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Bloomberg Odd Lots Podcast Transcript: An Interview with Former BLS Commissioner Bill Beach Publisher’s note (Nathan Tankus): A while ago I got the permission of my friends at Bloomberg Oddlots to clean up and publish transcripts of episodes that they didn’t have the time or inclination to p...

I have a bunch of writing to put out this month, but I thought it would be good to put out this transcript of an Odd Lots interview with former BLS Commissioner Bill Beach in light of the firing of his successor by Trump on Friday.

www.crisesnotes.com/bloomberg-od...

I don't say this lightly: The New York Times should fire the reporter and editor who chose to present a leak from the white house as if it was a leak from Harvard.

Don't print lies in the newspaper

we never learned why Biden refused Trump's Secret Service detail, at least in part because the Secret Service illegally destroyed all of its records from January 6th

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990 World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

Every TERF is like 'birds and bees, it's easy, folks' and (almost) every scientist actually working on questions of sex is like 'oof guys, what can I tell you, I have been working on this question for 52 years, and frankly, I know less and less every year' theconversation.com/world-athlet...

Nick Timothy has always been an unpleasant authoritarian racist but the direct endorsement of racist mob violence (and attacking the police for preventing it) is genuinely a new low.

By 1989, no individual in the GDR had any idea what the state's total external debt was. No one was even close. It's not an ideal situation to be in for anyone

do you know how painful being right is

Should also soft purge the military by cracking down on sexual violence/harassment, racism, and anti vaccines as a proxy for likely future oath breaking behavior. cant always win but we shouldnt abide this capitulation

also its right and good to do even if the Republican Party were a normal party

The average young democratic staffer is a too woke friend and the average young Republican staffer is a Nazi

I still want the mechanism explained to me that makes voters and interest groups suddenly like non 301 broad country tariffs. Especially because we have not seen the tail end of the effects yet

The infamous “no take, only throw” meme in which a dog asks its master to throw a ball but refuses to surrender said ball because it wants the ball thrown without it being taken.

American conservatism summarized:

Noooo… you were just supposed to end all the lib shit! You weren’t supposed to eliminate the reliable statistics and contract law that stem from the lib shit!

Yeah, as somebody also in the industry, the politicians are like “we’re gonna Frack our way to cheap gas powered energy for AI” and the actual fracking, pipeline, utility, etc. guys in the room are like “lol. Lmao, even.”

a significant recession has not happened during any zoomer's adulthood

This is a very strange combination of performative moderation and flirting with secession

Harvard “is seriously considering resolving its dispute with the White House through the courts rather than a negotiated settlement.”

The university president said “the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is ‘false’”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Looks like we've found another person to join Shawn Fain in the "left-capitulation" quadrant of the Democratic political compass.

Ok, I actually don't understand why he says Democrats refuse to commit to banning partisan gerrymandering, that was literally the first legislation introduced by the Biden Administration.

This does not make sense in a polarized environment, tariffs are going to be politically toxic to democratic partisans and swing voters alike in four years! I promise you they will be a dirty word!

I was at a fancy energy junket and the divide between the politicians/consultants and actual energy industry people was exactly knowing the lag time on a gas plant.

For folks wondering why Dems in Congress haven't tried something similar, the rules for quorum are entirely different. In Congress, only a simple majority is needed for a quorum. The same is true for nearly all state legislatures.

TX is rare in having a supermajority quorum requirement.

A note that the school system asked for 800m, and the legislature was able to get them 50m.

Then Dunleavy vetoed even that and offered a mealy mouthed 'it doesn't do enough for charters' bs response. Dude is going to single handedly sink the GOP in Alaska.

Alaska lawmakers override 2 Dunleavy vetoes, restoring $50M in education funding Lawmakers adjourned a joint session without considering any of Dunleavy’s other recent vetoes, including of school maintenance and construction funding and other bills that passed with bipartisan supp...

A defeat for conservatives in Alaska: the state legislature overrode the governor’s veto of education spending, restoring $50 million of funds for education. www.adn.com/politics/ala...

Had to check this is not a shitpost and alas it is not

"I would rather start a civil war than do reciprocal gerrymandering" is some uncut crank shit

very dumb, very bad! @votealexlee.bsky.social, this is surrendering rather than taking a stand on principle. this is losing, not having integrity. Neville Chamberlain, not MLK.

Well you know, how the prisoners dillema works is that when your partner says they’ll defect and has been defecting forever you just don’t defect and become better off for it

continue to be in awe of those (like ezra klein) who think there are "smart" people on the other side. these people aren't even well-versed and cogent on the genocidal ideology they are pushing

tried and failed to find an old tweet being annoyed about bayesian epistemology, but i did find this incredibly annoying and pedantic meme i made about people misuising 'priors' in the popular discourse, so the day is not a total loss