Trump now threatening to end trade deal that he himself negotiated and claimed was best deal ever made www.ft.com/content/e55a...
Each ICE operation generates roughly $196,000 in monthly losses for nearby businesses and communities. (That's 11x the government's administrative cost of a deportation.)
Why?
ICE activity decreases foot traffic in those public areas.
This is a meme I can get behind. What will *your* Liberal Currents article be about, Bluesky Poster?
"25% of development econ papers are RCTs" is funny in that:
1.) There's a subpopulation of people who think it's 0% ("economics isn't a science").
2.) There's a subpopulation of people who think it's >90% ("economists have to stop this obsession with causality").
Does it?
The most ambitious crossover event in history: SHED data in FRED!
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Yes! Yes!!
‘We don’t need anything that they have,’ US president says of 2020 trilateral agreement
FRED has added 85 data series from the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED) reported by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The survey measures the economic well-b...
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Eventually every prominent Bluesky poster will have one absolutely phenomenal article in Liberal Currents and I can’t wait to read them all
As a nice follow-up on Monday's post on development journals, today we have a guest post by @leightjessica.bsky.social on what development papers top journals publish: what share are RCTs? What topics are covered most? Which countries? Read on: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
