winmonroe.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Initial claims jump to 245K NSA, as would be expected this time of year. Claims still w/i the band of recent non-recessionary years, both in headcount terms (1st) & normalized to employment (2nd). Continuing claims however undoubtedly higher, though not substantially so far (3rd)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

At academic conferences, some US professors are having to video call in because they are concerned about their ability to reenter the country if they attend a conference abroad. Deeply unfair and of course self-destructive to US academia.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A fun read, as always

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

www.ft.com/content/7962...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is such a fun episode

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Could Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ kill the OFR and accidentally sabotage SOFR? https://www.ft.com/content/7962a211-a663-4ec0-99ed-1bde012bb0d8

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I am an adult and I can eat cake whenever I want to.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

1/ 🚨 Hot off the press! Our study “Political Expression of Academics on Social Media” with @trfetzer.com is now peer-reviewed & live in Nature Human Behaviour @nature.com 🎉. Thread 👇

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

what a chart

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This chart shows that in the City of London (the tiny historical part of London in red), bicycles have overtaken cars to become the most common vehicle. Let's make this throughout Greater London! www.economist.com/britain/2025...

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

Excited for the EO banning Taco Tuesday as hate speech

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Really, the degree to which crypto is just gambling is striking. However many years we are into this, it's still not getting used as money.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Better to ask shadow president Stephen Miller

submitted 16 days ago • 108 comments

Bad manners breakfast burrito reminded me of the glorious American hangover food from college. A real treat to finally get something like this in London.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Obituary of moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre FBA www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

If you want a sneak peak into our future imagine the politicization of everything. Whether the government performs a function entirely dependent on whether the government likes you. You want your social security check? Small business loan? Let's have a look at your facebook posts first

submitted 17 days ago • 30 comments

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

submitted 23 days ago • 76 comments

www.dallasfed.org/news/speeche...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

London has an understandably bad rep for Mexican food. But while the average taco is pretty poor, there are a few - and just a few - taquerias that could hold their own just about anywhere

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

📄 NEW: ~20M Americans have "significant" medical debt. This isn’t inevitable, it’s the result of policy choices. A decade of gaps in Medicaid & market failures have crushed mobility for millions. @socio-steve.bsky.social explores actions that can address it: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

tfw it's been so long that package updates are breaking your code...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

New BIS WP out!! “Collateralized lending in private credit” We use loan-level data for the US over the past 25 years to document that behind the notable rise of private credit there is an equally notable shift towards collateralized lending 1/ www.bis.org/publ/work126...

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

New sign to tap

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Martin Wolf pointing out that its absurd that EU/China save massive amounts of money and lend it to the US instead of meeting unmet needs. Also nice he icludes the $500bn that simply vanish each year www.ft.com/content/c715...

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

Fantastic first visit to the Yard Theatre for The Glass Menagerie, superbly staged and completely absorbing from start to finish Time is the longest distance between two places

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent thread here

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Some light reading for the weekend on Treasury market liquidity and the overnight reverse repo on.ft.com/3RWF8Kr

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Great selection of articles on fixed income markets in the latest issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives: www.aeaweb.org/issues/803

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Really good explanations from Karthik

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

US policy chaos has already damaged the economy, by undermining confidence and forcing companies to postpone capex and hiring. That was the story of Q1. But the real recession risk comes from lower earnings over the summer, and how the corporate sector responds.. 🧵

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

It’s that magical time of the year again, when we worry that the broken US political system will result in the unnecessary sovereign default of the world’s premier reserve asset and usher in financial Ragnarok. on.ft.com/3YB80M2

submitted 35 days ago • 5 comments

"But trust bosses are warning that delivering what for some equates to 12% of their entire budget in “efficiency savings” will affect patients and waiting times." Is Labour aiming to lose in 2029 with the NHS as the top voting issue? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Going back and looking at an old project after a very long time is such a bewildering process...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

We’ve just published a new report, based on our annual economics conference. It distils the big policy debates on the European economy post-Draghi, drawing on the brainpower around the table. Some journalist friends convinced me it’s worth sharing — so here’s a thread. 1/x

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

Now that word is out, I have professional news to share...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

The renewed interest in a version of thinking person’s mercantilism is an intellectual dead end that doesn’t even really know who it’s for. Ghosts of factory workers past is my best approximation.

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

Increasingly Powerful Trans Person Capable Of Using Every Single Bathroom At Once

submitted 37 days ago • 143 comments

😭😭😭😭

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments