- October 1, 2025
White House Pulls EJ Antoni Nomination to BLS Chief
From The Hill: Source: Times of Israel. The White House is withdrawing the nomination of E.J. Antoni to lead the Bureau of
What Exactly Happened to the Dollar around “Liberation Day”: Illiquidity vs. No-Confidence
Some people argue the concurrent dollar decline and Treasury yield incrase was attributable to liquidity issues as repicing occurred against a backdrop of a rising
AI and the FDA
Dean Ball has an excellent survey of the AI landscape and policy that includes this: The speed of drug development will increase within a few
Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Flier on RFK Jr
About Me Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. I use this blog to
Is it the phones?
Or perhaps we should just credit Sydney Sweeney? That is from Chris Said. The post Is it the phones? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source
Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Dear Committee Members
Like many who spend their lives in the ivory tower, I enjoy academic satires. That includes Richard Russo’s novel Straight Man, the movie Wonder Boys,
The British War on Slavery
In August of 1833 the British passed legislation abolishing slavery within the British Empire and putting more than 800,000 enslaved Africans on the path to
Housing 101
John Arnold points us to this table on new apartments and pointedly notes that the population of LA (18.5 m) is more than 7 times
Moving on Up
James Heckman and Sadegh Eshaghnia have launched a broadside in the WSJ against the Chetty-Hendren paper The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood
Monday assorted links
1. Are Turkish living standards converging upon Greek? 2. “A current Sotheby’s executive observed to me that the watch industry alone is now comfortably larger
