Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 20, 2025: good tweets
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Good tweets
^selection on poll respondents, obviously 😆. The correct answer is that the answer varies by institution (as List more than anyone, perhaps, knows)
^or markets are forecasting AGI of course…
^IMO it is simultaneously true that doing your own data cleaning can often have a lot of value; but also that researchers could think harder about outsourcing more tasks
China shock
^some back-and-forth here
Charts
^CPS is not that large N here but interesting
^compositional aging effect right