The payment system puts a floor on the Fed’s balance sheet | Brookings Darrell Duffie analyzes recent increases in the Fed's balance sheet and potential strategies to reduce its holdings.

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👀 Federal Chair nominee Kevin Warsh, whose Senate confirmation kicks off Tuesday, wants to shrink the #FederalReserve's $6.6 trillion balance sheet. Research in @brookings.edu from SIEPR's Darrell Duffie offers a roadmap for the reforms needed to do that w/o blowing up money markets. Details ⤵️

Opinion | The Great Hesitation

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Political dysfunction is seeping into American capitalism, warns Amit Seru, Stanford professor and SIEPR senior fellow, in today's @nytimes.com. Trump's erratic policies are the key reason, but even Biden shoulders some blame. Free link 👇

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Congratulations to SIEPR's Ran Abramitzky and 4 other
@stanforduniversity.bsky.social scholars recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation for their trailblazing work! Abramitzky's research has debunked immigration myths and shed light on income inequality. More on these 2026 @guggfellows.bsky.social ⤵️

Thank you @aaronsojourner.org for joining us and for sharing your insights with the many policymakers in the room. It is, as you said, a "bold new world" in terms of what researchers can do to help governments design policies that work!

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📢 Happening today starting 1pm Pacific time! SIEPR Policy Forum on how to make high-quality #childcare #affordable and accessible for American families — featuring insights from those leading the way in San Francisco, New Mexico and Vermont. Agenda & livestream in link 👇

AI’s big productivity boost? It’s happening from the sofa A new study by SIEPR’s Michael Blank is among the first to examine an overlooked effect of generative AI: It’s significantly boosting how much people get done at home.

In the #AI race to help us get more things done in less time, the couch is so far beating the cubicle. That's according to research by SIEPR's Michael Blank measuring how much GenAI tools like ChatGPT are boosting productivity at home. Read the news summary: tinyurl.com/bdvcc52p

If patients don’t trust doctors, the consequences for their health + the economy can be far-reaching. In a new episode of Econ To Go, @marcellaalsan.bsky.social, a Stanford physician-economist, shares her research on patient trust + the importance of remedying it. siepr.stanford.edu/av/Econ-To-G...

178,000 U.S. jobs were added in March, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics today. Can the numbers be trusted? Listen as @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social, who President Trump abruptly fired as BLS chief last summer after a bad jobs report, answers that crucial question. tinyurl.com/bdenuy9m

When the World Stops Syncing The global trade war that Donald Trump launched one year ago didn’t just temporarily raise tariffs. It may have also broken the global system that lets technologies like Bluetooth work everywhere.

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🌎 It's been exactly one year since President Trump's "Liberation Day" declaration marked a major shift away from post-WWII global cooperation. A likely lasting impact: U.S. companies have fewer reasons to innovate, SIEPR's Steve Davis (also w/Hoover Institution) tells @politico.com. Read on 👇

Adrien Bilal, winner of the 2026 Best Young Economist Award: 'Climate change will cost 50% of GDP by 2100' The winner of the 27th edition of the prize, created in 2000 by Le Monde and Le Cercle des Economistes, has developed a model that better captures the global impacts of climate disruption.

🥳 Congratulations to @adrienbilal.bsky.social, SIEPR faculty fellow and assistant professor of economics, for his 2026 Best Young Economist Award from French media giant Le Monde. Bilal is being recognized for his research into the economic impacts of #climatechange: tinyurl.com/yxn328hw

Private Credit, Balance Sheets and Financial Stability Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Despite signs of strain, private credit funds moved one step closer to attracting #401K savings under a proposed rule released today by the Trump administration. Study👇 by SIEPR's Amit Seru is a must-read overview of the ~$2T market for #privatecredit funds. #RetirementPlanning.

US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says

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Quantifying climate loss and damage consistent with a social cost of carbon - Nature A new framework links specific emissions to monetized, location-specific climate damages, showing that future harms from past CO2 emissions far exceed historical damages and that delayed carbon remova...

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Coauthors: @mustafahzahid.bsky.social & @stanforddoerr.bsky.social professor Noah Diffenbaugh

‼️ The U.S. is responsible for $10T in global economic damages due to climate change since 1990, making it the No. 1 contributor to global losses from rising temps: @nature.com study from SIEPR's @marshallburke.bsky.social, Solomon Hsiang & others. Details in links👇 #ClimateCrisis

Pain at the pump: What spiking gas prices mean for consumers, the US economy A new analysis by scholars at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research into the implications of higher gas bills is making waves. Here, two of the authors explain why.

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Gas prices and tax refunds go hand in hand. When the cost of the first goes up, the payoff from the other goes down. A new analysis by SIEPR's @nealemahoney.bsky.social, @jaredb-econ.bsky.social, Caleb Brobst and @weakinstrument.bsky.social explaining this effect is causing quite a stir. Read on👇

From @jaredb-econ.bsky.social and colleagues from @siepr.bsky.social. Any supposed tax benefit from the megabill is going to get swallowed up by the spike in gas prices. (see next tweet for link)

Erika McEntarfer’s firing as Bureau of Labor Statistics chief upset leaders across the political spectrum. In this episode of Econ To Go, @nealemahoney.bsky.social talks with @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social about her exit & the urgent challenges in real-time data collection. Link: tinyurl.com/bdenuy9m

👇 Here's evidence that both sides of the gun ownership debate might find common ground beyond their mutual desire to feel safe, courtesy of SIEPR's @marcellaalsan.bsky.social and coauthors. #GunControl #GunViolence

✂️ SIEPR Economic Summit 2026: Erik Brynjolfsson on humans' comparative advantage in an AI world 52 seconds · Clipped by Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) · Original video "SIEPR Economic Summit 2026 | AI & the Economy" by Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIE...

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As fears of an #AI jobs apocalypse grow, SIEPR's @erikbryn.bsky.social (also @stanforddel.bsky.social) shed light at our recent Economic Summit on what's happening in the #labormarket today and offered this encouragement: Humans still have a comparative advantage over machines. He explains in link 👇

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⛽️Surging gas prices are taking a bite out of President Trump's promised tax refunds promised, and could devour the largest checks. The math in link 👇, courtesy of SIEPR's @nealemahoney.bsky.social, @jaredb-econ.bsky.social, Caleb Brobst and @weakinstrument.bsky.social.

#GasPrices #Affordability

Examining US Physician Incomes by International Comparison SHP's Maria Polyakova and Victoria Udalova compare physician income in the United States, Canada, Sweden and the Netherlands. U.S. doctors earn significantly more than their foreign counterparts—but t...

SHP's & @siepr.bsky.social's Maria Polyakova compares physician income in the U.S., Canada, Sweden and the Netherlands. U.S. doctors earn significantly more than their foreign counterparts—but that's largely because Americans across the board earn more.
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