Part of me thinks the various nations concerned should club together to personally give trump 500 million (or whatever) to do the right thing. Then give him a Nobel prize and tell him he’s the best human ever. Will save everyone a whole lot of pain in the long run.

Dean Karlan, Chief Economist at USAID, has resigned

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Here is a LaTeX / Overleaf template for academic papers. This document has a bibliography already incorporated and has shells to incorporate multi-panel figures and complex tables.

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“.. The topic has come up about 700 times during quarterly earnings calls .. That’s an all-time high in data going back to 2005 ..”

@bloomberg.com
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Improvements in central bank independence yield long-lasting benefits, with a significantly greater impact on #inflation in the long run compared to the short run. They also reduce inflation persistence.
A Athanasopoulos, D Masciandaro, @davideromelli.bsky.social
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USAID has spent $2 billion supporting vaccines through GAVI. In research, published in AEJ:Economic Policy, Kartini Shastry and I find GAVI saved 1.5 million lives at a low cost of $9,000 per child saved. See the writeup of our research in VoxDev:
voxdev.org/topic/health...

Insane on so many levels: Trump is rolling back enforcement of a law that makes it illegal for US companies to bribe foreign officials. bloomberg.com/news/article...? via @bloomberg.com

The relative restrictiveness of a central bank's supply of money predicts the raw and risk-adjusted returns of its currency — both next month and at least three years into the future, from Söhnke M. Bartram, Mark Grinblatt, and Yan Xu https://www.nber.org/papers/w33423

Interesting!

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Oh, the irony.

Came across again Trump's comments about how if Canada became a state there would be no trade deficit and wondered why even in his brain a lightbulb did not go off.

president of California Citrus Mutual: “We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting ... Yesterday about 25% of the workforce, today 75% didn’t show up.” calmatters.org/economy/2025...

Using the results shown below and others, we estimate that couples in Germany act as if they value women's earnings at 48 cents on the Euro, compared to men's earnings. In Sweden, it's 80 cents on the Euro. Full paper here: bit.ly/MTO-T

"Across all study countries, we find that 37.0% of warm-season heat-related deaths can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change and that increased mortality is evident on every continent."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fascinating figure presented at @imprs-phds.bsky.social. Swedish registry data looking back from age of death-centenarians delay or avoid chronic disease. Also great example of population heterogeniety underlying the average trend (dashed line). #demography #episky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

YOU FOOLS. YOU LET MOOSE.