Do you work at BEA, BLS or any of the other stats agencies? I'd love to talk to you. You can reach me on Signal at bencasselman.96.
The meatpacking workers, many of whom are immigrants, have described low wages, being forced to pay for personal protective gear out of pocket, and say they face discrimination over their immigration status.
The Shahed-136 is a cheap weapon. But it’s much cheaper than most reports suggest.
In this new analysis, @yarbatman.bsky.social compares production costs in the US and Iran to come up with a better estimate for the cost of a Shahed: $7,000.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/cos...
Releasing 1/3 of the SPR over 4 months isn't exactly encouraging about where our government sees this going.
So glad polycrisis is over ;) @katemac.bsky.social
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
Matthew Yglesias is poking fun at the White House finally realizing its policy is too unpopular to run on? The guy who spent all of 2025 and until circa February of 2026 arguing Democrats shouldn’t even talk about Trump’s immigration/deportation policy? That Matthew Yglesias?
The New York City Council is considering a bill to allow the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development to seize buildings from landlords who have racked up housing code violations and debt from unpaid taxes and fines and turn them over to better owners.
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Yeah but Feldstein’s NBER marked the final departure of the inductive institutionalist methods that had made NBER important under Mitchell and Burns, so I would say losing Summers but keeping the econometric tradition is a wash.
OK, here's our story on the wild situation in Manhattan today where the Justice Department settled a monopolization case against Live Nation without telling its own lawyers.
We got one week of testimony that was going really badly for the company. But corruption won out.
prospect.org/2026/03/09/l...
Did AI write this tweet
“Sectors of Brazilian society previously uninterested in defense have begun to believe we need to acquire deterrence capability. Venezuela shows this is no simple task. But it is a necessary one.”
Lula’s Chief Advisor Celso Amorim on the new world disorder
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/a...
TPUSA is teaming up with Google and NextEra in both municipal and statewide races in Arizona, in part to control the future of a gigantic, publicly owned water and power utility, the Salt River Project.
Note the coalition here. Masks are coming off at the utility and energy intersection.
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
Gas at my favorite “never get gas there” station, arguably one of the most expensive in DTLA, is up to $8.25/gal
Even knowing how much they gouge it, that’s more than a dollar raise in prices in less than a week
Affordability politics in April 1917
Heard from some people at @unitehere.org today miffed that the NYT didn’t mention the union’s role in these NC races—they knocked on 46,000 doors! And this story doesn’t mention sone people quoted are Unite Here members.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
February 4, 2026: “The Raytheon deals aim to increase annual production of Tomahawk cruise missiles from the current rate of about 60 per year for the U.S. to eventually 1,000 units annually.”
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime
What does it mean for the cabinet to be “goon busted”?
Bo French, the former Tarrant County GOP Chairman who tweeted in January "We Are All Rhodesians," is going to a runoff in the race for Texas Railroad Commissioner (the state's top oil and gas regulator)
Alhamdulillah
Get a pick of the steel plant if you go through town
the germ of American capitalism’s motivating insecurity
they should allocate $100B to the BLS, in my expert opinion
This Day in Labor History: March 1, 1932. The Norris-LaGuardia Act passed the Senate by a 75-5 vote and was signed by President Herbert Hoover a few days later. This outlawing the most loathsome tactics used by employers against workers!!!
It's Amazon's world. Benjamin Y. Fong continues his wonderful journey to reveal how we're just living in it. The latest at Phenomenal World: The Apotheosis of Point of Sale Data www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
"Developing a general framework for regulating finance, holistically and structurally, which could be put to use when reformers have the necessary leverage, is no more utopian than what private markets themselves promise." Excellent piece by @lenorepalladino.bsky.social
This article is a whirlwind everyone should read, our own later-day Oglesby prospect.org/2026/02/26/n...
I used to take my older neighbor to shop here where'd she spend her SSI money. Sad to close!
"When Covid-19 caused oil prices to plummet worldwide, it was Donald Trump himself who called on OPEC to cut oil production and protect prices. This alone confirms the importance of the organization."
Former PVDSA president Rafael Ramirez speaks with PW. www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/o...
