Friends and students occasionally ask me about the genesis of my 2005 QJE paper with Marc Melitz on “International Trade and Macroeconomic Dynamics with Heterogeneous Firms.” Here is the story, for anyone who may be interested. 1/n

Firing the head of a key government agency because you don’t like the numbers they report, which come from surveys using long established procedures, is what happens in authoritarian countries not democratic ones. This is surely not the most serious threat to our democracy that

1/Kevin Hassett had long ago discredited himself as a scholar by parroting claims about the economy he knew to be false. Even so, parroting the lie about rigged statistics, is a new low. The academy should ostracize him the same way a fabricator of research should be ostracized.

From Joachim Voth, the great Peter Temin has passed away. An old-school economic historian, he published in pure history journals, knew his economic theory well, and worked on 'the big questions' from Ancient Rome to the Great Depression. 1/2

This is a letter signed by the US government's top lawyer and submitted today in federal court (in VOS Selections v Trump). I'm honestly struggling to believe it's real, but here we are.

The sheer number of people who ought to know better who've been duped by a terrible graph in the Financial Times into thinking there have massive recent changes in personality in the U.S. is kind of fascinating.

link: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… The tl,dr is that housing supply skepticism--which we operationalize as the belief that a large, positive, exogenous regional supply shock would not reduce home prices / rents locally--is pervasive, distinctive to housing, but weakly held. /2

BMJ just posted this systematic evidence review of 63 studies. It found "a lack of evidence supporting any association of e-cigarette use with cardiovascular disease." That cuts out 36% of all smoking-related deaths. Seems like something people who smoke would want to know.

Here was a thread I wrote on a previous draft of this paper: x.com/TradeandMoney/… And here is a link to the paper: drive.google.com/file/d/1f1lRgK…

Social media has a bimodal quality distribution. There is a mass around politicized slop, but then there's also expert commentary making academic research more accessible -- and that's something you just couldn't even dream to get just a decade ago. It's great to get a macro

The "gender pay gap" exists due to having kids. Mayer-Rokitanski-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome makes women infertile, but they're otherwise normal. By 28-30, MRKH women earn as much as men and a "wage gap" opens up for them relative to normal women when normal women have kids.

I'm extremely pleased that this paper is now out in the Journal of Economic Literature. It was a long journey. #SocialDistancing #Vaccines #Lockdowns #EconTwitter #EpiTwitter Chris Auld Eli Fenichel AEA Journals CamEcon The Janeway Institute Bennett School of Public Policy aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

This is a very important paper that, as far as I can tell, has received surprisingly little attention so far on Twitter, so I thought I'd do a quick summary to encourage people to read it. The authors make the point that, when studies estimate the impact of immigration on wages

You keep your life only at the regime's discretion is as clear as could be. I remember pointing out the difference between officially sanctioned police brutality in Russia versus George Floyd, where the officer had a fair trial and was jailed. The WH reaction here is Russian.

Start the new year with a submission to School of Public Affairs 's 15th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior, to be held July 8–9, 2026 in Cagliari, Italy 🇮🇹 Submissions are welcome until March 6, 2026. 🎤 Keynote: Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University) 👥 Organizers: Erdal Tekin, Claudio

“Hindu Forum Canada, through its legal representative, is issuing a formal notice to the Honourable Heath MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food.” Federal support for halal meat production raises serious concerns about equality and state neutrality. Public funding

Call for papers: Canadian Health Economists' Study Group (CHESG) 2026. May 27th and morning of 28th, Victoria, B.C. More info and paper submission: chesg-geces.ca #EconTwitter

🚨BREAKING: A new video out of Minneapolis shows the truth ICE doesn’t want you to see… compliance does not protect you. In this video, ICE agents pull up to a vehicle and immediately demand the driver’s ID. The man calmly asks the most basic, legally protected question: “Why

We'd better listen to Dan Gardner