One of the funniest Prince stories is the time he met Matt Damon in 2007 at the London premiere for The Bourne Ultimatum.

'Is Math Real?' is Science Friday book club's book for May! You can also sign up for a chance to win one of 10 books in a giveaway (deadline in a couple of days!). sciencefriday.com/sf-books/is-ma…

ICYMI: long before the 2nd Powell Pivot, Stacey Vanek Smith highlighted that higher for longer was much more likely than immaculate disinflation.

House passes aid bills with funding for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan

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didn’t have my five year old son referring to me as “bro” on my bingo card but here we are

Speaking from the front lines of #AI , Elizabeth Wolfe Couch leads a conversation with Jeremy Gilbert, Zach Seward, and mago torres about the ethics, challenges, but also the opportunities with #AI tools. Thanks to Royal Media for sponsoring this session. #SABEW24

Congratulations to M.A. Columbia Journ alum Valerie Hopkins (MA Politics '13), who is a member of the The New York Times team that won Overseas Press Club's 2023 William Worthy Award for its 'Russia/Ukraine' reporting. opcofamerica.org/Awardarchive/t…

This fits my totally unbiased, anti-alphabetical-order agenda

WSJ’s chief economic correspondent Nick Timiraos drills down on inflation with Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee in a news-making one-on-one. It’s streaming live on Chicago Fed site chicagofed.org/publications/s…  #SABEW24

hilarious! if only David Foster Wallace had set his sights on this.

Photographer Dorothea Lange with her camera in California, 1938 whose work humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography #WomensArt

First tortured sellside Taylor Swift reference spotted.

I may have a PhD but I’m also apparently failing fourth grade math 💀😭

New applications for unemployment benefits held steady last week. 212,000 people applied for aid -- the same number as the week before. As of 30 March, just over 1.9 million people were receiving some form of jobless assistance.

Private credit is now so big that the IMF dedicated an entire chapter in its latest Global Financial Stability Report to its “rise and risks”. But JPMorgan argues that even the IMF is underestimating the true size of the industry.
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With new marginal rent data from the BLS we can see how much pent up deflation there is in CPI rents. For some reason people focus on growth rate graphs, which doesn't show this. Here is levels. There is a 4pp gap between the market rents and average rents.

Always great to be with a Nobel laureate, especially when they also happen to be a dear friend Esther Duflo. I look forward to her contributions to the G20 discussions later today.

First mention of a solar eclipse in the Beige Book:

> Visitors seeking the path of totality to observe the solar eclipse provided a sizeable boost to hotel and restaurant establishments in parts of upstate New York.

Me in 1984 wasting time resting instead of buying Apple stock at $0.09.