Waldo (Tekampa) Ojeda
@waldo-tk.bsky.social
Researcher interested in Financial Economics and Applied Micro. Lecturer at Columbia University, Department of Economics
"Constant apprehension of war, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty ... The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home."
President Trump announced that he’ll take control of D.C. police and deploy the National Guard to fight crime and remove homeless people from the streets of Washington — an extraordinary flex of federal power.
🧵 Here’s what to know: wapo.st/4owUXqk
🧵 Here’s what to know: wapo.st/4owUXqk
Trump readies federal moves on D.C. crime, takes over D.C. police
The president is planning to flex his law enforcement power over Washington, declaring that he would clear the city of homeless people and crack down on crime.
wapo.st
August 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Constant apprehension of war, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty ... The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home."
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Firing the BLS Commissioner because you don't like the data is a dark day.
August 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Firing the BLS Commissioner because you don't like the data is a dark day.
I feel we're failing teaching Finance
May 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I feel we're failing teaching Finance
A sigh of relief
Breaking News: The Supreme Court instructed the government to take steps to return a Salvadoran migrant it had wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador.
Supreme Court Sides With Wrongly Deported Migrant
A trial judge had ordered the Trump administration to take steps to return the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from a notorious prison in El Salvador.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
A sigh of relief
It's going to be a slightly better day when the mystery lunch box in the Finance seminar comes with a bag of Cheetos
April 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
It's going to be a slightly better day when the mystery lunch box in the Finance seminar comes with a bag of Cheetos
After reading Carola Binder's Shock Values book, I'm wondering why potential price controls from the administration are not mentioned as a possibility if prices start increasing? Seems they are politically popular short-term and another government power leverage
April 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
After reading Carola Binder's Shock Values book, I'm wondering why potential price controls from the administration are not mentioned as a possibility if prices start increasing? Seems they are politically popular short-term and another government power leverage
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This was….five months ago
April 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This was….five months ago
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Small businesses don’t always take advantage of simple opportunities to improve their bottom line. Why not?
@kellogginsight.bsky.social covers our research on this question in Mexico 🇲🇽 (w Paul Gertler, Ulrike Malmendier, and @waldo-tk.bsky.social)
insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/why-...!
@kellogginsight.bsky.social covers our research on this question in Mexico 🇲🇽 (w Paul Gertler, Ulrike Malmendier, and @waldo-tk.bsky.social)
insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/why-...!
Why Small Firms Take a Pass on Profitable Opportunities
And how they can be encouraged to buy in.
insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu
March 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Small businesses don’t always take advantage of simple opportunities to improve their bottom line. Why not?
@kellogginsight.bsky.social covers our research on this question in Mexico 🇲🇽 (w Paul Gertler, Ulrike Malmendier, and @waldo-tk.bsky.social)
insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/why-...!
@kellogginsight.bsky.social covers our research on this question in Mexico 🇲🇽 (w Paul Gertler, Ulrike Malmendier, and @waldo-tk.bsky.social)
insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/why-...!
Jerome Powell's tone in his current testimony is especially calming these days
February 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Jerome Powell's tone in his current testimony is especially calming these days
Transit benefits sound like a benefit until one has to deal with customer service. Is there an estimate on how much employers get back from unclaimed transit benefits?
January 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Transit benefits sound like a benefit until one has to deal with customer service. Is there an estimate on how much employers get back from unclaimed transit benefits?
Just emailed my employer on how to proceed in case I need to deal with potential mass deportation policies
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/u...
The Alienation of Jaime Cachua
His friends and family members in Rome, Ga., voted to support mass deportation. Now he’s scrambling to stay in the country.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Just emailed my employer on how to proceed in case I need to deal with potential mass deportation policies
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/u...
I'm not ready for my passive investments to become active
January 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I'm not ready for my passive investments to become active
Watching the final of the Mexican soccer league on Univision and a Mexican commentator when talking about a Mexican-American player that plays for the US, referred to the US national soccer team as: "everyone's team" 👍
December 13, 2024 at 3:55 AM
Watching the final of the Mexican soccer league on Univision and a Mexican commentator when talking about a Mexican-American player that plays for the US, referred to the US national soccer team as: "everyone's team" 👍
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So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.
December 3, 2024 at 3:02 PM
So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.
This sign still gives me an extra sense of security when I see it dealing with a bank ever since I learned what it means.
November 27, 2024 at 11:45 PM
This sign still gives me an extra sense of security when I see it dealing with a bank ever since I learned what it means.
About 16 years ago I sent an email to Amir Sufi as an undergrad asking for any RA job he might still have. A job post deadline had passed. I had a tad of interest in Financial Econ but also really wanted another campus job besides an admin work-study.
November 25, 2024 at 12:05 AM
About 16 years ago I sent an email to Amir Sufi as an undergrad asking for any RA job he might still have. A job post deadline had passed. I had a tad of interest in Financial Econ but also really wanted another campus job besides an admin work-study.