Economist. Senior Fellow, Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, The Brookings Institution. pronoun: she.
Joined November 2010
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My latest:
Political meddling at the Census Bureau damages the entire US statistical system
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I have the sense that most economists are not aware that NSF funding of economics may be about to disappear.
The Trump administration has proposed dissolving the National Science Foundation’s Directorate of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE), potentially beginning this year. While the FY2027 Presidential Budget Request proposes eliminating SBE, reporting suggests that steps toward dissolution may already be underway within NSF. Dissolving SBE would discontinue almost all NSF support for economic research and professional activities like professional conferences.
The economy is changing rapidly, and it is crucial that businesses and policymakers understand what is happening in the economy and how changes in economic policy affect households, workers, businesses, and financial markets.
Businesses need this understanding in order to make myriad crucial decisions. So do policymakers, like the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Congress.
If you care about giving businesses and policymakers the information they need to understand the world and to make the smartest, most informed decisions they can make, then you should support funding for NSF and for SBE.
Funding for NSF and specifically for SBE should be increased, not cut.
Nature article: nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Last week, @AnthropicAI said its new model Mythos had already found “thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities” and could “surpass all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities.”
At almost the same moment, the Axios hack showed how exposed the open-source foundation under modern software still is.
For this week’s 10 Minutes or Less, I spoke with @feross what this moment means. WATCH:
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Cutting spending on infrastructure to fix the budget is the tyranny of senseless accounting over economics, especially in the UK where lagging regions badly need more of it.
The north is already starved of infrastructure.
So why is Sunak thinking about getting rid of HS2?
prospectmagazine.co.uk/polit…
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We are pleased to announce the next Brookings president, Cecilia Rouse! Dr. Rouse joins us from Princeton University and previously served in the White House as the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. We look forward to welcoming her in January. brookings.edu/news/brookings…
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ICYMI Here's #ASSA2023 video of our #RecessionRemedies panel on lessons learned from the fiscal policy responses to the pandemic starring @WendyEdelberg @jasonfurman @lsheiner @gchodorowreich @pascaljnoel
aeaweb.org/webcasts/2023/us-… @BrookingsInst Hutchins Center & @hamiltonproj
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One of the hardest parts of raising your first round of funding is knowing who to pitch.
To make the process easier for founders just starting out, @kanjun and I put together a list of 18 funds that seem to consistently invest at the very earliest stage.
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Check out more from #RecessionRemedies & big shoutout to the editors @WendyEdelberg @lsheiner @davidmwessel Key takeaway: A strong, broad, and inclusive social insurance system provides effective relief to households as well as macroeconomic stimulus teapawt.net/BrookingsEcon/status/1…
New today: What lessons can we learn from the pandemic recession to prepare for future crisis? Find out in #RecessionRemedies, from @hamiltonproj and the Hutchins Center at @BrookingsInst.
Read it here: brook.gs/3Kjtov9
Watch ⬇️ youtube.com/watch?v=KhbYwMzW…
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A good look by @WendyEdelberg & @lsheiner on the potential costs associated with crossing the debt limit X Date. We should not be complacent about the current situation
"Even if the debt limit were raised quickly so that it only was binding for a few days, there would likely be lasting damage." Read more in a new blog from @WendyEdelberg and Louise Sheiner on the dangers of playing fast and loose with the debt limit: bit.ly/3zNQ0yW
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Nursing home residents who have not taken the COVID-19 vaccine are likely a select population that is traditionally difficult to vaccinate. brook.gs/37UOn6U
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"But despite this evidence of sexism within the field, what is surprising to me is how many male economists don’t seem to think that gender-based hostility has any effect on the underrepresentation of women in the profession or that it even exists."
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Pandemic fatigue, as measured by U.S. credit card data:
federalreserve.gov/econres/f…
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The Fed is talking a lot more these days about how its policies affect different races. But it has little diversity in its own ranks, even relative to the (very white) field of economics.
Important story from @jeannasmialek:
nytimes.com/2021/02/02/busin…
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New analysis by @WendyEdelberg @lsheiner (Brookings / Hamilton Proj) finds Biden's $1.9T proposal would push economy *above* pre-pandemic trend by second half of this year. brookings.edu/blog/up-front/…
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Today, Louise Sheiner and I released an analysis (with new projections!) examining the near-term economic impact of Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion fiscal package: brookings.edu/blog/up-front/… #Econtwitter
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Webinar: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on COVID-19 and the economy at the Hutchins Center, 10 AM EDT, Thursday, April 9. brook.gs/39NDGlh via @BrookingsInst
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NAIJ had recommended to immigration judges that they post in courthouses the English and Spanish language versions of the CDC's "Stop the Spread of Germs" and "Symptoms of Coronavirus Disease 2019" posters. EOIR ordered that they be removed.
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Call for Papers: Implications of persistently low interest rates on all sectors of the economy. #econtwitter Hutchins Center @BrookingsInst brookings.edu/call-for-paper…