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I’ve never been more disappointed in a group of American policymakers than I am with the Donald J. Trump administration today. 😞 President Donald J. Trump should be ashamed of himself for having already lost his own trade war—just as we predicted weeks ago. Sorry, Main Street, no Paradigm B for

DOGE's ham-fisted cuts to the federal government are rapidly creating new expenses that will cost taxpayers at least $135 billion this year, exponentially more than any purported savings.

We've talked about this a bunch on our show: when DOGE is all said and done, it will amount to one of the biggest examples of waste, fraud, and abuse in government ever. Not only will it not save money, it'll cost us money.

It’s very possible that when it’s all said and done, DOGE ended up adding to the federal deficit.

The One Acre Fund bundled farm program, which provides credit + training + insurance to smallholders, boosted maize yields & profits in Kenya. Our new VoxDev piece discusses why tackling multiple constraints together can unlock big gains. If bundling works, how can we scale it?

I thought this was an SNL skit

It always amazes me how hard it is to check into hotels. Why so much time and so many keystrokes?

Wrote today in the The New York Times about the dangers of blurring scholarship and activism.

Do replications receive fewer citations? Not necessarily: rdcu.be/ek7dq

"Most replications receive fewer citations than their matched counterfactuals, but a sizable portion, and sometimes even a majority, receive more. Finally, there is some evidence that replications that do not fully support the original study have more favorable citation rates."

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The progressive case for building more. My review of “Abundance” in print in the SMH & Age today andrewleigh.com/book_review_ez… #auspol #ausecon

Did the 2018 U.S.-China trade war lead to rerouting through Vietnam? Dr. Edmund Malesky will present on Wednesday, May 21st at 11 am ET in our first Vietnam Firms and Labour Markets Online Seminar Series presentation. Register here eventbrite.ca/e/vietnam-firm…

Why animals don’t cross this invisible line? Fascinating.

In case you have not heard the only song ever written about an economist, I’m obliged to share it with you youtube.com/watch?v=UVHEL8…

Startup founder goes to work for DOGE, finds that government works basically fine and it’s hard to find easy ways to improve it. They found practically no fraud in Social Security. No one has done more to improve the reputation of the federal government than Elon Musk.

Five years ago, Maria's bakery ran entirely on cash. Today, she flashes a QR code & customers pay instantly via #Pix Brazil’s #instantpaymentsystem has transformed how businesses operate. Read more about #Pix & our new research on #financialinclusion impacts.

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I’m sharing my slide deck on the demographic future of humanity, 🔗 Slides: sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slide… prepared for the keynote address I will give tomorrow to the 7th EBRD and CEPR Research Symposium on “The Economics of Demographic Change”: 🔗 Symposium: ebrd.com/home/news-and-…