August 1, 2025
AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
Committee on Economic Statistics and Committee on Government Relations
Statement from the American Economic Association on the
Dismissal of the BLS Commissioner
Leaders of the American Economic Association express their grave concern over the dismissal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) earlier today.
The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions. Undermining the independence or credibility of these agencies threatens the integrity of the information that markets, institutions, and the public rely on every day.
Measuring the vast and dynamic U.S. economy in real time is inherently challenging. It is standard practice for statistical estimates to be revised as more complete and higher-quality data become available. These revisions reflect the commitment of statistical agencies to accuracy, transparency, and methodological rigor-not failure or bias.
The BLS has long had a well-deserved reputation for professional excellence and nonpartisan integrity.
Safeguarding this tradition is vital for the continued health of the U.S. economy and public trust in our institutions.
We call upon elected officials to respect and preserve the independence of the nation's statistical infrastructure.
Lawrence Katz
President, American Economic Association
Katharine Abraham
President-Elect, American Economic Association
Karen Dynan
Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics
Kenneth Troske
Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Government Relations
Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing
As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements
This is a big deal
02.08.2025 20:13 β π 5118 π 2149 π¬ 120 π 113
Graph with number of Israeli and Palestinians killed in the conflict between Israel and Palestine, per year from 1987 onward, next to each other.
The number of Palestines killed always outnumber the number of Israeli, except in 1996.
The most significant years are 2001 to 2009, 2014 and now 2023 and 2024.
2024 shows 257 Israeli deaths and 24145 Palestinian deaths.
2025 shows 70 Israeli deaths and 14746 Palestinian deaths.
Total numbers in this graph, 73242 Palestinians killed and 3367 Israeli.
Data source: B'Tselem, OCHA and Wikipedia
Oct-Dec 2023 and years 2024 and 2025 unverified for Gaza. Only fully identified casualties till Oct 2023 for all territories, and Oct-2023 till Dec-2024 for all territories except Gaza, plus Ocha data West Bank Aug-2024 till April 2025.
Deaths in wars/conflicts between Israel & Palestine 1987-2025.
30.07.2025 21:50 β π 2 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
Vermogensaanwasbelasting dan?
08.07.2025 09:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Overdrachtsbelasting on steroids? Dan komt de hele woningmarkt stil te liggen. Kan je beter een landelijke OZB invoeren
08.07.2025 09:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Breaking news: Boston Consulting Group modelled the costs of 'relocating' Palestinians from Gaza and entered into a multimillion-dollar contract to help launch a new aid scheme for the shattered enclave https://on.ft.com/3TrfEpn
04.07.2025 17:24 β π 99 π 81 π¬ 4 π 62
Twee vliegen in één klap!
28.06.2025 09:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al., 2025a) to produce updated estimates for key indicators of the state of the climate system: net emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. This year, we additionally include indicators for sea-level rise and land precipitation change. We follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One report. The indicators show that human activities are increasing the Earth's energy imbalance and driving faster sea-level rise compared to the AR6 assessment. For the 2015β2024 decade average, observed warming relative to 1850β1900 was 1.24 [1.11 to 1.35]βΒ°C, of which 1.22 [1.0 to 1.5]βΒ°C was human-induced. The 2024-observed best estimate of global surface temperature (1.52βΒ°C) is well above the best estimate of human-caused warming (1.36βΒ°C). However, the 2024 observed warming can still be regarded as a typical year, considering the human-induced warming level and the state of internal variability associated with the phase of El NiΓ±o and Atlantic variability. Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2β0.4]βΒ°C per decade over 2015β2024. This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being at an all-time high of 53.6Β±5.2βGtβCO2eβyrβ1 over the last decade (2014β2023), as well as reductions in the strength of aerosol cooling. Despite this, there is evidence that the rate of increase in CO2 emissions over the last decade has slowed compared to the 2000s, and depending on societal choices, a continued series of these annual updates over the critical 2020s decade could track decreases or increases in the rate of the climatic changes presented here.
Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim:
β¬οΈ Human induced warming now at 1.36C
β¬οΈ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade
β¬οΈ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance
β¬οΈ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2
essd.copernicus.org/...
18.06.2025 23:10 β π 653 π 485 π¬ 22 π 69
1. Trump's tax cuts overwhelmingly help the rich
2. His spending cuts are targeted at the poor
3. Tariffs cost the poor a larger share of their income
Roll these three regressive policies together and you get the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history.
The anti-Robin Hood.
12.06.2025 20:35 β π 1530 π 730 π¬ 48 π 42
Het hoofdredactioneel commentaar op Wilders in de Telegraaf is echtβ¦. on point?
27.05.2025 05:50 β π 159 π 13 π¬ 28 π 6
So higher tariffs make transfer pricing more costly? That would be one reason to believe Trump will back down in the end
25.05.2025 13:58 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Breaking news: The US has been stripped of its top-notch triple-a credit rating by Moodyβs on concerns about rising levels of government debt www.ft.com/content/e456...
16.05.2025 21:04 β π 12716 π 3901 π¬ 832 π 688
His bank accounts here in the UK have been frozen. This is his home country. Never shut the fuck about this.
15.05.2025 07:56 β π 666 π 353 π¬ 12 π 8
International Law Under Pressure
Excellent and very precise analysis of the first six weeks of the Trump administration, and how its executive orders and statements already violate the international legal system
verfassungsblog.de/internationa...
24.03.2025 11:22 β π 26 π 12 π¬ 0 π 1
βThe university said it had agreed to hire a new internal security force of 36 βspecial officersβ who will be empowered to remove people from campus or arrest them.β
22.03.2025 07:02 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Even iets anders over de zaak ΜΆBΜΆ1ΜΆ0ΜΆ0ΜΆ L10: de top vd Nederlandse overheid gooit nog steeds lustig de gevoelige inhoud over de WhatsApp via Amerika. Keer mee ophouden?
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
27.02.2025 10:20 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
This is amazing. Via @nytimes.com
12.02.2025 20:22 β π 2560 π 1296 π¬ 65 π 45
The Trump administration is defying the courts.
Rule of law in the US is teetering.
11.02.2025 15:15 β π 20 π 12 π¬ 2 π 3
Tamelijk bizar; ik vroeg DeepSeek (de Chinese ChatGPT) iets over Oeigoeren. Vervolgens geeft βie uitgebreid antwoord over o.a. mensenrechtenschendingen en detentiekampen, maar dan plotseling verwijdert βie het antwoord en zegt βie βLetβs talk about something elseβ.
27.01.2025 17:30 β π 930 π 287 π¬ 125 π 41
Leuk, die foto van vak Trump.
Ik heb even de geschatte vermogens erbij gezet. Staat daar al snel voor 1,1 biljoen aan kapitaal. EΓ©n jaar BNP van alle Nederlanders. πΆ
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23.01.2025 00:12 β π 39 π 6 π¬ 4 π 0
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