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Nandini Gupta
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Financial economist, interested in political economy, polarization, financial development. https://sites.google.com/view/nandinigupta/home

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · 4d
Confused about why, despite there being a centralized system for econ reference letters, I am getting individual letter requests from schools

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Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · Sep 25
I made a starter pack of academics doing finance research, including finance professors, financial economists, and other economists interested in finance go.bsky.app/944zQWd

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Apr 7
Solidarity with everyone who has to lecture in finance classes tomorrow. 🤛🏽

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Mar 4
ah yes, ferris bueller even

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Mar 4
You have a balance of payments lecture in your MBA class today, what do you talk about? Wrong answers only.

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Feb 21
I stopped paying attention to Niall Ferguson a long time ago but the evolution of his twitter timeline is too funny to ignore.
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”

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Feb 20
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.

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Feb 14
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.

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Feb 14
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.

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Jan 14
400 million is a third of the population - did NYT add an extra zero
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jan 14
Hundreds of millions of Hindu pilgrims are convening this week in what is expected to be the world’s largest gathering, where a staggering number of devotees, tourists, politicians and celebrities take sacred dips at the convergence of two holy rivers in India.
Maha Kumbh Mela: World’s Largest Gathering Begins in India
About 400 million Hindu pilgrims from around the globe are expected to bathe in and around the Ganges in the religion’s biggest display of unity.
www.nytimes.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jan 14
Hundreds of millions of Hindu pilgrims are convening this week in what is expected to be the world’s largest gathering, where a staggering number of devotees, tourists, politicians and celebrities take sacred dips at the convergence of two holy rivers in India.
Maha Kumbh Mela: World’s Largest Gathering Begins in India
About 400 million Hindu pilgrims from around the globe are expected to bathe in and around the Ganges in the religion’s biggest display of unity.
www.nytimes.com

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Jan 9
This is heartbreaking. So sorry.

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Jan 8
ha - i prob heard it somewhere :)

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Jan 8
he messed with bezos last time.

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Jan 8
You don’t think it’s just protection money?

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Jan 8
incredible stuff.

how it started vs how it’s going

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Jan 8
Zuckerberg should change the name of his company from Meta to Beta to reflect his status in the broligarchy 🤣

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Jan 6
🌨️
snow on lawn furniture

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Jan 3
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.

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Dec 26
A great economist and model of honest and decent leadership - something India has not seen since. RIP PM Singh.

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · Dec 26
Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh dies aged 92
Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh dies aged 92
The ex-politician was admitted to hospital on Thursday after his health deteriorated India’s former prime minister, Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic reform program and a landmark nuclear deal with the US, has died aged…
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Tymofiy Mylovanov @mylovanov.bsky.social · Dec 25
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/

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Dec 19
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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Dec 18
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.

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Dec 18
Relatedly, high school students should not be starting companies and non profits unless it’s their lawn mowing or newspaper delivery business.

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Dec 18
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.

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Dec 15
hard to say but there’s a reason wealthy parents send their kids to these feeder schools.

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Dec 15
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. 😂

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Dec 15
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%

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Nandini Gupta @nandinigupta.bsky.social · Dec 15
% of high school students in private schools in the US = 9%

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