Scott ๐ฅ๐๐๐ฆ๐
@fishecon.bsky.social
Oceans economist. U of Oregon PhD and college football addict. Posts are my own. Miami.
No thoughts on the Michigan race other than I hope whatever political pundits were on live stream or TV kept holding up the right hand and pointing it to different spots when explaining turnout numbers the way Michiganders always do when you ask them where theyโre from ๏ฟผ
Another item to add about why I like this platform, there are a bunch of people discussing a really good Ray Bradbury story (โthere will come soft rainsโ, the setting was this date) on unconnected threads in my timeline so I know itโs actually organic ๏ฟผ
But I donโt WANT five newsletters per day I liked having ONE newsletter per day. Are you insane Who made this decision
god i love local news
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social ยท yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didnโt want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradburyโs short story โThere Will Come Soft Rainsโ about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Cannot kill the battery Battery is found in me
25% jump in local shrimp prices at the local store. I know diesel prices are killing these guys, but thatโs gonna be some demand destruction (I already have some in my freezer so I didnโt purchase)
US Treasury considering deploying TGA in the repo market..... via Bloomberg
If someone wanted to harm the US economy, higher education, and soft power, both now and for decades to come (because mistrust remains even after reversal), this is exactly what they would do.
Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social ยท 6d agoU.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
A key thing that once you realize it kind of radicalize you re: taxation of unrealized gains is that we already have a tax system that features changes in tax based on unrealized changes in asset values --- deductions for depreciation.
โAll 13 principal federal statistical agencies have seen staffing cuts since the start of the Trump administration. Six of them shed at least a third of their headcount, and two of them lost more than two-thirds of their employees.โ
Scott ๐ฅ๐๐๐ฆ๐@fishecon.bsky.social ยท 6d agoโThis is a classic central-bank credibility shock,โ said Cabana. The long bond and stocks turned together at roughly 3 p.m., while Warsh was still speaking. www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
Kevin Warsh Asked the Market to Speak. It Answered.
Analysts said investors heard a chairman who introduced doubt about his willingness to deliver rate hikes they think may be needed to curb inflation.
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I hate cars with ipad screens glued on the dash. Which is all cars now. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
These Drivers Are Taking Extreme Measures to Avoid New Car Technology
They scour dealerships for models with the fewest bells and whistles. Then they disable alarms and reconfigure dashboards in search of low-tech bliss.
wsj.com
So in lobster first amendment news www.abajournal.com/news/article...
Lobster defamation case wades into free speech concerns at 1st Circuit
A panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Boston raised apprehensions Monday over the Maine lobster industry's defamation lawsuit alleging that a seaf
abajournal.com
One of the best bands to ever come out of Miami and they have reunited and are coming back in October
I saw this photo last week in the WSJ about North Korea trying to up its spy game and it just seems like the most meme-able photo
Stella has been engaged in an argument with this Mockingbird in the backyard. It flies around to different spots out of her reach and yells at her and she follows and yells back at it. Of course, she quieted down when I actually filmed her.
Why is it I can slice up an orange and maybe thereโs a few seeds but itโs manageable and I can cut a lime and thereโs no seeds but I so much as look at a lemon, I donโt even cut it open and I already have seeds in my food and theyโre all over the counter are they the floozies of the citrus world
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HR explained that applicants for new hiring should request to be in the pool, because we can grab people from there and make an offer without advertising and my football addled brain is like โitโs the portal, call it the portalโ but I didnโt think anybody else would get that so Iโm posting it here
