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A national cryptocurrency reserve is a scam. It is simply an attempt by those who own cryptocurrency to trade it for US dollars or gold from the Treasury. The federal government will be left holding this bag of hazardous waste.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

If you're ever feeling despair, and someone comes along with a simple solution to your complex problem, beware.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Almost 800,000 people on here are following a totally-not-real account claiming it's a group of rogue park workers and who are now posting cryptic nonsense to make it seem like they're sending messages to the deep state. Also they're selling resistance merch. WTF are we doing man?

submitted 1 day ago • 456 comments

The point of excluding categories of people from the military like this is to send the message that they are unworthy of citizenship, it is pure bigotry and the assumptions behind it are disproven by the honorable service of the people being targeted in the first place bsky.app/profile/bran...

submitted 4 days ago • 76 comments

No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

submitted 4 days ago • 186 comments

could God create incentives so strong that He could not resist them

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

this is good

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Carola Binder!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

There are so many reasons university endowments can't make up for the dramatic cuts the Trump administration has planned for science. Here are a few. Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the platform.

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

okay genuine question: suppose that all the gold from ft knox was, in fact, missing. what would be the economic effects of that revelation?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

i'm going to go buy an x account and go undercover as a fake reactionary account to see if i can get musk to believe the word gullible isn't in the dictionary

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

The world's top network of labor economists—@iza.org—will close permanently at the end of this year. What a loss to research. Especially now when the rising waters of disinformation choke truth. It is up to us, now, to begin the work to rebuild. www.deutsche-post-stiftung.org/media/202502...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

A List of Things People Blamed for the High Cost of Living 🧵

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submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

say what you will, but "no kings only trains" is a very good slogan

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

me and who

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

A former student of mine sent me a very good gift

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

the term "Continental United States" implies that Hawaii and Alaska are Analytic states

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School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content". In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival. www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...

submitted 14 days ago • 93 comments

I really wish Americans would stop treating the continued existence of Canada as the sort of thing they can do amusing thought experiments about.

submitted 13 days ago • 66 comments

Extremely nickelback first draft voice:

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The Federal Reserve is not as independent from the executive branch as we’d like to think. The NY Fed just cancelled this Thursday’s @aeacswep.bsky.social reception at #EEA2025 and withdrew from our summer fellowship program. Both support women and underrepresented groups in economics. #EconSky

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments

A lot of crazy stuff in the Education Department’s letter but did Trump just make it illegal for schools to be test-optional?

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

THREAD 🧵: A Concerning Trend in the Heterogenous-Agent (HA) Macro Literature 1/n A growing class of computational algorithms makes heavy use of linearization methods to solve HA models. Two key benefits are emphasized: (i) (extreme) speed & (ii) allows many state (aggregate) variables. ++ #econ

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

Here is Ford's head of North America communications, informing us about the source of America's pedestrian safety crisis: Streetlights They've apparently gotten much worse in the last 15 years. Or something. It definitely has nothing to do with the gigantic SUVS & trucks that his company sells.

submitted 17 days ago • 16 comments

Some excellent guidance from MIT on step by step data preservation of secondary data: libraries.mit.edu/data-managem... (via Wendy Kozlowski orcid.org/0000-0001-65...)

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 #EconSky PhD students working in Applied Micro: Submit your paper for the 4th Workshop, co-organized by @cmichaudleclerc.bsky.social, Priya Mukherjee, and me! Plus, we have two amazing keynotes this year: @econsandy.bsky.social and Rema Hanna.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives

submitted 25 days ago • 40 comments

USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

submitted 26 days ago • 1420 comments

The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, a great org, asks individuals & orgs to sign their letter requesting Congress act to restore data that has been removed & ensure a similar purge does not reoccur. #EconSky #PolicySky #sociology #PoliSky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

Passing on a note from a colleague: People with federal student loans should download their files IMMEDIATELY. These files are currently on the studentaid.gov website, which may get deleted if Trump follows through with his EO to shut down DOE

submitted 26 days ago • 93 comments

hey @amyklobuchar.com , as your constituent, I'm pretty disappointed by this!

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The data at USAID's ForeignAssistance dot gov was removed over the weekend, but it seems to be back (for now). As a backup, I've uploaded the data both as static CSV files and a queryable API - Details: andrewheiss.github.io/foreignassis... - API: foreignassistance-data.andrewheiss.com

submitted 27 days ago • 19 comments

@ipums.bsky.social undefeated

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet

submitted 27 days ago • 1710 comments

Musk has had no problem naming individual federal employees he thinks should be fired (see article). Now he wants anonymity and zero oversight for his officials who are creating a constitutional crisis. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...

submitted 28 days ago • 53 comments

Federal law & decades of government practice provide Americans strong guarantees of confidentiality & security for their govt data. With POTUS's blessing & federal pardon power behind them, individuals appear to be violating our rights, corrupting systems meant to operate for our benefit.

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments