keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986)
Talmon Joseph Smith
@talsmith.bsky.social
New York Times economics reporter: https://www.nytimes.com/by/talmon-joseph-smith // New Orleans Native // author of 'What Can We Afford' forthcoming from Simon & Schuster (March 2027) // mostly on Twitter talmon.smith@nytimes.com
April 2025 take aging well bsky.app/profile/aaro...
Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org · last yr.POTUS is a perpetual uncertainty generator, unable to credibly commit. Highly-incentivized teams will strive to strategize around this but him empowered => unprecedented, irreducible chaos for U.S. & world. This benefits a few with inside info but harms most everyone else. bsky.app/profile/weis...
[NFL] Deshaun Watson throws a pick on 2nd and 5 from the Jaguars 28 on the opening drive twitter.com/NFL/status/2...
We have just concluded an 11-hour flight during which the infant in the row behind us made almost no noise except occasional gentle baby noises. What a champion baby
sent a funny observation to the groupchat instead of poasting it on here because some of you would find it inappropriate
I see a lot of people actively losing their minds about the AI stuff and I'm honestly starting to feel bad for them. But it's blinding them to the real problems. These things are not your girlfriend, but they're probably going to smash-and-grab passwords and attack bank or government data.
it was on a recent Odd Lots episode where one of the Fed presidents noted that when you have a factory, the people at the factory have families who go to school and play little league when you have a data center, you just have a data center and maybe a couple of security guards
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w agoYeesh. 👀 “.. we find limited evidence that data center development improves fiscal balances, employment, or business formation.” (via @talsmith.bsky.social) download.ssrn.com/2026/9/1/738...
Yeesh. 👀 “.. we find limited evidence that data center development improves fiscal balances, employment, or business formation.” (via @talsmith.bsky.social) download.ssrn.com/2026/9/1/738...
putting this on my laptop and explaining "the rights are important, but the wrongs are the fun part"
They need to make a backpack that you can wear with a suit that doesn’t make you look like your mother packed your lunch for you.
i came up with Gator Jaw @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 😭😅 but its sick that it sounds legit enough to have come from BlackRock. Rick Rieder & Co, please run with it! it's my daily aim for it to catch on (and eventually for the reality of it to end :/ )
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3w agoBLACKROCK: It’s not a K-shaped economy. It’s gator jaws. 🐊 (via @talsmith.bsky.social)
“.. there are really two separate economies: one for people who make their primary income through investment and passive income . . . and then typical workers who clock in day in and day out.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/6f3a...
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
Amazing, glad you're here, let me catch you up. So The Economist wrote about Daron Acemoglu and
Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · 4w agoWe've arrived on Bluesky! We hope you will follow along as we share inspiring, motivational and exciting content about the achievements and individuals that have been awarded a Nobel Prize. Stay tuned.
This is just a fancy way of saying the Treasury will use its money to buy things. The Treasury General Account isn't some special financial facility, it's the checking account for the federal government. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/24/b...
Bessent could tap near $1 trillion Treasury General Account to fund bond buybacks, sources said
Using the TGA would provide the Treasury with considerable firepower to influence long-term bond yields.
cnbc.com
“.. well well well. .. someone who harshly criticized Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for 'Stealth Easing' seems to be, well... call it what ya want.” @talsmith.bsky.social
A customer at my store today bought 25 games for $250, getting so excited that he finally got the PS3 he never had growing up and finally gets to enjoy and own the games he always wanted. THIS is why physical media matters, and why we need to save discs. 👏
The computers & chips that power every sector of our economy are getting EXPENSIVE
Happy birthday, “Kind of Blue”. Released 67 years ago today. 🎂 “You have to know 400 notes that you can play,” Miles said. “Then pick the right four." [“So What"] 🙏🏼
How it’s playing in Tehran — where “cart” and “truck” may get lost in translation. 🙄
I know everyone is doing the Bluesky Special on him today, but this is 100% true.
Kang@kang.bsky.social · last mo.idk I tried to use this site for a while bc some friends enjoy it and found that whenever someone would screenshot a headline and lie about what the article said, there would be this wild piling on that felt like the worst parts of old twitter.
the rage here on whitesky over a sunscreen joke is hilarious. people talking about my kids and wife and shit lmao. keep going please.
Hyde T. Voltyge@hydevoltyge.bsky.social · last mo.Cool guys get skin cancer, is it? I don't like dunking my brain in whatever toxic soup over there makes you ponder the virtues of getting cancer to be masculine and own the libs
“.. The level of mistrust between Iran and the United States is so high that Tehran wants to ensure it gets the economic relief it has been promised, to enable reconstruction, before it gives up even partial control over the strait ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/w...
Antarctica sometime weirds me out. Whole continent that is mostly uninhabited. Massive swathes of it barely explored.