had to go see the landback skyscrapers for myself

Unsurprisingly, Trump's immigration crackdown is still not delivering labor market improvements for the US-born Over the last year, the native-born unemployment rate has increased from 4.2% to 4.3%, while native-born employment rates have decreased

Despite some bounceback in the monthly data released this morning, the US is still down 150k blue-collar jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs, while growth in construction remains low

US tech sector employment is down 43k over the last year in data released this morning—that's nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and significantly worse than either the 2008 or 2020 recessions

Federal government employment is down 352k since the start of the year amidst DOGE cuts—that's more than 11% of the Federal workforce The large drop in October was caused by many workers who had been on deferred resignation becoming officially unemployed

NEW US JOBS DATA: Non-farm Payrolls: +178k Unemployment Rate: 4.3% (-0.1%) Prime Age (25-54) Employment-Population Ratio: 80.7% (+0%) Average Hourly Earnings: +0.2%

Canada, I am in another different part of you

happy one year anniversary to the day I lost a lot of sleep trying to analyze the most insane trade policy of all time. thankfully it got much more stable after this and nothing chaotic has happened since.

full of sound and fury signifying nothing

seattle makes it too easy to take aura farming pics of public transit. just put Mt. Rainier in the center and click

surely another 50% tariff on Brazil will fix this

currently: sleepless in Seattle

NEW: US labor market flows remained sluggish in February data released this morning, as hiring fell to the lowest level since early 2011 The hiring rate fell to 3.1%, layoffs rose to 1.1%, quits fell to 1.9%, and job openings fell to 4.2%

fundamentally the US's counterbalance oil shocks is that we can produce more oil and China's counterbalance is that they produce the stuff the world needs to use less oil

oh now SUDDENLY he hates it when you tax international trade

holy based

found a beautiful old magazine to hang in the apartment. they don’t make em like they used to

I forgot to attach the ridership chart AHHH

Congratulations to Seattle's Sound Transit, America's fastest-growing train network, which is opening an 7-mile, 3-station extension across Lake Washington today! This is the system's 5th new segment opened in 2 years, continually pushing ridership up to new record highs!

actually existing abundance liberalism is thriving in Salt Lake City, Utah

beautiful DC blossom train to go along with the beautiful blossom card

even putting aside the JK Rowling aspect of this, one way I feel like media conglomerates have degraded is that none of them can seem to put out movies/TV shows at the pace that was historically normal. The Harry Potter *movies* came out basically once a year!

The first official US electricity data of 2026 is out today, and solar output continues to grow rapidly, up 15% compared to last January!

Adjust for inflation, and US office construction is basically down to worst-of-the-great-recession levels, falling nearly 60% since the onset of the pandemic in 2020 and hitting another recent low in data released today

The US is now building more data centers than office buildings for the first time Spending on data centers hit a record high of nearly $47B/yr in data released today, up 31% over the last year, as office construction keeps falling Also, I'm aware this graph looks like Kentucky

how were they not doing this already lmfao

What u post at midnight when things are definitely going well

if you build the LEGO container ship in the US is it technically Jones Act compliant?

Just watched: Rocky Happy Picture Show boxd.it/dCLPsF

ahhhh hahahahahahahaha ahhhhhhh HAHAHAHAHAHAH

brother saw markets close down 1.5% and took to Truth social

we are battle testing the "Trump will back down from any policy if the stock market drops more than 5%" thesis today

small moment of joy today is how beautiful the annual DC Metro cherry blossom cards are this year

Meanwhile just under 1/3 of Philly households live car-free, also among the highest rates in the US, primarily relying on the city's subway, commuter rail, trolley, & bus network Those households are especially concentrated near the Broad St, Market-Frankford, & PATCO Lines

things have gotten so bad Joe Kent is bailing

fooled_myself_into_thinking_boston_would_lose_again_award.jpg Montreal goes up 3-0, gives up 3 goals in the last period, and then loses it in overtime. amazing game but heartbreaking outcome for me

In general it would be nice if the Trump administration could decide what their chip export control policy is gonna be and stick to it for more than 15 minutes at a time

27 likes 465 replies on this free press article lmfao they are not happy about this one

NEW: US labor market flows remained sluggish in January data released this morning, though improving from late-2025 lows The hiring rate rose to 3.3%, layoffs fell to 1.0%, quits fell to 2.0%, and job openings rose to 4.2%

tweets u post when you r not at all stressed abt the economy

Yesterday it was 80 and sunny in DC. right now it is literally snowing. I am going to become the joker

mfw Seattle ends a 5 game losing streak to break Boston’s 6 game winning streak

releasing oil from the strategic petroleum reserve to cover the easily foreseeable consequences of my actions

we’re back to doing tariff investigations again

reading “Gods of New York” about NYC in the 80s and sometimes you gotta just laugh at the screenwriters of history to stop from screaming

still a rough time for all of us coffee drinkers out there—prices are now up more than 50% since 2019 and 18% over the last year alone

NEW: CPI inflation rose to 2.4% year-on-year, coming in at 0.3% month-on-month. Core CPI inflation fell to 2.5% year-on-year, coming in at 0.2% month-on-month