Same.

However.

Santa Barbara No Kings 2. Waiting for crowd estimate but compared to NK 1: Bigger, broader age distribution, signs less playful, more emphatic, angrier. No counter protests, happy crowd in sidewalk, helpful cops blocking traffic. Coastal California!

The newsletter introduced me to this interesting new working paper.
Link on sites.google.com/site/clexley...

Did the Social Security Administration really send me this partisan, misleading email applauding the passage of a destructive piece of GOP-only legislation? Where am I living? What happened to the professional civil service that we all counted on? They won’t answer the phones but they’ll lobby?

Let me elaborate a little. The Douglas border crossing is part of my life. I grew up in Surrey, the BC community right on the border, and marched in a ceremony as a Brownie (I was maybe 6?) at the Peace Arch at the crossing. It is a symbol of US-Canada friendship and I grew up with it.

Hands Off Santa Barbara. Still filing in off the street.

If you're near Santa Barbara next week, I'll be giving a free public talk on the UCSB campus titled "How Economics Discovered Women" as the 2021-2022 Faculty Research Lecturer (in a double-bill with my psychologist colleague, Richard Mayer, the 2020-2021 Lecturer). Come by and say hi.