If you’ve spent any time on econ Twitter or econ Bluesky since 2022, you’ve almost certainly come across the idea of the “vibecession.” For the uninitiated, the vibecession essentially says that starting in 2022, the “vibes” about the economy became significantly negative and out of line with the fundamentals of Read more…
I am both fully employed and a new dad, so my time for blogging has decreased dramatically since last summer, when I was neither fully employed nor a new dad. It therefore takes a special bit of inspiration for me to spend my limited free time posting rather than watching Read more…
As my dedicated readers will no doubt have noticed, I’ve been absent from posting for a few weeks. This is for good reason: at the end of August, my wife and I welcomed a baby boy into the world. It’s hard to overstate how much our lives have changed since Read more…
No graphs or maps today. I wanted to cash in on the Zohran Mamdani bonanza before something else becomes the topic of the day. But I’ll get back to Zohran in a minute. I recently read Elizabeth Popp Berman’s book “Thinking Like an Economist,” and it has given me a Read more…