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An impressive public health breakthrough

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Some evidence why consumers are still unhappy on.ft.com/3M3EA5S

Some evidence why consumers are still unhappy on.ft.com/3M3EA5S

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃

Monetary policy tightening raises longer-term yields only when inflation is driven by strong demand. www.frbsf.org/wp-content/u...

Update on the state of the job market courtesy of a nudge by @gottliebecon.bsky.social It's bad! paulgp.com/2025/11/24/j...

Monetary policy tightening raises longer-term yields only when inflation is driven by strong demand. www.frbsf.org/wp-content/u...

H/T to Torsten Slok for this SF Fed chart illustrating demand-side influences overtaking supply-side factors as the primary driver of US inflation. Why this matters: 1. The Fed: Inflation driven more by demand than supply factors argues against a rate cut just as worries mount about the ... 1 of 2

Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols. The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”

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It’s happening… www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

Tarrifs tend to raise unemployment and lower inflation. (you read that right, lower inflation) www.frbsf.org/wp-content/u...

You’re going to have to find alternative ways to get chain restaurant pasta today apple.news/APLkcE64UQlK...

This is just wrong

“Medicare increases life expectancy by about 1 year at age 65” economics.uchicago.edu/sites/defaul...

Mag 7 approaching 100% of the entire stock market

Mag 7 approaching 100% of the entire stock market

Didn’t know this

I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world. If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.

What could go wrong? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Peter Thiel has $5b in his Roth IRA www.propublica.org/article/lord...

Peter Thiel has $5b in his Roth IRA www.propublica.org/article/lord...

You’d want to compare levels, not growth to make that claim

8% of 4 year olds have a smart phone 🤨

Not sustainable

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Yes and it is not only due to tariffs and goods prices, services are a problem too on.ft.com/436rURb

Goldman at 2.8%

Economic news sentiment plunged in April during the time of tariff announcements, and has since only marginally recovered www.frbsf.org/research-and...

Economic news sentiment plunged in April during the time of tariff announcements, and has since only marginally recovered www.frbsf.org/research-and...

GDPNow (Atlanta Fed) is projecting Q3 growth at close to 4% www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...

GDPNow (Atlanta Fed) is projecting Q3 growth at close to 4% www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...

Problems now, bigger ones ahead.

FT poll

This is a big problem www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

BlueSky not looking so good www.pewresearch.org/journalism/f...

BlueSky not looking so good www.pewresearch.org/journalism/f...

This is a big problem www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

There’s been a steady decline in moving, for both renters and home owners

There’s been a steady decline in moving, for both renters and home owners

The split between twitter (X) and actual sentiment that began in mid 2024 looks like it might be permanent