Justin Lahart
@jdlahart.bsky.social
Wall Street Journal economics reporter
Struggling women make ramen is miles better than anything Nolan's done.
Irina Dumitrescu@irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 21h agoOH after a viewing of the Odyssey: Teenager: You have to watch Inception, and you have to watch Tenet. Mother: How about I just watch what I feel like watching? Teenager: Struggling women making ramen?
Gary, Ind. is aiming to demolish 7,000 blighted buildings and homes to make way for new investment. Early demolitions in some neighborhoods have sparked renovations and new homebuilding. www.wsj.com/us-news/gary...
Gary, Indiana, Wants a Comeback. Step One: Demolish a Chunk of Downtown.
With an $80 million blight elimination campaign and new private investment, the steel town is clearing away ruins to make way for a comeback.
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The U.S. economy keeps putting more eggs in the artificial-intelligence basket. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
The AI Boom Is Transforming the American Economy Beyond Recognition
AI has rapidly become a huge economic factor while affecting everything from capital investment to how much you pay for an iPhone.
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My paper on the "Pig in the Python" is now available with no paywall from NIH. I argue that the demand for young workers will grow dramatically over the coming decades, likely leading to rising wages, stronger unions, and lower inequality. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Plus, more intermeeting moves (because stuff happens), and bigger rate moves on meeting days when you do change policy
Michael Derby@michaelsderby.bsky.social · 5d agoI’d love to hear a real case for cutting the number of Fed meetings. You’d lose tactical space to respond to events, you lose communications space, but maybe you do it because you don’t think rate policy matters all that much? Warsh really starting out on a strange footing here.
"There would also be a pre-wedding colloquium to discuss ideas in panels and breakout sessions." www.wsj.com/finance/leop...
His Wedding Guests Were Arriving—Just as His $45 Billion Fund Was Falling Apart
Leopold Aschenbrenner was hailed as the ‘Nostradamus of AI.’ But his Situational Awareness hedge fund took on too much leverage, leading to a crash he never saw coming.
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Given what today's GDP report implies for next week's productivity report, wondering about the freshness date on this part of the FOMC statement: "Productivity growth and capital investment are strong"
Movie pitch: A Terminator 2 reboot, but the Terminator is played by Clippy
Michael Derby@michaelsderby.bsky.social · 6d agoConsider yourself warned: Microsoft is about to supercharge Copilot: “Copilot is evolving rapidly from chat to Cowork to autopilots...one super app spanning both consumer and commercial experience." Via Gizmodo
All these dashes evidence that time-traveling Jane Austen used AI
A new report from Google suggests people are using AI at work more for collaboration than automation www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...
Google Study Says AI Is Helping Workers, Not Replacing Them
The new research from the creator of Gemini comes amid rising concern over the impact of artificial intelligence on the labor market.
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There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
I, for one, look forward to an Odyssey where the bits people remember best - the Trojan horse, the Cyclops, the Sirens, Circe, Hades, the oxen - only take up about a fifth of the screen time, and are all told retrospectively. Also, I've been meaning to learn Greek.
A nice remembrance of Herman Chernoff. My efforts to get Chernoff faces into the WSJ have so far been fruitless.
Herman Chernoff statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/07/17/h...
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This @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk interview with Margaret Drabble is very much worth the time podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
Margaret Drabble: The Great Good Places
Podcast Episode · London Review Bookshop Podcast · July 13 · 58m
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I’m reading the Race Between Education and Technology (again) and here is a question: if increasing educational attainment drove America’s 20th century productivity advantage, can AI really simultaneously discourage attainment and increase productivity? How?
New paper on HAIL Scholarship! Students going to UM bc of HAIL just as likely to graduate & earn a STEM degree as peers, & more likely to graduate within four years Expected lifetime earnings gains of 25% due to increased degree quality and faster graduation www.susandynarski.com/assets/paper...
NEW: A year before Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore was fired for an inappropriate relationship with a staff member, the school’s athletic director told him not to travel with her, according to a law firm investigation. www.wsj.com/sports/footb...
Michigan Missed Warning Signs Around Football Coach’s Affair, Investigation Finds
Sherrone Moore continued to lead the team, even after the athletic director grew suspicious of the relationship and barred him from traveling with his executive assistant.
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Looks like a new paper with some recommendations for FIFA getting presented at NBER summer institute
The advent of AI has led to worries that the U.S. faces a future of too few jobs for workers to fill. But the challenge could be just the opposite: A sharp slowing in the number of people entering the workforce that leads to an unprecedented era of labor scarcity. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
The Next Labor Crisis May Be Too Few Workers. Could AI Help Pick Up the Slack?
New economic research might be pointing toward a shift in thinking about what AI means for the job market.
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The hype that wasn't ... How AI leaders are rapidly changing their tune. (from the WSJ) Link: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...
Former judoka I know used to always get beat by the same guy with the same grab-the-lapel move. So he put his gi in bleach overnight to weaken it, his opponent ended up with handful of cloth, and my friend countered and won. Anyway, just a thought for the USMNT
Companies that increase their worker numbers also spend more on AI
One thing I didn't get into here, but is worth thinking about, is the salience of some of these price increases. Apple is only a tiny fraction of people's spending baskets, but they sure will notice it - and it could make them even angrier about AI www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
The Data-Center Boom Is Sparking a Third Wave of Inflation
Demand for memory chips is pushing prices higher. Will AI’s promise of increased productivity come in time to temper that inflation?
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