Justin Lahart

She also looks as if she is taking issue with something the Economist has written

But did you really write "hotch-potch"?

U.S. officials and lawmakers with access to classified information say the Trump administration’s assertions about threats from Iran are incomplete, unsubstantiated, or flat-out wrong. 🔗 on.wsj.com/3MUdsqQ

Just curious: Will the well-known economist from the N.W.T. be there, or is he kinda busy these days?

Thanks! It’s funny, I always think about weather effects during the reference week, but of course they must matter for the survey week, too

Here it’s the survey week we care about, right?

Core goods excluding used cars and trucks. Maybe some tariff pass through there.

Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.

News: The top-secret whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

What Sweeping Revisions and a Blowout Month Tell Us About the U.S. Job Market From the Biden to Trump economies, healthcare keeps surging.

The mixed jobs picture reflects surging demand for people in healthcare and social services but a bleaker environment for government employees, factory workers and cubicle dwellers.

healthcare ftw

I'm pleased to share the release of the 2026 International AI Safety Report, for which I was a reviewer. The report represents the largest global collaboration on AI safety to date. Learn more here: internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/...

Punk control sales in Dec., and downward revisions to Oct. and Nov.

Spelling bee only uses base R

This Is Why It’s So Hard to Find a Job Right Now A ‘deep freeze’ has enveloped the U.S. labor market. A whole bunch of factors are at play.

The pace of hiring in America has dropped precipitously, and there isn’t a single reason why.

Instead, there are a lot of them.
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Maybe cache some of the hats in places you frequently visit?

This is great, and much better than me mucking around with ipums! A reading on recent college graduates (aged 22-27), like the NY Fed does quarterly, would be nice. Maybe with breakouts for high-school graduates of the same age? Or a good comparison with recent, not-enrolled high-school graduates?

My hot take on space-based AI is that a lot of people think that @greatdismal.bsky.social was writing guidebooks

Some substantial ADP revisions

Wall Street Laments Departure of the ‘High Priest’ of the S&P 500 ​Many ​investors wonder what they will do without​ Howard Silverblatt​, a markets data maven​, now that he is retired.

For markets reporters, Howard was indispensable. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Something happen here?

All Employees, Temporary Help Services/All Employees, Total Private All Employees, Temporary Help Services/All Employees, Total Private

Interesting given the huge apparent decline in companies' use of temp employment fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1R1aa

Maybe the ML/AI community knows more about this thing called the sunk-cost fallacy?

living in Ankh-Morpork seems more appealing by the day

2/2 HOPE VI was tremendously disruptive, and costly. But this suggests that there are ways to turn neighborhoods into poorer opportunity places by improving community connections.

How Remaking the Neighborhood Could Boost Poor Kids’ Futures A 1990s government initiative to replace housing projects with mixed-income developments gave children an economic lift as adults, new research finds.

New work from
@oppinsights.bsky.social finds that the HOPE VI program improved kids outcomes. The reason: Whereas the projects HOPE VI replaced were isolated from the surrounding community, the new housing wasn't. 1/2
www.wsj.com/economy/hous...

This $14 Billion Meme Stock Says It Is Developing a Herbal Remedy for Autism The Nasdaq-listed company has recurring losses and no revenue.

Heard on the Street: Even in the delirium of meme-stock trading, Regencell Bioscience is an outlier.

Health Insurance Is Now More Expensive Than the Mortgage for These Americans Monthly health-insurance bills are rocketing higher for middle-income earners who rely on Obamacare

Millions of Americans are starting to see their monthly health-insurance bills rise, a new pressure point for a nation still frustrated with the high cost of living.

What We Know So Far About Alex Pretti The 37-year-old ICU nurse fatally shot by a border patrol officer was recording the actions of federal agents in Minneapolis.

Alex Pretti, the man fatally shot by a Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis, was described by the Trump administration as a “domestic terrorist,” but friends and family rejected that label.

Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation on Saturday.

Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents

www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Greenland Whale Fisheries YouTube video by The Pogues - Topic

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