Peter Navarro’s aggressive sycophancy in Donald Trump’s first term foretold how everyone around the President would behave in the second, Ian Parker writes. Navarro is the template for the Administration’s obsequious officials. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"The tariffs are so complicated that even the government agency tasked with enforcing them can't accurately describe what they are." 🤣😢 reason.com/2025/12/23/t...

The NY TWU turned opposed congestion pricing as well. Really seems like they're laser-focused on extracting the rents they can from a static or declining system rather than participating in a positive-sum program to expand transit service to more New Yorkers

Looking ahead to the ASSA meeting in Philly, join me at - ES "Development of American Cities" Jan 3 10:15a - AREUEA "Urban Economics" Jan 3 2:30p - ES "Climate, Policy, and the Global Economy" Jan 4 2:30p - ES "Spatial Sorting and Economic Transformations" Jan 5 8:00a www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...

Steve Davis and Nick Bloom podcast summarizing their recent WFH conference: www.hoover.org/research/coo...

I browsed a preview of Jesse Shapiro's forthcoming Introduction to Quantitative Economics book earlier this year, and it is fantastic. I pre-ordered it just now and will incorporate it into my PhD teaching in the fall. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205105...

Ministers and senior MPs have warned that the UK’s agreements with Donald Trump are “built on sand” after the Guardian established that the deal to avoid drug tariffs has no underlying text beyond limited headline terms. #R4Today

Confirmation now of a €3 customs duty to be applied to e-commerce parcels from outside the EU that are worth under €150 from July 2026 No mention of China in the press release, but this is all about Temu, Shein, AliExpress. Postal services are overwhelmed by volume of packages

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

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.

Literally zero replies on BlueSky to my request for trade JMPs and spatial JMPs. Dozens on Twitter. The candidates aren't on this platform.

Trade JMPs (2025-2026) tradediversion.net/2025/11/27/t...

Spatial economics JMPs (2025-2026) tradediversion.net/2025/11/27/s...

Update on the state of the job market courtesy of a nudge by @gottliebecon.bsky.social It's bad! paulgp.com/2025/11/24/j...

Duties for thee, not me: “Winland, the complainant, is owned by private-equity company Investindustrial, which… owns two Italy-based pasta producers, La Doria and gourmet food chain Eataly, and has a partnership with a further Italian pasta maker, Pastificio Di Martino.” Almost makes one cynical…

I appreciate the WSJ following up on this story, which is already in danger of being one of many forgotten scandals in elite academia.

Interested in a PhD program that offers students the opportunity to do interdisciplinary research at the nexus of natural science and economics? Please join us for a SustDev information session December 4 from 10:15-12 ET. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The White House thinks the decline in US exports of education services is good and is celebrating it. 🙄

New in RSUE: How local is local development? Evidence from casinos, by Ari Anisfeld, Jordan Rosenthal-Kay. #econsky #urbanecon

@ckhead.bsky.social & @thierry-mayer.bsky.social‬ argue that the recent estimate of an equivalent 45% tariff in intra-EU costs is likely too high & vastly overstates the barriers which could be lowered due to Commission policy decisions. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

15 percent of American homes lacked indoor plumbing in 1960. The idea that everyone in 1955 America lived in a split-level suburban home with two cars and three kids and one income is, quite simply, a fantasy borne of media consumption.

‘A new service called Objector is offering “policy-backed objections in minutes” to people who are upset about planning applications near their homes.’ Another reminder that AI can be used for things you don’t like as well as things you like…

Trade JMCs: Each year, I compile a list of international-trade job-market papers. To make sure you're on my list (& save me some work), please reply with your info in the following format: Firstname Surname (School) - JMP title - homepageURL [Spatial JMCs: reply to other post]

Spatial JMCs: Each year, I compile a list of spatial-economics job-market papers. To make sure you're on my list (& save me some work), please reply with your info in the following format: Firstname Surname (School) - JMP title - homepageURL [Trade JMCs: reply to other tweet]

I enjoy this week's class in my PhD course because it's important and I'm still figuring things out. github.com/jdingel/econ...

Some authors have contacted AEA editors about an unexpected loss of data access that affects their ability to respond to an R&R. If this affects you, please explain the circumstances in your cover letter. Or reach out to the coeditor if you need guidance before resubmitting. @aeajournals.bsky.social

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

will there be any followup to this fascinating story by the president of the united states that a friend of his sent him a check for $130 million dollars and the president is going to give the money to the military because i for one am fascinated about the details tbh

I so appreciate the colleges that report the median grade for the course on transcripts. I wish that practice was universal.

Uh oh; "A fire at Novelis’s Oswego, N.Y., plant, which supplies about 40% of U.S. auto industry aluminum, will disrupt automakers for months" www.wsj.com/business/aut... Fortunately, imported aluminum can fill the void and mitigate this massive domestic supply chain disrupti- Oh.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

PhD students underestimate the value (and difficulty) of writing well. Hiring faculty skim dozens of JMPs in a short time. If your contribution is unclear, you will get fewer interviews. Editing improves economics papers (RCT): doi.org/10.1016/j.je... I am happy to recommend www.amyedits.net

Join this @budgetlab.bsky.social webinar on Tuesday at noon on “Tariffs in an Uncertain Legal Environment,” ft. @scottlincicome.bsky.social @anaswanson.bsky.social @natasharsarin.bsky.social

NYT simply failing to ask if kitchen cabinets are a national security emergency here, well done www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

New to me: Chipman (1965): "it would seem fair to say that both Torrens and Ricardo contributed in essential ways to the development of the law of comparative advantage; and that credit for the principal discovery should go to Torrens." doi.org/10.2307/1911...

Restricting visas doesn’t lead to hiring non-immigrants—it leads to hiring foreigners. For every H-1B visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada. via @florianederer.bsky.social

Professor Robert Staiger, the Roth Family Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, has been appointed as the new Chief Economist of the World Trade Organization. @wto.org

Unsurprising because it’s Noto: this episode is fantastic. Students and junior faculty should listen about how to negotiate with chairs and deans.

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

Predoc opportunity in health/labor/public economics at @beckerfriedman.bsky.social: job-boards.greenhouse.io/universityof... Please share widely! #EconSky

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said during press conference that 316 Korean nationals (310 men, 6 women) are set to be released from the Georgia detention facility at 3pm. He also says that this incident would make Korean companies hesitant about investing in the U.S.

New in RSUE: How local is local development? Evidence from casinos, by Ari Anisfeld, Jordan Rosenthal-Kay. #econsky #urbanecon

New York City’s expansive train system currently has two-person crews on nearly all of its lines, unlike the one-person or fully automated trains in major cities like London, Paris and Washington, D.C.: https://bit.ly/4nnEhQF

The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Trying to explain why international trade is good to an American: okay so imagine a burger (yes this is a real ad on the Canadian embassy in DC)

"Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, is creating a way for investors to bet that President Donald Trump’s signature tariffs will be struck down in court."

By a 7-4 vote, the full Federal Circuit has *affirmed* a lower-court ruling holding that many of President Trump’s tariffs exceed his statutory authority. The ruling won’t go into effect until October 14, though—which gives the Trump administration plenty of time to seek intervention from #SCOTUS:

That… is the entire point of the Federal Reserve.