i know it is not popular to point to non-doom data, but it is interesting how little attention this gets ... layoffs and discharges are not back to normal.

“Real” should be at the top here

I think some pro-Biden Dems are angry at Palestine protesters not so much cuz they support Israel as 'Why do you only want to talk about the thing that makes us look bad?'

We've gone 2+ years w/ppl predicting a recession and wondering about a soft landing

The soft landing was the past 2+ years

It already happened:

5% yields for savers
3% real GDP growth
<4% unemployment rate
3% inflation rate

There is so much misinformation + bad advice on the internet it boggles the mind.

No, there has not been 'Massive layoffs by Tech companies.' They cut back the massive hiring spree they were on over the prior 3 years...'

ritholtz.com/2023/01/stop-w…

Conservative/disciplinarian morality to be specific that virtue and goodness are associated with suffering painful punishment for mistakes and sins such as fiscal profligacy.

WATCH-- Chris Hayes: It's easier to argue about what college kids are doing than to confront the human misery and destruction that's happening in the actual conflict which is, of course, the source of these protests.

Facts.

As someone who has lived in the Northeast and the South -- 40 degrees in Louisiana is different than 40 in the north.

What’s the great community college novel? I want to read something about a 30something mechanic taking an English Comp class, checked out professors, and a campus where nothing important happens—an anti-striver novel, if you will.

Watch me talk about the weakening Florida housing market on CNBC 📺

A lot of people conflate macro with morality.

'the Indeed report'

Dear economists,

Amid all of your cute Fed note titles, not a single 'Pause for Effect'?

Love,
Jeanna

U.S. inflation averaged about 4% over the decade 1982-92. I recall feeling how 'low' that felt. Today, 3% inflation considered 'high.'

Pro-Israel counterprotestors started tearing down UCLA encampment barriers and screamed 'Second nakba!' referring to the mass displacement & dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Per Los Angeles Times Safi Nazzal on the scene with another video: