threatened to slap a 100 percent tariff on French wine and champagne unless Paris removes a digital services tax on tech firms, the New York Post reported on Monday. ➡️ u.afp.com/SzNB

"I think they have a problem with my country." Words from Omar Abdulkadir Artan, the FIFA appointed Somali referee. He was interviewed for 11 hours on arrival in USA for the World Cup and then sent home. Scandalous. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Most of Trump's current tariffs are only temporary, expiring in July. Last night we got more details of how the USTR is planning to replace them. The Trump administration is accusing 54 economies of failing to ban imports made with forced labour...

Today is the submission deadline for the Urban Economics Association meeting at the Chicago Fed, September 25-26. Please send your best urban-related work for our program committee to consider. urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea... @urbaneconomics.bsky.social

Final reminder: Deadline is May 21st!

I’m very sad to share that Ned Phelps passed away last night. Ned was my undergraduate advisor and the reason I’m an economist. He was beyond brilliant but more importantly an amazing human being. His deep curiosity about the world will always be a lodestar for me.

It's annoying that OUP produces invalid BibTeX data. People cite @qjeharvard.bsky.social & @reveconstudies.bsky.social articles with wrong years because the BibTeX files are bad. I often see Caliendo Parro (2015), Dingel (2017), Fajgelbaum Goldberg Kennedy Khandelwal (2020) cited as '14, '16, '19.

Submissions for the #UEA2026 meeting in Chicago are due in one week. You can submit individual papers or propose a complete session. Session proposals get flexibility on timing/format! urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea...

Ooooooo I'm making the Department of Homeland Security mad with my new research y'all Check out @planetmoney.bsky.social's coverage of my research on the labor market effects of ICE in Trump 2.0 and DHS' response here: www.npr.org/sections/pla...

A potential consequence of WFH that I had not considered: more folks at home could mean fewer burglaries. ifs.org.uk/publications...

With a year of data in, the results are clear: the marginal ICE arrest is NOT a criminal. You can barely even tell on the right side of these charts of arrests of convicts when an ICE operation starts and ends. The spikes for noncriminals are massive.

Deadline almost here for Urban Economics Association urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea... I want to put together a panel for anyone who has a project in the environmental hazards and housing space. e.g. pollution or natural disasters and housing/resid outcomes. Reach out if interested.

Our next meeting will be in Chicago September 25-26, 2026. You can submit a paper or ask to participate as a chair or discussant here: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea... #emuea2026 #uea2026

📣 Call for papers 📣 20th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association September 25 - 26, 2026 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago Keynotes by Jens Ludwig and Steve Redding Please submit your paper by May 21st urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea...

President Trump's attempt to impose a 10 percent "global tariff" was ruled unlawful by the Court of International Trade on Thursday evening. It's another victory for the rule of law.

Congratulations to my @columbiabusiness.bsky.social colleagues Cristobal Otero and @conorwalsh.bsky.social on their NBER appointments. www.nber.org/news/nber-ap...

Prices of bags, containers, cups and utensils have all soared, sparking fears of shortages as manufacturers struggle to source packaging for products such as instant noodles, beverages and cosmetics. www.ft.com/content/3674...

Kathy Hochul's $5 million pied-à-terre tax is running into a problem: the city doesn't actually know how much properties are worth. Politicians are so eager to give single-family houses low taxes and soak almost everybody else that they've never really cared before. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/n...

“Applications from the United States to Sciences Po’s bachelor’s program surged 52 percent this academic year, while the number of Sciences Po students applying to study for a year in the United States has plunged by 50 percent.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/w...

3. Paul Krugman’s number one rule in his famous “How I work” essay was “Listen to the Gentiles … Pay attention to what intelligent people are saying, even if they do not have your customs or speak your analytical language.”

And the mechanism is vacancy chains: people move out of the old buildings and into the new one, which reduces demand for the old buildings.

It's April 15th, when your taxes are due and when admitted PhD students choose their graduate program. Why isn't this process organized using the deferred acceptance algorithm? If Al Roth can match medical residents, why aren't we matching econ PhD students and programs?

You are correct that it’s hard to study the effects of retail rent control, since almost nowhere is dumb enough to pass it

Pat Kline: "I don't like the phrase 'causal inference' either because it's usually 'causal estimand identification' are what those papers actually are; there's nothing to do with inference typically; there's no distribution theory in those papers." youtu.be/ifp_BUKl3ig?...

Almost all projectors are 16x9 these days. It's been six years since @paulgp.com told you how to set the aspect ratio in beamer, yet the market share of 4x3 slidedecks remains surprisingly high... github.com/paulgp/beame... #econsky

Congratulations to new Foreign Honorary Member Jacques-François Thisse of Catholic University of Louvain. aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...

Congratulations to Ludwig Straub @ludwigstraub.bsky.social of @harvard.edu, winner of the 2026 John Bates Clark Medal! www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...

Funny article where European academics puzzle over the fact that there are very few policy efforts to harmonize regulations across the US construction market academic.oup.com/publius/arti...

Like, being pro-free-trade was nominally a core conservative view. And the conservative intelligensia sincerely held that view. But Trump’s witless embrace of draconian tariffs as his signature economic policy turned out not to be a liability at all with Republican voters.

In response to the targeting of Iranian universities by the U.S. and Israel, Iran is now threatening to hit U.S.-linked universities in several Gulf countries, including satellites of: -CMU -VCU -Cornell -Northwestern -Georgetown -Texas A&M -NYU -American U -U of New Haven Very scary

my entire timeline on x is now just iranian embassies demonstrating a facility with the english language that puts everything i've ever read from the trump administration to shame

The President of the U.S. The man with the nuclear codes. And people are just going to pretend this is ok. In a functioning society, he would be removed from office within hours by his own party.

. @rfisman.bsky.social has a pair of papers on connections to Suharto and Dick Cheney that suggested institutional differences (www.hbs.edu/faculty/Page...). What would results for US politicians look like today? Has anyone written that follow up?

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇

New in the American Economic Review: migration doesn't hollow out the home economy — it builds it up. More than 75% of the long-run income gains from migration are domestic. The home economy itself grows. Here's what we found: 🧵

Trump: "We have a thing called a war, or as they would rather say, a military operation. It's for legal reasons. Because as a military operation, I don't need any approvals. As a war you're supposed to get approval from Congress. Something like that. So I call it a military operation."