Monthly Dallas Fed Manufacturing survey comments section vibe check: starting to turn around. www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...

Got to go on Slate Money Talks with @felixsalmon.com to talk about my @planetmoney.bsky.social GiveWell episode and ALIMA and the post-USAID world slate.com/podcasts/sla...

THREAD: The FDA has made it difficult to find where medications are made. Today we're changing that with our latest tool. With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections. Here's how you can use it. 1/

When cancer patients sign up for clinical trials, they may not know it but doctors stand to profit for enrolling them: pharma companies are paying $250,000+ per patient www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Fun story. For shares (ETFs or otherwise) to trade, you need market makers to provide a bid and offer price for you. The thing is, that takes capital...and there's a finite amount of it. There are so many ETFs now that market makers may have insufficient capital to provide liquidity in all of them.

this shows the email is not AI gen!!! Art of the Deal!!

god have you ever seen a more flagrant flex than typo-ing your email recipient's name when it is also YOUR OWN NAME www.ft.com/content/e5da...

I went to the Nevada desert to see one of the world’s biggest AI data center buildouts. It’s so big it was hard to wrap my mind around. Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

So much public health work involves spreadsheets. This reporting is a wonderful spotlight on the compassion and humanism that motivates the people providing direct services as well as those who are deep in cell formulas trying to make the best funding decisions they can under extreme uncertainty.

In the wake of USAID cuts, global aid programs had to drastically reduce their work. Private philanthropic groups tried to jump in. On today’s show, we get to listen in on one group’s decision-making: Givewell figures out if it can fund a program in Cameroon.

In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime." n.pr/4pFYoun

USAID is gone. Can effective altruism fill the hole? : Planet Money www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...

For this Thanksgiving, Planet Money and The Indicator staffers offer economic insights they're grateful for. n.pr/48Ab1BC

After USAID got cut, I asked GiveWell if @planetmoney.bsky.social could ride along as they tried to figure out if and how to jump into the void. They said yes. They recorded weeks and weeks of deliberations. Here is the episode about it: www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...

How have prediction markets shaped reporting? I'm in Dirt Magazine, alongside @weisenthal.bsky.social and Mickey Down www.magazine.dirt.fyi/p/the-signal... @princessdaisy.bsky.social

So … are we feeling the tariffs yet? Like, are tariffs hiking prices at grocery stores and coffee shops? On today’s episode, we get to the bottom of those questions, bust a collectible aardvark doll out of tariff jail and soft launch a soap opera. buff.ly/y7H6WW6

the @planetmoney.bsky.social team on what we're grateful for this thanksgiving season www.npr.org/sections/pla... mine is so obvious i'm sorry but it's true!!

it's Books We Love @npr.org day! I got to contribute TWO books this year -- one of them changed the way I think about life, which is what I want from a novel but almost never get.

The US has offered $20 billion to Argentina. Congress didn’t authorize it–the money comes from an obscure Treasury slush fund called the Exchange Stabilization Fund. Where did this fund come from? And how likely is this bet on Argentina to pay off? buff.ly/kcsPx8e

we had our dear @matt-levine.bsky.social on @planetmoney.bsky.social PLUS (our subscription platform) to talk about why Margin Call is the greatest finance movie ever made: www.npr.org/2025/11/18/n...

I think we as journalists must do a better job communicating what it is we do, how it happens and how it doesn't. Emily's thread here is very useful in that direction.

JOB ALERT! We are hiring a business editor. You have an unerring instinct for the jugular of the wealthy & powerful? Build a team with me and we’ll get after it! job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j... You can email me or on Signal at 718-496-5233

BAML: the proportion of lower-income households living paycheck to paycheck has been climbing over the past 3y, while the share of middle- & higher-income households living paycheck to paycheck has barely budged -- bc lower-income wage growth has slowed institute.bankofamerica.com/economic-ins...

there's a ship w 23 containers of radioactive zinc dust stuck off the Philippines that can't dock/unload bc no one wants to entomb the zinc dust. this reassurance from the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute director somehow isn't that comforting www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"The more employers that downsize their stockpile of labor, the more they create the conditions that make it less likely they’ll have to pay up to hire it in the future." andrewsiegler.substack.com/p/the-labor-...

The typical prison job, like being a cook, pays maybe $0.63 cents per hour. In seven states, people in prison don’t have to be paid at all. But now, some prisoners are earning fair market wages while they’re incarcerated. And the pay… can be six figures. buff.ly/QuPkrOv

The U.S. has long been the biggest source of remittances worldwide. But with immigration plummeting and the current ICE crackdowns, we try to figure out why remittances are surging in some countries. And why that surge in money sent home inspires joy – but also fear.

Jamaica’s catastrophe bond has now triggered, said Dana Morris Dixon, minister of education, skills, youth and information.

BofA: fewer and fewer households are paying more and more in childcare costs. The trend is most prominent in lower-income homes -- parents may feel "little choice but to leave their jobs" institute.bankofamerica.com/content/dam/...

This recent preprint on tech industry influence over external research is compelling. Beyond documenting the low rate of industry-funded researchers actually disclosing that fact, the paper points out that journals have routinely waived IRB review for industry work. arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894

yes, pigeons pooping on sterile equipment is absolutely a competitive edge and should be preemptively protected as such

@kentclarkcenter.bsky.social survey of top economists on how firing Fed Gov Lisa Cook would affect inflation risk premia on US debt kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/infl...

Last month I took a trip to the Amazon rainforest to better understand the economics behind deforestation and how to preserve the world’s largest forest. economist.com/the-americas...

Excuse me ” In a US buffeted by extreme weather, disaster spending is becoming a key driver of the economy.” www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

"By inventing a stable of fake scientists, paper mills can create a ready supply of publications and favourable peer reviews, ensuring that more of the mills’ submissions get published." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When Russia invaded Ukraine, western countries sanctioned Russian oil. But Russian oil exporters quickly sailed around them, building a shadow fleet of rickety oil tankers to move that sanctioned oil around the world.

On Planet Money: how a treasury travels from the nest to to hedge funds, and what happens once it gets there. And: we speak to one of those hedge fund investors about what they’re doing and why. buff.ly/Xo9gNq6

I talked with @wailinwong.bsky.social of NPR @planetmoney.bsky.social about the US Administration’s unprecedented policy to slash immigration by high-skill STEM workers Americans can expect diminished innovation, entrepreneurship, and productivity across all sectors www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...

God, I love Richmond...

the inimitable @shteyngart.bsky.social is coming to Richmond for a talk tomorrow, and Richmond is stoked www.styleweekly.com/pockets-of-l... @styleweekly.com by Tim Abbondelo

The Treasury basis trade, OR: how the US government got hedge funded, on today's @planetmoney.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...

"We have no choice but to be the solutions to our own problems....We have to use our creative energy to create the world we want; not just to critique the world as it is." @ari-shapiro.bsky.social on this his last day at @npr.org arishapiro.substack.com/p/books-clos...

This is a fascinating look at part of the reality of a place and people that Israel is attempting to wipe off the map

I see this popping up over and over again. People just do not think America is safe anymore. Partly it's the endless mass shootings. But of course these days it's just as much that simply coming here as a tourist -- much less trying to work here -- is an invitation to detention.

A few years ago, the Wall Street firm, Jane Street, discovered a sort of goldmine in one of the biggest economies in the world. They became the envy of Wall Street. But when they tried to keep that goldmine a secret, things spiraled out of their control.

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

on this episode of @planetmoney.bsky.social, Sarah Gonzalez looks at the state of money in Gaza right now. how to get money into Gaza, how to get money out of a bank in Gaza, how cash works, and what there is to buy: www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...

“.. The document appears to counter other documentation that Cook’s critics have cited in support of their claims that she committed mortgage fraud ..” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

Sally Mann got bored developing her own negatives so mindlessly started to scroll and it maybe accidentally solarized her picture. “I think it was the light from the phone that did it. But I don’t know for sure, and now I have to find out.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/a...

yoww: - Skybridge Opportunity Zone REIT was supposed to raise $3b. raised <$50m - has made ONE investment, in New Orleans - Scaramucci suggested 8-10% annualized before tax benefits. So far: 0% payouts - meanwhile: SkyBridge Capital gets 1.75% of the fund’s $43m NAV www.bloomberg.com/news/article...