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New staff report out with Rajashri Chakrabarti, Don Morgan and Dan Garcia looking at the effects of usury limits on household borrowing!
Can’t think of anything that’d make 15 year old me prouder than knowing that at 33 I’d be watching the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest from a dunkin
This week I:
1) discussed a paper
2) climbed a mountain #WFA
Your thirties are all about getting terrible acid reflux while you’re at a trampoline park for a bachelor party
Some pictures really are worth 1000 words
Looking forward to presenting in the Bank Credit Supply session tomorrow at MFA!
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h... an empirically ideal, but also terrifying, natural experiment
The hora is the purest form of moshing
1) What’s happening to federal employees is a travesty
2) Hey I know him that’s my friend on MSNBC!!!
The variation according to income levels is interesting too. The lower income you are, the less likely you are to have an opinion/care
Indeed, we live in truly strange and bizarre times
It’ll be interesting to see what this looks like. Also surprising to see something like this coming out of the “anti-socialism” party www.reuters.com/markets/weal...
Any real estate people on here have any sources/insights on the differences between the ZHVI and the corelogic HPI? #EconSky
I love how the njtransit part of Penn station is filled with messaging that Jersey is a place worth spending time in, they’re truly doing gods work
Looking forward to traveling to SF this week to present my paper “Household Credit and Spending Under Usury Limits” at ASSA!
Amount of any settlers of catan game I spend standing up: 90%
Amount of any other board game I spend standing up: 0%
I'm currently building a starter pack on a critical topic: the role of finance in driving climate resilience, mitigation, and a circular economy.
Investors, financial experts, development banks, researchers, innovators: who’s leading the charge in this space? Give me your top recommendations!
Got the same fake recruiting spam text three times in an hour so finally decided to respond with this
Got AEA & ASSA emails this morning abt hotel workers striking in SF?
Want to figure out what it means & what your options are?
See this analysis @shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & me, & our call to support 3 small ASSA policy changes
#EconSky
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Thank you so much for putting this together! I just switched to a unionized hotel
Serious question: if you post on Bluesky what’s it called? I’ve been using the word tweet but obviously this is incorrect
Day 2 visiting @newyorkfed.bsky.social! Working with @leeseltzer.bsky.social on a new project relating to evictions and foreclosure and looking forward to meeting with a talented group of RAs.
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I got to know Bhavyaa when she interned at the New York Fed a couple years ago. She has a super interesting job market paper, I encourage everyone to take a look!
go.bsky.app/5U14C7z just learned about starter packs and I think it’s such a cool feature! I made one with researchers in Climate Econ and Finance. It’s short so please let me know if you’d like to be added!
