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Celtics fan, Neuroscientist, Programmer, here for Finance/Economics

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 19/08/2025
Making it illegal to build new homes for yuppies does not keep older homes affordable. Rich people just buy the old homes and build luxurious new homes inside their walls, which drives up the price of housing. I understand that this is unsatisfying to people who want housing for the neediest first.
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Logan Mohtashami @loganmohtashami.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Blackrock owns zero, Blackstone owns little
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Guy who hates accurate job counts also hates accurate vote counts
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
(NBC News) - President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a "bystander" who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news. @ryanjreilly.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The monthly BLS employment report will be rebranded The Project 2025 Jobs Celebration For Patriots
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
“Not guilty b/c crime is no longer illegal”
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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Between the spring of 2006 and the end of 2007, there was a substantial increase in the unemployment rate for young college graduates. The cause, of course, was a big advance in artificial intelligence technology.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
We should defund private equity and REITs by building so much housing that their portfolios stop appreciating.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 08/08/2025
We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.
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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 01/08/2025
CORRECTION: 2m net revision was NOT -11k it was -258k. Holy smokes.
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
watching you dildo brain cock suckers play w/ AI shit is like watching a dog paw at one of those puzzle boxes that you put treats inside of
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Downtown Josh Brown @downtownjoshbrown.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
[VICTORY ALERT] AB 130, which creates a broad CEQA exemption for infill housing projects, has been signed by Governor Newsom. Because it is part of the budget, it is effective immediately.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I understand the gerontocracy has a stranglehold on American politics, but it's wild that we're cutting Medicaid in part so we can give seniors a $6000 tax deduction just for being seniors and there's ~zero negative coverage of the issue
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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The acceleration in jobless claims is small potatoes so far, but I'm nervous that this is just the 1st inning of a more substantial and possibly disorderly cooling in labor markets. Link: macromostly.substack.com/p/high-frequ...
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High Frequency Labor Market Indicators (6/12)
Crunch! Labor Market Cracks Get Wider
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Something that people need to understand is that Good Policies that lead to Bad Outcomes are actually Bad Policies
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I kinda feel like we need to retire the concept of "gentrification" because it's become absolutely meaningless. We should focus on measurable concepts like price increases and displacement. What is gained by arguing about the authenticity of some coffee shop?
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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Opinion | Dems lost the election because they didn’t legalize heroin, and heroin is what young people want. By Mark Cuban
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Just finished "Abundance" and that fact that any of it is controversial just illustrates how hosed the Democratic Party is. Building more homes, generating more clean energy and developing a mass transit network is the easiest and most obvious thing that blue states ought to be doing right now.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
engaging with left-NIMBYs is like talking to a brick wall
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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Big, beautiful bill
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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Happy Saturday, folks! As usual, I'm spending my morning attending a meeting of statewide NIMBY group Livable California. Today's discussion is focused on state legislation, and how to stop the "worst bills" of the year. Grab some 🍿🥃, 🧵starts here!
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The Sam Seder vs Ezra Klein debate is fascinating to me, more than most of the appearances in his book tour, because it demonstrates how American progressives claim to have ideas about “Class Politics” but when you press them on it it’s no more sophisticated than “Corporations vs The People”
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
It's really really really hard to explain to people it's people who look like this that are actual villains in the California housing shortage crisis... and not men in top hats, with monocles, twirling their mustaches.
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Helene Meisler @hmeisler.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Good Saturday Morning Chart Fans! Here is the link to Saturday Chart Fest. open.substack.com/pub/heleneme...
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Cindy aka Mrs. Celtics ☘️ @mrsceltics.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Don't let the Celtics coming out completely flat distract you from the fact the refs have been awful
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 15/05/2025
Gavin Newsom finally comes through on housing: “By moving to enact changes through the budget, he could circumvent legislative obstacles like hostile committee chairs, and he will hold considerable leverage over lawmakers intent on securing their spending priorities.”
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Gavin Newsom lays down the law on housing construction
The governor is wielding his power on an issue at the heart of California's struggle to address soaring costs.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Very good Martin Wolf article on the problem of excess global savings. Wolf is one of the few economists who thinks in global terms and understands the balance of payments. www.ft.com/content/c715...
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The challenge of using excess global savings
We now seem unable to turn the surplus in some countries into productive investment elsewhere
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Downtown Josh Brown @downtownjoshbrown.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Please discuss the infeasibility of keeping prisoners on the island of Alcatraz in the 21st century rather than zero trade deals one month after Liberation Day, crashing consumer confidence and no progress in Ukraine. Thank you for your cooperation.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I think there’s far more evidence for the exact opposite being true: the veneer of academic radicalism is meant to distract from relatively straightforward things like “we don’t have enough apartments”. Just so tired of this bullshit dude.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
1/6 As always, the idea that countries like Japan can use their massive holdings of US Treasuries as "leverage" in trade talks is a fantasy. For decades we have heard similar warnings from other countries, and yet no one ever uses this leverage. www.ft.com/content/912f...
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Japan says US Treasury holdings could be ‘card’ in trade talks
Finance minister Katsunobu Kato hints that country’s more than $1tn in Treasuries gives it leverage in negotiations
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 02/05/2025
👀 #FAFO 👀 Japan says US Treasury holdings could be ‘card’ in trade talks - on.ft.com/4iGBGyF
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Japan says US Treasury holdings could be ‘card’ in trade talks
Finance minister Katsunobu Kato hints that country’s more than $1tn in Treasuries gives it leverage in negotiations
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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
so here's an early hint of trade war impact in the monthly jobs data!
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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Last week, Montana voted to: - legalize 6-story apartments on most commercial land - sharply cut multifamily parking mandates - limit excess impact fees - cut condo defect liability - require equal treatment for manufactured homes - legalize single-stair buildings up to 6 stories statewide
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The craziest thing about the California housing crisis is how it's likely the substantively single most important issue facing the state yet still has extremely low political salience among Democrats. It's like they want to pretend it's not a problem
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
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Skanda Amarnath @skandaamarnath.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Absolutely ridiculous and irresponsible from El Erian. If you want to protect the integrity and independence of the Fed, you do not create gratuitous paths to power grabs that directly undermine independence
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CNN @cnn.com · 18/04/2025
Sen. Chris Van Hollen said he was denied entry to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador when he tried to check on the “health and wellbeing” of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.
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Maryland Democrat says he was ‘stopped by soldiers’ from entering Salvadoran prison where Abrego Garcia is being held | CNN Politics
Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Thursday he was denied entry to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador when he tried to check on the “health and wellbeing” of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
It would be so incredibly funny if Harvard expelled the children of every Republican elected official and donor in retaliation.
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Most of California’s housing policy can be summarized as “Calling dibs, repeatedly”
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Is this a threat?
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Steve Liesman @steveliesman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
There’s a lot of buzz in social media that the new tariff schedule was created by some White House intern using a chat bot. I’m pretty sure that’s not true cause AI is mostly a lot smarter than what they came up with.
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Nick Timiraos @nicktimiraos.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
JPMorgan's Michael Cembalest, March 12, 2025: "The stock market is unique – it cannot be indicted, arrested or deported; it cannot be intimidated, threatened or bullied; it has no gender, ethnicity or religion; it cannot be fired, furloughed or defunded..." privatebank.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
11/14 It is only the latter that export what Joan Robinson called beggar-thy-neighbor trade surpluses. Countries like Canada, Mexico and Japan are not part of the overall problem because they run overall trade deficits that help absorb some of the global imbalances.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
Photo of Cory Booker in a black suit and tie
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