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gabrielmathy.bsky.social
@gabrielmathy.bsky.social
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Economist and Economic Historian at American University. Macroeconomics, Economic History, Green Transition, International, Finance, Labor Markets, lots more.
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gabrielmathy.bsky.social
I wonder who's going to get it.
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
> @conorsen.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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aucollege.bsky.social
🎓 Thinking about grad school?
Join us Sat, Oct 25 for AU’s College of Arts & Sciences Graduate Programs Fall Open House!

🕚 11 a.m.–3 p.m. | 📍 Check in: Mary Graydon Center, 10:30–10:50
Meet faculty, explore campus, and learn how a CAS grad degree can advance your goals.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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scottlincicome.bsky.social
"Trump Hopes Argentina Can Help Bring Down Meat Prices
President Trump’s plan to import red meat runs counter to his philosophy of increasing domestic production, and has angered cattle ranchers in the United States." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...
October 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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ericumansky.bsky.social
BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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horadam.bsky.social
One of the reasons this one may bite particularly hard is the lack of flex capacity in truck manufacturing.

1. Plants tend to be rural with little surplus labor
2. Manufacturing is very assembly-intensive (i.e., little automation)

Maybe some token announcements, but likely prices go up.
October 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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erikamcentarfer.bsky.social
Big picture, we do not know the exact answer to 'how good/bad is the ADP data if BLS data disappears?' but the private data providers themselves are pretty clear in every conference/panel that the quality of their own data will erode if they cannot benchmark to BLS estimates.
October 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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aaronsojourner.org
Who wants to work with Kate Bahn at the Institute for Women's Policy Research?
#econ_ra
iwpr.applytojob.com/apply/ACdbXf...
The Research Associate is a position on IWPR’s Research Team conducting research, including quantitative and qualitative empirical analysis, on issues related to IWPR’s core topics of Equitable Work and Wages, Caregiving and Families, Education and Career Advancement, and Reproductive Justice and Health Equity. The goal of our research is better inform partners and policymakers on ways to advance the economic security and well-being of women, their families, and communities. For this position, candidates must have demonstrated working experience with statistical programs such as STATA, R or SPSS, major national public health and/or economic databases, and be able to interpret data, analyze results, acquire data from primary or secondary sources, and filter and clean data. This role is expected to be able to produce high quality research products for public audiences with independent initiative and minimal oversight. Duties and Responsibilities Research: Conduct and draft literature reviews and collaborate on research proposals that identify novel and impactful research activities on issues related to IWPR core research areas: Equitable Work and Wages, Caregiving and Families, Education and Career Advancement, and Reproductive Justice and Health Equity. Perform advanced, complex quantitative data analysis of large datasets and trends, utilizing network science and/or other statistical methods, including creating data visuals. Perform advanced qualitative data analysis, including developing and fielding online surveys; and conducting interviews and focus groups. Write high quality blog posts, briefs, fact sheets, reports and presentations based on the data work and analysis and accessible to broad audiences including policymakers, advocates, and the media. Use and integrate racial equity and intersectional frameworks and analysis in research study designs, written reports, and briefs. Assist with proposal and grant report drafting.
September 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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jwmason.bsky.social
Seems bad: “The rise of unofficial US economic reports.” on.ft.com/4n38BAs
Trump’s administration escalated its assault against the BLS on Tuesday after it revised down its estimates of payroll employment in the year to March 2025 by more than 900,000 jobs. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the revision underlined the need for “truthful and honest data” and added that “the BLS is broken”. On Wednesday the labour department’s Office of Inspector General announced it was launching a probe into “challenges that [BLS] encounters collecting and reporting closely watched economic data”. Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at consultancy RSM, said the controversy surrounding the BLS would “increase demand for private label data, which will over time create a widening gap between the haves and the have-nots”.
September 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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shellyjlundberg.bsky.social
Fellow economists: Stand up for Fed Governor Lisa Cook and the principle of Federal Reserve independence. Sign this letter by Monday.
September 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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trevondlogan.bsky.social
I signed an open letter from economists supporting Fed independence & Gov. Lisa Cook. Add your name by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... |

Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Signature page for Open Letter of Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence
By filling out the form below, you are asking your signature to be added to this open letter.
docs.google.com
August 31, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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timobres.bsky.social
This letter is not particularly controversial in its assertions and the topic of central bank independence is extremely important. Takes about 4.5 minutes to read and sign (if you agree.) Looks like the number of signatories is up since Tatyana's post, but Economics needs YOU!
tderyugina.bsky.social Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · Aug 27
Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process.

There's still time to sign! And please share.

#EconSky

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open letter
Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...
docs.google.com
August 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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bobeunlimited.bsky.social
AI Hype vs. Productivity Reality

Despite bold claims, there’s little evidence AI has boosted productivity so far. Even stretched scenarios indicate gains will fall short of past booms, suggesting current optimism is likely overdone.

open.substack.com/pub/bobeunli...
AI Hype vs. Productivity Reality
Despite bold claims, there’s little evidence AI has boosted productivity so far. Even stretched scenarios indicate gains will fall short of past booms, suggesting current optimism is likely overdone.
open.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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tderyugina.bsky.social
The letter is ready, thanks to all those who helped out! Starting to gather signature now, please consider signing (link at top of letter) & spread the word.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
August 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says He Is Removing Lisa Cook From Federal Reserve Board
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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bencasselman.bsky.social
Just received this statement from Lisa Cook:
"President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."
bencasselman.bsky.social Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · Aug 26
President Trump said he is firing Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor, "effective immediately." It's his most direct assault yet on Fed independence -- and a step that it is far from clear he can legally take.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u... #EconSky
Trump Says He Is Removing Lisa Cook From Federal Reserve Board
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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mclem.org
The White House seeks politicized control over my university by forcing out our president, as it did at the University of Virginia—a page from the recipe book of authoritarian strongmen on the Left (Maduro) and Right (Orbán).

Today President Washington responded to the attack.

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GMU President Refuses to Apologize for Diversity Efforts, Lawyer Calls Ed. Dept. Claims ‘Absurd’
In a 10-page letter, Gregory Washington’s lawyer says the Trump administration conducted an incomplete and haphazard investigation full of “gross mischaracterizations.”
www.chronicle.com
August 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
August 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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jwmason.bsky.social
A number of people have claimed recently that the CPS shows a large rise in employment for native-born workers, while immigrant employment has fallen. Here's an exceedingly informative post from @jedkolko.bsky.social, on why the CPS cannot be used in this way. jedkolko.substack.com/p/no-native-...
August 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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doughenwood.bsky.social
fresh audio product:

• Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social outlines possibilities for a democratically planned economy
• Jerome Nikolai Warren on the possibilities for cooperatives

www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
August 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
gabrielmathy.bsky.social
ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/news-flash... More underwhelming results for polygenic scores
July 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
gabrielmathy.bsky.social
Has anybody checked in on the people who said that means tested programs are just as durable as universal programs? Not going so hot.
July 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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horadam.bsky.social
If this Senate language on solar passes, I think we’re in a full-blown national energy crisis within 2 years.

Forecasting after the cliff is even worse, but project pipelines will dry up, supply chains will convulse...and cost of new additions will soar. Assuming we can even meet demand growth. 🔌💡
June 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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nanjala.bsky.social
The US has denied the visas of all 12 members of the Senegalese women’s basketball team who were scheduled to travel to the country as part of their preparation for the Afrobasket tournament that begins in August. Afrobasket is also the African qualifiers for the Olympics.

#wnba
June 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM