President Trump is making a last-ditch push to dissuade House Republicans from supporting a measure this week to release files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of U.S. workers take on seasonal jobs during the holidays. This year those jobs look harder to come by. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

The shutdown and the damage done www.wsj.com/economy/gove...

Man, the shutdown even came for beer o’clock

Forgot until just now that this is one of those years when the CPS reference week for November comes early. Is this week. www.bls.gov/cps/definiti...

Am I right that if the Social Security cap was $1 trillion, this year's shortfall could potentially get taken care of?

How much does it matter that the shutdown disruptions are happening during what is on an unadjusted basis usually the strongest quarter of the year for economy?

great story www.wsj.com/us-news/what...

An AI tool that tells PR flacks pitching stories what I write about, since they obviously can't be bothered to figure that out for themselves

One thing about alternative data: Its continued availability can turn on the whims of the data provider www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

From the picture-worth-a-thousand-words dept. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-t...

The number of unemployment claims filed by federal workers has grown sharply, reaching their highest level since a 34-day government shutdown that ended in January 2019.

REI’s New York store is a beloved spot to do your business—but not necessarily the revenue-generating kind. Its planned closure is being mourned by Manhattan bathroom aficionados.

When Walmart enacted the biggest pay raise in history, it destroyed $21.5 billion in market value. Today, it credits the moves with its gains.

Question is, is this the leading edge, since people can take time to file. And how much is people coming off severance vs. recently fired?

Always learn stuff from Orley Ashenfelter's excellent podcast irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts

Investment in artificial intelligence is helping the U.S. economy grow. But the tools themselves aren’t substantially boosting the productivity of American workers in the way AI enthusiasts hope they will—at least not yet. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...

Exclusive: Prominent Trump supporters sold sponsorships to what appeared to be a U.S. Treasury event. It wasn’t.

Stronger growth but a weaker jobs picture: Economists surveyed by @wsj.com see a bifurcated picture of the nation's economic prospects. Latest quarterly survey, with @HarrietTorry www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

Bit of personal and professional news: I recently moved from DC to Los Angeles, where I'll be covering the California (and West Coast, and still U.S.) economy for @wsj.com. My first story: www.wsj.com/economy/hous...

My guess is that this year will be the first time one of the winners is married to a previous nobel winner

1/2 I wish I could stay away from incoming econ Nobel frenzy, but you don't always get what you want, so help me Here is @richardtol.bsky.social's forecast (richardtol.substack.com/p/2025-nobel...) Samuelson's 1969 reflection on how many laureates should receive it jointly, and questions for you:

Shoppers are throwing tantrums in the coffee aisle. Cafe owners are getting dirty looks. The year that sent java lovers over the edge.

Economists, investors and policymakers usually spend the first Friday each month poring over the latest government jobs report. Not this one. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

The new Revelio report shows a gain of 60k jobs. In a note, Revelio reports that both its data and ADP's are fairly correlated (~0.7) with the BLS data, but not as correlated (0.5) with each other. So combining the two for a BLS estimate might make sense. Doing that puts job growth at 38k.

Thinking of writing a first-person essay on how many fine minds have fallen into the maw of first-person punditry

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The JOLTS report covers all of August, while the jobs report we probably won't be getting covers employment in the pay period that includes the 12th. So if you subtract JOLTS separations from hires, you maybe get a bit of signal for what payrolls would be...

Wonder what the one exempt BLS employee during a shutdown does

Quite the comment from the Dallas Fed manufacturing survey

Venezuelans and other immigrants are starting to disappear from Doral, Fla., where President Trump plans to host the G-20 summit next year.

The Federal Reserve resumed its interest-rate cutting campaign earlier this month in an effort to reverse a stall in the job market. The problem: The hiring drought can’t be cured by lower interest rates alone, at least not soon. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

The team of federal economists and researchers responsible for producing the government survey that measures hunger in America were put on indefinite paid leave Monday, according to the union that represents the workers. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I, too, often start writing at 7 in the morning and keep going to midnight

The Trump administration says the new $100,000 annual fee for H-1B visas it announced Friday will help American workers. Many economists worry it will do just the opposite. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

The Trump administration is canceling an annual government effort to gather data on how many Americans struggle to get enough food. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

The great Bob Hagerty, on his mom, Marilyn Hagerty www.wsj.com/us-news/mari...

South Korea is conducting a government investigation into potential human-rights violations against more than 300 Korean citizens detained in Georgia this month.

In the weeks since President Trump’s 50% tariffs on Indian imports took effect, apparel, food and jewelry businesses on central New Jersey’s Oak Tree Road have been wrestling with how to cope.

I feel like the Progressive Policy Institute could have picked a better time to send this than 8:29 am on the day producer price index comes out

“This is the worst I’ve seen,” said Pam Kehaly, CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona. “It’s happening so fast, it’s happening so broadly.” She points to more aggressive billing by some healthcare providers, potentially powered by artificial-intelligence tools. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Exclusive: The White House is preparing a report laying out alleged shortcomings of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs data, five weeks after President Trump fired the chief of the agency

See the Epstein birthday letter with Trump’s signature. We analyze the text and drawing of a nude woman. on.wsj.com/42eukNg

Speaking of pictures you can see in the Wall Street Journal, how about this one showing the share of people in different health-services occupations who are foreign-born? www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

America’s labor market has slowed markedly in recent months. If it weren’t for job gains in the health-services sector, it would barely be growing at all. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

“We’ve worked hard, built businesses, created jobs here,” read one message in a sprawling group chat of Koreans living in the area. “And instead of support, it feels like we’re being pushed out.” www.wsj.com/us-news/hyun...

Hundreds of people including South Korean workers were arrested in an immigration raid at a Hyundai Motor battery plant under construction in Georgia.

National Bureau of Espresso Research has made the call

Six months into tariffs, businesses don’t know how to price anything. Tariffs keep changing. Big retailers won’t pay more. And everyone is afraid of angering consumers. ‘Everyone is struggling to figure out what to do.’ www.wsj.com/business/ret...