Book tour ends on a high note at the @latimes.com Festival of Books!

Boston peeps! I will be in town tonight giving a book talk at 7pm. Please come and hang out with us! RSVP below… brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2026-0...

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️

It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.

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BBC Audio | Woman's Hour | First female Archbishop of Canterbury, Schiaparelli exhibition, Swiftynomics Reaction to the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England.

What can Taylor Swift teach us about the economy? @mlheggeness.bsky.social explains how her concept of Swiftynomics shines a light on the true value of women’s work and influence, today on BBC Woman's Hour! @ucpress.bsky.social

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Does he understand how non-US citizens become “undocumented”??? It’s definitely not by getting on a plane to the US with a valid visa…which is the only way they let you on the plane. 🙄

In Chicago? Come see me!

The privilege of care and its relationship to the economy Abstract. This paper provides a conceptual overview and exploration of formal and informal care provisions and their implications on economic measurement r

In their OxREP article, Misty L. Heggeness, Joseph Bommarito, and Pilar McDonald introduce the concept of ‘care privilege’. Those with easy access to care provision often control policymaking, while caregivers struggle to influence social policies.
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No @sxsw, a economista Misty Heggeness usou o fenômeno Taylor Swift para explicar algo maior: mulheres não apenas consomem, elas movem mercados.

O chamado “efeito Taylor” já impacta turismo, audiência, streaming e receita em escala. Um exemplo de como cultura, fandom e estratégia… #SXSW #B9noSXSW

When jobs are scarce, both men and women prefer that men work—but exposure to just six weeks of women working is enough to shift both partners' support for women's labor supply, from Yueh-ya Hsu, Reshmaan N. Hussam, Erin M. Kelley, and Gregory Lane www.nber.org/papers/w34969

KU leaders bully faculty instead of listening to them. That must change | Opinion Leadership chose a strategy commonly used to deflect responsibility. That’s the reason behind the no-confidence vote. | Opinion

In today’s episode of leadership 101… www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...

If the people writing policy have “care privilege,” what are they missing?

In this week's episode, Misty Heggeness uses “Swiftynomics” to expose what economics still refuses to see—and why it matters for how our economy actually works.

🎧 Listen at the following link: buff.ly/3mSrkn2

The Heritage Foundation's New Policy Guidebook Wants to Push Women Out of Public Life Heritage Foundation ties declining birthrates to women’s independence, proposes policies to steer them back toward early marriage and motherhood.

The Heritage Foundation's New Policy Guidebook Wants to Push Women Out of Public Life

Worry more about your learning than your grades.

Do you work at BEA, BLS or any of the other stats agencies? I'd love to talk to you. You can reach me on Signal at bencasselman.96.

SXSW 2026 panel focuses on the economic and marketing power of Taylor Swift Misty L. Heggeness, the author of "Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy," discussed why Swift's brand works.

We talked all about it! www.kvue.com/article/ente...

A SNAPSHOT OF TRUMP'S ECONOMY—judged by his own goals: manufacturing jobs are down 100,000 since Trump took office, private-sector job growth is the weakest we’ve seen outside a recession in more than 20 years, and the unemployment rate for U.S.-born workers has increased.

@swiftynomics.bsky.social meets NY, NY 🍎 @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy @rutgersupress.bsky.social

Breaking down the mastermind economics of Taylor Swift Misty Heggness, an economist and professor, joins "CBS Saturday Morning" to discuss her new book "Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy."

Don't miss @mlheggeness.bsky.social on @cbssaturday.bsky.social discussing tips like "authenticity" that everyone can take from Taylor Swift's rise to success, detailed in her new book SWIFTYNOMICS: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy: www.cbsnews.com/video/breaki...

Iran Says Dozens Are Killed in Strike on School The strike on an elementary school in the southern Iran town of Minab was one of two attacks that appear to have hit schools during U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Saturday.

During the U.S. and Israel attack in Iran on Saturday, dozens of people, most of them likely children, were killed when a strike hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab and a high school in Tehran, according to Iranian health officials, state media and a human rights group.

Miami 💕💕💕

Taylor Swift, Beyonce, and Women's Economic Agency Today

I'll be at SXSW 2026, where you can book me for this @e180labs braindate: Taylor Swift, Beyonce, and Women's Economic Agency Today a.e180.co/l/nuwui7/

kermit the frog is standing behind a red curtain . ALT: kermit the frog is standing behind a red curtain .

I really need the bombastic news cycles to slow down.

Epstein once attended an elite arts camp. Years later, he used it to find his victims Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell lavished money on the Interlochen Center for the Arts to gain access, documents show — even funding an on-campus lodge they stayed in. In the process, two teenagers were pulled into their orbit.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell lavished money on the Interlochen Center for the Arts to gain access, documents show — even funding an on-campus lodge they stayed in. In the process, two teenagers were pulled into their orbit. n.pr/3MyKsok

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.

“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Quick but eventful trip to LA for the book tour - which included a stop at 📚🍜! IYKYK

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

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The IRS slips on ICE The tax agency just shared thousands of unsuspecting people's private tax data with immigration enforcement.

On the newsletter -- How the IRS managed to spill thousands of the "wrong" people's confidential tax data to ICE.

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