Year-ahead expectations for commodity price changes rose across the board in September according @NewYorkFed Survey of Consumer Expectations https://t.co/x4IjCDsvB8
Financing costs rose in August … average interest rate on credit cards with assessed interest reached 22.36%; average interest rate on a 5-year new car loan rose to 7.54% https://t.co/rZQamsF40o
One Big Bet US stocks have held up in the face of surging bond yields, corporate spreads, and higher oil prices. The AI mania is the only thing left supporting the market. https://t.co/IYnRYJhBLq https://t.co/QXkeGEyneI
NEW ODD LOTS What people get wrong about Europe's economic decline @TheStalwart & I speak with @NewLeftEViews about the nuances of Europe's competitiveness problems: https://t.co/pVW13W1M69
With everyone talking about Europe’s various crises these days, listen to @NewLeftEViews explain what is and isn’t going wrong right now. 引用 @tracyalloway:NEW ODD LOTS What people get wrong about Europe's economic decline @TheStalwart & I speak with @NewLeftEViews about the nuances of Europe's co
It seems like the history of AI is basically a series of one technique augmenting an older technique, and then just dropping the older technique altogether. So does that eventually mean we can just have RL and no need for an original pre-training run? 引用 @not_ellington:It really does seem pre-train
Starlink will be of great help to areas of India that have bad or no Internet and even no mobile coverage. No country has perfect coverage, including America, but Starlink can fill in the coverage gaps for those who most need it. 引用 @nitinmeshram_:In my village, there has been no mobile network c
🇮🇳 Starlink will help the least-served in India 🇮🇳 引用 @nitinmeshram_:. @Starlink is essential for India, and I hope it will be deployed soon. Its ability to connect directly to devices through satellites could fundamentally expand how internet connectivity is delivered. Also, we need many opt
Starlink provides Internet connectivity to the least-served, enabling self-education and prosperity by giving people access to sell their products worldwide! 引用 @XFreeze:Many people still misunderstand what Starlink is actually for Starlink isn’t a replacement.....It’s a lifeline “Starlink will g
People who oppose @Starlink hurt only the least-served. The wealthy or those living in large cities already have good Internet, so they don’t understand. 引用 @elonmusk:Starlink provides Internet connectivity to the least-served, enabling self-education and prosperity by giving people access to sel
There is little consensus on the effect of AI adoption on employment. In today's post, the authors study this topic for U.S. small businesses using data from the 2025 Small Business Credit Survey to examine the 12-month forward employment & revenue expectations of AI users.
On October 6, 2026, Vice Chair for Supervision Bowman gave remarks on modernizing regulation and supervision @stlouisfed: https://t.co/TdHpdx4GjV https://t.co/ubwQHalP7D
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells Fox's @IngrahamAngle that he hopes the Fed will keep an "open mind" on rate hikes and consider the example of the 1990s and Greenspan. What's interesting about this oft-cited analogy is that there's the 1996-97 Greenspan who resisted hiking https://t.co/xSQ2dV
There are clearly some Fed policymakers who favor an unconditional higher policy path, but the center of the Committee remains focused on incoming data rather than pre-committing to further tightening. https://t.co/eq6vcf4ZRE
Initial jobless claims down to 197k vs. 200k est. & 199k prior; continuing claims at 1.716M vs. 1.700M est. & 1.699M prior … greatest increases in CA (+4.6k), IL (+1.2k), & NY (+1.0k); greatest decreases in HI (-0.3k), MI (-0.2k), & MD (-0.1k) https://t.co/sW75FYCuOk
If SpaceX ($SPCX) was in the $SPX now, AI-related stocks would be 51% of the index. With Anthropic and OpenAI coming public, add them to the $SPX in 2027 and AI would be ~55% of the $SPX. The last time a single theme was >50% of the $SPX was the railroads in the 19th century. 引用 @AlexMalitas:AI-
We’re in the middle of the most acute refined products market crisis in history and China is… … cutting cuts to fresh recent seasonal lows. https://t.co/E7vpk6vNJn 引用 @VKMacro:China refinery run rates are trending lower again for SOE. Where are we on imports? https://t.co/fUREB6DGS8
PODCAST: Great to talk with Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer about the oil market, Iran, President Trump, and China. Spotify 🔉: https://t.co/PiC6w5OV5n Apple Podcast 🔉: https://t.co/Mao4AlL8XE Youtube 📺: https://t.co/CsZTFBsrp9 Substack 📄: https://t.co/AOQ3kFzqt3
The Trump administration said Thursday that it would suspend an immigration program for multiple tech firms, including Microsoft, alleging widespread abuse of a worker visa system https://t.co/9uAsxGpVLZ
Bullish sentiment jumped to 40.3% vs. 34.6% in latest @AAIISentiment (week ending 10/7/26) while bearish sentiment declined sharply to 39.0% from 46.5% the prior week ... this week’s special question polls AAII members on allocating new cash https://t.co/VvsNHORes1
Let's hope that the use of gasoline / diesel online price-disclosure works better in the UK than it did in Chile, where it pushed prices higher (rather than undercut rivals, many gas stations matched their rivals' higher prices instead): https://t.co/69zTGrEYtF
UK Prime minister Andy Burnham announces the British government's plan to tackle rising energy prices: from today, UK drivers can consult the cost of gasoline and diesel at nearby forecourts on Google Maps. 🤔 引用 @andyburnham:I know people are worried about fuel prices. And I get it. You get to the
If something has been proven, but nobody knows what the proof is (in language that humans can understand), maybe that becomes the job of mathematicians. Though I suppose the bitter lesson is that eventually, AI also gets better than humans at translating the outputs of AI. 引用 @ValerioCapraro:BREAKI
Latest 3Q2026 real GDP estimate (a “nowcast,” not a forecast) from @AtlantaFed GDPNow model is +3.6% , down from October 6 prior read of +3.7% https://t.co/Q9OgM6Ykg2