Egg prices are high now, but they are also notoriously variable overtime. In fact they are the series most commonly excluded from the Trimmed Mean PCE Inflation Series of the Dallas Fed! (true even if trimming only bottom/top 10%) Table from work w Dominic A. Smith👇

If you want to learn Economics, don't enroll in any course. Just read this book. I'm not kidding. It will seriously teach you more than anything else can.

Open call for papers, Gender in the Economy: Structural Transformation and Women's Time-Use. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on March 27, 2026. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on December 8, 2025. More information: nber.org/calls-papers-a…

Brian Albrecht (Brian Albrecht) consistently offers some of the sharpest takes on basic economics on X. His recent post is a gem: 🔗 economicforces.xyz/p/will-ai-skyr… Brian makes a simple but essential point, one I’ve tried (and failed) to make thousands of times when talking about

As AI automates junior-level tasks, it destroys the training grounds that create future experts. Who will train the next generation when entry-level work provides no value for firms to capture? Today on Silicon Continent on the 'AI-Becker problem': siliconcontinent.com/p/the-ai-becke…

ah yes, the ever relatable "personal finance" section of the FT

Now the WSJ has at least

Replication doesn't make you popular, which is one reason it is undersupplied and sorely needed. I'm proud Open Philanthropy is supporting I4R. How the Institute for Replication is making social science more robust and reliable | Open Philanthropy openphilanthropy.org/research/how-t…

How to Publish Statistically Insignificant Results in Economics blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu… Still a challenge!

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I’ve started an ongoing project to collect all the datasets which economists can use, all in one place, organized by topic. Started with 50, further suggestions are extremely welcome. It will grow considerably.

The weak jobs report released Friday suggests the Fed may cut rates soon.

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Perhaps we economists can just write more clearly. e.g., sprinkle in "In this stylized benchmark model, ..." Better than defensively shouting into the void, right?

🚨1/N Really excited to announce a new working paper, “Interviews” 🚨 We demonstrate that interviews allow workers to screen firms and preview whether the job is a good match for them—using ~500k Glassdoor reports + a randomized field experiment. 🧵

There's been a lot of confusion on this platform of late on what household heterogeneity buys you in the HANK model. In a model without capital, HA has no implications for aggregate quantities that are common across monetary rules. If HA gives you amplification under one rule, it