Economist & nature lover. Institute fellow @UrbanInstitute. Writer about economics, finance, & life.
Washington, DC
Joined June 2009
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Phill Swagel is a phenomenal CBO director. First-rate, impeccable, goated.
Not a single negative thing I can say about him
He’s exactly what you want from a CBO director: smart, intellectually curious, challenges his own priors, always learning
He makes the whole agency better
Democrats’ victory mean they will decide who runs CBO.
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NEW | Digital Assets Executive Order: The Great Game Changer wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/d… #crypto #DigitalAssetsForum
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This is the real point. @ConstitutionDAO made history last night and will be back for more. And next time maybe with me...
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I’m walking through an art museum with my wife, pretending I understand anything, when suddenly…
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Lobster diver swallowed by whale off the coast of Cape Cod capecodtimes.com/story/news/…
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#2021MMM Wildcard winner is the VOLE! Join us on Wed. March 10 at 8PM Eastern to begin the Red, In Fur Division
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🎉It's our 75th birthday!🎉
On February 20, 1946, President Harry S. Truman signed the Employment Act which created two sister organizations: the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee and @WhiteHouseCEA!
📰: bit.ly/JEC-75
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Lovely to have all these new followers .. can we just check that you know that you’re following The World Wide Robin Hood Society in Nottingham and not the Robin Hood App .. if so .. a big welcome from Sherwood 🙌
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The SNOWY OWL on a west ballfield of the Central Park North Meadow, perhaps the first-ever documented record of this species in the park, with its new buddy, an American Crow.
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Are you a great communicator? Do you love tax? I'm aware these sets don't often overlap. But if this is you, please check out @TaxPolicyCenter's new job listing. It's hard to imagine a better place to put top flight data and analysis into the world (IMHO) urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/…
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Join the Tax Policy Center! This is a great job for someone who likes building models. Great colleagues and your work will help elevate the policy debate. urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/…
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I sent this open letter to the @MinneapolisFed Opporunity & Inclusive Growth Institute as a message to those well intentioned economists who are looking for a way they can respond to this moment of calling for racial equality @TrevonDLogan @SandyDarity minneapolisfed.org/~/media/a…
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🚨I wrote about the issue of coronavirus “strains”. Despite the recent overblown stories, there’s no strong evidence that more dangerous strains have evolved—or even that there’s more than one strain. Here's a guide to making sense of it all.
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Costs are mostly fixed in processing time and importantly AML compliance. I believe profitability is larger for larger loans hence round 1 is more profitable for banks.
See here on AML which is a cost and deterant for new businesses.
brookings.edu/opinions/anti-…
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Dear everyone (especially people reading
@tylercowen's blog) and discovering the fact that epidemics can be modeled as spreading on networks.
We know about this fact. We also know it affects some of the predictions.
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Countries are best summarized by their corporate income tax schedule description in the OECD tax database, a thread.
