Look for me at the end, coming in with the optimism!
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Look for me at the end, coming in with the optimism!
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I try to be gracious in compliments and not judgemental of people.
🙌🏻 high praise 🙌🏻
Corporate America is in its golden era.
@kedseconomist.com explains why that’s not helping workers 🎥
If corporate income tax collection had kept up with 1960s levels, companies would be paying $620 billion more a year in taxes. In my latest, I ask: what did we get in return? Not wages, not benefits, but record profits and a growing public disgust with companies.
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And if they’re mad about this, how could it parlay to being mad about corporate tax rates??? Things I’m thinking about.
Republicans in Congress rn
endorse!
But what season of torchwood???
I went on Prof G Markets to talk about the jobs report yesterday. Easter egg for the careful listeners: I forgot to silence my phone and you can hear that my text alert sound is the Star Trek hailing frequency chirp.
Being a nerd: it's really a total commitment.
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People live longer so Social Security's retirement age needs to go up, right?
I disagree, and explain in my latest piece how this is a benefit cut with some loose logic attached. We can make the program better and fairer, but not like this.
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Today, the BLS released the latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover survey data for December. Highlights:
- job openings fell in sharply in December, down 966k over the year
- hires ticked up slightly, but remain depressed at levels similar to 2013
- quits and layoffs unchanged
#NumbersDay #EconSky
Today's #JobsReport highlights:
- payroll job growth 130k in January, but benchmark revisions show 2025 much weaker than originally reported
- unemployment rate at 4.3%, up from 4.0% last January
- federal government continues to lose jobs
#EconSky @epi.org #NumbersDay
The easy fix is the inadequate one. 'Just build' will not solve housing affordability because it doesn't get at the root of the problem: the accumulation of decades of deepening income inequality. My latest for Bloomberg:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
UMMMMMMmmmm blushing.
A must read from the great @kedseconomist.com
🙌🏻 grateful for your time.
At 7.3%, Black women’s unemployment is now at levels white women only saw during the Great Recession. @kedseconomist.com and @jessicajfulton.bsky.social explain what job loss at this scale means for families, communities, and the economy. Read in @19thnews.org: 19thnews.org/2026/01/blac...
High praise!
The AI bubble is well trod territory. In my latest for Bloomberg, I write about the economy's dependency on an industry that has poor outcomes, inefficiently high costs, and is completely dependent on government support: health care.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
It's Fed Day! As tensions boil over with Trump, the US central bank is widely expected to hold rates steady.
🎥 Tune in as @jonathanjlevin.bsky.social discusses LIVE with Allison Schrager and @kedseconomist.com Wednesday @ 1:55pm EST
My bad, yall: seventh page
Shout out to those hero readers of print journalism who could make it to the third page of the national section to read about the shooting yesterday.
Here’s the cover, fwiw:
202-224-3121
^congressional switchboard. Call your rep, call your senator, and ask them why there was illegal use of your social security data.
Make this a constituent request for help: should you do something to protect yourself? Is there legal recourse?
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“Don’t ever let Summers or men like him fool you, and remember the most devastating thing you can say to them is the one that is also true: they are replaceable.” 🔥
One of the most prominent members of my profession for far too long.
I wrote about Summers, misogyny, the tail of brilliance, nepo babies, capability, and the lesson we could all learn from this.
www.kedits.com/p/what-does-...
My guess is he’ll push to aggressively lower rates because that is what trump wants and the result will be higher inflation at best.
You know you've made it when you have a professional enterprise with it's own branded merch. Optimist Economy has some swag for purchase!
Top seller so far: the hat.
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Dreading what may come up at the Thanksgiving dinner table? The Optimists will help you prepare to thoughtfully and effectively respond to a range of issues that might surface 👇
New! Sirens welcomes @kedseconomist.com to explain (dun-dun) the economy (no pressure!), unpack the visit of "strategic partner" MBS and whose strategy he's partnering under, looks at the justice system and cringes through the lens of Comey, Epstein, and Kelly. sites.libsyn.com/92063/ai-dea...
