There is no economic boom: GDP growth still hasn't hit 3% in any year since the financial crisis -- despite the overly rosy economic forecasts produced each year. nytimes.com/2019/03/10/opi…

Where pre-war demographics still persist in Germany, electoral maps show strong echoes of the past. My print piece for The Economist about Germany's far right: economist.com/graphic-detail…

Millennials in America have experienced significantly slower economic growth in their careers than other generations. By Andrew Van Dam washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019…

What happens when the sun sets and police officers on the road can no longer determine a driver’s race? The share of traffic stops involving black drivers falls. My latest for The Economist Data Team: economist.com/graphic-detail…

My latest on the status of women in the economics profession is here - economist.com/finance-and-ec…

The petition to revoke article 50 has nearly 3.5m signatures! It's soon to surpass the previous record for parliamentary petitions (4m). Data from Open Innovation #RevokeArt50Now

The Economist needs the equivalent of New New York Times. Pretty sure this is the first time this word has appeared in our pages economist.com/international/…

Do millennials pay back their debts? Yes, according to St. Louis Fed. For their age, millennials have lower credit-card delinquency rates than either baby-boomers or Generation X. stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy…

Rich countries tend to have large middle classes (btw 75 and 200% of median income), the exception is the US. OECD Statistics Laurence Boone data cited by Deutsche Bank

China seems willing to pay any price to punish Donald Trump’s voters. My latest for The Economist with Dan Rosenheck and Matthew McLean: economist.com/graphic-detail…

Why you should never start a trade war with an autocracy, ECONOMICS ECON on research showing that unlike the EU, China seems willing to pay any price to punish Donald Trump’s voters, Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere CAGE @ Warwick CEPR economist.com/graphic-detail…

So cool to see your own work in print in The Economist. Thanks to Doug Dowson for working with us on this in the past week and over Easter. The full paper "Tariffs and Politics: Evidence from Trump's #tradewar 's" is available here ssrn.com/abstract=33490… #whateconomistsdo

Researching how bad it is for some local communities squeezed in the trade war is among the most fulfilling work i've done lately, with Joe Parilla. Proud to see part of it quoted in this week's The Economist, by data journalist Doug Dowson : economist.com/graphic-detail…

There are more Chinese millennials than there are people in America. In “Under Red Skies”, Karoline Kan takes control of her generation’s narrative. My review for The Economist economist.com/books-and-arts…

"scientists who persevered...after their initial failure outperformed their counterparts who had succeeded first time" Failure creates two paths forward: give up or try again. Those who try again are ultimately more successful than those who never failed. economist.com/graphic-detail…

America spends about twice as much on health care as other rich countries but has the lowest life expectancy. One of my more depressing The Economist Data Team: economist.com/graphic-detail…

THREAD: After months of data scraping and number crunching, this week we’ve published an analysis of whether Google's news algorithm displays political bias. (1/25) economist.com/graphic-detail…

also, this might be the most beautiful graphic you see on the internet today (a deep dive on the 2020 candidates' twitter followers and who they have in common by @guswez & Oliver Roeder): fivethirtyeight.com/features/which…

One of the few (mostly) positive social trends I’ve written about: The racial gap in life expectancy has declined substantially in the last 20 years. economist.com/united-states/…