I've been conscious of listening more than talking for the last 2 weeks. Trying anyway. That'll continue. Here's what I circle back to repeatedly: [1] of @TrevonDLogan FB group of 130 black academic men, only 6 have never been handcuffed. 1/7 [2] a neighbor/church friend who is a black man about my age (early 60s), attorney, lived/worked in DC for a few decades, now back to his childhood home down the street, who can recount 60 (*sixty*) times of having been pulled over by police. Sixty. 2/7

PACKED house in 597 Evans @berkeleyecon for Melanie Morten (Stanford) presentation on economic effects of 2006 construction of 658 miles of fence (wall) along US- Mexico border. Uses confidential Mexican micro data. Findings. Migration falls but ... low skill workers gain a very small amount in wages, high income workers lose with lower wages, and — critically— the cost of construction per person exceeds any wage gains. Therefore net effect on US GDP: negative.