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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 8 days ago • 12 comments

There was a time when going to the US academic job market with Political Economy as a field was suicide. This put students mostly from developing countries at a disadvantage in the market. I wonder what US Econ academia thinks now. #econsky

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Same, but with historical climate data. If you’re feeling helpless, here’s a concrete thing you can do: go to NCAR, choose a specific dataset, start systematically downloading, organizing, & storing it. The more distributed the data is, the harder it will be to make Science go away. #ClimateSky 📉📈

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The first two weeks into President Trump's second tour in the White House "have seen so many lines crossed in the pursuit of his agenda that anyone who believes in the Constitution and honest governance should be worried," the editorial board writes.

submitted 24 days ago • 244 comments

Did you know that if the price of an uber/lyft doubles, the payment to the driver doesn’t increase nearly as much? Uber/lyft are just squeezing you, and using the “there is high demand so we need to increase prices to get more drivers” so that you are willing to pay. #econsky

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Meritocracy is not possible with implicit biases. The “DEI or meritocracy” discourse is absurd.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

submitted 34 days ago • 610 comments

JFC. Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg are in the front row at the #inauguration. They are sat IN FRONT of Trump’s Cabinet. The era of oligarchy. (📸: Julia Demaree Nikhinson, AFP)

submitted 36 days ago • 152 comments

This is how feeling untouchable looks like

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Voting with their feet

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

#econsky, can information provision be an effective way of solving incentive problems? What’s your take?

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Happy 2025 y’all 🥂 #econsky

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

submitted 67 days ago • 160 comments

We make a monthly donation to Wikipedia and I encourage you to consider doing so too.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

This is likely also true in corporate America #econsky

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Get a library card even if you're not planning to use it. It impacts their funding.

submitted 66 days ago • 63 comments

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

submitted 66 days ago • 380 comments

We need to provide incentives via collective action. If you have UnitedHealthCare, talk to your coworkers and ask your company to change insurance provider

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Did you know women used to be charged more than men for health insurance, just because they were women? The Affordable Care Act ended this. Pass it on.

submitted 80 days ago • 15 comments

This is insane.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

The best books of 2024, as chosen by The Economist www.economist.com/culture/2024...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

A May study in the Lancet estimated that vaccines against 14 common pathogens have saved 154 million lives over the past 50 years, a rate of six lives every minute.

submitted 89 days ago • 20 comments

And this is why Apple can charge outrageous prices

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.

submitted 89 days ago • 341 comments

Promising. The question is: would they go back to the previous situation if the help is interrupted after a while?

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Great paper. It made me think of one of my favorite talks on the subject. “She may have an inkling that she is working twice as hard for half as much” youtu.be/lrYx7HaUlMY?... Strongly recommend to watch it #EconSky

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Cheering for @austinfrerick.bsky.social Go get them! #econsky

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

We often forget how many aspects of life have dramatically improved in recent history

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

It’s always reassuring to see proof that incentives still incentivize people #econsky

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.⬇️

submitted 101 days ago • 289 comments

Tell me about network effects without telling me about network effects #econsky

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments