no real need to splice and dice the data -- the deficit is on a train ride straight up right now. Heavy investment in an economy with a large fiscal deficit means importing capital from the rest of the world. Or put differently the US needs the world's imports to meet its
The US trade deficit has soared in the last 2 months and is almost back at its "front-running' (of liberation day) levels -- annualized the non-petrol August goods deficit was $1.7 trillion or so 1/ https://t.co/JvMK3f2qKe
Kevin Warsh wants investors to watch the economy, not the Fed. But two of his deputies stepped in last week and the probability of an October rate hike fell to around 25% from 70% ahead of any major new data. Why weaning the markets off Fed signals is harder than it sounds https://t.co/nnaySWiPHC
A pullback in oil prices sent stocks to all-time highs, with Wall Street also buoyed by renewed enthusiasm about the artificial-intelligence trade that has powered the bull market. https://t.co/YWr3Vi8dP1 https://t.co/oC6gDrTLjg
I am certainly expecting goods deficits of 5% of GDP or more and goods and services deficits of 4% of GDP or more for the remainder of the year. Momentum on import side is clear ... notwithstanding Trump's tariffs 3/3 https://t.co/JPaVCd4fUl
The 2025-26 U.S. tariffs have renewed the question of how much of a tariff reaches consumers, and how quickly. In today's post, the authors trace tariffs through import, domestic producer, and retail prices for U.S. consumer goods. https://t.co/qKgJSPqQKq
The US is now running -- see the August data - a 4% of GDP goods and services trade deficit. How is that being financed -- strong foreign demand for US risk assets ... 1/2 https://t.co/NUsmoSJYRh
I kind of agree with the “Europe is a museum” line. But see @jackclarkSF’s main takeaway from The Curve https://t.co/uARsnADpVU 引用 @talmonsmith:very good newsletter from @TheStalwart as usual. but im still in the Larry Summers Camp over the medium term here despite the near term volatility: "Euro
Grok @Bot can be your personal chief financial officer! 引用 @Teslaconomics:I literally hooked up ALL my finance accounts to Grok Bot. I really mean all of them: 1/ Chase 2/ Charles Schwab 3/ E*TRADE 4/ Fidelity 5/ Robinhood 6/ Wealthfront 7/ Apple Card 8/ 𝕏 Money FYI, this is a total of 30 acco
Kinda interesting that everyone focused on the rolling 12W changes in open vs. closed and when it got most pronounced everyone was freaking out. last two weeks with really good model releases (Opus 5.5, Sol 6.1) closed actually TOOK back share on volume. It's 52% open - 48% https://t.co/cDMNZtwUcd
White House widens access to tax-exempted diesel, which normally is restricted to non-road uses like farming (dyed diesel), in a bid to reduce fuel coast ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. The new rule allows dyed diesel use on highways until year-end. https://t.co/FzwpHp2HhS
People talk a lot about how the models are extraordinary in verifiable domains (math, coding etc), while not getting much better at things like writing. But is that actually true? Don’t AI-generated stories keep winning prizes and publication in prestigious outlets? 引用 @generativist:the models are
Shell CEO Wael Sawan on the new conversation around energy: “I think there's a recognition once again that you cannot have national security without energy security. You cannot have an industrial or an economic strategy that is not underpinned with a solid energy strategy.”
This is from the SA Tokenomics model which is the only granular split I've seen but again this is the 30-40% inference I cite in terms of monetized compute one could make the argument post-training/RL is inference too but if still used for training/internal purposes, I think it 引用 @socialcapital:~
Don’t these charts suggest that the monthly subs are still just heavily subsidized by the companies compared to enterprise APIs and that’s unsustainable 引用 @kimmonismus:Holy sh*t, Anthropic’s subscriptions offer so much more value, even compared to the new and efficient GPT-6.1 Sol. It’s not even c
Red dye will be added to all US diesel for both broad highway fuel tax relief and to remind voters of which colour to vote for in the midterms. 引用 @DeItaone:TRUMP TO UNVEIL PLAN ON RED-DYED DIESEL ON MONDAY: OFFICIALS
so we are where we are ... US manufacturing and ag exports are down 2.5% of GDP from their levels in the 1990s ... and are incredibly small v the US economy (~ 4 % of GDP) ... and that decline hasn't actually been offset by growing IP exports (even counting "irish" FDI profits) https://t.co/LZqI4SJo