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@econ-babe.bsky.social
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Econ/finance only account to keep me more sane for the duration of the crisis

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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 5h
Mortgage index not at absolute lows but quite low!
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 7h
Martingale
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Nationwide average diesel in white, unleaded gasoline in blue from AAA
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Hannah Arendt throwing heat in 1964
I had somehow taken it for granted that we all still believe with
Socrates that it is better to suffer than to do wrong. This belief
turned out to be a mistake. There was a widespread conviction
that it is impossible to withstand temptation of any kind, that none
of us could be trusted or even be expected to be trustworthy when
the chips are down, that to be tempted and to be forced are almost
the same, whereas in the words of Mary McCarthy, who first spot
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
MTA memorabilia sale
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ground drones deployed in small units a few kilometers behind Russian lines From open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
hourly nominal wages vs PCE
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
suck dot com parodying slash dot (tell me you are old without saying you are old)
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How many twins work at the same firm? this is so weird
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here is "compare your financial situation over the past year" in white with "current economic conditions" in yellow from the U Mich survey (which may have some problems recently of course)
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Join me in meeting anti trans hate with spectacular trans joy! This Saturday 8/22!!
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is not great also, sep 26 gasoline
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Aló Presidente!!!
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Note we also drew down 7mm from the SPR
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
petit bourgeois optimism index looking sad but not terrible. Not like the long national nightmare of the biden administration for example
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
You know what is funny? The volume of the canadian stock index future.
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Hannah Arendt throwing heat
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
This is what i get quick and dirty
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
chart showing that us total payrolls peaked in 2025-09 and that the US only added 100,000 jobs from April to November
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I was wondering about noise in today's JOLTS and its response rate is quite low, I wonder if it has dropped more since April
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Maybe showing up in remittances but I didnt SA the chart. Super interesting chart! I would not have had the steep rise starting in 2017
Workers´ Remittances  to Mexico in USD, a chart showing 12mo moving averages of remittances peaking around Aug 2024
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I would not have predicted Trump was in top quartile of sabotaging US economy and bond vol drops and drops
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🤔
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Apropos of nothing I was curious about a winner vs a promiser. NVDA has tripled in the last 18 months and is still 1/3 as expensive as TSLA
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Side note to this, but first month collection rates for say the establishment survey are trending down, and this month's was weak but also the final collection rate is quite stable
a time series chart showing one fluctuating and downward trending line representing first month collection and a higher and more stable line showing third month collection rates
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
this is so interesting as federal outlays are up 7.2% y/y
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Where is the times coverage of things like the report the Utah state legislature commissioned on hormone therapy for trans youth which found scientific consensus that it is safe and effective with vanishingly low regret rates le.utah.gov/AgencyRP/dow...
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
AAA also makes a daily series!
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Gap between household and establishment closing fast!
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I remembered them as being closer but they really went of the rails at the end
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Didnt they shift to many fewer unsigned editorials? This is what needs to be brought to the national consciousness
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Periodic reminder that the federal government hasn't started to spend less money in aggregate yet
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Would love someone to take on Join or Die for this crisis because: join or die
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
What the heck. $28b?????
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Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The New Yorker sent an email with the headline "Trump’s Undoing of American Society" and that is just false. Trump could not undo society if society didnt let him. Lincoln knew when he was 28:
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