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Daniel Zhao @danielzhao.bsky.social · 13h

Sep #jobsreport flips back to weak again after a strong Aug: -Payrolls +29k vs. +133k in Aug (revised down from +162k). Jul back in the red, revised to -10k from +21k -Unemp rises to 4.2% (though labor force participation jumped) -Wage growth down to 3% YoY from 3.1%

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Important PSA: Look at this belly

Soft and fluffy calico cat stretched out in a box with her fluffy belly to the sky

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 03/09/2026

I remember learning in grad school (econ PhD in the mid-late 2000s) that the labor/capital split in output was roughly 2/3 vs. 1/3 and that was, if not quite a law of nature, a relatively stable fact. Times have changed.

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

IDC about this debate, but to be clear, yes, the vast majority of the public have never been to an academic conference. That doesn’t mean we need to make conferences kinder (idk, maybe we do, separate q), but at a very basic level we absolutely do need to adjust to speak to general audiences.

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Marcella Alsan @marcellaalsan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Open access in QJE!📢 Using newly assembled archival data, we show how the AMA's nationwide campaign against national health insurance, labeling it "socialized medicine" and promoting private insurance, helped steer the U.S. away from universal health care academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

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Why Doesn’t the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association

Abstract. This article examines how the American Medical Association (AMA) helped shape the development of the U.S. health insurance system in the critical

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Rainier Cherries the 2 weeks each year they have them at my Costco $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It's worth highlighting that with staff downsizes, either you 1) have fewer people doing the same aggregate amount of work, leading to overtime increases like this, or 2) you just accomplish less aggregate work, leading to service impacts like I find in SSA under Reagan. /1

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Guys I’m packing up my books, what do I do with my copy of Predictably Irrational? Bonus: it’s from Borders (RIP)

Paperback copy of the book Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

Barcode sticker on the back side of the book from defunct bookstore Borders

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 05/05/2026

1.7 American employees quit their jobs in March for each employee fired, per today's @usbls.bsky.social #JOLTS data. This #LaborLeverageRatio, which proxies for labor bargaining power in jobs, declined slightly as firings (=layoffs + discharges) rose faster than quits www.upjohn.org/labor-levera...

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

For me it's definitely this one:

tweet from derek guy (menswear guy): this professor would go on for days about how much he hates me and i was like brother you need to solve POVERTY

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Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Oh snap, another Aidan Toner-Rodgers related retraction

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This sounds nice, but the more I think about it the more I think it ignores trade offs and public trust at a fundamental level. It implies that passing policy that we think is not beneficial (but not harmful) 1) doesn’t affect the appetite for/budget of political capital for other, better policies.

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Asking as someone who will soon have to move a lot of books: has anyone price shopped books with regular move vs mailing separately as media mail?

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

My kingdom for a monster of the week show with 20 episodes a season, compelling characters, and a cozily well-built world.

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Cough Cough Len Blavatnik and Blavatnik School at Oxford. Speaking of which: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

excerpt of emails from epstein files dated 2010 between Len Blavatnik and Epstein discussing dinner plans.

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Formerly Richard Mayhew @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I am chairing the search for two (2) Tenure Track positions at the Department of Health Services, Policy and Management at @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social We are looking to move relatively fast so please get your applications in quickly #HealthPolicy #AcademicSky uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

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Assistant/Associate Professor (2 Vacancies)

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I consider this to be near-perfect and I’m strangely proud of myself

Results from the QT probability quiz, showing I am really good at assigning probability to words (52 percentile of values, 100% consistent within my own answers)

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Excited to announce GOLLUM, an app that helps you focus on your most precious possession!

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Hank Greely @hankgreely.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Episode 39 of the current Kilauea eruption has started. Currently the live web cams are showing some great, nighttime lava fountaining! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu... and www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t... Lately these episodes have been lasting a day or less; check it out while you can!

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[V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater)

YouTube video by USGS

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Very impressive public service! And I beg you for some additional public service -- given you are a role model for younger scholars -- which is make the font size and marker size larger relative to the plot region, for the sake of old folks 😀

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Is there any estimate — national, state-level, I'll take any estimate — of the share of Medicaid beneficiaries whose enrollment is prompted by/at a medical visit? (Versus filling out application paperwork outside of/without the help of a health care provider.)

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 03/12/2025

All I want for Christmas is policies with a high MVPF. Funded by taxes. Instead of whatever Michael Dell feels like doing with his money.

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Kate Musen @khmusen.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids. In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 28/11/2025

Idea: Swap out the WH Press Corps with the audience at an Econ seminar

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

We’ve 100% lost the war on using phones while driving and it’s the worst.

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I’ll be there too! Come see the former RDRC fellows

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 21/11/2025

Upset that Firefly got canceled? It was the immigrants. Halitosis? It was immigrants. Bald spot? Yup, immigrants. Spouse not that into you anymore? Immigrants. Is the mailman jerkin’ you ‘round? Did he put your million dollar check in someone else’s box? Immigrants.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 18/11/2025

Charlotte Area: This is the link for the Carolina Migrant Network carolinamigrantnetwork.org Now is a good time to keep their information handy. Donating to them, if you can, is another good thing you could do.

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Carolina Migrant Network – Representing Immigrants in Removal Proceedings

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Wake County Indivisible @wakencindivisible.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

With 🧊 in Charlotte, we will be posting as many resources as we can find to help anyone in Charlotte as well as what we need to know across the state. Carolina Migrant Network has a hotline that you can call especially if you are in Charlotte. They will verify that it is 🧊 and will notify.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

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'They're not chasing criminals.' Manolo's
Bakery owner closes store to protect customers
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Church members flee as federal agents arrive at east Charlotte place of worship
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Super G executive in Pineville describes agents dragging out teen store employee
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'Just walked up to them.' Border Patrol questions people at a Charlotte Walmart
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Federal Border Patrol sweep across
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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Headed to Seattle for my first #APPAM2025! If you’re in town say hi! I’ll be presenting my paper on the impacts of Social Security staffing levels on Friday afternoon. #EconConf

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Melissa Gentry @melissadgentry.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics. My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6

Photo shows the title page for an academic paper titled "Driving Inclusion: The Effect of Improved Transportation for People with Disabilities" by Melissa Gentry.

The abstract is as follows: People with disabilities face substantial barriers to economic and social participation. I explore the extent to which these barriers are overcome by the availability of reliable and flexible transportation, which may serve as ``reliability insurance'' in case other modes of transit fail. Leveraging the roll-out of Uber, I use a stacked difference-in-differences approach to show that the availability of reliable and flexible transportation leads to improvements in social and economic participation through increased marriage rates and labor force participation, and reduced reliance on public assistance. The reduction in public assistance outweighs expected rideshare costs, lending support to the recent push towards public-private partnerships in the transportation space.

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 02/11/2025

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

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Economics Literature Search

Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I am ACountant Dracula, I want to keep you in the black

Woman in black professional clothes with a bottle of red liquid labeled “oneg” and a calculator

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 30/10/2025

It's that time of year again... #EconSky

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David Lebo @leboism.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Reminder to everyone donating to food banks in light of the Republicans starving SNAP: It is far more cost effective to donate directly to food banks than to buy food and give it to them. They can buy in bulk and have existing relationships with sellers, so your few bucks go way further that way

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Good thread. This is the one that broke me.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/10/2025

Okay #EconSky, if you do any kind of spatial analysis, it's a good time to be alive ☞ A new, open-access global spatial database combining 73 harmonized datasets on the world population, its distribution in space, and its characteristics, 2015–2023: doi.org/10.12688/ver...

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Cole Haddon @colehaddon.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

In 1959, an American schoolgirl wrote C.S. Lewis (THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE) and asked for advice on writing. This was his response:

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Folks if you usually do end-of-year/holiday charity giving, consider moving it up to the beginning of November instead and hit up however many local food pantries you can afford to give to. (Check if you or a spouse/partner's employer does charity matching, too.)

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 20/10/2025

Once when canvassing I asked a voter his #1 concern and it was "yard sales are not enforcing sales tax"

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

A couple thousand showed up in Newport Beach, CA, lining both sides of the PCH. Good turnout considering there were at least 3 other locations within 20 min drive. I would say cars were about 50% supportive, 40% indifferent, 10% giving us middle fingers. Not bad for a formerly deep red part of OC!

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Christian Zimmermann @czimm-economist.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Are you organizing an online seminar in economics? Then make sure it is listed on the Virtual Economics Seminar Calendar. And do it early, every Sunday MyIDEAS subscribers can get notified about those in their field. ideas.repec.org/v/ #RePEc #EconSky

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Economics Virtual Seminar Calendar | IDEAS/RePEc

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

The shutdown keeps dragging on, this line keeps going up, and prediction markets now suggest that it's more likely than not this will be the longest government shutdown in US history (previous record 35 days).

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Paolo Falco @paolofalco.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

🚨 2-Year Postdocs in Dev Econ at Uni Copenhagen 🚨 Come work on some exciting experimental projects😀! Dedicated time for your own research. Reach out to hear more! ** PLEASE REPOST **🙏 Application deadline 🗓️: Nov 11 👉http://bit.ly/4q2Uehf #EconSky

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