Useful reminder that the expert consensus *within China* on what Chinese economic/social reforms should look like is very similar to what Michael Pettis and I have been writing for years pekingnology.com/p/zhou-tianyon…

The Elon/Trump saga is just the latest example of how "fired" and "quit" are not well-defined categories, and should not be the basis for determining UI eligibility.

Both sides are making good points, I’d like to see this healthy debate continue

The craziest bit of the US trade data so far this year is undoubtedly trade in pharmaceuticals. Makes the swings with China look modest. 1/

Me and Sam Seder on his show talking inflation and many other things. Seems folks liked it: youtube.com/watch?v=ArAva4…

Carlos Alcaraz celebrating his French Open win with the ball kids is everything. 🥰😊👇

In class essays, oral exams, journals that rely on personal encounter and reflection. It works!!! Heavy participation grades too.

FWIW, everyone should be standing behind Newsom right now. It's not a question of liking him, the point is that Donald Trump is threatening to arrest his political opponent. That used to be a big deal in this country.

Charlie Kirk April 16: "One of the central promises of Trump's 2024 campaign was to restore and protect American freedom of speech." Today, as agents arrest a US senator for trying to ask a question of the DHS secretary. "It's about time!"

1/6 According to Bloomberg, Chinese government officials are going to great lengths to protect jobs even as worsening profitability across companies has reached the highest level in over two decades. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

I know stats don't help most people relax about air travel when it seems like accidents are clustering, but the stats are calming for me, so here they are. For American drivers, there's one passenger vehicle injury per 2 million miles traveled. Given ~37 miles a day is the

Wow he really is an honest to god White Sox fan

It honestly makes more sense to consolidate Irish GDP with U.S. GDP than to consolidate Irish GDP with the rest of the euro area

Holy mother of God

Interesting paper: 161 researchers in 73 research teams used the same data and hypothesis (immigration reduces support for social policies among the public), but arrived at different results and conclusions. Paper in PNAS

Time to fix the parts of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that put America last ... 1/3 nytimes.com/2025/06/20/opi…

Sadly I never met Helen in person while we overlapped in Amsterdam but we had good exchanges about the city & the sociology of academia. Her contribution to the latter is one of many aspects of her legacy I hope will endure. Prestige bias is real. It distorts academic life, badly