Preston Mui
@prestonmui.bsky.social
Economist at Employ America | Kasia Niewiadoma Fanboy | Bird Liker Seattle, WA
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson has signed the SEPA reform bill into law.
The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · last wk.A 5-4 Seattle City Council vote yesterday means city-level appeals that have delayed significant citywide zoning changes in the past will be extinguished. Conventional appeal options to Superior Court or the state growth hearings board will remain. Story: www.theurbanist.org/seattle-coun...
Heads 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
Subtext of this report from @colbylsmith.bsky.social & @bencasselman.bsky.social : FOMC is PISSED (No link yet, will post when I have one)
3 dissents (Kashkari, Logan, Hammack), no changes to the statement
I'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
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2w agoIt’s amazing how every generation’s men manage to find new ways to be terrible
New: 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.
Trump bid to fire Fed's Lisa Cook cost her more than $1M in legal, security costs: Filing
A financial disclosure from Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook details large legal and security expenses
cnbc.com
Timiraos: “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...
Warsh Overhauls How the Fed Talks and Keeps Markets Guessing on Rates
In 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
wsj.com
Warsh spoke for 45 minutes and we still know absolutely nothing about his own personal views on the economy
"It's a good question... the good news for you is, we have a task force for that." -- this press conference in a nutshell
From 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...
Andrew Yang ran on MATH and is now a contestant on something called "Nation's Dumbest"
I finally get to see what Brett looks like www.help.senate.gov/hearings/nom...
Nominations 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
help.senate.gov
Brett Matsumoto would be Trump’s best pick since Jerome Powell
Ben Casselman@bencasselman.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn Senate testimony, Brett Matsumoto, Trump's nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, promises to maintain the independence of the agency. “It is important for the public to be confident that decisions at the BLS are benign driven by science rather than politics."
www.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"
add 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...
Fed watchdog looking at reappointment process for central bank's regional presidents
The 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...
reuters.com
Today'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
track 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
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Crémieux
@cremieuxrecueil
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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
@cremieuxrecueil
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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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Stuart Buck
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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
e/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-containment-america-panama/611026/
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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)
