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For folks asking if I'm going to attend Trump's joint address to Congress next week: no. Instead, I'm choosing to hear directly from Oregonians and will be hosting an open-to-all town hall on Facebook live. Oregonians can submit questions in advance here:

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"69% of Republican voters say Russia is the aggressor and 83% disapprove of Putin" www.wsj.com/opinion/most...

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Shame on Trump and Vance.

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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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www.montrealgazette.com/news/provinc... Dery and the Legault government is missing put on a unique opportunity to strengthen the Quebec universities.

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Those helicopters that Trump bullied 🇨🇦 into getting? They have already proven useful. Nope, no fentanyl, they just saved 5 poor people who were fleeing FROM 🇺🇸 ==>🇨🇦 in the middle of winter... globalnews.ca/news/1104043...

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Surreal read of the day: a paper using USAID-funded and now terminated Demographic & Health Surveys to count the huge number of lives saved by the now frozen US PEPFAR program to fight HIV, co-authored by current US admin’s nominee to lead cuts in health research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Forthcoming in JOLE: "Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms" by Jaime Arellano-Bover and Fernando Saltiel www.journals.uchicag... @ChicagoJournals #EconSky

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After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵

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🚨WE ARE HIRING!!! Professor of Applied Economics (W3) | INOMICS: inomics.com/job/professo... #EconSky #EconJMK

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Very much enjoyed "The Brutalist" at the movie theater last evening. Highly recommend it.

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Economists for Ukraine (econ4ua.org) drafted an open letter to the future German chancellor. We call for 🇩🇪 & 🇪🇺 to step up & to ⬆️ support for #Ukraine. Please read & sign (if you agree), the form is at the end of ✉️): tinyurl.com/m9ta2b5d Please share this letter with your colleagues. #UkrainianView

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holy hell this is smart

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Works as advertised

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It renders us as a society vulnerable to misinformation and manipulation and incapable of rational conversation.

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Good posts by @jrothst.bsky.social and @marthagimbel.bsky.social My guess: the short-run negative impact of trade disruptions and general uncertainty >those of gutting the federal workforce. Would you invest now into your automotive supply chain in North America? Long-run, none of this bodes well.

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IZA summary of recent working paper with Yaya Diallo Laetitia Renee on paternity leave: wol.iza.org/opinions/pat...

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New @econofact.bsky.social memo from @springerecon.bsky.social and me econofact.org/what-effects.... Cites lots of great work from @caitlinmyers.bsky.social @danieldench1.bsky.social @jasonlindo.bsky.social & more!

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Gary Becker and James Heckman in 2012 on the case for federal government funding of basic research www.wsj.com/articles/SB1...

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Incredible

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Happy #JobsDay! At 8:30 am ET, BLS delivers the most-important signals abt how economy is changing. Forecasts’ center: +169K jobs Unemployment rate (UR) stable at 4.1% Lots of complexity today, so I'm posting this earlier-than-usual with a longer-than-usual preamble.

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Here is the White House’s own justification for its sudden evisceration of the entire foreign aid agency worldwide, in secret on a Saturday night. It’s a quickie list of a few ragebait links to sites like Breitbart. They concern minuscule sums of money that could be addressed with trivial reforms.

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Glad we got through the tariff emergency (at least the first wave of it....). Also glad that people are bringing creativity, energy, and determination to figuring out a medium and long-run response. But I want to throw cold water on three ideas I've seen floated. I'll explain...

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I signed, have you?

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So the emerging division of labor is that Trump muses about randomly starting political or economic conflict around the world for a few days at a time, while Musk systematically and illegally destroys the US federal government. Do I have it right?

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Bumping this with the hope that a senator might see it

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WTF wapo.st/4hFz4Rm

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I have been following along what the new administration is doing on the Tariff side. Not enough bandwidth to also to follow the privacy/data developments. Could somebody point me to a good, calm (if possible) summary of what happened there?

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I would rephrase that to: if the Canadian federal and provincial governments ... but else I agree.

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American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

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Our "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" with Pedro Sant'Anna and @brunoferman.bsky.social is now forthcoming in the 😀😀 American Economic Review Insights (@AEAjournals ) 😀😀 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Somewhat odd comment re: Tesla in this thread @sdullien.bsky.social's argument is: much of the US car industry has long supply-chains reaching into Canada and Mexico, Tesla does not. So, it might benefit Tesla. To me this says that the inmates have taken over the insane asylum.

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Raising the price of driving reduces driving. NYC's congestion pricing is clearly another W for economic theory. (Many such cases.) But is it a good policy? After all, less driving isn’t the goal. I walk through how to think about the costs & benefits www.economicforces.xyz/p/congestion...

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📢 Economist looking for a permanent position and interested in moving to beautiful Oslo? 🏞 🚵‍♀️ ⛷️ (full professor by application) Look no further - @oslomet.bsky.social is hiring! Norwegian or other Scandinavian language only an advantage not requirement. www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-... #EconSky

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Not sure I would continue to consider the US a safe and reliable debtor at the rate things are going.

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The more Bluesky will grow, the more bad actors of various kind will come Bluesky isn’t a "magic place" that is inherently good and peaceful It can be pleasant providing we collectively adopt norms that make it so One of these norms is for large accounts to block generously 1/3 #SocialWeb

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📣 Deadline approaching for the 2025 Economic Demography Workshop on April 10th at the PAA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Submit your paper by Dec 31st. ⭐️help us spread the call⭐️ @mguldi.bsky.social #PAA2025 #econsky 📈📉. bit.ly/4g5Z486

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McGill is late to the market, but we finally can post our position. We are looking across all fields. McGill econ is a fun department with an active, lively group of colleagues. Apply (or repost).

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Has anyone put together a comprehensive list of placement officers across Econ Departments, with emails? Maybe using AI? ChatGPT didn’t help much. Would be a great public good #EconSky

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@arindube24.bsky.social very clearly is not Arin Dube. Just saying.

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