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@mckonomy.bsky.social

International economics and policy for Bloomberg. And some snark Usually 35,000 feet above somewhere ✈️

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Irony is dead

05.12.2025 13:28 — 👍 1698    🔁 232    💬 54    📌 4

*HASSETT: TIME FOR FED TO CAUTIOUSLY REDUCE RATES

It's easy to make predictions about something that's already happening...

05.12.2025 13:30 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mike Johnson faces widespread Republican revolt One member called Johnson a "political novice."

“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?”
— Matthew 16:26
www.axios.com/2025/12/04/m...

04.12.2025 02:12 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

02.12.2025 18:46 — 👍 14396    🔁 4874    💬 1915    📌 1715

This nation would be a better place if just one White House reporter had the courage to ask "what the hell are you rambling about, old man?"

02.12.2025 22:00 — 👍 11313    🔁 1880    💬 365    📌 97
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Back-to-back in my timeline:

03.12.2025 03:09 — 👍 41    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 1

Wait, the White House is going to war with Sabrina Carpenter? Oh, this is going to get good.

02.12.2025 18:38 — 👍 586    🔁 111    💬 13    📌 11
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Traders Race to Price In Dovish Fed Policy Shift Under New Chair Traders in US futures markets are gaming out a wide range of policy paths as they weigh the prospect of a Donald Trump–backed Federal Reserve chair and a raft of delayed data that could reshape the ec...

What, exactly do they think a new Fed Chair, by himself and without credibility is going to change? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

02.12.2025 18:33 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Aaron Rodgers has the look of YA Tittle on his knees in the end zone. (IYKYK)

30.11.2025 23:41 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The storm continues in Ann Arbor. And oh, yes, the weather is getting worse, too.

29.11.2025 19:28 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

I had no idea how many Ohio State and Michigan coaches would be on here posting their opinions during The Game.

29.11.2025 18:37 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

At your Thanksgiving table, say a prayer for the National Guard soldiers shot in Washington.

27.11.2025 20:10 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Interesting marketing strategy: potato chips -- made from potatoes!

22.11.2025 19:35 — 👍 55    🔁 4    💬 9    📌 1
Post from the Department of Labor falsely claiming all the new jobs are going to native born Americans. That's not how that statistic works, which someone there should know.

Post from the Department of Labor falsely claiming all the new jobs are going to native born Americans. That's not how that statistic works, which someone there should know.

I take it there are no economists working at the Department of Labor...

21.11.2025 00:58 — 👍 24    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 2

Started to listen to the WH briefing, but the innumeracy and ignorance was too much.

20.11.2025 18:28 — 👍 53    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 1

*VANCE: JOB GROWTH IS GOING TO NATIVE-BORN AMERICAN CITIZENS

Tell me you don't understand the US employment statistics without telling me you don't understand them

20.11.2025 15:07 — 👍 20    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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ABC “News” Is Fake News ABC “News” is not journalism — it’s a Democrat spin operation masquerading as a broadcast network. The network’s longstanding commitment to hoaxes,

"Ah, but the strawberries, that's, that's where I had them, they laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the ward room icebox did exist..."

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

20.11.2025 00:37 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 0

The Three Stooges, wrapped up in one EDVA Attorney

19.11.2025 19:38 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

If Trump sends people $2,000 "tariff revenue" checks, which then helps the Supreme Court rule his IEEPA tariffs are illegal, does everyone have to send the money back?
Asking for 300 million or so friends...

19.11.2025 12:37 — 👍 46    🔁 9    💬 7    📌 2

It seems you can mess with Texas just fine. If you're from Georgia.

16.11.2025 07:44 — 👍 85    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 0
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Very strict rules at the Nepal Finance Ministry.

14.11.2025 02:21 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Even better than I suggested, from @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

10.11.2025 18:39 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

10.11.2025 15:02 — 👍 13836    🔁 3066    💬 1376    📌 636
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Why do the words F-You come to mind?

10.11.2025 15:37 — 👍 22    🔁 3    💬 5    📌 0
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Surprised I haven't seen this in every post about the "promised vote" on health care premiums.

10.11.2025 13:32 — 👍 204    🔁 30    💬 6    📌 0

Who is it that you will keep fighting?

10.11.2025 12:58 — 👍 33    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 0
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If you give a mouse a cookie....

10.11.2025 00:48 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sources: Trump wants D.C. stadium named for him A senior White House source said there have been back-channel communications with a member of the Commanders ownership group, led by Josh Harris, to express Trump's desire to have the $3.7 billion dom...

Once again, YGBFKM
www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

08.11.2025 20:29 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can we all agree that cinnamon-pecan-swirl coffee is not something that should be consumed?

07.11.2025 13:07 — 👍 64    🔁 5    💬 16    📌 0
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‘Our hearts hurt’: USDA directs Oregon grocer not to offer discounts to SNAP recipients “You cannot treat SNAP-EBT customers differently than any other customer,” the USDA’s SNAP Equal Treatment Rule reads.

One wonders what kind of human beings they are in our federal government.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

www.koin.com/news/oregon/...

07.11.2025 02:56 — 👍 376    🔁 143    💬 55    📌 10

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