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Josh White

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1 year

@MaskedEcon @buccocapital Optimal strategy in life. Get job at sketchiest public company. Blow whistle. Profit.

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@lastpositivist @AnthonyLeeZhang We do know how to Excel.

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@SMTuffy @Jason Right on cue @tweetsbyparker

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the libertarianism leaving VC’s bodies when their banks default

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Question for #econtwitter . Does anyone know who came up with this example of omitting important variables? My code is from 2019 and I cannot recall where I found it. You set up a dataset with quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies and the total. 1/n

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9 months

No matter what you think about retail investors, can we acknowledge that 4400 of them streamed and discussed @GaryGensler 's testimony today to the House Financial Services Committee in just one space? This is incredible. Nearly zero would have listened in 2019.

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This CEO of Silicon Valley Bank, Greg Becker, is the same one that successfully lobbied Congress to raise the Dodd-Frank threshold from $50 to $250b that triggers enhanced standards such as stress tests & capital requirements. They had assets ~$200b before they collapsed. $SIVB

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@KarmaCollects @SusanneTrimbath @LightningHall35 Can confirm that Drew is both knowledgable and hospitable. Highly recommend joining a space with him. 💯

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9 months

@florianederer AMA is supposed to a question. His was more of a comment.

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11 months

Shout out to the student from 6 years ago that sent me a nice message on a Saturday. An assistant professor's career is around 90% rejection from journals and conferences in finance. They have no idea how much it means to hear you made a difference in someone's life.

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9 months

@paulgp I do not see a signed honesty statement at the top of the website.

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9 months

Did not have "kneecapping" or "rom-com" on my bingo card for @GaryGensler 's hearing today?

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Josh White

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10 months

So you want to do a PhD in finance, accounting, or econ? It is a Saturday in August 2023. And I am revising for the third round on a paper I started with a postdoc in 2018. And this is not atypical.

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Josh White

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9 months

The livestream will be here starting Wednesday (9/27) at 10am ET.

Hearing Entitled: Oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission

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9 months

@Ziqian_Xia Unprofessional. Plus it was Chat GPT’d. As evidenced by the non curly apostrophe and use of word thirdly. Do your best to not internalize it.

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Josh White

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5 months

My teaching days are all the same. 8am: I'm going to do A LOT before I teach this afternoon 9-noon: Accomplish nothing Noon-2pm: Wait, what am I teaching today? 2-4pm: Teach 4-10pm: Obsess over the one question I should have answered better Rinser. Lather. Repeat.

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Josh White

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8 months

DOJ spitting fire with this PR on the SBF ruling. 🔥 “This case is also a warning to every fraudster who thinks they’re untouchable…I promise we’ll have enough handcuffs for all of them.”

Statement Of U.S. Attorney Damian Williams On The Conviction Of Samuel Bankman-Fried

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Josh White

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1 year

Shocked and thrilled to be awarded Vanderbilt University's 2023 James A. Webb Award for Teaching Excellence. I feel undeserving, but am always inspired by the curiosity and resilience of Vanderbilt students. It is a privilege for a kid from a small town in East TN to help foster

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Josh White

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2 years

Did several journos tweet 500 N. King St in Wilmington? Which should be accurate once a month or so.

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Josh White

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7 months

Finance conference submission time...links and deadlines. Did I miss any? 1) SEC's CFMR: (11/15) 2) WFA (11/18) 3) Delaware Corporate Governance Symposium (11/20) 4) FIRS (11/20)

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Josh White

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1 year

@jenniferdoleac I am grateful for the @ASSAMeeting accommodating my virtual presentation. Had a back injury that prevented travel and coauthors were unavailable. Not ideal, but making the ASSA program and getting great feedback on a paper was massively important as a junior faculty member.

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1 year

@zrau Hahaha. I once saw Detroit t-shirt with palm trees while shopping in Norway.

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10 months

@MikeIsaac Proof that Jimmy was right. "If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane."

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Josh White

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1 year

@WeSoUnderRated Had heart and back surgery and still taught 3 classes, supervised 2 MBA ind studies, mentored a postdoc, and published a paper. More than anything, learned about the mind-body connection.

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9 months

@ravini123 @HuckleberryHalt @JohnReedStark Will do all I can if folks send me info with very clear information. Will literally go to the very top of all of these organizations.

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9 months

👀

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9 months

SEC Chair @GaryGensler refuses to schedule a Commission vote to provide Congress with requested documents. Should Gensler continue to stonewall, Republicans will have no choice but to issue the first subpoena to the SEC from my Committee to compel their production.

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9 months

Fractional share gift cards at Target. With a trading fee of around 20%. 🤦‍♂️

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9 months

My deerest friend decided to visit this morning.

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Josh White

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1 year

Just finished a replication report on a finance paper for the Management Science Reproducibility Project. Three observations: 1) Paper was fully reproducible ✅ 2) Learned a LOT about well-organized code 3) Came away with a research idea All journals should "replicate" this!

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7 months

So you want to do empirical corporate finance... I've spent the last 5 days hand collecting data for 1 of 40+ comments by reviewers. Morning until evening. For something that will likely be a footnote. On a project that is 3 years old and has 3500 obs in the main dataset. 😣

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1 year

I just peaked. Calling it a weekend...

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Josh White

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9 months

Woke up early with test anxiety (professors get this too). But found a paper acceptance waiting in my email. 🥳 Anxiety level zero.

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1 year

@JoeBrunoWSOC9 @wsoctv Our house, in the middle of our street.

Madness - Our House (Official 4K Video)

You are watching the official 4K video for Our House by Madness. Check out the Madheads 2020 version of the video here: https://youtu.be/HGvqTKev0bYClick her...

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Josh White

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1 year

Excited to testify to Congress this Thursday! I'm scheduled to appear before the Subcommittee on Capital Markets of the House Financial Services Committee to discuss safeguarding investor interests in the proxy process. I hope you will stream it & share your perspectives with

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@mattturck Have you tried asking Jeeves about it?

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Josh White

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3 months

Each step forward, no matter how small, is progress.

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Josh White

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2 years

fwiw, have spoken with non-Block journalists that respect your editorial integrity

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2 years

1) I'm absolutely gutted by this news, which was briefed to the company this afternoon. Underpinning my shock are feelings of utter disgust and betrayal by Mike’s actions, greed, lack of disclosure. He's literal scum. He kept every single one of us in the dark.

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1 year

@RMac18 @ellagirwin @kateconger Three sources is prob more than the number of employees in Trust & Safety.

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Josh White

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8 months

“Reproducibility in Management Science” Happy to participate in this important project as a reviewer along with ⁦ @charles_cy_wang ⁩ ⁦ @AustinStarkwea1 ⁩ ⁦ @Tyler_Menzer ⁩ & 700+ others. Let’s do the same at Finance and Accounting journals!

Reproducibility in Management Science

With the help of more than 700 reviewers we assess the reproducibility of nearly 500 articles published in the journal Management Science before and after the introduction of a new Data and Code...

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1 year

Mind blowing article.

Opinion | How to Change a Life for 50 Cents (Gift Article)

On my win-a-trip journey, a reminder that a fifth of the world’s people have worms.

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Josh White

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9 months

@MetaGuyMarduk @KarmaCollects @ravini123 @HuckleberryHalt @JohnReedStark Thanks. Let me get up to speed on all the background info that was shared with me. And I will circle back later this week.

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10 months

@KhoaVuUmn I like to pick them up at the airport and challenge their identification strategy during the drive to the hotel.

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2 months

Final exam and course grades posted ✅ Out-of-office message crafted ✅ Time to go off the grid in the Smoky Mtns 🌄

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9 months

@robbezdjian I would not be surprised if more actions come out of this. But the next week will be very busy with enforcement actions or settlements. The SEC's fiscal year ends this month, so there is an incentive to bring and settle cases quickly to increase the tally.

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Josh White

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1 year

My academic research has been rejected without an opportunity to resubmit 24 times by peer-reviewed journals. 🤓

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Josh White

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5 months

40 page response. Single spaced. 35+ tables. 7 figures. And that is one of two reviewers. Be sure if you sign up for this job, that you really want it.

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Josh White

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8 months

@busybrands @JunkSavvy @bleedblue18 @robshapiro @JWesChristian @FNez_Blogger To clarify: I was invited by @HuckleberryHalt but have not confirmed. My schedule is tight that day due to prior appointments. Will see how it shakes out.

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Josh White

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1 year

No better feeling than 2 R&Rs in 2 weeks. 🤩 No scarier feeling that 2 R&Rs both with 40+ comments each. 😬 I know how Summer 2023 will be spent...

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Josh White

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1 year

Oh my! Did not have a Taliban endorsement of Twitter on my Bingo card today. @chancery_daily @lorakolodny I wonder if this is one of those 95 equity holders of X-Corp that were redacted?

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1 year

Twitter has two important advantages over other social media platforms. The first privilege is the freedom of speech. The second privilege is the public nature & credibility of Twitter. Twitter doesn't have an intolerant policy like Meta. Other platforms cannot replace it.

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11 months

The most stressful thing as an assistant prof is replying to an R&R explaining why we cannot do a suggested analysis. I am sweating profusely. 😰

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Josh White

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1 year

This FSD fatality estimate by @faizsays and @jeremybmerrill might be a lower bound based on data here: CC: @icapulet

17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot

Crashes have surged in the past four years, reflecting the hazards associated with increasing use of Tesla’s futuristic driver-assistance tech.

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Josh White

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1 year

In case anyone wants the simple code and data:

Omit

Shared with Dropbox

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Josh White

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3 months

If they only knew

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Josh White

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7 months

“What's happening at OpenAI is a 'governance failure,' professor says” Was fun to offer some midnight musings on governance…

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Josh White

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8 months

Chat GPT is down… Expecting millions of students to have exam nightmares and test anxiety from this episode.

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Josh White

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7 months

Me working on three ref reports this weekend while AI and cover letters are having an existential crisis.

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Josh White

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7 months

The @SECGov had until Nov 30 to "correct the defects” in the economic analysis that the 5th Circuit identified in the Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization Rule. I see nothing in Bloomberg law on Dec 1 other than a denial of extension for more time on Nov 26. (1/4)

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Josh White

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3 months

Looking forward to testifying to the House Financial Services Committee this week the SEC's climate disclosure rule. I had the privilege of testifying to the HFSC's subcommittee on capital markets last summer. I hope you can tune in.

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Josh White

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9 months

@HuckleberryHalt @JohnReedStark Wonderful. Looking forward to hearing from you.

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Josh White

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6 months

@mwhiley06 @jen_kapela @GandalfWizz @FINRA @MikeCrapo Absolutely! I have offered my services on all of these issues--at zero cost--and that offer remains.

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Josh White

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1 year

If nobody claims it, will just give credit to @jmwooldridge and move on. 😂

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Josh White

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8 months

Have spent the better part of the past 72 hours reading through proxy statements. Will be writing a comment letter to the @SECGov on the need for standardized info on basics like board size, classification, members of committees, etc. Info acquisition costs are too high.

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Josh White

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9 months

@terminalarc This sentence suggests that the SEC believes the error in the code was unintentional. Had it biased towards shorts, it would have appeared much worse. Their quick correction after discovery and cooperation with the SEC likely reduced the penalty.

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6 months

@Kenny80252099 I haven’t dug into enough to opine, but at first glance it was surprising.

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Josh White

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1 year

@andres_madero0 @brian4v @lorakolodny Headcount secured.

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Josh White

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2 months

Very few things in life are better than sharing a wonderful meal with great company

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Josh White

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2 months

That was fun

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10 months

@KhoaVuUmn Stick with me. That feeling when your 18 yo daughter breaks up w/ her BF. And he calls you crying on a Sat. And you're just trying to hit an NBER submission deadline on Monday...

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Josh White

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1 year

One of the most amazing things about academia is when a senior person in the profession is gracious with their time. And offers encouragement and pointed feedback on your work. Had that experience today and I am so grateful to this person! I hope to pay it forward someday.

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1 year

@RollingStone 😢 She was simply the best

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Josh White

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1 year

Sending my best to all the finance profs teaching semi-strong form market efficiency this week.

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Josh White

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1 year

Amazing story and dataset. And nice quote by @jagolinzer . ⬇️

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1 year

1/ NEW: For the last year, we have been combing through a trove of confidential stock trading data, allowing us to see how the titans of American industry make themselves even wealthier in the stock market. (THREAD)

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Josh White

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9 months

4.75% on a 10 year Treasury 🤯 Last time it was this high, you could still bank with Lehman and Bear Stearns

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Josh White

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7 months

Working on ref report #18 for the year. And two more in the queue. My apologies to that faculty member that said I will never have more free time than when I was a grad student. You were right and I doubted you. This crow is tasty.

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Josh White

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3 months

Finance academia lost a legend. One cannot put into words the impact that Michael Jensen had on corporate finance research and the profession.

Spencer Barnes

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Aww man :(

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Josh White

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1 year

@robbezdjian @GRDecter Nope. Literally everything you said is wrong.

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8 months

Giordano’s deep dish pizza in Chicago is worth every calorie.

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10 months

That surreal feeling when your kiddo is packed for her Frosh year of college. It seems like yesterday that I dropped her off for Kindergarten. Time flies.

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3 months

Everyone complaining about about the hefty 885 page SEC Climate rule is overlooking an important fact. Page 758 is blank, so it truly only 884 pages long.

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10 months

@thekillers Fifteen years later and we still do not know if we are human or dancer. Does this finally shed light on the answer?

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1 year

“US says 'real concern' about Tesla Autopilot driver interaction” They should be! Many FSD deaths seem to be omitted from NHTSA’s reports but appear in this database with source articles:

U.S. has 'real concern' about Tesla Autopilot driver interaction

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Tuesday there are concerns about the interaction between Tesla's advanced driver assistance system Autopilot and drivers that is the subject of an...

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1 year

Maybe the best walk-off home run dance I’ve ever seen. Carlos Santana for the Pirates. 💯

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7 months

Really thought I would be a DJ and a firefighter. Not sure where I went wrong…

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1 year

"We urge Congress to act quickly to increase the $50 billion threshold...given the low risk profile of our activities and business model, such as result would stifle our ability to provide credit to our clients without any meaningful

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1 year

@RMac18 Florida legislature preparing a “Don’t Say Crash” bill as we speak.

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1 year

Sometimes the finance gods have a sense of humor. Sunrun's stock $RUN crashing due to the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. They literally chose the ticker "RUN" and are now getting drilled by a bank run. 🤦‍♂️

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Josh White

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1 year

Enjoyed watching @toniwhited present research for the @CBER_Forum on CBDCs. Of course, I liked the questions about regulation at the end...but the presentation was quite insightful. If you missed it, the video is here:

Will CBDC Disintermediate Banks?

Professor Toni Whited (University of Michigan) presents "Will Central Bank Digital Currency Disintermediate Banks?"Professor Lin William Cong (Cornell Univer...

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Josh White

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11 months

@Econ_4_Everyone Economists are mean when their identify is anonymous!? I feel like there was an NBER paper on this recently. 🤔

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4 months

🚨Finance Postdoc Alert 🚨 Excited to announce Vanderbilt-Owen is once again hiring a postdoctoral scholar in finance for a two-year appointment. Please encourage any potential candidates to consider applying by March 10, 2024. Here is the posting on FEN:

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Josh White

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2 months

Jockey of horse #2 should send an email to Professor Derby. They are shocked and upset about their final position, worked super hard, and need this win really bad.

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5 months

Me, just before posting grades.

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9 months

Yes, I am cleaning walls because a ceiling fan mishap flung hummus all over my living room. No, I will not explain how it happened. 😳

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Josh White

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9 months

@Kory_Corner I agree that a $7m fine is not much of a financial deterrent to company that made $16b in profit last year. Here is my theory on why it was so low. ⬇️

Josh White

@joshua_t_white

9 months

@terminalarc This sentence suggests that the SEC believes the error in the code was unintentional. Had it biased towards shorts, it would have appeared much worse. Their quick correction after discovery and cooperation with the SEC likely reduced the penalty.

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Josh White

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Pretty sure peak Earth was 1992. Mostly peaceful, transportation was low cost, low inflation, zero social media, and no cell phones. Can publish endogenous results in "A" journals. And Crystal Pepsi was the worst crystal you could consume. Plus Batman Returns + grunge rock.

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Josh White

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9 months

A 2nd round rejection at an "A" journal on day 2 of a 2-week road trip. 2⃣2⃣2⃣ Literally received it here in AZ. Fortunately the paper hit at another A journal later. And I learned to never check emails when taking personal time.

Spencer Greenberg 🔍

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A question for you: what's one of the biggest rejections you've experienced?

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Josh White

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1 year

@JohnHolbein1 "Wonder is the beginning of wisdom." - Socrates

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1 year

“Finance professor Ken French once said about stock buybacks: ‘Buybacks are divisive. They divide people who do understand finance from those who don’t’” This quote will be in my slides when we get to payout policy. 💯

A Convenient Political Target

Finance professor Ken French once said about stock buybacks: “Buybacks are divisive. They divide people who do understand finance from those who don’t” Put Joe Biden and his administration in the...

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Josh White

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1 year

You can block me, mute me, or send me nasty DMs. But how long are we willing to watch children die from assault rifles before we do any one thing to protect our kids?! Blood is on the hands of every politician that waits one minute to solve this problem. And I grew up in

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Josh White

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5 months

Few things are more tortuous--as an academic--than revising the same paper, every day, for 5 months. 🤦‍♂️ Is this the intellectual equivalent of a hamster running on a wheel?

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Josh White

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1 year

Sorry. Down from 7500 to 1300. Down 83% not 85%.

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