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okay, hear me out:

we always want to assess teaching, but the causal effects of office hours are hard to measure

I've got office hours right now, and a midterm in 3 hours. However, a thunderstorm just started.

i think we can use rainfall as an IV

With 10 Presidents in 10 Years, Peru’s Real Leader Is Its Central Banker Julio Velarde has steered the economy through crises in a country that the U.S. increasingly views as an important regional ally.

Peru is gearing up to elect its 10th president in 10 years but another serious question weighs on the nation: What happens if its central-bank governor of 20 years retires?

The central bank has a 96% approval rating among business owners, compared with 3% for congress, according to a poll last year

aoc is one the few national politicians and 2028 hopefuls who has not yet written a book to raise her profile and i hope, instead of the bog-standard ghostwritten memoir, it is inexplicably a hard-boiled noir detective novel

I still think casting Orville Peck as Vega is really funny. It is a joke for no-one except the venn diagram of Orville Peck fans and people who want to see this. there are dozens of us! dozens!

Street Fighter | Official Trailer (2026 Movie) YouTube video by Paramount Pictures

Now that the Hollywood "remember this thing you liked in childhood" train is catching up to me I'm into it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt4X...

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But they’re *mad* about that?

They’re dragging you for this? Bizarre. (Not having read the paper, my gut is that it would be strange if macro/finance converged to applied micro because structural methods and VARs eat a much larger chunk of the market, but maybe you’re betting those out)

economists ca. 2027, probably

Really delighted to be part of this!

put the baggle in the bayg

Re-upping for tax day:
“Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society” according to Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

But time and money Americans spend on tax reporting is the price we pay for a dysfunctional government unwilling to invest in public interest capacity.

I wanted to throw a quote from Empire Records on my slides for my growth class and realized that it came out 31 years ago

Ugh. I’m sorry Matt.

Uff.

Congrats!

Particularly on issues falling outside our areas of expertise.

many economists would be better served by suppressing the reflexive contrarian in their brains, or at least not letting the contrarian type their posts

A hairless rat named Neil possibly a dumbo hairless neil is a special boy and he is banging out the tunes happy neil day everyone!

Neil Day April 13th, 2006🎂🥂🎈

Wanna pet the kitty

“Is Eric Adam’s an Albanian-American politician” the greatest thread in the history of the forums locked after 138 pages of debate

Tell me about a complicated man!

New release from the Michigan Survey of Consumers for March 2026

#Inflation #expectations of household surge. The median 1-year-ahead increased to almost 5%.

One-year expected business conditions plunged about 20%

More there: www.sca.isr.umich.edu

Inflation pressures were firming before the war.

The core PCE index rose 0.37% in February and was +3.0% on the year.

The 6-month annualized rate was +3.4%, the highest since June 2024, before the Fed began to cut rates.

The 3-month annualized rate was +4.4%, the highest since March 2024.

GENERAL LEE AND HIS ARMY HAVE SURRENDERED! SLAVERY AND TREASON BURIED IN THE SAME GRAVE! America by the grace of God free and independent Dawning of the day of peace All honor to the gallant brave

SLAVERY AND TREASON BURIED IN THE SAME GRAVE

description from Huntington library: "A lithograph printed on heavy paper. Satirical "death certificate" issued for the Southern Confederacy. Mourning border, each line in different typeface, with: Died, Near the South-Side Rail Road, / on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, / The Southern Confederacy, / Aged Four Years, / Conceived in Sin, Born in iniquity, Nurtured by Tyranny, Died of / a Chronic Attack of Punch. / Abraham Lincoln, Attending Physician. / U.S. Grant, Undertaker. / Jeff Davis, Chief Mourner. Below in smaller print an epitaph that ends with: And this one line shall grace your grave-- / Your death gave freedom to the slave." https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll6/id/5033

to all who celebrate...

NANCY HAS MET SLUGGO DOWNTOWN HE HAS JUST GOT PAID AT THE BAIT SHOP WHERE HE WORKS NANCY IS TRULY SURPRISED ABOUT HIS PAY SLUGGO:THEY PAY ME IN WOIMS SLUGGO IS HOLDING A TIN CAN FILLED WITH WOIMS (WORMS)

WOIMSDAY

Understanding the risks to economic statistics | Brookings The Economic Indicators Initiative presents four papers framing the issues faced by the Federal Statistical System.

Brookings is partnering with Urban, AEI, Niskanen, Upjohn Institute to launch the Economic Indicators Initiative (EII), a collaborative effort with the mission of highlighting risks to the federal statistical system and strengthening the production of economic statistics