Guy Berger
@EconBerger
Workforce Economist in Residence at Guild; Senior Fellow at the Burning Glass Institute. Labor markets, macro, and (sorry) music! Tweets represent my own views.
"It's over"/"we're so back" labor market vibe shifts contrast with a much more boring, steady labor market reality. Link to my latest labor market economics post in the replies.
The Stones weren’t a great album band until 1968 but were cranking out one hall of fame single after another in 1966. Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts really shine on this one. youtu.be/aCmxWu2yT8c?si…
So far this July the average temperature in San Francisco has been 59.1°. Shockingly this doesn’t even crack the top 50 coldest Julys on record in SF. Most recently 2021 was colder. Coldest July on record is 1901 at 55.7°
Ozzy Osbourne turned into a parody of himself pretty early on, and in his celebrity incarnation during the early 2000s turned into a parody of THAT parody, but at Black Sabbath’s creative peak… RIP. youtu.be/yuVmjv22Nqc?si…
Gulag commissar: “someone has a case of the Mondays (laudatory!)”
“Powell resigns to protect the Fed” is a classic example of the Underpants Gnomes theory of central bank independence
PSA for San Francisco residents seeing their first patch of blue sky in a long time
A/C shaming is incredibly bad because 1) the globe is getting hotter! and 2) you can (in theory) always add more layers of clothing or blankets when it’s cold. but when it’s hot you eventually run out of layers to remove!
ACs are typically more energy efficient than heaters and yet no one ever insists everyone freeze in the winter