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EJ Antony mangles the data: Given sampling error, it really doesn’t make sense to look at one month’s m/m change…

From Bloomberg: Auto ABS prices, from Fitch:

The White House receives embargoed BLS (and other) releases before the official release at 8:30am. If memory serves (and is…

If you wanted to bet on the Super Bowl this past weekend, you had options. You may have bet with…

In the Challenger, Gray and Christmas report for January is an interesting table, reporting the job losses attributed to each…

0:37Intro. [Recording date: January 15, 2026.]Russ Roberts: Today is January 15th, 2026, and my guest is Andrew Fox.I usually give…

Households say yes (preliminary), while Wall Street economists says no: Figure 1: Year-on-Year CPI inflation (bold black), U.Michigan February survey…

Ukraine may forfeit access to more than $115 billion in international aid due to stalled reforms and missed commitments under…

BLS will release (w/delay) on Wednesday. Until then, we have ADP (which underwent benchmarking). Using ADP data (2022M01-2025M12) to extrapolate…

Using Challenger, Gray, Christmas data at quarterly frequency, normalized by civilian labor force. Figure 1: Challenger layoff announcements to civilian…