The yield on 2-year US Treasuries is trading again above 5% as the Federal Reserve starts its two-day policy meeting.

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Further to my prior post, and per the Bloomberg summary below, US consumer confidence for April fell to a level that is well below the consensus forecast.

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High interest rates, the product of persistent #inflation , is to blame. #Biden #economy #EconTwitter

This happened to Economics Professor Caroline Fohin. Anybody in AEA Information International Association for Feminist Economics
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Looking for PhD-level lecture notes in #econometrics ? Need to wrap up some slides for a PhD econometrics course? 📚

Paul Anthony Sarkis, a PhD student at Boston College, has compiled a comprehensive set of lecture notes from the econometrics courses taught by

Per the attached from Bloomberg, today’s second set of US macro data points to some economic slowing combined with still sticky inflation.
 
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Per Steve Liesman, and in the run up to today’s Federal Reserve statement and press conference, here are the implied market probabilities of rate cuts in 2024.

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From today’s Financial Times.

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Interested in the #econometrics of causal inference, and looking for some material at the graduate level?

Carolina Caetano (@universityofga) has some very nice lecture notes and slides, covering the basics of:

(i) Linear Models,
(ii) Instrumental

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I am super proud, excited and grateful!

Two things happened last week.

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🔥 #EconTwitter Check out my new paper on #DifferenceinDifferences , exploring the testability of the common trend assumption in panel data without requiring multiple pre-treatment periods for placebo tests: arxiv.org/abs/2404.16961
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Elections in #SouthAfrica are just around the corner. Participatory #democracy is slightly down😐 #EconTwitter

Elections in #SouthAfrica are coming soon. Civil society participation is going down🫤 #EconTwitter #democracy #Election2024 👇

From the Financial Times column by Martin Wolf, 'What we must still learn about the great #inflation disaster: Past and present policymakers should ask more searching questions about the causes and impact of the price surge.'
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Creativity at midnight before an econometrics exam. A short doodle about fixed and random effects.
Still learning.
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Wondering if folks have seen this condition before
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See below for an invite from University of Pretoria to an event on #growth isn't enough in #Africa . I thought growth was about change & #transformation 🤔 #EconTwitter #institutions #development