Nathan Converse
@nathanecon.bsky.social
Economist living in DC. CEA alumn. Working on international macro and finance, capital flows to emerging markets. Dabble in applied econometrics. I go to shows and bike to work.
Reposted by Nathan Converse
48 years ago today
Tell Us the Truth is the debut album by English punk rock band Sham 69, released February 18, 1978
Tell Us the Truth includes one of Sham 69's biggest hits, "Borstal Breakout", on the live side of the album
#punk #punkrock #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Tell Us the Truth is the debut album by English punk rock band Sham 69, released February 18, 1978
Tell Us the Truth includes one of Sham 69's biggest hits, "Borstal Breakout", on the live side of the album
#punk #punkrock #history #punkrockhistory #otd
February 18, 2026 at 3:51 AM
48 years ago today
Tell Us the Truth is the debut album by English punk rock band Sham 69, released February 18, 1978
Tell Us the Truth includes one of Sham 69's biggest hits, "Borstal Breakout", on the live side of the album
#punk #punkrock #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Tell Us the Truth is the debut album by English punk rock band Sham 69, released February 18, 1978
Tell Us the Truth includes one of Sham 69's biggest hits, "Borstal Breakout", on the live side of the album
#punk #punkrock #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Reposted by Nathan Converse
it's amazing that we're going to destroy industries that produce products people actually want and use to build out the infrastructure for a generator of bad first drafts
“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
February 17, 2026 at 8:49 PM
it's amazing that we're going to destroy industries that produce products people actually want and use to build out the infrastructure for a generator of bad first drafts
Reposted by Nathan Converse
Our investigation has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK
https://goodlaw.social/2l1y
https://goodlaw.social/2l1y
Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil | Good Law Project
Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK
goodlaw.social
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Our investigation has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK
https://goodlaw.social/2l1y
https://goodlaw.social/2l1y
Super informative thread on the recent sewage spill! DC people, @maustermuhle.bsky.social and @51st.news are must follows!
Some context on the recent D.C. Water pipe break, which led to an estimated 243 million gallons of sewage going into the Potomac River.
I'm told 600 million gallons of sewage and runoff flow into the Potomac every year, largely when heavy storms overwhelm D.C.'s aging sewers.
I'm told 600 million gallons of sewage and runoff flow into the Potomac every year, largely when heavy storms overwhelm D.C.'s aging sewers.
February 18, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Super informative thread on the recent sewage spill! DC people, @maustermuhle.bsky.social and @51st.news are must follows!
Reposted by Nathan Converse
I refuse to accept a future where we continue to do this.
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 10:16 PM
I refuse to accept a future where we continue to do this.
Reposted by Nathan Converse
Reposted by Nathan Converse
THEY RAIDED THE CAMP TO TAKE THE KIDS LETTERS
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 18, 2026 at 1:00 AM
THEY RAIDED THE CAMP TO TAKE THE KIDS LETTERS
Reposted by Nathan Converse
From Molly Smith @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Congress Urged to Exempt Data Agencies From Policy Career Change
A statistical advocacy group is calling on Congress to exempt data agency personnel from a new rule that will reclassify thousands of federal workers into “policy-influencing” positions.
www.bloomberg.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:13 PM
From Molly Smith @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Nathan Converse
The February 2026 issue of the JEEA is out! It consists of ten great papers, including three of the four annual EEA lectures. academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...
February 18, 2026 at 1:51 AM
The February 2026 issue of the JEEA is out! It consists of ten great papers, including three of the four annual EEA lectures. academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...
Reposted by Nathan Converse
The drunk uncle theory.
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with
The secret to engaging in social media debate is knowing you will never win anyone over. The best you can hope for is to have people who already agree with tell you you're awesome. You might great a dopamine thrill from the righteousness of your anger! Fine benefits, all. But you will never win.
February 16, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The drunk uncle theory.
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
Reposted by Nathan Converse
I'm old enough to remember when John Sununu was forced to resign as Bush Sr.'s chief of staff after he traveled to a rare stamp auction at Christie's auction house in New York City from Washington in a government limousine.
February 17, 2026 at 2:52 AM
I'm old enough to remember when John Sununu was forced to resign as Bush Sr.'s chief of staff after he traveled to a rare stamp auction at Christie's auction house in New York City from Washington in a government limousine.
Reposted by Nathan Converse
📢 Predoc Opportunity
I'm hiring a full-time predoc to work with me at UC Berkeley, supporting my research on labor economics, the economics of education, and public policy.
jesse-rothstein.com/rothstein_pr...
Please pass on to anyone who might be interested.
#econsky #econ_ra
I'm hiring a full-time predoc to work with me at UC Berkeley, supporting my research on labor economics, the economics of education, and public policy.
jesse-rothstein.com/rothstein_pr...
Please pass on to anyone who might be interested.
#econsky #econ_ra
jesse-rothstein.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:58 PM
📢 Predoc Opportunity
I'm hiring a full-time predoc to work with me at UC Berkeley, supporting my research on labor economics, the economics of education, and public policy.
jesse-rothstein.com/rothstein_pr...
Please pass on to anyone who might be interested.
#econsky #econ_ra
I'm hiring a full-time predoc to work with me at UC Berkeley, supporting my research on labor economics, the economics of education, and public policy.
jesse-rothstein.com/rothstein_pr...
Please pass on to anyone who might be interested.
#econsky #econ_ra
Reposted by Nathan Converse
While government bonds are safe assets during financial crises, they underperform equities and growth in wars and pandemics. Inflation and financial repression drive the large losses bondholders suffer in these episodes, from Jiang, Lustig, Van Nieuwerburgh, and Xiaolan www.nber.org/papers/w34820
February 15, 2026 at 10:01 PM
While government bonds are safe assets during financial crises, they underperform equities and growth in wars and pandemics. Inflation and financial repression drive the large losses bondholders suffer in these episodes, from Jiang, Lustig, Van Nieuwerburgh, and Xiaolan www.nber.org/papers/w34820
Reposted by Nathan Converse
Reposted by Nathan Converse
u chicago not on the list lmao
Hegseth to US military: if you get into MIT, we won't let you attend because of the risk that you will be exposed to ideas hostile to MAGA when you study there.
February 14, 2026 at 7:46 PM
u chicago not on the list lmao
Reposted by Nathan Converse
i really hope maduro escapes just cause i wanna watch kash patel have to handle that. imagine the energy at those pressers. he's lookin like a bird that got inside through the chimney, pure terror, but he's going "and to mr maduro, if you're watching: hasta la fuego." eyes darting around for an exit
January 3, 2026 at 11:24 PM
i really hope maduro escapes just cause i wanna watch kash patel have to handle that. imagine the energy at those pressers. he's lookin like a bird that got inside through the chimney, pure terror, but he's going "and to mr maduro, if you're watching: hasta la fuego." eyes darting around for an exit
Reposted by Nathan Converse
Several decades of Head Start early childhood care and education research provide insight into variation in program effectiveness, over time, across communities, and by child and family characteristics, from @chloergibbs.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34812
February 14, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Several decades of Head Start early childhood care and education research provide insight into variation in program effectiveness, over time, across communities, and by child and family characteristics, from @chloergibbs.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34812
Reposted by Nathan Converse
(people i don't know at a party)
GIRL: right? all these fuckin creepy old white men
GUY: like a broken record, it's this shit over and over every day
ME (pretty sure this is a conversation about Dark City): yeah plus who they bald asses tryna fool with those hats?? you know the homeboy psychic
GIRL: right? all these fuckin creepy old white men
GUY: like a broken record, it's this shit over and over every day
ME (pretty sure this is a conversation about Dark City): yeah plus who they bald asses tryna fool with those hats?? you know the homeboy psychic
February 14, 2026 at 4:02 PM
(people i don't know at a party)
GIRL: right? all these fuckin creepy old white men
GUY: like a broken record, it's this shit over and over every day
ME (pretty sure this is a conversation about Dark City): yeah plus who they bald asses tryna fool with those hats?? you know the homeboy psychic
GIRL: right? all these fuckin creepy old white men
GUY: like a broken record, it's this shit over and over every day
ME (pretty sure this is a conversation about Dark City): yeah plus who they bald asses tryna fool with those hats?? you know the homeboy psychic
Reposted by Nathan Converse
Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
February 14, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
Reposted by Nathan Converse
Reposted by Nathan Converse
Per DPW: Escalation teams will continue to pick up missed trash and recycling collections on Monday as needed.
DPW will operate on a one-day slide schedule for collections of household trash, recycling, and food waste. Households that receive collections on Monday will be serviced on Tuesday.
DPW will operate on a one-day slide schedule for collections of household trash, recycling, and food waste. Households that receive collections on Monday will be serviced on Tuesday.
February 13, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Per DPW: Escalation teams will continue to pick up missed trash and recycling collections on Monday as needed.
DPW will operate on a one-day slide schedule for collections of household trash, recycling, and food waste. Households that receive collections on Monday will be serviced on Tuesday.
DPW will operate on a one-day slide schedule for collections of household trash, recycling, and food waste. Households that receive collections on Monday will be serviced on Tuesday.
Reposted by Nathan Converse
After nearly a decade of advocacy, Cobb Park is partially open! 🌳
Starting today, the 2nd St NW gates are open sunrise to sunset — with paths, an open field, and a playground ready to go.
More to come this spring, but for now: enjoy!
Starting today, the 2nd St NW gates are open sunrise to sunset — with paths, an open field, and a playground ready to go.
More to come this spring, but for now: enjoy!
February 13, 2026 at 10:58 PM
After nearly a decade of advocacy, Cobb Park is partially open! 🌳
Starting today, the 2nd St NW gates are open sunrise to sunset — with paths, an open field, and a playground ready to go.
More to come this spring, but for now: enjoy!
Starting today, the 2nd St NW gates are open sunrise to sunset — with paths, an open field, and a playground ready to go.
More to come this spring, but for now: enjoy!
Reposted by Nathan Converse
The Georgia, Kansas, and Upshur intersection is a dangerous design for all users. We need safer streets that prioritize safety for everyone. #RethinkGeorgiaAve
wjla.com/news/local/p...
wjla.com/news/local/p...
1 woman killed, another hurt hit-and-run crash with garbage truck in Northwest DC
Two people, both females, were hit by a garbage truck Friday afternoon in Northwest D.C.
wjla.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:24 PM
The Georgia, Kansas, and Upshur intersection is a dangerous design for all users. We need safer streets that prioritize safety for everyone. #RethinkGeorgiaAve
wjla.com/news/local/p...
wjla.com/news/local/p...
Reposted by Nathan Converse
NEW: Contributor India Kea asked D.C. natives from across the city to reflect on what it was like growing up here — and the pivotal moments when they realized their hometown was no longer the same.
From changing faces and street signs to rows of newly planted trees, here's what they said:
From changing faces and street signs to rows of newly planted trees, here's what they said:
PHOTOS: When did you first realize the District had changed?
Eleven D.C natives on how they remember their city.
51st.news
February 12, 2026 at 11:20 PM
NEW: Contributor India Kea asked D.C. natives from across the city to reflect on what it was like growing up here — and the pivotal moments when they realized their hometown was no longer the same.
From changing faces and street signs to rows of newly planted trees, here's what they said:
From changing faces and street signs to rows of newly planted trees, here's what they said:
Reposted by Nathan Converse
(RFK Jr walks by my desk eating bees by the handful) workin’ hard or hardly working’ eh??
February 12, 2026 at 11:48 PM
(RFK Jr walks by my desk eating bees by the handful) workin’ hard or hardly working’ eh??