Best of #econtwitter - Weeks of Jan 14, Jan 21, and Jan 28, 2024: interesting tweets

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Misc

^academics and non-academics use abstracts differently. Thread prompted by a loong abstract

^“kind of” → “extremely”

Charts

^underrated story

^good discussion about role of housing. Also: what is the correct deflator? (here it is PCEPI)

^original BBG article. A lot of raises in recent years

^Peter Coy

^JP Koning: “Let's see where these charts are a few months from now. In theory, OFAC's new round of secondary sanctions on foreign banks, enacted this December, will dampen re-exports via third parties like Kyrgyzstan.”

Public goods

^another thread with more

Standardized testing

^long thread. Commentary, commentary, commentary, and from David Deming:

^more recently, his Substack has a related discussion

AI

Fin