Month: October 2024

NBER BCDC indicators, other indicators, weekly indicators, nowcasts. As someone who noted the high probability of a recession in August 2024, I don’t see any […]

1. Do people exposed to productive AI experience a sense of hopelessness in inequality? 2. Economy of WordPress? I don’t quite understand this. 3. But […]

by Fiona Harrigan, The reasonOctober 2, 2024. Quote: The bill included some changes, such as additional work- and family-based visas and work authorization for family […]

I drove cross country yesterday, a week after Hurricane Helene, on GA19 between Lumber City and Dublin. About 50 miles from the vandalism. There is […]

One disgruntled veteran at the FF annual meeting in 2016 was heard complaining, ‘They’re all playing teachers now.’ He was partially right. In the thirtieth […]

Russia’s parliament, the State Duma, is working on a law aimed at banning the so-called child emancipation doctrine, which it sees as a threat to […]

While overall private employment increased, firms with 1-49 employees kept employment low in recent months. Figure 1: Private non-farm employment from CES (blue), including the […]

Monthly inflation has gone from 25% to around 4%. This is obviously good, but there are two small notes of concern. First, the 25% number […]

A common objection I see in some conservative circles is that employment gains or GDP are increased by “fake” work, where government spending is one […]

1. Some research on smart phone use and mental illness. 2. Ross Douthat has a serialized fantasy novel. 3. Movie Gen, in Meta. 4. “Home […]