DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

Almost as depressing as people using AI to write: People who have apparently read so little decent writing that they believe utterly commonplace tools every minimally competent writer employs are AI tells.

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2d ago

I saw someone say that sentence length variation is a sign of AI. I’m just out here like, no:

Latest data point on long-distance superstar commuters. cc: @mattkahn1966.bsky.social @corinnelow.com

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

so much for billionaires fleeing because of zohran

✍️ The Most Important Trainer You've Never Heard Of... The story of how an obscure sneaker that didn't even carry the logo of the company that made it, helped to change the world - in ways we're still reckoning with even today... An essay👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-most-i...

The Most Important Trainer You've Never Heard Of

This is the story of how an obscure sneaker that didn't even carry the logo of the company that made it, helped to change the world - in ways we're still reckoning with even today...

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Recent case, re-run of the authors' code failed on a first-stage regression, blocked code from completing. Hard to initially diagnose, because "qui do regression_55.do" shows no output... 🤦Back and forth with authors, they provide evidence that it works on their system. We send MWE to Stata support👇

The 18th Conference on Urban and Regional Economics (CURE) will be October 9–10 at Columbia University. Submission deadline is July 25: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."

Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy

Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.

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Canadian content restrictions are import restrictions with the equivalent of thorny rules-of-origin details. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/669-...

Who wants to tax a billionaire? My attempt to anger *everyone* in a fraught debate www.ft.com/content/bf18...

My RSS subscriptions largely reflect choices that I made 5+ years ago. That's probably suboptimal. I suspect I ought to follow some substacks, for example. What RSS feeds should I be following for my interests?

Why does R have a `log1p()` function?! log1p(x) computes log(1+x). I sure hope it's for good numerical precision reasons (www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/06...) and not so that people can more easily run log-log regressions with zero-valued outcomes...

New: Market Size and Trade in Medical Services, revised and expanded. Now with demographics-based IVs and a case study of mesothelioma care that also show regional increasing returns. Dollar for dollar, travel subsidies save more lives than output subsidies. www.jdingel.com/research/DGL...

RSS has been around for decades, but it’s still one of the most powerful tools around to take control of your media and social consumption. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For

Since at least the moment Facebook introduced (and apologized for) its News Feed, “the algorithm” has been shorthand for the ways the tech giants control what we see and when we see it. In the age of

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Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "General Equilibrium Effects in Space: Theory and Measurement" by Rodrigo Adão, Costas Arkolakis, and Federico Esposito.

General Equilibrium Effects in Space: Theory and Measurement

(Forthcoming Article) - We examine the general-equilibrium effect of the China shock on US regions. We demonstrate that spatial linkages intensify the shock’s negative impact on employment across regions, leading to differential effects that are substantially larger than predictions from existing quantitative models. To address this disconnect, we develop a reduced-form representation of the impact of trade shocks in spatial models. Regional responses combine the direct effect of local shock exposure and its indirect spatial effects. Our approach extends shift-share empirical strategies and indicates that employment losses were amplified by strong agglomeration forces, large employment sensitivity to wages, and spatial and production linkages.

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New in RSUE: The urban wage premium in historical perspective, by Kyle Butts, Taylor Jaworski, Carl T. Kitchens. #econsky #urbanecon

If you use PACER, your social responsibility is to include the RECAP extension on your browser to that every court document you pay to examine gets uploaded to CourtListener for free access by others. free.law/recap/

RECAP Suite — Turning PACER Around Since 2009

RECAP is an online archive and free extension for Firefox, Chrome and Safari that improves the experience of using PACER, the electronic public access system for the U.S. Federal District and Bankrupt...

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Free Law Project ⚖@free.law · last mo.

The federal judiciary just announced that its raising PACER fees to pay to modernize the system. They are estimating about $125,000,000 per year to do the work. That number is simply unmoored from reality. It's enough money to pay over 600 people $200k salaries! 1/3 www.uscourts.gov/data-news/ju...

Tens of thousands of Iraq and Senegal fans at the game in Toronto yesterday. Numbers who applied for visas to travel to Canada from Iraq: 75 (65 rejected). From Senegal: 170 (145 rejected).

US House overwhelmingly backs affordable housing bill reut.rs/4ajtiDN

US House overwhelmingly backs affordable housing bill

Bipartisan legislation that ​aims to ‌speed the construction of more ​affordable housing ​in the United ⁠States was ​headed to passage ​in the U.S. House of Representatives ​on Tuesday.

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A federal judge who has reviewed a slew of subpoenas issued to Minnesota Gov Walz and a series of other prominent Democrats has concluded that this was all part of an act of peevish retaliation over their criticism of Trump's ICE crackdown in Minnesota and has quashed the subpoenas.

Federal judge halts Trump administration effort to subpoena Walz in immigration enforcement probe

A federal judge has blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other state officials, calling it an effort to “harass and retaliate against them.”

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This is a chart I wish the remote work discourse would more fully internalize. It shows the employment level among prime-age Americans with disabilities rising by nearly one quarter post-pandemic (from ~31% to approaching 39%). It's up even more from 2016. This is almost certainly hybrid work & WFH.

🇫🇷 🇺🇸 US President Donald Trump has threatened to slap a 100 percent tariff on French wine and champagne unless Paris removes a digital services tax on tech firms, the New York Post reported on Monday. ➡️ u.afp.com/SzNB

"I think they have a problem with my country." Words from Omar Abdulkadir Artan, the FIFA appointed Somali referee. He was interviewed for 11 hours on arrival in USA for the World Cup and then sent home. Scandalous. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

Somali Referee Says His World Cup Dream Is Dashed After U.S. Denies Entry

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BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3mo ago

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

Most of Trump's current tariffs are only temporary, expiring in July. Last night we got more details of how the USTR is planning to replace them. The Trump administration is accusing 54 economies of failing to ban imports made with forced labour...

Today is the submission deadline for the Urban Economics Association meeting at the Chicago Fed, September 25-26. Please send your best urban-related work for our program committee to consider. urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea... @urbaneconomics.bsky.social

Final reminder: Deadline is May 21st!

Urban Economics Association@urbaneconomics.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📣 Call for papers 📣 20th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association September 25 - 26, 2026 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago Keynotes by Jens Ludwig and Steve Redding Please submit your paper by May 21st urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea...

I’m very sad to share that Ned Phelps passed away last night. Ned was my undergraduate advisor and the reason I’m an economist. He was beyond brilliant but more importantly an amazing human being. His deep curiosity about the world will always be a lodestar for me.

It's annoying that OUP produces invalid BibTeX data. People cite @qjeharvard.bsky.social & @reveconstudies.bsky.social articles with wrong years because the BibTeX files are bad. I often see Caliendo Parro (2015), Dingel (2017), Fajgelbaum Goldberg Kennedy Khandelwal (2020) cited as '14, '16, '19.

Submissions for the #UEA2026 meeting in Chicago are due in one week. You can submit individual papers or propose a complete session. Session proposals get flexibility on timing/format! urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea...

Ooooooo I'm making the Department of Homeland Security mad with my new research y'all Check out @planetmoney.bsky.social's coverage of my research on the labor market effects of ICE in Trump 2.0 and DHS' response here: www.npr.org/sections/pla...

The economic chilling effect of Trump's immigration crackdown

New research finds that ICE raids and deportation fears disrupted local economies, reduced work among undocumented immigrants, and may have hurt some U.S.-born workers too.

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