Latest from me: How President Trump aimed tariff exclusions at food—and which items remain under levies. In charts: www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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...

Tariffs brought in record revenue in fiscal year 2025 for the U.S. government. But how much did that change the overall picture? Five takeaways from @richardrubindc.bsky.social and me today on what has changed about the federal budget—and what hasn’t. www.wsj.com/economy/tari...

Highly recommend this deportations data breakdown from @anthonydb.bsky.social @wsj.com J Importantly, it highlights *missing data* DHS' statistics office hasn't released broken down info since January, meaning we don't have the complete picture of who is being deported, by which agency & where

Wow, JetBrains is making DataGrip available for free for non-commercial use. Great news for students and open-source projects. blog.jetbrains.com/datagrip/202...

Postgres.app — my favorite way to run PostgreSQL on macOS — is making it easier to add extensions to your environment. Really handy. postgresapp.com/extensions/

Take a spin in the time machine, back to an era when the federal budget deficit didn’t look like a problem at all. Today, my colleagues @richardrubindc.bsky.social, Rosie Ettenheim and I break down how to the U.S. arrived at record deficits. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

@natschatpodcast.bsky.social What a sad series against the Marlins. 1) The Nats are now just 1 game ahead of the Marlins for the NL East cellar. 2) 0-9 with RISP in today's game! 3) At least Cole Henry looks like a future closer with those two K's and 2.22 ERA.

Some economists are beginning to question the accuracy of recent U.S. inflation data after the federal government said BLS staffing shortages hampered its ability to conduct the massive monthly survey. www.wsj.com/economy/cpi-...

Newest versions of pgAdmin now let us customize the font in the Query Tool. Nice upgrade. Set here to MesloLGL Nerd Font:

U.S. total fertility rate in 2024 only slightly above 2023's low. www.wsj.com/us-news/u-s-...

@markzuckerman.bsky.social Did the Nats all change uniform numbers recently? If so, what’s the story there?

Economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal expect slower growth this year and a higher chance of recession. Today, my colleague Peter Santilli and I break down our panel's forecasts—and report on how well the panel fared in 2024. www.wsj.com/economy/econ...

Since President Trump took office, economists have slashed estimates for growth while raising them for inflation and unemployment. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

Federal spending is higher since President Trump took office even as the Department of Government Efficiency slashes contracts, cuts jobs and ends diversity programs, by @anthonydb.bsky.social / @jamesgbenedict www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Interesting post on Microsoft engineers' contributions to PostgreSQL in 2024. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpo...

Yep, that's me.

My colleagues, @ceostroff.bsky.social, Shane Shifflett, and James Benedict have a fantastic look at DOGE's savings claims: "A WSJ analysis of government data found that many claims of savings were overstated and ‘woke’ cuts were only a tiny fraction of the total." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Important note for new readers of Practical SQL! Today's release of pgAdmin v9.0 introduces a "Workspace" layout that's enabled by default. I've written instrux on how to set the layout back to "Classic," which matches the book and is, IMO, better. github.com/anthonydb/pr...

A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism and eugenics

This one, indeed, does go up to 11. How economic and other national indicators—and a couple pop-culture touchstones—changed from Trump's first inauguration till now. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

In our latest WSJ survey of economists, the panel forecasts higher inflation and interest rates ahead of Trump's return. www.wsj.com/economy/econ...

A month till baseball. Let's go. www.mlb.com/news/spring-...

I'm always humbled and grateful when this happens, which it has done a couple times (often coinciding with the start of college semesters). Thank you to all my readers! practicalsql.com

h/t @mikestucka.bsky.social : www.twincities.com/2025/01/11/i...

More than 1.6 million unemployed workers have been job hunting for at least six months—a number that has ballooned by more than 50% in the past two years www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Throughout the past year, The Wall Street Journal investigated how giant insurers extracted billions in extra payments from the Medicare Advantage system.

Of all the Nieman Lab predictions for journalism in 2025, this one by @mattwaite.bsky.social resonates most. I would gladly pay for an app that helped me save $15 a week in groceries. www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-...

Re-upping this in case you missed it.

To support students, career-switchers and others who want to add SQL to their data analysis skillsets in 2025, I'm providing three free copies of my book, "Practical SQL." To enter a drawing for one of the free copies, please provide all the information below! forms.gle/ge4ySHjHZbZp...

I see a bunch of people arguing that inflation was transitory, and I don't know of a single person who in 2021 argued that 2.8% core PCE inflation at the end of 2024 would meet any definition of transitory.

The Census Bureau estimates that the U.S. population grew by 8.5 million over the past four years, with immigrants making up the vast majority. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

The "Secret Squirrel" T-shirt seems kinda stylish! www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Amid high-pressure competition, some Wall Street bankers use Adderall and Vyvanse as tools to plow through long hours of tedious work. www.wsj.com/finance/bank...

Today's must-read: Evan Gershkovich's first story in the @wsj.com since his release. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Amazon is donating $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund, just like Meta. And Google CEO Sundar Pichai is meeting with Trump this evening. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

The Trump transition team has started to explore pathways to dramatically shrink, consolidate or even eliminate the top bank watchdogs in Washington. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

Bluesky is bumping tonight with several great WSJ scoops, including: - Amazon donating $1 mil to Trump inaugural fund - Trump plans to downsize or kill FDIC - Xi Jinping declines Trump invite to attend inauguration Great to be on a platform receptive to sharing links to trusted news.

ROLLUP and CUBE are now on my PostgreSQL learning to-do list. www.crunchydata.com/blog/easy-to...

Fascinating look into the environmental impacts of dying satellites (and I did not realize the number per year). www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/09/1...

Fascinating profile of Brian Krebs and his interactions with hackers. www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...

Count me as one of FRED's friends ... www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...

BEA just released county and metro area GDP for 2023, which I was eagerly awaiting, although I pretty much knew what it would say: a few local economies have *much* higher productivity than the rest of the country 1/

The @wsj.com starter pack. Get it while it’s hot. go.bsky.app/2ppWqxF

Hey! No Starch Press, the publisher of my book, Practical SQL, has 35% off everything for Black Friday! nostarch.com/practical-sq...

The percentage of workers subject to Performance Improvement Plans is on the rise. www.wsj.com/business/fir...

Nicely done link aggregation app by @tylerjfisher.com! www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/reme...

Finnegan move here is a little surprising, but he did blow more than a few games in 2024. IMO the Nats' "rebuild" will sputter without adding solid late-inning pitching. wapo.st/490MPaj

Pandas replacement requiring zero syntax changes but promising massive speedup? OK, will have to give FireDucks a try. hwisnu.bearblog.dev/fireducks-pa...