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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/01/2026

🚩 🚨🚨🚨 🚩 AG Bondi & POTUS are threatening the Fed with criminal indictment in order to try to force its leaders to corrupt economic policy. Watch this. #NumbersDay #EconSky

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Let’s normalize watching the live stream rather than attending a ballroom session and coughing throughout. #ASSA2026

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Head all the way to the back of the exhibits room to @mitpress.bsky.social booth. Raffling off signed copies of Inflation by moi! I’m happy to chat with you about the book NOW! Saturday 12:30-2 at the booth. #ASSA2026

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Head all the way to the back of the exhibits room to @mitpress.bsky.social booth. Raffling off signed copies of Inflation by moi! I’m happy to chat with you about it Saturday 12:30-2 at the booth. #ASSA2026

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Heading to #ASSA2026? I’ll be at the @mitpress.bsky.social booth on Saturday, 12:30-2:00. Come check out my new book Inflation! Written for the general public (your cousin who asks you about the Fed). Great airplane read! Look for it in your airport bookstore before you board your flight to PHL.

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Research idea for whomever wants it: impact of pension payments (DBP) vs 403b/401k (DCP) on post-retirement volunteerism, specifically with former employer/industry. I’m happy to do service for UCB & AEA; I get a pension check every month, feel like I ought to give something back. If only IRAs? Nah.

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Commonwealth Club World Affairs @cwclub.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The economy in 2026? Mark your calendars for Feb. 11 & join us in downtown S.F. for our annual economic forecast. Featuring Steven Davis, Haim Israel, @marthaolney.bsky.social & @adamlashinsky.bsky.social Tickets: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-... Underwritten by @bankofamerica.bsky.social

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Fed’s interest rate decision coming up soon. Buy my book “Inflation” ($20 any bookseller) and it’ll help you figure out what they’re saying and why! Short on time? Start with Chap 6, which summarizes Chap 1-5 and then walks you through recent economic history, a news article, and 5 FOMC statements.

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

So the AEA has a code of conduct that we all agree to in order to participate in the annual meetings. Something, something, sexual misconduct, something, something. #EpsteinFiles

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

On Sunday, Nov. 16, @marthaolney.bsky.social celebrates the release of “Inflation," a timely guide to one of today’s most pressing economic challenges. Join her at Book Passage to explore what we can do about its effects.

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Martha Olney - Inflation (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) (Corte Madera Store)

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Also big favor to ask: if you’ve already read my book Inflation (MIT press essential knowledge series, $20, publ Sept 23, 2025), would you be so kind as to rate it and maybe add a review on any of the usual online booksellers? Thanks!!!

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Are you listening to Jay Powell and wishing you knew what all of his words meant? I’ve got the book for you! Inflation by yours truly (MIT essential knowledge series, $20) walks you through a series of Fed statements (chap 6) after a good discussion of monetary policy (chap 5). Buy yours today!

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

If you like it, please recommend it to your family members, friends, colleagues, & dentist. There really isn’t any other book out there that addresses the topic of inflation from an apolitical, let me help you understand the news, sort of way. Great for clients of CFP too!

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

✨ New Essential Knowledge: From the obvious rise in the cost of living to the more discreet decrease in quality of goods and services, economist @marthaolney.bsky.social provides an introduction to the concept of inflation and what we can do to address its effects: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255315...

A copy of "Inflation" by Martha Olney on a plain background. Text along the bottom of the cover indicates this book is part of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series.

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Available today!! Quick read hint: start with the last chapter (6) which begins with a summary of 1-5. Then circle back to the beginning. Let me know what you think!!!

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Preorder Inflation (by me!) today, delivers 9/23. “Written in accessible language with plenty of practical applications of economic theory, this book will appeal to readers seeking to understand inflation and the tools used by the Federal Reserve to manage it.” – Jennifer Michaelson for Booklist.

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

My book Inflation (MIT Press, $20) will publish in just 5 weeks!! Pre-order it now from any bookseller for delivery on Sept 23!!! A review to be published Sept 4 in Booklist, a pub of the Amer. Library Assn, @ala-booklist.bsky.social‬ ends with this: 1/2

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Preorder my forthcoming book, Inflation (out Sept 23) from your favorite bookseller now. Just $20!! Buy a second copy and give it to that uncle who’s always saying “You studied econ, right? So explain to me . . .” 😉

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

"People have only a vague sense of what’s happening: prices are going up, and they know the Fed has something to do with it, but they don’t have a nuanced sense of the cause." @marthaolney.bsky.social‬ spoke with @publisherswkly.bsky.social on the drive behind her book, "Inflation" (out Sept 23):

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

We need an index of “conversations overheard that mention prices or inflation.” Because my little trip to the nail salon today would show a marked uptick from the past.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

“.. The Canadian Association of University Teachers, which boasts a membership of 72,000 .. recommended in an advisory published Tuesday that “academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary.” @politico.com #PariahState www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

My newest book is available for pre-order! Inflation (MIT Essential Knowledge Series, forthcoming September 23, 2025) Available for pre-order now! BN.com: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/inflation-... Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/0262553155/ Indiebound: bookshop.org/p/books/infl...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/04/2025

This is incredible! John Lithgow shares 20 lessons on tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social. Please take a moment, and share this widely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXR5...

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I hope y’all are watching Cory Booker right now. Cspan2, YouTube, wherever. This is amazing. Inspiring.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA).

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Y’all have fun at #ASSA2025. I’m sorry to miss it but I’m getting a new knee Monday 1/6 and was told to avoid “large indoor gatherings” and the viruses they engender. Check out the #CSQIEP welcome table in the Registration Area, our 2 sessions, and the Saturday lunch (no rsvp required!)

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Did anyone create a starter pack of women economists?

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I've posted several times about the working paper, but the publication on "AER: Insights" is a good occasion to do it again: immigrants to the US have been less likely to be incarcerated for over 50 years **even without controlling for demographic characteristics.** www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap between Immigrants and the US-Born, 1870–2020†
By Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome,
Santiago Pérez, and Juan David Torres*
We provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870–2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants have had lower incarceration rates than the US-born for 150 years. Moreover, relative to the US-born, immigrants’ incarceration rates have declined since 1960: immigrants today are 60 percent less likely to be incarcerated (30 percent relative to US-born Whites). This relative decline occurred among immigrants from all regions and cannot be explained by changes in observable characteristics or immigration policy. Instead, the decline is part of a broader divergence of outcomes between less-educated immigrants and their US-born counterparts.

Panels plotting incarceration rates for immigrants and US-born men between 1870 and 2019. Data are restricted to males ages 18–40. Data spanning 1870–1940 are from the full-count decennial censuses. Data spanning 1950–1990 are from the largest available subsamples from the corresponding decennial censuses. Data from 2005 onward are from the annual ACS. Cross markers indicate that fewer than 10,000 immigrants were used to calculate the corresponding incarceration rate. Panel A compares US-born men to all immigrants. Panels B–F compare US-born men to immigrants from a particular country-of-origin group. “Old Europeans” are immigrants from countries in the north and west of Europe. “New Europeans” are immigrants from countries in eastern and southern Europe. The “Rest of the world” category includes immigrants from countries not included in panels B–F.
Migrants typically show lower incarceration rates

accounting for individual-level characteristics, migrants as a group or by subgroups (old Europeans, new Europeans, Chinese, Mexicans and Central Americans, or Rest of the World) are incarcerated at lower rates

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