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Here is the link to slides given at the Kern Economic Summit.

Slides on Universal Basic Income or UBI are available here. These slides were prepared for a lecture given to students in the Senior Seminar that is part of the Political Science Department at California State University, Bakersfield.

Slide deck for the presentation on January 19, 2022 to the Small Business Development Center is available at this link. The slide deck illustrates the potential for reallocation in Kern County:

Here is a collection of links to resources for students: Exploring Careers in Economics, Fall 2020 Conference held by the Federal Reserve Board

Table of Contents -- Welcome to my professional website! I made the devastating choice of updating Hugo and blogdown, which required a major revamp of my professional website This blog post by Alison Hill was useful for learning about the latest version of blogdown.

Do people care more about inflation or unemployment? Here’s R code to reproduce a plot featured by Professor Justin Wolfers in this tweet. library(ggplot2) library(gtrendsR) library(ggrepel) library(tidyverse) library(lubridate) dat <- gtrends(c("inflation", "unemployment"), geo = c("US")) interest <- as_tibble(dat$interest_over_time) interest <- interest %>% rename(date_time = date) %>% mutate(date = as_date(date_time, tz = NULL), my_label = case_when( date == ymd("2020-03-29") ~ keyword, TRUE ~ "" )) ggplot(data = interest) + geom_line(mapping = aes(x = date, y = hits, color = keyword), size = 0.