Incredibly random, but do I know anyone who can put me in touch with Del The Funky Homosapien?

Just trying to understand these two news items published within 5 days of each other

"Western civilization," the font, the 11 stars - 11 states in the confederacy, for the record. Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal

With a win over the Eagles, the Bears move to 9-3 on the season. That matches their best start since 2010 🤯

It's Thanksgiving and I'm feeling generous so here's Busta Rhymes and the TMNT

"We show that rising insurance premiums, driven by changing reinsurance prices that reflect increasing catastrophic risk, are being capitalized into house prices, and may further reduce demand for properties exposed to increasing disaster risk."

A very happy Taco Party for Dragons at Robbie’s House to all who celebrate!

"Climate shock." New study shows that rising property insurance premiums caused by growing weather extremes are cascading into the real estate market. Homes in the ZIP codes most exposed to hurricanes and wildfires would sell for an average of $43,900 less than they would otherwise.

Home Prices on a Warming Planet "chaos in the insurance market is starting to eat into the real estate market in some places, a scenario that experts have dreaded for years"... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...

A member of Congress just filled out a threat report with the Capitol Police naming the President of the United States as the person making the threat. Think of where we were on January 7, 2021 when the country overwhelmingly repudiated what had happened. And think of where we are now.

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NYT: “.. high insurance costs are cascading into the broader real estate market, suppressing home values by an average of $44,000 in the top 10 percent of U.S. ZIP codes most vulnerable to hurricanes and wildfires ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We document rapidly rising premiums & a doubling of the pass-through from disaster risk into premiums. Using variation in correlated wildfire and hurricane exposure, we show that the increase in the risk-to-premium gradient was accelerated by a repricing of catastrophic risk in global capital market

Keys & Mulder build dataset to study homeowners insurance using over 74 million premiums from 2014–2024 inferred from mortgage escrow payments. Premium increases are capitalized into home values, reducing home price growth by over $40,000 in the most exposed zip codes. www.nber.org/papers/w32579

Philip Mulder and I are excited to share a major update to our working paper, "Property Insurance and Disaster Risk: New Evidence from Mortgage Escrow Data," with NYT coverage and making our data publicly available! www.nber.org/papers/w32579 (1/n)

See my commentary in @nytimes.com in re climatic & non-climatic factors pushing down home prices (always excellent work of @benkeys.bsky.social & P. Mulder) Amazing to see how far prices have tanked in Nola. Good News: homes w/ Fortified Roofs are holding their value. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Senator Menendez is sitting in his cell at Allenwood right now because he took a 1kg gold bar from the Egyptians, among other forms of “lobbying.”

My group at the University of Illinois is hiring a tenure-track applied economist. We're especially interested in environmental/public reduced-form rookies with research that complements our group. Tell your students to apply! #EconSky www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

I hope future generations recognize how quickly and strangely the contours of what counts as a political scandal changed for this president.

A pardon "following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company." Unprecedented corruption.

Today, the U.S. faces one billion+ dollar climate/weather disaster on average every 2w. That's a massive increase from one every 4m in the 1980s. This is 'global weirding' and people are taking notice! The government told NOAA to stop tracking these events: but @climatecentral.org is on the job.

Impunity for his allies even as he forces prosecutions of his enemies (Comey, James, soon possibly Schmitt and more) and prepares to deploy the IRS against groups that oppose him

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

Wharton’s real estate department is hiring pre-docs! Please send your amazing undergrads our way and reach out with any questions! #Econsky

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Wharton’s real estate department is hiring pre-docs! Please send your amazing undergrads our way and reach out with any questions! #Econsky

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages www.propublica.org/article/trum... www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

No words

The Trump administration canceled a $7 billion program intended to help low- and moderate-income families install rooftop solar panels. The cuts are dealing a disproportionate blow to the Republican-led states that propelled him back to office.

ICE has been pulling guns on civilians, spraying tear gas in the face of protestors who film them, shooting priests with pepper spray and pellets—and, increasingly it seems, targeting journalists and others trying to document their activities. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

Six more houses in the Outer Banks have collapsed as Hurricanes Humberto and Imelda rumbled in the Atlantic. All were unoccupied. https://wapo.st/42iGmFE

No one outside the U.S. is confused and no one here would be confused if they saw this happening in another country.

Troops. In an American city. Using full force. Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

Stephen Miran has outlined his case for massive rate cuts. The logic is utterly tortured—and bizarre. One explanation: He’s the president’s messenger. Another: He thinks his career benefits from flattering power. A third: He’s inhaled too many White House talking points. None inspire confidence.

Alright here we go: You Love America. I started writing this last year; it had this same title last year; depressingly little had to be changed for it to fit in to this moment. open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...

Hello Friends. I am ecstatic to announce that I have reacquired the entire Spontaneanation catalogue and effective immediately you can find every episode wherever you get your podcasts. Don’t get drunk and fight each other.

#BLS has delayed the 2024 Consumer Expenditures Survey annual release. This is likely due to the severe understaffing in the agency. Staff losses and hiring freeze are taking their toll. www.bls.gov/cex/notices/... #econsky

The Fed’s outlook for GDP growth isn’t very optimistic — below 2% for the next 3 years. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart

Key chart www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“The top 10% of U.S. households now account for nearly half of all consumer spending, a record high since data collection on this metric began in 1989.” @weisenthal.bsky.social @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

Hey, #EconSky! Got a policy-relevant paper that you want folks in DC to see? Present & publish it with NBER's Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy. Submission deadline is Oct 20. Conference is in DC on May 21, 2026. More details below. conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

ProPublica finds three Trump cabinet secretaries have more than one "primary residence" mortgages. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

A thought experiment. What if the world's climate policy for the next few years was: flood the planet with cheap or free solar panels? billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-modest-p...