If you shrink the workforce, you get slow job growth. Defend the policy if you like the policy, but it's insane to kill the messenger when she's *telling you that your policy is doing what it is designed to do*

“From my baseline of pessimism toward their policies, I’d say that things are working out okay. But a slowing economy with upward pressure on prices and interest rates is what “okay” looks like.”

The jobs report was honestly not that bad, but Trump’s reaction to it has been catastrophic

Probably smart of Olivia Rodrigo to stick to playing Blue Album songs with Weezer, I don’t think the delicate sensibilities of Zoomers could survive listening to Pinkerton.

Trump’s ENTIRE case that numbers were rigged is based on clear, undisputed facts that show the OPPOSITE! I welcome any factual dispute. There is none. Trump says benchmark revision of 818,00 jobs were after the election. They were in Aug 2024. They were revised after election to be 220,000 better for Biden/Harris. Oct report of 12K was on Nov 1 - another bad time for VP Harris. Those numbers later were shown to be 44K. So negative numbers for Biden/Harris came out BEFORE the election. AFTER election, numbers were revised in their favor. The facts show the OPPOSITE of Trump’s claim. This is not disputable.

Fun moment from today's comments: Piece is about how a lot of relationship commentary is draws on Arlie Hochschild's academic work on "emotional labor," reader says these are arguably references to the "second shift" idea — but that's also Hochschild!

Here we have @tylercowen making what is now a very common error. Tariffs are not a consumption-based tax. These taxes apply to capital inputs in ways that are *more distortive* than existing capital taxes.

Trump is gutting support for seniors and making them pay more for their medicine. Medicare premiums are going up, protections are being stripped, and older Americans are paying the price.

"Emotional labor" was coined to describe features of the growing set of working class service sector jobs, where managing other people's feelings is an integral aspect of your livelihood.

Modest evidence for benefits of cell phone bans in schools. However we should note the costs of such bans are probably low - what are the legitimate uses of cell phones during class. So case for banning seems strong