Nandini Gupta

I will need the flashy thingy from Men in Black to recover from this administration.

If you can say “Harvard study finds” then you need to say “Harvard faculty got dating advice from Epstein” - hey I don’t make the rules.

I hope the new Governor of Virginia removes these trustees but also uses the majority wins in the legislature to stop political appointments of univ trustees altogether.

Confused about why, despite there being a centralized system for econ reference letters, I am getting individual letter requests from schools

Solidarity with everyone who has to lecture in finance classes tomorrow. 🤛🏽

ah yes, ferris bueller even

You have a balance of payments lecture in your MBA class today, what do you talk about? Wrong answers only.

Right after the 2024 election, Niall Ferguson praises Elon Musk’s “autistic virile” qualities.

Article headline from December 2024 by Niall Ferguson where he talks about how Trump can win the peace in Ukraine (before Trump’s current statements about Ukraine starting the war)

Tweet by Niall Ferguson in February 2025 says “For a man who is said to have his eye on the Nobel peace prize, President Donald J Trump sure is spoiling for a fight.”

Tweet on February 21 by Niall Ferguson is to a blog post by Noah Smith titled “American is being sold out by its leaders”

I stopped paying attention to Niall Ferguson a long time ago but the evolution of his twitter timeline is too funny to ignore.

The way things are going, will the USD retain its exorbitant privilege? Autocracy does not breed investor confidence. Shrinking the sphere of US influence and the military isn’t going to help. We might be looking at a world of hurt down the road.

And was reminded by a friend how it happened again in 1971. Bengal is still dealing with the consequences of that second forced migration of 10 million people.

Thanks for sharing this Eeshani. My father’s family walked hundreds of miles from East Bengal to get to the border, losing people along the way. They had nothing - ancestral property, generations of family history also all lost. There’s nothing worth emulating from the horrific trauma of partition.

400 million is a third of the population - did NYT add an extra zero

This is heartbreaking. So sorry.

ha - i prob heard it somewhere :)

he messed with bezos last time.

You don’t think it’s just protection money?

incredible stuff.

how it started vs how it’s going

Zuckerberg should change the name of his company from Meta to Beta to reflect his status in the broligarchy 🤣

snow on lawn furniture

🌨️

There’s another replyallocalypse happening on a mailing list no one knew they were on and among others, an econ nobel prize winner and a hedge fund founder have weighed in. No puppies yet.

A great economist and model of honest and decent leadership - something India has not seen since. RIP PM Singh.

Nine years ago, I was teaching a course at the Kyiv School of Economics in Ukraine. I wasn’t yet the president of KSE, just returned to Ukraine, and couldn’t have imagined the challenges ahead of Ukraine and KSE 1/

old

Colleges pushing their core curriculum as the broad based education kids need, then admitting 17 year olds whose applications must look like they have a phd and 5 years work experience in one subject.

Relatedly, high school students should not be starting companies and non profits unless it’s their lawn mowing or newspaper delivery business.

hot take: High school students should not be publishing research and colleges should not use high school student research to make admissions decisions. If you solved the Riemann Hypothesis, sure. Otherwise, stop this insanity.

hard to say but there’s a reason wealthy parents send their kids to these feeder schools.

A friend from #1 big city private school told me that princeton harvard yale AOs came to talk to their kids about how public school students more likely to be admitted. Didn’t occur to her that these AOs wouldn’t ever show up in our public indiana school. 😂

fyi that % of yale’s 2024 class from private high schools.

Selective LACs not much better. Private high school admits in pomona’s 2024 class = 36%

% of high school students in private schools in the US = 9%

% of high school students in private schools admitted to Yale in 2024 = 40%