Just read that Derek Fowlds has died. Excellent in Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister. And had one of the best lines in sitcom history when they discussed newspaper readers on Yes Prime Minister.

On Brexit Day, this is the chart that makes me angry Soon after Cameron was elected in 2010, just 1% of UK adults thought EU was a top issue The unwanted, divisive & expensive #Brexit saga was manufactured from nothing by his government for the benefit of the Conservative party

Retail apocalypse is real. It's amazing what a sudden stop in retail employment growth it produced nationally.

Ben Olken's notes on his "Epic Failures" -- research projects that died. A good reminder that for every polished paper we see, there are a lot of failed paper attempts. (Part of MIT's new 2nd-year PhD class on how to write a paper, which I want to take!) economics.mit.edu/files/18768

1/N. Short thread on T-Mlobile/Sprint merger. There were 2 theories: (A) It's a 4-to-3 merger that will lower competition and increase markups. (B) The new merged entity will be able to take on the industry leaders ATT and Verizon. (A) and (B) make clear predictions.

Tweestorming a rough chronology of economics since World War II Caveats: 1. It’s not meant at introducing econ ideas but primarily at helping econ undergrads embed ideas & tools seen in micro/macro courses in specific times & places before going deeper in some episodes

Keynote by Dani Rodrik

Overheard: The one thing we've learned from this crisis is that if the Martians invaded earth, our first response would be to lower interest rates.

Preliminary results of Spain's seroprevalence study on random sample of the population (>30,000 households, >60,000 people) representative at provincial level. Prevalence of antibodies anti SARS-CoV-2: 5% nationally, large regional variation (highest Madrid, 11%, others <2%)

2020 NBER Summer Institute, July 6-25, will be live-streamed on the NBER's YouTube channel. Meeting schedule here conference.nber.org/confer/2020/SI… URLs for the streams are assigned at the start of each meeting, and will be posted as soon as they are available here conference.nber.org/confer/2020SI_…

The data download feature is now UP on the Opportunity Insights Economic Tracker. tracktherecovery.org Looking forward to seeing lots of interesting new findings from users!

Fascinant !

The Covid-19 recession is the strangest recession in living memory For starters, it is the most unequal recession - like the virus, decimating some and untouching others.

Dear #TradeTwitter, HELP! I have found 500+ HTS-10 products... (1) on List 1 ($34B, 25% US tariffs on China) (2) NOT on any Federal Register notice of product EXCLUSIONS yet (3) starting March 2020, 25% Section 301 tariffs were no longer collected. Any explanations? 🤓🤔

NBER Summer Institute 2021 will be held online Monday, July 12 to Friday, July 30. View the schedule nber.org/conferences/su…. Please submit papers for consideration by 11:59pm PDT on Monday, April 5 nber.org/call-papers-44…. Most presentations will be live-streamed on YouTube.

Here is a snapshot of the largest producers of vaccines. Much more supply is in the pipeline but all countries will need to share. It is essential to vaccinate the most vulnerable in the world *now* for the benefit of everyone. The pandemic is not over until it is over everywhere

"The collapse of French exports in the Covid crisis: mainly those of large business units" - #BdFeco blog post by J.-C. Bricongne, J. Carluccio, L. Fontagné, G. Gaulier and S. Stumpner Jean-Charles Bricongne Guillaume Gaulier blocnotesdeleco.banque-france.fr/en/blog-entry/…

.Andrés Velasco and Marcelo Tokman, former Treasury and Energy Ministers of Chile, explain on this article how Chile successfully overcame the sudden cut-off of gas supply from Argentina in 2007: project-syndicate.org/commentary/rus…

"How much have rising transport costs affected US import prices?" - #BdFeco blog post by Sebastian Stumpner Sebastian Stumpner blocnotesdeleco.banque-france.fr/en/blog-entry/…

Craziest (and most infuriating) chart I saw this past week: Germany's monthly exports of goods purportedly to Kyrgyzstan. From Robin Brooks.