Controversial opinion: wait for the jobs report to come out before you write a thread on the jobs report 🥸

Come to KC in May for the Midwest Macroeconomic Meetings at the KC Fed! kansascityfed.org/events/2025-mi…

My current use of Make is far better than what I posted years ago. I just rewrote the Makefiles for Dingel & Neiman (2020), so now they're a nice example what I describe in github.com/jdingel/projec…. See github.com/jdingel/Dingel… Why you need Make: tradediversion.net/2019/11/06/why…

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"Corporate Debt Maturity Matters for Monetary Policy" is now available as an IFDP. We show that empirically and in a model, firms react more strongly to monetary policy (MP) when a larger fraction of their debt matures. This has important implications for the effectiveness of MP.

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*rubs hands together*

1967-1972. Although there is a dearth of documentation, some say the music between the death of John Coltrane and the death of Lee Morgan was the greatest jazz of all time. In The Nation, my cover story on Slugs' and the archival release FORCES OF NATURE: thenation.com/article/cultur…

Really nice paper on an important topic!

Leena explains how pay policies employed by many large firms affect labor market dynamics.

Sometimes grad students want to "have impact" via public policy. It's understandable, but I always urge them to channel that into something that's more doable for an academic---namely help clarify some important issue or give people a better way to think about some problem

Governor Waller on central bank reseaerch federalreserve.gov/newsevents/spe…

New #IFDPPaper develops a macroeconomic model highlighting the critical role of debt maturity in business cycle dynamics. federalreserve.gov/econres/ifdp/c… (1/2)

Cool paper by Francesco, Andrea, and Immo Schott !

Thrilled to announce that John Leahy will become the @chicagofed’s next director of research John, the Allen Sinai Professor of Macroeconomics and Public Policy and chair of the Econ dept. at @umich, is a lovely guy and a fabulous economist. Welcome to Da Bank, John.

D’Angelo’s Prince tribute was the only one that moved me to tears, the way he got choked up. He was truly his greatest musical son.

Rest in Power, D’Angelo 🕊️ A true Maestro — his voice, vision, & spirit reshaped the sound of a generation. He didn’t just make music — he built a language of soul, rooted in tradition but entirely his own. Fly high, D'. #DAngelo

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