Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."

I am not wild about all the tile and marble flooring. I don’t think our cats will like that. And it will be cold under foot getting in and out of the master bed

All the books I ordered last week just arrived! Can't wait to pour myself a drink, relax, be too tired to read and play around on my phone all night

Gulp. I fear this describes me.

The Dallas Fed survey basically just rains fire at this point. 🔥

"Vote for the guy who would help me take over your country" is an incredible closing message

Remarkable how Trump dealt himself the worst possible hand to negotiate w/ China. 1st card: Enacted tariffs that threaten to tank the economy 2nd: Backs China into a corner. 3rd: Makes fed incapable of responding 4th: Tanks markets, bonds and the dollar 5th: no end game, no plan

Very proud that my wife, Martina, has been appointed to be Director of the ESRI. My father, Chris, worked at the ESRI for almost all his career. He passed away in 2022 but I know he would have been incredibly proud as would my mother, Yvonne, who we lost in January. www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Agreed. Ted Truman, the author, was my old boss. He ran the International Finance Division at the Federal Reserve Board for a couple of decades.

Biblical scholars now believe that if Jesus had covered up his gang tattoos, he might’ve avoided crucifixion.

Counterpoint: how many original games are out there? Scrabble. soccer, go. Maybe chess. Maybe the game of chicken

god, who'd be a central banker, honestly? "66% of Democratic-leaning participants believed the Fed favoured Republicans. "60% of Republican-leaning participants thought the Fed favoured Democrats."

The first official sign that Trump is already slowing the global economy: OECD has just downgraded both the US and global growth forecasts - and raised its inflation forecasts - for 2025 and 2026. Org primarily blames rising uncertainty and trade wars. www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

He’s also a former hockey player. He was a goalie, so used to deflecting slapshots

Vom CEPR - EABCN Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee: “When examining business cycle trends across European countries, Germany, the region's largest economy, continues to underperform, while Spain stands out as the main driver of steady growth within the euro area.”

Also email…

It’s scary that the payment system itself is under attack

Money is a symptom of the woke mind virus.

The Federal Government wastes $2 trillion a year on paper straws. Though seriously, it’s hard to read the memorandum without laughing. Or crying.

Un petit Américain de 4 ans a appelé la police la semaine dernière pour dénoncer sa mère, qui venait de commettre l’impardonnable selon lui. ➡️ https://l.leparisien.fr/T6oG

The institutions of the American economy depend on the institutions of American democracy; rule of law, consistent regulation, stability, and all the rest. That’s what’s being destroyed and that’s what risks the *entire economy. Saying that out loud shouldn’t (and can’t) be a risk

Rubio's gutting of USAID is illegal and unconstitutional. There is no form of democracy anywhere of any kind that would allow the executive branch to unilaterally cancel budgets and programs passed by the legislative branch and signed into law. It's utter lawlessness.

Been thinking about the idea that when a country with a $3 trillion GDP does a Brexit it’s their problem, when a country with a $30 trillion GDP does a Brexit it’s the rest of the world’s problem. @zatapatique.bsky.social

From AEI: “Despite Trump’s aggressive resort to tariffs, our trade deficit will widen under his watch as it did in his first term. It will do so because tariffs are being accompanied by a far-reaching program of tax cuts that will increase the budget deficit and…reduce our country’s savings level”

Anyone want to see our latest paper on #masks? #healthpolicy 🧪 www.bmj.com/content/388/...

This is not the right comparison. Add to those numbers each of the European countries before making a statement about the EU.

First time I’ve heard of this chain

Had never heard of this restaurant chain, and now it's the largest in the world by store count

Someone is lying about how much the US cares about corruption abroad. Source: www.ft.com/content/91a7...

We are now

How is it that we aren’t all referring to the kids carrying out a coup against the American constitution and way of life as…Muskovites?

What the hell? Eight percent defense cut per year, for five years? Say goodbye to military readiness. Say goodbye to modernization. This cannot stand: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Great point.

A civil servant at OPM reports on what it’s like there now slate.com/news-and-pol...

From my colleague Dan Wilson’s weather-adjusted employment model: Adverse weather held down payroll employment in January by around 80-90 thousand jobs. www.frbsf.org/research-and...

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To review, the FAA administrator was forced out because of a business vendetta of Elon Musk’s, Trump froze the hiring of new ATCs despite staff shortages, Musk launched an underhanded attempt to hollow out the whole federal workforce, and then the first US airliner crashed in 16 years.

I loved reading the Oxford English Dictionary.

Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.

My wife has an infinity scarf. My daughter wants her to get another. I'm not sure that's mathematically possible.

There are 2025 ways to go up and down eight stairs, taking fewer than four at a time, and stepping on each stair at least once.