My nephew's text to his mom. He's a sophomore in college. Ha ha ha. #teachecon

I'm teaching Intermediate Macro this semester for the first time in about 7 years. I've felt a bit shaky all semester, but we just got to Solow Growth Model and I'm in hog heaven now. It was one of the models that really grabbed me as an undergraduate and it's such a fun model to teach! #teachecon

As a space nerd and physicist wannabe (as is the case for many economists...) it's so cool to work at an institution that is on the front lines of learning more about our universe. #boilerupwww.eaps.purdue.edu/news/article...

RIP to a real one. Maggie Smith will always be Granny Wendy to me from Hook, and that always makes me think of one of my favorite Paulie Walnuts quotes: “When I was a kid, you two were old ladies. Now I'm old. And you two are still old.”

TWwashingtonpost.comSep 27, 2024 1:22pm

Breaking news: Maggie Smith dies at 89. The Oscar-winning British actress enchanted audiences in the Harry Potter films and ‘Downton Abbey.’

Maggie Smith, ebullient scene-stealer of stage and screen, dies at 89

The British actress won Oscars for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and “California Suite” and enchanted audiences as a professorial witch in the Harry Potter movies and the sly dowager countess on the...

Carrots and hummus are the adult Dunkaroos.

Go Vols!

NYU study of "green" bonds issued in the US finds virtually the entire market (98%) delivers no environmental benefit beyond what would have been accomplished with traditional financing. Time to retire "green premium." A more correct term would be "greenwashing premium."

FAalphaville.ft.comSep 16, 2024 12:05pm

You'll be shocked to learn .... www.ft.com/content/4796...

Green bonds are bunkum

And investors don’t care

Serious debate raging in the house right now about what snacks we should take to our son's soccer game tomorrow since it's our game to bring snacks.

The terrible pre-school my son attended in Brooklyn last year keeps (somehow) getting their negative Google reviews removed. In the context that this is about children, it shouldn't be the case a business can simply scrub their negative reviews. Some neg reviews suggested safety concerns!

The thing few pundits want to say is that, of all possible sets of policies, the total combination of monetary and fiscal policy that U.S. has pursued since March 2020 has produced probably something in the top 5% of possible economic outcomes given the circumstances. A massive success.