Michael Hoffman

Love this concept and hoping for robust participation by federal economists.

🚨 Please share widely! 🚨

I'm hiring a postdoc (from Aug 1) to help build a new research program on politically sustainable immigration policies at Notre Dame.

Looking for a social scientist with strong quant skills, familiarity with new computational tools, and interest in public-facing research.

Michigan wins!

Wolverines in Columbus tonight is absolutely epic. If you are not watching this game you are missing out. Tied in OT with 8.5 seconds left.

The Fed's ample reserves framework: A report and a response | Brookings A proposal, and response, about the Fed's ample reserves framework.

Chris Hughes & Josh Younger criticize the Fed’s ample reserves framework, see IORB as a subsidy to the banks. Don Kohn and Bill English disagree. via @brookings.edu Hutchins Center www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

Looking for a way to get more involved with the Society of Government Economists? Nominations for the board of directors are being accepted through March 3rd. It’s a great group! www.sge-econ.org/about/electi...

The economics journal and working paper Starter Pack has expanded considerably! Many thanks to those who have shared or provided suggestions, especially @sorentsvendsen.bsky.social and @o.simardcasanova.net with many good suggestions.

The economics journal and working paper Starter Pack has expanded considerably! Many thanks to those who have shared or provided suggestions, especially @sorentsvendsen.bsky.social and @o.simardcasanova.net with many good suggestions.

Thank you!

Is the journal present on Bluesky?

Agreed.

Merci mille fois!

Definitely.

Thanks so much! These are on point. I can see why some would prefer to have these as a feed rather than Starter Pack also.

And no, I am not myself an economics journal but I have been unable to figure out how to delete myself from the Starter Pack...😂

Friends, I have created a Starter Pack of economics journals (and working paper series) active on Bluesky. Hope this is useful for academic, policy, and industry economists alike. #Econsky Please let me know if there are any that I missed!

WatchBlog post: When Members of Congress Need Answers to Complex Questions—They Come to GAO https://www.gao.gov/blog/when-members-congress-need-answers-complex-questions-they-come-gao?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=usgao

When members of Congress need answers to complex, difficult questions, they come to GAO.

How do we get them these answers? Find out in our new blog post and podcast: https://ow.ly/bpMj50YclSF

I particularly like Henry May, 1976, "The Enlightenment in America" which is quite direct about the tensions among the various intellectual traditions in American revolutionary thought.

I like to think of him as "Duke alum Dan Hungerman", but I don't mind sharing him with ND and Miami. 🙂

Major, documented, and validated good governance impacts.

Five year-five year forward down somewhat?

David Price holding up his book, titled The Congressional Experience. Text says: What makes creating policy in a democracy?

What makes creating policy in a democracy challenging? We asked Congressman David Price, who helped start Duke’s public policy program and represented North Carolina’s Fourth District in the U.S. House of Representatives for 34 years.

📹 Watch his response: youtube.com/shorts/1TRMy...

Image of Leslie Gordon, GAO Director, Health Care with quote “Medicare is the biggest funder of graduate medical education. We've noticed misalignment in how medical residency is distributed across the country and where those education dollars go.”

Medicare pays hospitals to help offset on-the-job training costs for a capped number of resident physicians. In 2023, that cap was raised.

GAO’s Leslie Gordon discusses how this new funding was allocated to hospitals across the country on Federal News Network: https://ow.ly/bzrf50XYaTj

Good morning all: GAO is now on Bluesky, follow here!

bsky.app/profile/usga...

This makes me think on the Ghibli classics my kids grew up on, so different from western film for children. Kiki, Totoro, Ponyo. Profound and yet grounded. Characters do not have time to ponder existence, they are filled with wonder at the everyday and compelled to respond the daily obstacles.

Supporters press for a DC memorial to Thomas Paine, whose writings helped fuel the Revolutionary War British-born Thomas Paine helped inspire the 13 English colonies to declare independence and form the United States of America

Co-sign!

Economic Cooperation in Furtherance of Peace: Lessons from the Postwar Era During and after World War II the architects of the economic institutions of the liberal international order articulated a compelling rationale for the structure and rules of the International Monetar...

"The ethos of the liberal international order represented genuine progress over the destructive anarchy of trade war and military conflict, and the pernicious ideologies that gave rise to them." (from 2019) www.liberalcurrents.com/economic-coo...

Hey, I had a great editor!

Note that more recent empirics suggest that one should adjust for prevailing interest rates when using cyclically-adjusted PE ratios for equity valuations, eg papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.....