yeah, a very dense book (in a good way!)

i read it a couple months ago, i think it’s quite good!

that bernie moreno full employment immigration question was 🤮

Warsh Hearing: Warsh has made a career of favoring restrictive monetary policy—unless, of course, his normative preferences were in alignment with those who control the executive branch. At those times, he has tended to favor easy money. #Econ #EconSky

Providence lawmakers, looking to cash in on the World Cup, consider letting bars stay open all night - The Boston Globe In an effort to compete with Boston, officials in Rhode Island are considering letting bars stay open 24/7. But not all bar owners are fans of the idea.

quoted in this Globe article about rhode island’s idea on extending bar hours to 24 hours/day during the world cup. probably not worth the very clear costs!

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/18/m...

rich clarida on the new macro musings 🗣️

everyone have some popcorn for futures sunday?

WELL

SPURS LOL

got me to order!

moving F1 to apple tv means i have completely forgotten the sport exists

A multiple choice exam question asking “Who the current Chair of the Fed is?” and the student selected John Maynard Keynes.

grading my macro principles exams and realllly thought this was a gimme question…

all of today’s trump/iran announcements seem like nothing actually? like nothing has changed and doesn’t feel like it’s indicative of the future because they’re both so volatile and unmoored from prior comments

New! Price transparency was meant to lower costs. In a large NY RCT, it instead raised charges ~1% (driven by lower-priced providers with few out-of-network patients) with no change in patient behavior -- likely helping providers benchmark, not consumers shop. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

everyday, i am forced to see this man exhibit the behavior of a clown

jay AND oster—truly a health economist’s nightmare blunt rotation

Really great, balanced, non-sensationalist reporting, Ollie!

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

have we considered sending archie grey to navigate the straight?

this is great joe!! 🫡

women grabs seagull by the throat.

every day of this past week (month, quarter, year) has felt like this.

“game theory would say” got an audible laugh out of me

Here's a big one from NIH. It remains Trump admin policy to

- Cap indirects at 15% (repeatedly rebuffed by courts and Congress)

- Multi-year fund *all* grants. As a reminder, this has the effect of dramatically decreasing the total number of labs and projects supported by the government.

having gone to NU for grad school, let me just say: yes.

so this feels like nothing?? so riddled with holes

(Iran’s president is not in charge of the military)

using this as my micro principles teaching example for reference points

my guy on bloomberg rn talking cheerfully about low multiples sounds crazy and that’s why i couldn’t never work in investment

the NCAA uploaded raw footage of the UConn buzzer-beater from every camera CBS had in the building to youtube (will drop in the replies) and the best part has to be this hard pan to Dan Hurley's mom yelling HOLY FUCKING SHIT followed by a synchronized simultaneous HOLY SHIT by both Hurley parents