iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

speaking of: preorder my book if you want the unabridged, uncensored versions of this 2020s era coverage of the american economy and labor market and govt finances and our future! (out early March '27)

0133

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

i wrote a followup story to the original below. the battle continues to heat up: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/b...

020

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

what's the good reason for not passing this?

050

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

so many random stonks ripping this year. and post tariffs? hasbro?? up 32% YTD???

000

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

somebody check on Jerry Jones. he might be tearing up, or havin a heart attack

010

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

this guy was so hawkish under BidenHarris. cant see into his heart but hard to believe he'd be calling for big cuts if kamala harris was president and cpi was floating near 3

130

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

fascinating take from former CEA Chair Jared Bernstein on "moderates" and "moderation"

010

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Shapiro really telling on himself with regard to his own AI use here.......

3223

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

PIMCO economist Tiffany Wilding notes on bloomberg tv that a large part of the reason firms aren't passing along tariff costs as much as expected is that margins were elevated postcovid and companies are just shedding a bit of that spread wow any apologies for reporters that noted margin expansion?

1104

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

my colleague kurtis wrote a very fair article about the 30 dollar min wage for hotel workers for the olympics. one 'warmup' game for it has been the contested $20 min wage for workers. I reached out to Michael Reich, whose study found minimal negative effects, pressing him on an opposing study:

020

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

OH **DOCTORS & AID WORKERS** ARE STARVING SO NOW STARVATION MATTERS???

001

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

the only Abba i listen to is Lerner

000

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

hard to imagine this sort of pro labor court ruling happening now

130

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The fully integrated Southern Tenants Farmers Union back in the prewar years: What Mean Ye That Crush My People And Grind The Faces Of The Poor

010

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

"For the June CPI report, we forecast headline and core CPI rose by 0.3% m/m...If correct, this would mark an acceleration from the last three months and result in a three-tenth increase in headline CPI to 2.7% y/y and a two-tenth increase in core CPI to 3.0%" here comes the trump tariff bite?

031

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

i love youtube commenters' 'spade a spade' media commentary lol

030

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

love the mountains, but this backdrop isn't helping the case against people who say the center left and right are out of touch.

020

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

remains insane that citizens united was entirely premised on clarifying that outside spending is independent from campaigns and thus fine actually and not bribery for access the legal system really is just: Desired Outcome ~~> Intellectual Backfill

250

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

between bonds and HYS fixed income assets held by americans are throwing off 2.2 trillion dollar in interest income annually that needs to be reinvested every year. private sector net worth in the United States recently totaled $218 trillion. "the wall of money just gets bigger."--Russ at blackrock

010

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

lmao Moody's downgraded Japanese sovereign debt two decades ago based on "the probability that the issuer will default" HOW SWAY??

010

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

a mini econ dispatch, not from the road, right here in NYC. guy making the burritos quesadillas and tacos and also working the register at Penn Station's Dos Toros who i just chatted with tells me he makes the minimum wage exhibit 137 re: limits of relying on hot labor markets alone for uplift

060

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

feels like "how to Make It" per expert consensus has been 1994: work hard do your best be honest, you'll make a living 2004: Go to college, “learn how to think” - that’s the 21st century way 2014: "learn how to code" you stupid hipsters 2024: actually nvm AI will = EQ>IQ

030

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

a sobering news update: Ju-Young (a Hyundai supplier using prison labor, which was spotlighted in our Oct26 NYTimes story covering constitutional battles over involuntary servitude in Alabama) has responded to the public blowback by firing all of the incarcerated workers not at all what many wanted

130

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

today is my grandad's 94th. "Will" is the guy who drove me to school in the AM listening to Morning Edition & picked me up with All Things Considered in the background on the way home in the afternoon. a zoologist and avid newsie he (and my uncle Gavin) is why im a journalist: photo cred @sherylmd2

0111

Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

i should mention here... got a book in the works:

19381