Some countries that have prosecuted or threatened to prosecute central bankers for the purpose of political intimidation or punishment for monetary policy decisions: Argentina, Russia, Turkey, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

Surreal to be preparing for class, working on papers etc.

People on that other site are not ok.

Proud to be a hoosier today.

I will need the flashy thingy from Men in Black to recover from this administration.

If you can say “Harvard study finds” then you need to say “Harvard faculty got dating advice from Epstein” - hey I don’t make the rules.

I hope the new Governor of Virginia removes these trustees but also uses the majority wins in the legislature to stop political appointments of univ trustees altogether.

Joe Fore@joefore.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

Confused about why, despite there being a centralized system for econ reference letters, I am getting individual letter requests from schools

Solidarity with everyone who has to lecture in finance classes tomorrow. 🤛🏽

You have a balance of payments lecture in your MBA class today, what do you talk about? Wrong answers only.

I stopped paying attention to Niall Ferguson a long time ago but the evolution of his twitter timeline is too funny to ignore.

The way things are going, will the USD retain its exorbitant privilege? Autocracy does not breed investor confidence. Shrinking the sphere of US influence and the military isn’t going to help. We might be looking at a world of hurt down the road.

400 million is a third of the population - did NYT add an extra zero

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y ago

Hundreds of millions of Hindu pilgrims are convening this week in what is expected to be the world’s largest gathering, where a staggering number of devotees, tourists, politicians and celebrities take sacred dips at the convergence of two holy rivers in India.

incredible stuff. how it started vs how it’s going

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Will pay any amount.” Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.

Zuckerberg should change the name of his company from Meta to Beta to reflect his status in the broligarchy 🤣

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There’s another replyallocalypse happening on a mailing list no one knew they were on and among others, an econ nobel prize winner and a hedge fund founder have weighed in. No puppies yet.

A great economist and model of honest and decent leadership - something India has not seen since. RIP PM Singh.

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 2y ago

Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh dies aged 92

Nine years ago, I was teaching a course at the Kyiv School of Economics in Ukraine. I wasn’t yet the president of KSE, just returned to Ukraine, and couldn’t have imagined the challenges ahead of Ukraine and KSE 1/

Colleges pushing their core curriculum as the broad based education kids need, then admitting 17 year olds whose applications must look like they have a phd and 5 years work experience in one subject.

Relatedly, high school students should not be starting companies and non profits unless it’s their lawn mowing or newspaper delivery business.

hot take: High school students should not be publishing research and colleges should not use high school student research to make admissions decisions. If you solved the Riemann Hypothesis, sure. Otherwise, stop this insanity.

% of high school students in private schools in the US = 9% % of high school students in private schools admitted to Yale in 2024 = 40%

Good idea. Using sentiment analysis @israelsen.bsky.social, eitan goldman and I found that the same corporate financial news is covered differently in the NYT vs WSJ based on corporations’ politics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Political polarization in financial news

Comparing coverage of the same corporate financial news by the conservative Wall Street Journal and the liberal New York Times, we find strong evidenc…

sciencedirect.com

Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social · 2y ago

Actually, sentiment and bias analysis have been around for a while. If we can get the @latimes.com reporters to post their stories on @bsky.app , with the open firehose, any academic or researcher can analyze everything they post. And nothing will ever be as bad as the cuecat!

Refuse to believe my spotify wrapped.

Did a mock interview with a JMC for econmentoring.org. Very interesting work and hopefully also useful for the candidate! Highly recommend signing up.

Home - Amie Association Mentoring in Economics

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As a faculty rep at my univ I’ve also seen how decrease in shared governance increases faculty apathy, further decreasing shared governance.

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2y ago

“But despite Penn's boasting of [commitment to shared governance] for decades, many faculty members described a sense of disillusionment with the University's shared governance structures in the past year”

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Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2y ago

United Health CEO is assassinated in NYC. Wall Street: this is good.

No words.

J. Offir, PhD@joffirphd.bsky.social · 2y ago

Immigration & Education: This notice from the National College Attainment Network went out Thurs., warning immigrant & mixed-status families that it may not be safe for them to file a FAFSA, b/c data may not be protected & people could be targeted. More at: minnesotareformer.com/2024/11/22/t...

GO IU!