Lisa A. Kramer | Lightnews

Lisa Kramer

@lisakramer.com

6K followers 330 following 640 posts

Financial economist musing on behavioural finance, behavioral economics, emotion, markets, risk, pensions, humans, & animals.

Professor of Finance, University of Toronto
Joint Sponsors, UPP
Board of Directors, UTAM & We Animals

http://www.lisakramer.com .. more

Videos

Economics 65%

Business 13%

Posts Replies Media Videos

Pinned

Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · Nov 15

From my personal archives, spotted 10 years ago in the lunchroom at the NBER 📉📈

A paper sign taped to a fridge door, which reads:

To the person with the JP Licks ice cream:

This is not a freezer that keeps anything frozen. The ice cream spilled. It has been put in the upstairs freezer.

To the person with the beer:

Please remove your beer from this refrigerator. This is not the place for it. This is a small refrigerator. Only food that you consume at the NBER belongs here. Do you really drink beer at the NBER?

Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 1d

TIL it’s called a contronym, contranym, or Janus word. It is also known as a enantiosemy, enantionymy, antilogy, or autoantonymy.

Phew, that’s a lot of words. I wonder if any of them are themselves contronyms!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym

Contronym - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 1d

Oooh, I love words like that. Another:

Sanction: a threatened penalty for disobeying (i.e., a form of disapproval)

Sanction: approval

Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 1d

Nice batch! I would be tempted to turn some of them into fried green tomatoes.

Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 2d

Toronto right now

A view of Toronto, with trees and buildings dusted with snow

Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 2d

From the article:

“Here’s how it works: If someone delays CPP/QPP past 60 but dies before the higher benefits “catch up,” their estate receives a one-time payment for the missed amount. In plain language: If you delay and die early, the guarantee ensures you don’t lose out.”

Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 2d

My brain these days. I ordered some lovely boots but they’re too small. I meant to go up half a size from men’s 6 / women’s 8, I accidentally ordered (men’s) 8.5, which is women’s 10.5. (Even more confusing, that’s size 7.5 to Australians.)

Happily, the huge boots actually fit.

Blundstone shoe boxes showing myriad ways of communicating shoe sizes. One box: Aus/UK 5 = US men’s 6 = US women’s 8. The other box: Aus/UK 7.5 = US men’s 8.5 = US women’s 10.5.

My foot modeling a Blundstone vegan boot

Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 2d

This is delightful!

Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 2d

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo

Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

apnews.com

Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 2d

“You are just paying $2 for a one-dollar bill.”

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 2d

The hottest crypto trade has turned ice cold. Some investors are saying “told you so,” while others are doubling down.

The Year’s Hottest Crypto Trade Is Crumbling

Some investors are saying “told you so,” while others are doubling down, as a selloff in bitcoin and other digital tokens hits crypto-treasury companies.

on.wsj.com

Reposted by Lisa A. Kramer

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 2d

The hottest crypto trade has turned ice cold. Some investors are saying “told you so,” while others are doubling down.

The Year’s Hottest Crypto Trade Is Crumbling

Some investors are saying “told you so,” while others are doubling down, as a selloff in bitcoin and other digital tokens hits crypto-treasury companies.

on.wsj.com

Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 2d

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo

Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

apnews.com

Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 2d

Today I walked farther than I have since I first started getting sick in June. It has been nearly 6 weeks since my kidney surgery and I’m getting stronger every day.

a woman in a red top and white pants is walking down a road .

Alt: Joanna Rohrback, wearing an apricot top and white pants, Prancersizing in a park

media.tenor.com

Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 3d

👍 Don’t stop! I’ve read and recommend the book on the left. My co-authors and I have a paper that cites it a lot. We’ll be presenting it at the 2026 ASSA / AEA meetings.

bsky.app/profile/lisa...

Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · Aug 28

My co-authors and I are happy to have our paper "Intergenerational Race-Based Trauma and Financial Market Participation" included in the session "Investigating Racial Inequality through Historical Data and Events", where we are joined by three great papers on that theme.

Paper session: Investigating Racial Inequality through Historical Data and Events

Sunday Jan. 4, 2026, 2:30pm - 4:30pm (EST)

Marriott Philadelphia Downtown
This session will be streamed live.

Hosted By: American Economic Association
Chair: Vicki Bogan, Duke University

One Giant Leap: Emancipation and Aggregate Economic Gains
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago
Trevon Logan, Ohio State University

Market Forces and Employer Racial Preferences: Evidence from Wartime Shortages
Joan Martinez, University of California-Berkeley
Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University

Innovation in Times of Turmoil: The Economic Consequences of Social Movement
Bocar Ba, Duke University
Marlene Koffi, University of Toronto

Generational Race-Based Trauma and Financial Market Participation
Vicki Bogan, Duke University
Lisa Kramer, University of Toronto
Chi Liao, University of Manitoba
Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi, University of Mannheim

Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 3d

On a walkabout in Toronto. Stopped by the stadium where the World Series wrapped up a few days ago. #BlueJays

Rogers Stadium in Toronto, with the field undergoing maintenance

Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 3d

A touching tribute at Queen’s Park today in memory of those who lost their lives in service to their country. Each person in the photo represents an individual who didn’t make it home from war. The fellow in the foreground represents 17-year-old Private Arnold Andrew Boswell Kirkup.

A Remembrance Day memorial tribute at Queen’s Park in Toronto. The people portrayed those who died are all current police officers and firefighters.

Cards depict the identities of young people who lost their lives in WWI

Reposted by Lisa A. Kramer

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 3d

Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that

Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 4d

Creepy.

“There is a tiny notice located next to the billboard alerting anyone in the general vicinity of the ad that their image may be captured ... Once the camera has taken your photo, there’s no way to opt out of the service ...”

toronto.citynews.ca/2025/11/06/u...

Are these billboards near Union Station watching and recording you?

As you’re walking through Union Station, you might stop and look at any of the number of advertising billboards that dot the hallways. But what you don’t know is that some of those billboards are actu...

toronto.citynews.ca

Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 4d

Dr. Bonnie-Jeanne MacDonald, author of the article above, will host a national briefing on the Pension Delay Guarantee reform proposal for the CPP/QPP during a webinar at noon on Nov. 24 2025.

Registration: torontomu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...