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I will never tire of a company with a [checks notes] $1.03 trillion market cap sticking with a the 1997-era-Geocities-style website. At this point it would be disappointing if they were to modernize it.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

This chart from the BLS's press release tells the not-so-great story of where we are on inflation.

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

Hurts gets MVP, yes?

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Things getting real for Canada-domiciled bourbon enthusiasts. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/02/o...

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Another Chiefs-Eagles Super Bowl is a dark timeline that we cannot avoid. Apparently.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Who’s gonna make the Luvu dive a meme?

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Big news in the Fed press corps!

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

The NFL to everyone: ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED???

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

Turns out it is enjoyable to watch your city’s NFL team play in a competent manner against excellent competition in the playoffs. Who knew?

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Defense, what is it?

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

NFL weeks, ranked: 1) Divisional playoff weekend 2) Conference championship weekend 3) Week 1 4) Super Bowl 5) Thanksgiving 6) Wild card weekend

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

"The best way to make a successful transition to the public sector is to do so with humility. The alternative, in many cases, is to have humility thrust upon you." www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Turned on Texans-Chargers like 10m ago and every play has been the craziest thing I ever saw.

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

It’s no longer the Economists’ Hour. Well done from @bencasselman.bsky.social here. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/b...

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Anybody up for a little mid-cycle adjustment? The 2019 FOMC transcripts are out! Have at it. www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypoli...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Robusto! +256k on payrolls in December, unemployment rate edges down to 4.1%

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Fed vice-chair for supervision Michael Barr is stepping down from that role, while remaining a Fed governor, front-running a potential legal clash over whether Trump can demote him. Come for the news, stay for the gaming out Trump's options for reshaping the Fed. www.axios.com/2025/01/06/b...

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

Like all good late-GenXers, I'm using this snow day to teach my progeny the Mr. Plow jingle

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Can't help but think the U.S. Steel/Nippon deal would have gone through with minimal controversy if the companies were named, like, SteelCorp and Industriex. Which isn't a great basis for public policy, but here we are.

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

Jason bringing the 🔥🔥

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like the existence of this photo is a piece of evidence that we're living in a simulation.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

For some reason over the past few weeks the 20th century is finally starting to feel like a period in the distant past rather than recent history.

submitted 59 days ago • 18 comments

2024 is now on the books for financial markets. S&P 500 up 23%, for a total return (including dividends) right at +25%. 10-year Treasury yield ends at 4.57%, up about 70bps from a year ago. Good job, everybody.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Natural gas futures up more than 21% at one point this morning, one of the bigger moves ever.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Fun fact: Nobody anywhere has any idea what day of the week this is. Is it Wednesday? Friday? Sunday?

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

As a general rule, other peoples’ fantasy football stories are the most boring thing on earth. This is an exception.

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

That thing when you're glad your local NFL team is fun and good for the first time in your adult life, but really don't care for this "flexing the game into the late late slot" stuff. Two more hours until kickoff, total madness.

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

I have no rooting interest in Bengals-Broncos, not even a minor wager, but this is OUTSTANDING content.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Can DOGE do something about excessively difficult-to-open toy packaging?

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Wow. Take a look at the U Michigan Consumer Sentiment report for December: "About 22% of consumers spontaneously reported that purchasing durables now would enable buyers to avoid future price increases—the highest reading since 1990. Many...specifically identified future tariffs as the culprit."

submitted 70 days ago • 7 comments

Inbox: Here's Cleveland Fed president Beth Hammack on why she dissented from Wednesday's rate cut.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

You can imagine an alternate universe where the Fed is a little quicker on its feet and more willing to surprise markets in which it 1) Cut 25bps in July, 2) would have cut only 25bps in September, with no need for a super-sized move, 3) Did another 25bps in November then 3) Skipped this month.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

14 out of 19 Fed officials see two or fewer cuts as likely to be justified next year. Consensus view of '25 and '26 inflation (both core and headline) bumped up a good bit. Cleveland Fed chief Beth Hammack dissented, wanting to stand pat. Pretty hawkish mix!

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Kind of amazing that the nation's 2d through 5th largest metro areas (LA, DMV, Chicagoland, Bay Area) have a grand total of 3 skyscrapers under construction.

submitted 73 days ago • 5 comments

We each have our own definition of "urgent."

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

The European mind can’t comprehend, etc. etc.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Inbox: Michelle Neal, head of the New York Fed's markets group, is heading to the private sector.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments