Raymond Guiteras

If you want your jokes to receive widespread acclaim, it's best to make them understandable only to North Carolinians age 40+

Just thought up my costume. Nothing will top the Swiss Cheese Model but this one is good.

Boo! Not cheerful Halloween boooooooooo!

We need a harbor so I can go throw all my Goody's into it.

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

Or Tulsa, or Wilmington...

The US is, or was, the world’s leading scientific power in economics. The Trump administration is inflicting extraordinary damage on what was once an infrastructure of excellence. The open question is how much of that damage will prove permanent.

Hurting your back is not a sign of aging. The sign is when your back hurts for no discernable reason.

I will forever be a LyX Guy but the new features on Overleaf are pretty sweet. For example, the Library: docs.overleaf.com/citing-and-r...

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I crafted a beautiful "he's a shaky econometrician anyway" joke but then made the mistake of checking the paper and that RR was Roberto Rigobon. www.jstor.org/stable/3211805 Never check your facts, kids.

It's quite a high bar and must dramatically narrow the range of competent economists if you can't have criticized Trump's economic policies.

People of Spain, explain yourselves: a continuing series

Lifetime achievement award likes here

People of Spain, continued self-explanation is required

Spanish people, explain yourselves: when you "buenas" me in the morning, what specific plural feminine things are you buenas-ing me about?

Congratulations Thommy Tillis.

Here’s to 44 years of this fine EP! Released on August 24, 1982.

If I had a small fortune, I would wager it that within 10-15 years smartglasses will be completely ubiquitous and unremarkable. (This is a positive claim, not a normative judgement.)

#Stata users and #EconSky : an update to Statacons -- version 3.1.0 includes framesets (.dtas files). Stata 18+ required. See the announcement on Statalist: www.statalist.org/forums/forum... There is also a mini-tutorial on the statacons wiki: github.com/bquistorff/s... Feedback welcome!

A shot in the (ahem) dark: is there anyone around Madrid who would be willing to let my daughter and me tag along for the eclipse? Happy to share expenses and I'll even share my 2016 Bill Nye eclipse glasses.

Here come the drums

Utterly disgraceful - and typical - from Thommy Spinellis.

I keep trying to tell my joke about Sisyphus

Is this permitted?

This guy definitely "more of a comment than a question"s in #EconSky seminars. Love it

Time to eat some humble piewaffle.

"Please fire my best friend and heroic freedom fighter Lockdown Jay," says radiologist and cheerleader for pediatric COVID Scott Atlas. By @gorskon.bsky.social sciencebasedmedicine.org/abolish-the-...

My grandfather's Antifa membership card

(yes, I know)

Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon.bsky.social ... Open to every development economist, everywhere. Join the community: idea.devecon.org Please share 🌍

Water ... from the sky? Twice between sleeps? Seems strange.

This will incentivize people to hide symptoms, exactly the opposite of what you want. Thommy Tillis, this is your fault. You knew this is what would happen, and this is what you chose.

intheweights.com Hmm...

Booooooooooooo! (20 min)

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.