🚨ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS SEMINAR🍃 We are excited to host Nitzan Tzur Ilan Nitzan Tzur-Ilan 🎗️ for our first seminar of 2025! She is a research economist at the Dallas Fed and will present her research on climate change and insurance premiums. ⏲️3 PM, 2/14 🏦ULEE 303, SMU

💔With Coffins and Taunts, Hamas Hands Dead Hostages to Israel nytimes.com/2025/02/20/wor…

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Two "prisoners" taken from their home on October 7 2023. Their captors murdered them with their bare hands in November 2023. Their coffins were paraded in celebration of those achievements yesterday. Still waiting for practical advice from professors on the appropriate response.

Families that have been murdered by Hamas on Oct 7🧵 1/ The Kotz family. They were found dead in their home at kibbutz Kfar Aza embracing each other. They were buried side by side.

Yoav, 5 years old, waited a year and a half for his best friend, Ariel Bibas. He wrote him letters, saved a Batman costume for him for Purim, and kept asking, “When is Ariel coming back from Gaza?” When his parents had to break the news that his friend would not be coming home

Yarden Bibas’s full eulogy: "Mi Amor" I remember the first time I said "mi amor" to you. It was at the very beginning of our relationship. You told me to only call you that if I was certain I loved you, not to say it carelessly. I didn't say it then because I didn't want you to

For the baby who never had a birthday. For the little Batman. For their Mom.

Batman came to say goodbye.

As we celebrate the journey from bondage to freedom, may this Passover bring renewed faith, deep reflection, and all the hostages back home 🎗️ Chag Pesach Sameach!

"It's immediate," Stuart Gabriel, director of UCLA's Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA Anderson School of Management, told Los Angeles Times. "Mass displacement is pushing up housing costs in ways that are hard to quantify." newsweek.com/los-angeles-re… Newsweek Suzanne Blake

No one had more cumulative influence on the macroeconomic policy makers of the last generation than Stanley Fischer. Central Bank governors Ben Bernanke, Mario Draghi and Kazuo Ueda were his students, as were many others like me, who served in other capacities. We all were shaped

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On Tues, 7/15 join the ChicagoFed Economic Mobility Project for a virtual event, “Stormy Weather: Disaster Risk and the New Shape of Credit,” to learn more about Ralf Meisenzahl’s research and hear from a panel of experts: Nicole Elam (National Bankers Association), Mac McComas,

On Tues, 7/15 join the ChicagoFed Economic Mobility Project for a virtual event, “Stormy Weather: Disaster Risk and the New Shape of Credit,” to learn more about Ralf Meisenzahl’s research and hear from a panel of experts: Nicole Elam (National Bankers Association), Mac McComas

🗣️: Kristen Broady, PhD, MBA, Ralf Meisenzahl, Nicole Elam (@Nat Bankers1927), Jenny Schuetz (Arnold Ventures), Nitzan Tzur-Ilan 🎗️ (Dallas Fed), and Stacey Vanek Smith (Bloomberg). chicagofed.org/events/2025/di…

Join Ralf Meisenzahl on July 15 to hear his findings on whether financial intermediaries adjust their portfolios in response to multiple types of weather-related disaster risk. Register now for the latest webinar from the Economic Mobility Project: bit.ly/4e2vkZx

Open call for applications, PhD Student Workshop on Climate Finance. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on October 9, 2025. Submit applications by 11:59pm EDT on August 7, 2025. More information: nber.org/calls-papers-a…

We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts. Quick thread

🍎🍯 Shanah Tovah U’Metukah! Wishing you a sweet, healthy, and joyful New Year!