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Well, tomorrow I believe I will be posting the most shocking chart of my entire career. If UI claims jump as expected, they will look like this: epi.org/blog/coronavir… Aaron Sojourner paulgp

This is wild. U.S. airlines are flying near-empty planes because the $2.2 trillion coronavirus package requires airlines to preserve their service capacity as of March 1 — even though this makes the airlines burn cash faster. theaircurrent.com/airlines/confu…

I'm having trouble concentrating on science animations right now, so instead here are some screenshots from my favourite document on the planet. These are taken from a 'work in progress' document from Pepsi's 2008 rebrand. Every figure is as incomprehensible as this one. 1/23

Regulator Mark Calabria says Fannie and Freddie can go for 12 more weeks, but if widepared mortgage forbearance goes longer than that, they'll need another taxpayer bailout. They're levered 240:1 ft.com/content/575e81… via @financialtimes

My wife and I play this fun game during quarantine, it's called "Why Are You Doing It That Way?" and there are no winners

What are the sectoral effects of social distancing? Here a short paper with Jean-Noël Barrot from HEC and Julien Sauvagnat from Universita Bocconi. Note in English: tinyurl.com/t7usr32 WP in English: tinyurl.com/wayq83e Press in French (Le Monde ): tinyurl.com/sxat9tl

The Swiss bank regulator (FINMA) does statistics like no one else. A quick story - to file under "Fat Tails Twitter".

Aaaaaand the ECB just did a copy and paste ! bankingsupervision.europa.eu/press/pr/date/…

While many of us are worrying about financial distress in the U.S., a group of the world's leading sovereign debt scholars have come up with a really clever strategy for creating a 12 month standstill for developing nations-- it deserves serious attention. cepr.org/sites/default/…

Isabelle Méjean a reçu le Prix du meilleur jeune économiste 2020 lemonde.fr/economie/artic…

Le Gorafi de 1863 Le Gorafi bastiat.org/fr/petition.ht…

Is Piketty the new Henry George? washingtonpost.com/opinions/charl… #Piketty

Oculus CEO says consumer Oculus Rift VR headset is "months, not years" away tcrn.ch/1yfP5RT

bloombergview.com/articles/2014-… A modern version of the Corn Laws controversies Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼

Gangnam Style breaks YouTube's counter: here's what humanity could have done instead: econ.st/1pXeCjP

Ouch!!! "And 2014's Worst Currency Was...Bitcoin" bloombergview.com/articles/2014-…