Matt Mayeski @mmayeski.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Something to be thankful for this holiday season - incredible localized news coverage. If you have a few bucks to spare, check out the work Bolts is putting out and consider a donation! (And follow Taniel - his election coverage is top tier) 000 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiAtlanta Fed @atlantafed.org · 03/06/2025June 3: View our updated Labor Market spider chart with April data from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) program of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS): atlfed.org/3FH4Hwz 011 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiDr Ryan MacDonald @distantworlds.space · 17/04/2025𝗡𝗼, 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝟮-𝟭𝟴𝗯'𝘀 𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. K2-18b is back in the news, now with a bold claim that biosignature molecules (DMS and/or DMDS) have been 'detected at 3σ'. Most exoplanet astronomers are extremely sceptical about these claims, let's see why (1/n). 🔭🧪🪐 #exoplanet 361121364 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 17/04/2025120 light years from Earth, there's a planet that may be covered in a living ocean. Here's my story on a tantalizing hint of life beyond the Solar System. Gift link: nyti.ms/3GbrEaZ 🧪nyti.msAstronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (Gift Article)Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable. 29556161 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiJason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Meanwhile on the fiscal side, federal non-interest spending clearly outpacing last year while revenues only up a little. 35316 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiSteven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Used car prices *had* been falling. And then Trump announced fat car tariffs. CarGurus data shows almost every brand (with notable exception of Tesla) seeing higher prices on used cars in last 30 days: www.cargurus.com/research/pri... 19755226 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/04/2025So good. 🤡 @brendanvduke.bsky.social 549211685803 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiCharles Franklin @pollsandvotes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025A large majority of the public, 83%, say the president must obey a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, while 17% say the president has the power to ignore such a ruling. The percentage saying he must obey a ruling has increased slightly from 79% in December to 83% in March. 1177 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiSander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Wow this is wild. James: "The Trump team didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us." 32682319 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiAFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 02/04/2025Protecting the collective bargaining rights of workers isn't a partisan issue. We thank Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick and all the House Republicans who are urging President Trump to reconsider his executive order eliminating federal workers' collective bargaining rights. 210126 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Curtis Yarvin, a close ally of Peter Thiel, recently declared that the system is “irreparable,” that “To capture an elite, you have to demolish its institutions,” & that “Every existing institution of science, outside the scientists & the labs themselves, must be fully cremated…” 1/graymirror.substack.comBarbarians and mandarins"As soon as it stops accelerating, it stalls and explodes." 1281261652 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiGuy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 01/04/2025My recap of this morning's February JOLTS data. TL;DR: Labor market turnover was decent, with hiring and quits remaining stable… but given what businesses are telling us about their hiring/firing plans, it's hard not to worry about future data. Link: macromostly.substack.com/p/jolts-reca... 0112 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiSteven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025More than 100,000 are watching Cory Booker right now live on YouTube alone. 1826371949 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiBen Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025With today's consumer spending data, even the Atlanta Fed's "gold-adjusted" model (see thread below for details) has now slipped into negative territory. #EconSky #NumbersDay 1132082 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiBen Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Glad that the Atlanta Fed is now showing its "gold-adjusted" measure on its GDP Now chart. Still suggests it will be a very weak quarter (+0.2%), but the sharp contraction in the main model is the result of an anomaly and shouldn't be taken literally. #EconSky www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc... 66417 0
Matt Mayeski @mmayeski.bsky.social · 24/03/2025One of the wildest stories I’ve ever read. Truly a massive problem that indicates deeply improper security procedure (have we forgotten about SCIFs?) Share far and wide - at minimum, the administration has to re-evaluate their infosec. At maximum, congress needs to investigate ASAP. 010 0
Matt Mayeski @mmayeski.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Cracks beginning to show. Demonstrates concern not just among the members stated below, but also likely the strategic levers they utilize (think defense contractor lobbies, think tanks, and the intermediaries from the military itself) Talk is the first domino. Watch their actions. 010 0
Matt Mayeski @mmayeski.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Great thread from Ashton (Mississippi Free Press) on why the switch from X has been delayed. Many orgs are reliant on SM tool integrations to make the switch given their team’s needs. Looking forward to April! @mcuban.bsky.social - relevant to your prior post about @sanders.senate.gov’s account 1144 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiPhilipp Maier @pmaier1971.bsky.social · 12/03/2025High propensity business applications for Feb 2025 at 145.3K, up 6466 from prior month. These are business applications with a high-propensity of turning into businesses with payroll, based on the characteristics of the applications. #econsky 021 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/03/2025Hourly workers' wage growth decelerating while salaried workers' growth holding higher. 2021-2022 was quite a unique period in that hourly workers enjoyed faster wage growth than salaried workers. No other time it's happened in last 3 decades. 072 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiThe Verge @theverge.com · 12/03/2025Solar and wind beat coal in the US for the first timebuff.lySolar and wind beat coal in the US for the first time“Solar is winning.” 726751 0
Matt Mayeski @mmayeski.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Trump mentioned this policy on his website during the election, and I was surprised at how little media coverage / analysis it cultivated. “Freedom cities” is just a rebranding of “network states”, an important element of a modern ideology called Dark Enlightenment. 🧵 100 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Lemme be clear: I 100% believe these BLS data on the state of the labor market. If the Administration starts to fiddle with the numbers we'll hear about it because our federal statisticians are smart, apolitical, and committed. If that happens, I'll let you know. 520825 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Second, it is by definition easier to change the trajectory of the global order as a revisionist power than as a status quo power. But disrupting the status quo is not the same thing as building a stable alternative. Trump will soon learn this is why Russia offers (and China breaks) so little. 2/2 1105 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Yesterday's reading was 735.64. [fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USEPUIND…] 49118 0
Matt Mayeski @mmayeski.bsky.social · 03/03/2025GDPNow posts at -2.8%. This is from a drop in Consumption and Investment, much worse than the poor print last week which was due to larger trade deficits (and likely overstated due to gold imports as I mentioned in a prior post) Keep an eye on this. Could get worse. 000 0
Matt Mayeski @mmayeski.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Have fun??? Alt text: Trump posts “To the Great Farmers of the United States: Get ready to start making a lot of agricultural product to be sold INSIDE of the United States. Tariffs will go on external product on April 2nd. Have fun!” 000 0
Matt Mayeski @mmayeski.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Important clarification on the Atlanta GDPNow print - growth is likely to decline, but probably not negative due to gold impact. Keep an eye on this - even slight underperformance could increase pressure from business groups on admin actions 000 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Economic policy uncertainty has only ever been higher during the pandemic, and during the 2011 debt ceiling crisis / Eurozone debt crisis. (And the latest weekly reading is even higher.) 818146 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiWilliam Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Blue Ghost: TOUCHDOWN! At ~3:35am EST (0835 UTC); The Blue Ghost has landed on the moon; flight control: "We're on the moon!" 24611 0
Matt Mayeski @mmayeski.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Great 🧵 from Aaron on the surprising GDPNow release. Will need to keep an eye on this - plenty of indications that the economy is facing new headwinds compounded by general economic uncertainty from policy decisions. Soft landing could be in jeopardy. 151 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Here's each G7 country's cumulative increase in real GDP per capita, since just before the pandemic: 🇺🇸 +9.5% 🇮🇹 +6.5% (thru Q3) 🇯🇵 +3.1% 🇫🇷 +1.8% (thru Q3) 🇬🇧 -1.1% 🇨🇦 -1.4% 🇩🇪 -2.1% 1476 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 27/02/2025Basically no change in aggregate federal spending yet. www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin... 1609 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiMartha Gimbel @marthagimbel.bsky.social · 27/02/2025You are seeing claims for federal employees stay high, where you’d expect them to be coming down this time of year 291 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiChise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 26/02/2025THIS IS HUGE! A cancer vaccine developed by Yale University and DFCI shows MAJOR promise. Results of an early-phase trial reveal ALL patients with ADVANCED stage kidney cancer had successful anti-cancer immune responses AND have remained CANCER-FREE approximately THREE years after treatment. 🧪🧵⬇️ 216111863346 0
Matt Mayeski @mmayeski.bsky.social · 24/02/2025“…our Founding Fathers did not include in the First Amendment as being able to lie about somebody” Usually these blatantly unconstitutional messaging bills will come from non-leadership as an attempt at going viral, but this is from the house speaker. Needless to say, a wildly problematic bill. 000 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiMing F. Wan @minniewannie.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Economists know it, but politicians rarely say it—globalization massively reduced global inequality. 🧪 #EconSky 1017857 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiHenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 21/02/2025the John Crowley quote at the beginning of this book is one of my touchstones: "Can’t you see, he’d said, the truth is so much more interesting: secret societies have not had power in history, but the notion that secret societies have had power in history has had power in history." 05512 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiErnie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi.bsky.social · 19/02/2025@ericvannostrand.bsky.social & I are in @briefingbook.bsky.social on infrastructure. Last week, @jasonfurman.bsky.social argued that real US infrastructure investment has fallen since the pandemic. Eric & I find however that using BEA’s deflator, real highway spending is up 11% since 2019. 1/11 45020 0
Matt Mayeski @mmayeski.bsky.social · 20/02/2025For guidance in these strange, uncertain times, give Eric a follow. He’s been my go-to source on space news and analysis for years. Also the ISS rocks - hoping we don’t accelerate the existing deorbit plans unnecessarily! 200 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiAriel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025This is such a valuable project in terms of gauging how current events reach the public and what's considered highly salient, but also....justice for Fat Bear Week. www.ipsos.com/en-us/ipsos-... 45022 0
Matt Mayeski @mmayeski.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Massive advancement in quantum computing announced by Microsoft today - could lead to deeper insights in many areas requiring intensive calculations (think weather / climate forecasting, physics, medicine, etc.) Also means that quantum-resistant cryptography rollouts will need to be accelerated!azure.microsoft.comMicrosoft unveils Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum processor powered by topological qubits - Microsoft Azure Quantum BlogMajorana 1 from Microsoft is the world’s first Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) built with a topoconductor. Discover more. 000 0
Matt Mayeski @mmayeski.bsky.social · 13/02/2025The era of expansive soft power utilization is starting to wither among the electorate. The mere fact that polls like this are being issued shows that it’s now within the public consciousness vs. a key component of backroom diplomacy. The question is - who takes advantage of this aid vacuum? 010 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 13/02/2025I generally agree with this important caveat, but… … I have now spoken with C-level leaders & lawyers, who assigned teams to check Deep Research. They found few flaws & fact checking took much less time (and less highly skilled work) than was saved by AI. That seems to be a critical tipping point. 4489 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/02/2025By age, it's interesting. Young workers reaped historically fast wage gains during 2021-2022, much faster than anytime in decades. This rate far exceeded older workers'. But now younger workers' growth is slower than pre-pandemic. Only older workers' wages are growing faster than pre-pandemic. 182 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiGuy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 12/02/2025For all the talk about 2024 voters acting in dissonance with the state of the economy, at least one well-regarded “economy based” forecasting model says they did almost exactly what was expected! fairmodel.econ.yale.edu/vote2020/ind... 331 0
Matt Mayeski @mmayeski.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Very interesting report from Anthropic - surprised at the lack of penetration in finance, but perhaps this indicates an OpenAI preference. Hoping this will become an annual report - expect all of these numbers to increase YoY. 000 0
Reposted by Matt MayeskiSander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Truly Great Data Viz here! Change in Life Expectancy 2000-2019 by County and Education www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 1207 0
