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Jón Steinsson 🗽

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Economics professor at UC Berkeley. https://eml.berkeley.edu/~jsteinsson/

Jón Steinsson is an Icelandic-American economist who is the Chancellor's Professor of Economics at University of California, Berkeley, a research associate and co-director of the Monetary Economics program of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and associate editor of both American Economic Review: Insights, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard and his AB from Princeton. .. more

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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · Sep 28

Wage-Price Spirals 🌀

What explains recent inflation? What to expect going forward? Is rising wages a concern for inflation?

This Friday 10am at this Brookings conference.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Oct 25

Endorsements don't matter. A Harris endorsement by the WP would surprise or persuade virtually no one. But people failing to stand up to Trump due to fear of backlash or worse, especially if he wins and tries to punish his enemies, is corrosive. Resistance to authoritarianism is a coordination game.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Oct 25

The irony is that the Post's capitulation/failure to endorse makes much more of a statement and has a far more profound impact on this country than any endorsement ever could.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Dec 5

U.S. Economy Is Doing What Few Others Are: Getting More Productive www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...

U.S. Economy Is Doing What Few Others Are: Getting More Productive

Inflation and the labor market are both cooling, but a subtle force has powered strong U.S. economic growth nonetheless. Americans keep finding ways to get more done at work.

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CNN @cnn.com · Feb 15

Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration — the agency tasked with managing the nation’s nuclear stockpile — as part of broader Energy Department layoffs, according to four people with knowledge of the matter.

Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN

Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.

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