Aaron Lorenz🇨🇦

Milestone on the path to middle age: I have decided to get into the Napoleonic Wars

MAKIN IT RAIN!

Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody.

42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war.

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High school?

More evidence of a pretty straightforward strategy for Canada here for everyone (rightfully) mad at the USA.

Build lots of Housing + Expand Immigration = Eat the USA's lunch

Imagine if Canadian universities were in the financial position to take advantage of this

Wait for it. The chart below is actually a video.

It will start to scroll, depicting how smoky each day in Calgary has been amid wildfire season, dating back to 1953.

(More context & data here: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...)

🤷‍♀️ (teaching demand tomorrow)

Just want to give a shout out to the winners of the Saskatchewan Department of Agricultures bookkeeping competition in 1913-1914. Man I love looking through old annual reports of the Department of Agriculture…

Thanks! Any thought on how you would recommend making the switch to co-authors?

Question for those who have more experience working with co-authors then me: At the end of the month my Dropbox subscription renews for 150 dollars. Currently my co-authors and I are using it for a project but I have access to my OneDrive and our university GoogleDrive for free! Thoughts?

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So uh anyone know any Canadian Universities that might take in a 5th year….

Claudia Goldin is the first signature on this document. Nice.

Open letter Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...

Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process.

There's still time to sign! And please share.

#EconSky

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Three Toronto Maple Leafs hockey players in vintage uniforms are on the ice, with two lifting a third player by his legs and arms. A crowd watches from the stands in the background.

Bill Barilko was a player who had just captured his fourth Stanley Cup in five years.
He was on his way to a possible Hall of Fame career.
Then, on Aug. 26, 1951, he disappeared on a fishing trip with his friend and dentist Henry Hudson.
This is his story.

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The image is the cover of the album Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers. The background is a solid blue, with the album title and artist name in a decorative, gold-colored font. "Stan Rogers" is written at the top, and "Northwest Passage" at the bottom. The central image is framed in a circular, nautical-themed border resembling a compass rose, with fleur-de-lis and other ornamental elements. Inside the circle, Stan Rogers is seated at a table covered with a map, holding a bottle, with a guitar leaning nearby.

Northwest Passage - Stan Rogers (1981):

The fourth album from Rogers, it was heavily focused on the life and history of the Canadian West. It was his last album released before his sudden death on June 2. 1983. It featured his iconic song Northwest Passage.

Trying to explain to family that Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is not me trying to be ironic but a UNESCO world heritage site 😬

The economic historian in me is very interested in what else you found?

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Read this on the plane flight home this morning and couldn’t help but think everyone should give it a read. Also shout out to author for actually visiting the places she writes about.

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Jhih-Yun Liu starting off with a super interesting talk on long run effects of migrant camps by the U.S. resettlement agency during the New Deal

If your interested in the economic history of agriculture at this years #AAEA2025 there is a great session happing now in plaza room 6.

This feels like something that should be really basic, but for some reason I'm struggling with it. What are best practices for calculating SEs when aggregating data with survey weights. E.g. if I'm doing a DiD with CPS data and aggregate the data first at the state level.

As a proud Albertan it’s definitely Texas. The petro state aspect is uh slightly important… as is the whole cattle ranches history (and present). The Colorado aspect is definitely there as well, though I would say Colorado’s lack of oil disqualifies it.

Guess what all my Canada loving friends are getting for Christmas (as long as they watch hockey with me and apologize for the tariffs)

HONORARY CANADIAN?
PeaceLoveCanada.ca

• Canada has borne the brunt of the damage from US tariffs so far, with its long-run economy -1.9% smaller in real terms. China’s economy is -0.2% smaller, about 2/3 as large as the hit to the US. The UK’s is 0.2% bigger thanks in part to the benefits of US-UK trade deal.
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A ridiculously large blow up Canadian Maple Leaf at my party.

Well I was a tad bit disappointed not to be home for Canada Day… so I hosted a party down here complete with Poutine (made with Canadian potatoes), Molson, and Hawaiian Pizza with Gord, Stan, and Tom playing in background. You can take the boy out of Canada...