Son of Lars

Elsevier has a 38% profit margin, and the other journal publishers aren't far behind.

I am not being hyperbolic when I say that how Harvard and the economics profession respond to Larry Summers will determine who makes up the next generation of economists.

#econsky #news #harvard

Just a few years ago the economics profession completely marginalized @claudia-sahm.bsky.social for speaking out on this matter.

Hello Bluesky!

#econsky #realestate #urbaneconomics #research

But will we adapt? Probably. Nevertheless, super cool (or hot?) study! #econsky

Looks like the right amount of surface parking--basically token tailgate lots and that's it.

Nom nom nom some focaccia from samin nosrat’s salt fat acid heat. #bread

Timely paper about the impact of funding gaps in science. #econsky

Trump says interest rates should go lower (again). Evidence, theory... time inconsistency. A teachable moment #econsky

RIP telework 😭😭😭 #econsky better write a good paper on the experiment playing out in DC…

Wow, I want to know who that one person who didn't vote for Ichiro was....

Dec Housing Starts blew past expectations, while Building Permits declined slightly less than expected.

In the details of the report, the surge was driven by a jump in Multifamily (MF) starts, which popped 59% m/m while Single-Family (SF) inched higher by 3.3%.

More details in the 🧵
#EconSky

As Americans flock to RedNote, privacy advocates warn about surveillance Privacy advocates are also warning against using the app.

I get the exodus from TikTok, but this would seem to be the wrong response...

www.theverge.com/2025/1/16/24...

Female Employees at Acqua Al 2 Allege a Culture of Sexual Harassment They sent a letter detailing the claims to owner Ari Gejdenson last year

Hopefully they’re better than last time… dc.eater.com/2018/7/18/17...

i've long been a big believer in newspapers in spite of their flaws but i increasingly believe between subscriptions to defector, 404 media and the 51st i no longer need to put up with a newspaper's downsides that are inherent to their business model: ownership and editorial

Wow, this is wild. 174 acre transfer, but in the law, 32 acres are for wetlands and 42 acres are to be parks, leaving about 100 acres left. 20 acres for a stadium leaves 80 for parking, housing, etc, which ain't much. Seems like we either get a stadium or housing but not both.

Snowman and snowsnake.

my day: meeting, snowball fight, meeting, snowball fight, meeting... #econsky

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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

Once again reflecting on former Post owner Eugene Meyer’s “Seven principles for the conduct of a newspaper”:

“The newspaper's duty is to its readers and to the public at large, and not to the private interests of the owner.”

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

I’m a professional coffee drinker #econsky #assa2025

"Children take time that isn't easily contracted out or mechanized."

#econsky

Chinese hack of US Treasury breached sanctions office, Washington Post says Chinese government hackers breached the U.S. Treasury office that administers economic sanctions, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, identifying targets of a cyberattack Treasury disclosed earlier this week.

#econsky sure enough, OFR was targeted in the Treasury hack. Jokes on you--my files are a mess.

The 'Yellowstone' TV show Is over, but not the damage it’s done to the West The caricatured version of Montana sold by the show is helping ruin a place its creators never truly understood.

Lots of cosplayers in Montana nowadays...

US Treasury's workstations breached in cyberattack by China, AFP reports A Chinese state-sponsored actor was behind a cyberattack on the U.S. Treasury Department earlier this month, resulting in unauthorized access to some of its workstations, Agence France-Presse reported on Monday, citing a letter to Congress.

not great…

Some nerdy repo jokes going down today:
Person A: At a repo pizza party
Person B: Do you have to give it back?
Person C: Was it cheapest to deliver?
...I'll see myself out #econsky

@cmcharlesallen.bsky.social can you and the council please try to make this a priority next year?

To me, this is the biggest positive climate story of 2024. Cheap, high-volume solar is a necessary component of decarbonization #econsky

RFK bill set to gain Congressional approval, clear way for DC's push to bring Commanders back to DC RFK legislation has been included in the text of a congressional spending bill giving the District long term control over the RFK site for a potential new stadium.

As a resident of the Hill, I would say yes, but only if they have basically no parking and make people use public transport (like they do with the Nationals/DC United/Caps).

Here's the punchline -- a "checklist" for researchers hoping to either apply our exogenous-shocks approach or the exogenous-shares approach studied by @paulgp.com and coauthors

We pair this with discussion of several real-world papers and how they may or may not fit into the two frameworks