Christian E. Weller

Christian Weller

@profcew.bsky.social

9.8K followers 2.6K following 2.5K posts

Economist at UMass Boston and Center for American Progress; focus on racial wealth inequality, retirement savings and economic policy. Center on data driven policy development. Skeets are all my own opinions.

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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 13h

I regularly marvel at electricity and all the safety it affords us -- in all seriousness. This is just, uh, weird....

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h

who actually likes electricity? raise your hand. haha, i see a joker back there. but ask yourself: how many times do you turn on the light in morning, just for fun? what about the afternoon. never, right? and why are you staying up so late? our forefathers tucked themselves in at 6pm like god inten—

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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 14h

By a 2-to-1 margin, Americans say President Trump has done more to raise prices than lower them.
(Yahoo/@today.yougov.com)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251126-offer

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h

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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 1d

Tariffs trickle into cost of Thanksgiving dinner, jilting consumers and farmers | via @anna-writes.bsky.social #ksleg

Tariffs trickle into cost of Thanksgiving dinner, jilting consumers and farmers • Kansas Reflector

Collin Tuthill, president of one of the country’s largest canned and frozen food importers and distributors, said the current state of the U.S. food industry is “like we live in some kind of alternate...

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Vulture @vulture.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

It's shrinkflation. The turkey is more expensive and they took many goodies away from this year's meal.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 21d

2025: no pecan pie

Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 1d

And, many who are financially struggle already bought generics, facing higher costs without options to substitute.

Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 1d

There is a massive academic debate over cost of living vs cost of goods. People arguably care about cost of goods in the short term. Hassett is trying to deflect from.thst concern. People are not that excited if they have to replace their favorites with generics.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hassett: "On one of the Sunday shows, the anchor criticized the fact Walmart said the Thanksgiving dinner is cheaper by about $10. Then he said, 'Oh yeah, but they substituted generic stuff,' as if having a generic something is a crime for ordinary folks! It shows how out of touch these people are."

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d

Most of my life has been rage, bitterness, and exhaustion. It's good to have been able to find a place near the end of the Earth to slow down and chill.

I hope you can find that near the end of wherever you are.

In the meantime, enjoy tonight's pelican festival 🪶

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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Elizabeth Neswald @octobeth.bsky.social · 2d

Today in marine invertebrates

a nativity scene made up of little lobsters in a lobster trap. The three wise men are lobsters, the shepherds are lobsters, Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus in the cradle are lobsters, the cow and donkey are lobsters. Well, lobster-like. No legs or anything. Pretty rough lobster renderings. Also bright red.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

David J. Bier: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since Oct 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...

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Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social · 2d

I joined @utopiaspodcast.bsky.social for a conversation on Ramesh's podcast Utopias with Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan. We discussed the power of Big Tech, the dangers and opportunities of AI, and much more. Listen to our full conversation here: www.buzzsprout.com/2272465/epis....

25. Daron Acemoglu - Utopias with Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan

Daron Acemoglu is an acclaimed economist, author, and professor at MIT. In 2024, he received the Nobel Prize in Economics and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences. His research focuses on ...

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 3d

Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 3d

I just bookmarked the Cheetah Cub Cam, this is the fucking cutest

Cheetah Cub Cam

The Cheetah Cub Cam streams live from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 4d

Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*

The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 4d

Coincidentally just saw this

Elizabeth Warren on Instagram: "Private equity is looting our malls, doctors' offices, and nursing homes. Heck, you name it, and private equity has probably already bought it. Their scheme spares...

Private equity firms have a history of buying out small businesses, loading them with debt, and stripping their assets. This leaves thousands of workers without jobs and communities devastated. In thi...

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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 5d

The labor market slowdown is real, showing up in declining manufacturing hiring, struggling older workers, among others.

Diane Swonk @dianeswonk.bsky.social · 7d

Payrolls jump more than expected 119,000 in September, but hiring over the summer was revised down even further. Gains in the service sector - healthcare and social assistance and leisure and hospitality accounted for nearly all of those gains. Construction also added jobs to build data centers.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5d

Affordability whiplash
Political cartoons of the week /1

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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 5d

The Indeed job postings data shows no acceleration in the pace of job market cooling through mid-November - if anything, there's a very small ongoing deceleration (i.e. cooling more slowly)

[Consistent with the claims data]

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 6d

Hey, #EconSky job candidates & their advisors! My group at the UofI is hiring, looking for an environmental/public applied economist.

If you haven't applied already, now is a great time to do so!

www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026

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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 6d

Making morning coffee, BBQ beef and candy a lot more expensive will do that. (Those are the food items with the three highest inflation rates).

Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 6d

The cold and dreary days and holidays are coming. My need for coffee and chocolate is going up. But, not at these prices. Coffee is up by about 20% and candy by about 10% from a year earlier (in September). Happy holidays, I guess.

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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 6d

The typical joke is that they don’t have a health care plan and they’ll never have one.

But they do and it passed last July: taking away four people’s health care to pay for a tax cut for one millionaire family.