Ryan Connelly

Just another DC economist

[Ryan Connelly @Rycon]

Agree that this is the key for framing the current conversation better.

[JohannesBorgen @jeuasommenulle]

3/ More importantly the chart we've been waiting YEARS for: how much do banks actually lend to private credit funds, globally? Answer: <0.3% of bank assets even in the UK (the "leader"). Every shadow-banking-contagion thinkpiece should reflect on this.

[Ryan Connelly @Rycon]

@aa9dj44jfk Thanks - the classic are good for a reason.

[Ryan Connelly @Rycon]

Without factoring in cost or schools, the definitive list of best neighborhoods to live in DC are:

(1) Georgetown
(2) Woodland Normanstone
(2) Kalorama
(3) DuPont Circle
(4) Woodley Park

You can swap (1) and (2) depending how you prioritize walking to shops.

[Jacob Wasserman @jacob_wass]

My early DC neighborhood rankings (based on where I’ve been so far):

1. Adams Morgan
2. Columbia Heights
3. Georgetown
4. Dupont Circle
5. Navy Yard
6. Capitol Hill

[Ryan Connelly @Rycon]

@SkellyFreaks Georgetown is ringed by Montrose Park, and Dumbarton Oaks trails on the North, Rock Creek on the east, Glover Archibald on the West, and the Waterfront/C&O canal trail to the south/SE. there’s some smaller but still decent parks like Volta around as well. It’s great!

[Ryan Connelly @Rycon]

@acad3m1a This is true, but it has great bus routes to get you downtown, easy biking or walking to Rosslyn, and pretty convenient driving connections to get you into NOVA.

Doesn’t work for all areas.

[Ryan Connelly @Rycon]

@tracyalloway Just read my DMs you guys

[Ryan Connelly @Rycon]

@darioperkins Need a vacation!

[Ryan Connelly @Rycon]

As a lifelong Trailblazers fan, this is very on-brand.

[Charles Fain Lehman @CharlesFLehman]

This legal sports gambling thing is going great

[Ryan Connelly @Rycon]

Makes you wonder whether a symmetric inflation target is the right approach, if consumers inflation expectations are not…

[NBER @nberpubs]

Media coverage of inflation has a significant and asymmetric effect on consumer inflation expectations, from @cconces, @PascalFrank12, and Jane M. Ryngaert https://t.co/ji6ltWWjfX

[Ryan Connelly @Rycon]

@TheStalwart

[Ryan Connelly @Rycon]

@TheStalwart Pretty easy to ignore the substantial research on market failures in food provision, and the corresponding negative costs to public health and education, and just assume that there’s no government role here.

[Ryan Connelly @Rycon]

@oldbooksguy Song of the Dodo by David Quammem

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”

• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree

“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”

• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory

👉🏻 https://t.co/fq1rItVKC2

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

A change in trade policy will not fix the European Union’s longer-term structural problems, write @m2matthijs and @Ej_Europe. How can European leaders rebalance the continent’s economy and address Europe’s security vulnerabilities? https://t.co/BMnBSUCFeP

[Ryan Connelly @Rycon]

@ernietedeschi If only they would add a cheddar or Swiss cheese option…

[Ryan Connelly @Rycon]

@tracyalloway This is a dangerous game Tracy.

[Ryan Connelly @Rycon]

Highly recommend this book to help understand a bit of what we have seen in American politics in recent decades

https://t.co/NsYXQ3h8Xs

[Ryan Connelly @Rycon]

@TheStalwart Most relevant bit here but there's some more explanatory text in the doc.

[Ryan Connelly @Rycon]

@TheStalwart Mainly, because Mervyn King thought consensus approaches led to worse outcomes over time. See the second section of this speech.

It helped that due to how BoE appointments to the MPC are made, King could all but select over the half the members himself

https://t.co/oOmez6joOw

[Ryan Connelly @Rycon]

@TheStalwart Probably old enough for his first guitar! Congrats!