I have said this before: this play is one of the most astonishing pieces of art, in any medium, that I've seen in the past 5Y. If you're in the Bay, do it!

Extremely NYC specific story:

Central Park is introducing new pizza box shaped recycling bins so people can recycle their pizza boxes, in an effort to stem the rat tide

nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc…

Congrats ⁦Nate Silver⁩ & ⁦Maria Konnikova⁩ on the launch of their new podcast. 🍾🍾🍾.
Politics, gambling, decision making, this’ll be a must listen for me every week podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ris…

Average hourly earnings growth has been drifting down recently. Was strong for much of 2023 but negative three months in a row--zero for the last 6 months (I use a 6 month line instead of my usual 3 due to high volatility).

Overall +0.7% since pre-COVID.

This program changed my life! Summer 2007 at Duke with Dr. Charles Maxwell Becker literally changed the whole course of my career in economics. I’m happy to see the program continuing to challenge minds and change lives at Howard Economics.

Egg prices tumbled 7.3% in April, as overall grocery prices dropped for the first time in a year. npr.org/2024/05/15/125…

Are we **finally** seeing some relief in rent inflation?

April was the smallest monthly gain for rent of primary residence since July 2021. (See chart)

April rent gain: +0.28%
March: 0.37%
Feb: 0.40%
Jan: 0.34%
Dec: 0.43%
Nov: 0.53%
Oct: 0.54%

The girls of Girl Scout Troop 6000 are asylum seekers recently arrived to NY w their families. Photographer Lexi Parra and I got to spend a bunch of time with the Troop. It's a project we've been working on for a long time, I hope you check it out.

npr.org/2024/05/13/125…

Average real wages rise for 12 straight months as prices decelerate faster than nominal wage growth go.epi.org/ENSC

Grocery prices dipped in April as overall inflation cooled

I would pay $20/month for AI that doesn’t sound like a fake flirty Californian but instead sounds like a guy from New England who can’t believe what you’re asking of him

This is superb.

This might be the most fun I've had in my academic career—trying my hand as a poetry critic as we dig into Martín Espada's poem on the meaning of labor. Plus it's kind of crazy to be appear alongside Stephen Breyer, Jill Lepore, John Turturro, Natasha Sarin and Betsey Stevenson.

More Americans are falling behind on credit card bills

npr.org/2024/05/14/125…

We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Munro (1931–2024). In memory of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Fiction interview from our archive.

theparisreview.org/interviews/179…

What haunts me is the butterfly....

This newsletter is the Yale of forex, the Harvard of trading. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Omg. This is going to be epic.

Me: A diversified portfolio of long-term investments is right for most people.

Reddit:

Thrilled to share our summer reading guide...25 books, old and new, for your delectation.

theatlantic.com/books/archive/…