Preston Mui @prestonmui.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.macfound.org/videos/2026-...macfound.orgEllora Derenoncourt - 2026 MacArthur Fellow 371
Reposted by Preston MuiDom White @domw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Just updating this joke and taking aim at the finance newsletter writers. 28413
Reposted by Preston MuiErika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Jed Kolko, former Commerce official overseeing Census and BEA, on the worrying signs of political interference at Census www.piie.com/blogs/realti...piie.comPolitical meddling at the Census Bureau damages the entire US statistical systemThis summer marks the worst period for US statistical integrity since President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last August. Two different and seemingly uncoordinated eve... 13419
Reposted by Preston MuiErika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"Work on the analysis was not conducted by career civil servants at the Census Bureau, and the team behind it included individuals affiliated with the America First Policy Institute, a think tank started by officials from Trump's first administration.." www.npr.org/2026/08/19/n...npr.orgExperts raise alarms over Census Bureau report Trump is touting on noncitizen votingA Trump-aligned think tank has ties to a highly unusual Census Bureau report that the president is using to renew false claims of widespread voting by non-U.S. citizens in 2020, NPR has learned. 713546
Reposted by Preston MuiEric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026people are really getting into a row about spreadsheets. my column: 983409461
Reposted by Preston MuiStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026One of the funniest (sob) things I learned during my time at California YIMBY was that sometimes lawmakers adjudicate differing positions by counting how many studies support each. Also for their purposes, an AER article and a 3D pie chart some nonprofit made were each one (1) study. 924619
Preston Mui @prestonmui.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Had a fun time talking to Axios about the recent sharp decline in labor force participation (and employment) rates. Axios article here: www.axios.com/newsletters/... 130
Reposted by Preston MuiEconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026@goolsbee.bsky.social does WIRED Tech Support video???youtu.beEconomist Answers U.S. Economy QuestionsYouTube video by WIRED 0163
Preston Mui @prestonmui.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Yesterday he woke me up early begging for food. I walk over to his food bowl. Its full and he won't eat it. I pour food back into the bag, put food back into the bowl, he eats. Would anyone like to take him off my hands. He only eats the most expensive prescription diet out there. 020
Reposted by Preston MuiDavid Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Axios: Warsh has told associates that before taking office, he built AI bots that ingested the collected works of economists Milton Friedman and James Tobin. He then turned to them for their insights on contemporary economic questions. [Who needs task forces?] 4527042
Reposted by Preston MuiVerified Account Tracker @verified.evil.gay · 08/08/2026✅ @stlouisfed.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app. 0174
Preston Mui @prestonmui.bsky.social · 08/08/2026They cooked so hard when they designed this year's route, every stage has been a total banger Two-three years ago I used to think we were in the golden age of women's road cycling and then it just kept getting better and better youtu.be/YMU7qZRc28s?...youtu.beThe Best Climbing Performance in Women's History | Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2026 Stage 7YouTube video by Lanterne Rouge 160
Preston Mui @prestonmui.bsky.social · 07/08/2026insane that they are not pulling her back, gap out to almost 60" now 140
Reposted by Preston MuiBen Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026In a remarkable twist of timing, President Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Brett Matsumoto, looks likely to be confirmed today, on #jobsday, 12 months after he fired the last BLS commissioner following an unexpectedly weak jobs report. 414940
Reposted by Preston MuiThe Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 03/08/2026Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson has signed the SEPA reform bill into law. 730444
Reposted by Preston MuiMatthew Pfab @matthewpfabwx.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Heads up, #Seattle...smoke from massive fires in Eastern Washington and Southern British Columbia will move into Western Washington starting early Monday, getting denser through Tuesday and Wednesday. Prepare for an extended period of degraded air quality. #wawx 14201112
Reposted by Preston Muialex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 01/08/2026"nobody wants to work anymore" 3313
Reposted by Preston MuiGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 31/07/2026Subtext of this report from @colbylsmith.bsky.social & @bencasselman.bsky.social : FOMC is PISSED (No link yet, will post when I have one) 1334764
Preston Mui @prestonmui.bsky.social · 29/07/20263 dissents (Kashkari, Logan, Hammack), no changes to the statement 150
Preston Mui @prestonmui.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I'm sure these guys exist and there's probably more of them than before but by and large young women tend to be employed less and get paid less than young men, as has always been the case 150
Preston Mui @prestonmui.bsky.social · 13/07/2026oh my god escapecollective.com/kate-courtne...escapecollective.comKate Courtney joins FDJ United-Suez, effective immediatelyThe former MTB world champion has signed with the road team through the 2028 LA Olympics. 010
Reposted by Preston MuiMatt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026New: Fed governor Lisa Cook has spent more than $1 million defending herself in the wake of Trump's attempt to fire her, a filing shows. The Supreme Court could rule on her case as soon as today.cnbc.comTrump bid to fire Fed's Lisa Cook cost her more than $1M in legal, security costs: FilingA financial disclosure from Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook details large legal and security expenses 36833
Reposted by Preston MuiConor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Timiraos: “But to several Fed watchers, he had stretched a defensible objection into something broader, discarding not just predictions about the next move but any account of how the committee will reason its way to a decision.” www.wsj.com/economy/cent...wsj.comWarsh Overhauls How the Fed Talks and Keeps Markets Guessing on RatesIn his debut as chairman, Kevin Warsh stripped away the central bank’s policy hints and committed to bringing inflation down—but wouldn’t say what that will take 5409
Reposted by Preston MuiDario Perkins @darioperkins.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Warsh spoke for 45 minutes and we still know absolutely nothing about his own personal views on the economy 2939
Preston Mui @prestonmui.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Who the heck sees core PCE at 2.5-2.6% end of year? 150
Preston Mui @prestonmui.bsky.social · 17/06/2026"It's a good question... the good news for you is, we have a task force for that." -- this press conference in a nutshell 093
Reposted by Preston MuiAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 14/06/2026From former U.S. Census Chief Scientist John Abowd on LinkedIn, what Census data products are affected by Commerce's new policy? A devastating set of answers including all ACS Public Use Micro Samples www.linkedin.com/posts/john-a... 27139
Preston Mui @prestonmui.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Andrew Yang ran on MATH and is now a contestant on something called "Nation's Dumbest" 030
Preston Mui @prestonmui.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I finally get to see what Brett looks like www.help.senate.gov/hearings/nom...help.senate.govNominations of Brett Matsumoto to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, James Macy to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board, and David Prouty to be a Member of the Nati...Nomination Hearing on June 10, 2026 at 6:00 AM 020
Reposted by Preston MuiJoel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Brett Matsumoto would be Trump’s best pick since Jerome Powell 0103
Preston Mui @prestonmui.bsky.social · 05/06/2026www.nber.org/papers/w35277 "First, just-obese patients receive less diagnostic effort than almost-obese patients. Second, a physician-validated LLM identifies at the cutoff a rise in stigmatizing language in clinical notes" 04120
Preston Mui @prestonmui.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Strong jobs beat especially in leisure and hospitality 170
Reposted by Preston MuiSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 04/06/2026has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/... 4744201404
Reposted by Preston MuiJulia Coronado @jc-econ.bsky.social · 03/06/2026add to this the reporting from @michaelsderby.bsky.social on a new review of the reappointment process of regional presidents and things are about to get spicy www.reuters.com/business/fin...reuters.comFed watchdog looking at reappointment process for central bank's regional presidentsThe Federal Reserve's in-house watchdog said on Wednesday it's looking into how the U.S. central bank's Board of Governors reappoints the regional Fed presidents and their deputies to respective fiv... 1307
Reposted by Preston MuiNew York Fed @newyorkfed.org · 01/06/2026Today's post estimates that 64% of the recent increase in unemployment of young college graduates can be explained by remote work. Recent grads in jobs that can be done remotely have a higher unemployment rate than those in fields where work is more likely to be in person. nyfed.org/49xvTtq 1175
Preston Mui @prestonmui.bsky.social · 28/05/2026track racing is a blast because i, a 33 year old with a p h d can regularly get my ass handed to me by a 15 year old with a lisp 120
Preston Mui @prestonmui.bsky.social · 26/05/2026The frequentists have claimed my neighborhood as their territory 070
Reposted by Preston MuiColby Smith @colbylsmith.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Key line in April's Fed minutes: A majority of officials embraced the possibility of higher rates to counteract the inflation surge www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypoli... @nytimes.com 2256
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Crémieux
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Feb 15, 2025
DOGE has a very obvious feedback mechanism for its cuts.
If DOGE makes a big, broad cut against a million programs, people get upset about a few specific, very good ones like PEPFAR, and then that program comes back because DOGE's members are, thus, informed it was good.
Crémieux
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Feb 15, 2025
I can only hope people realizing this won't damage the mechanism, because it's still useful to have professionals getting mad about some very good thing getting cut before it's brought back online as a result.
In a word, DOGE is responsive, which is unusual for the government!
Stuart Buck
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Feb 15, 2025
I agree, but it would be more efficient to spend one hour ahead of time talking to experts or just reading up on the history of a program for [disease, student testing, nuclear safety, etc.]
Plus, some programs don't have famous proponents with time to dig into the weeds.
Crémieux
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Feb 15, 2025
I'm highly sympathetic, but there really are thousands and thousands of programs and grants to cut, so I'm not sure the small team doing the cuts has the ability to go through them all one-by-one on their short timeline.
Maybe a system can be developed to assist with feedback.
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Despite some bogus grants, a lot of government is like this cartoon. I bet this "small team" would find a line item for "screwworm sterilization" and delete it, not knowing that they just devastated American farming: https://theatlantic.com/science/archiv
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Stuart Buck
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Feb 15, 2025
I can see the DOGE tweet: "We canceled a contract for Panamanian screwworms, saving $165 million dollars!!!" [https://aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-an
nouncements/usda-approves-emergency-funding-protect-us…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j2kmiyhld5btzozgzwy3lc2m/bafkreih3ferjvpo53fmioc3sf2qadxltbmisl74luq2ydhxvpxbh3qf3ei)
