@pricelaborecon.bsky.social
Salt Lake City born. Current Pennsylvanian (Carlisle). Labor economist. Flower planter, runner (recently back at it), Dad. Signal: price_laborecon.68
Nice revision, you work at a statistical agency?
05.08.2025 18:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0With a marketing team like this who needs enemies?
05.08.2025 18:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Coughs. Tastes great.
05.08.2025 18:05 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Who says itβs not!!!
05.08.2025 18:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As private grocers abandon low-income neighborhoods, Zohran Mamdaniβs public ownership proposal offers a direct solution to market failures and food deserts.
inequality.org/article/how-...
A modest proposal: βEarned Citizenship,β like birthright citizenship but automatic for immigrants who live in the US for a certain number of years and have no serious legal issues.
05.08.2025 14:23 β π 461 π 71 π¬ 25 π 12BREAKING: Watchdog government agency finds the NIH and the Trump administration have illegally withheld funds in violation of the Impoundment Control Act, and rips into HHS for failing to justify its slow-walking of funds.
www.gao.gov/products/b-3...
What is remarkable to me is this to me is how I assume affluent suburban people talk at brunch. Which is to say out there ass with absolutely no understanding what itβs like to have an actual job in America. This got elected President.
05.08.2025 16:05 β π 16 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Not even once.
05.08.2025 14:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Federal data showing what percentage of the workforce is Black or Latino has been deleted.
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0... (via @marketplace.org)
Alright people. I have a request. I want a simple five plank platform for the 10th congressional district. What five policies should a candidate run on. If you donβt like five, give me 10, 15, 25. Let it rip.
05.08.2025 12:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0The rich are different than you and me, amoral, reckless, disgusting people made idle by great fortune, made evil by power. Tax wealth to make it significantly harder for people of great wealth to traffic in young girls.
05.08.2025 12:14 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Yes, and lobbyists write policy-as they often do-to create that commitment.
05.08.2025 11:36 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0π± the end is nigh.
05.08.2025 10:32 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0π± the stop gods are like a unpleasant version of the menβs wear guy for your eternal soul.
05.08.2025 10:32 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0π± the stoop gods are judgy
05.08.2025 10:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0π± the gods of the stoop burn with indifference towards you.
05.08.2025 10:29 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0π± good morning
05.08.2025 10:27 β π 22 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Poison ivy is such a god damn menace
05.08.2025 10:26 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Reminder i hit the Brimley line awhile ago
05.08.2025 10:11 β π 47 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0There is always money to be made when a government is committed to making war.
05.08.2025 09:52 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1We all need editors.
05.08.2025 09:49 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Some of this was enjoyable. Clearly a gifted writer & thinker. Lost me with the uncritically embrace of skill biased technological change. Uncritically reading the economic literature leads one to assume market forces drive everything. someunpleasant.substack.com/p/class-and-...
05.08.2025 09:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The monopsonist certainly seems confident it will.
05.08.2025 09:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Is your market gonna clear baby?
05.08.2025 09:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 01979 ad for Premiat, a Romanian wine marketed under the Monsieur Henri label, Pepsi-Cola's wine division. During the Cold War, Pepsi bartered soda concentrate for wine & spirits in Eastern Bloc nations to circumvent currency regulations. Pepsiβs wine era lasted roughly from 1967 to 1991.
05.08.2025 07:19 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 2The digital shape up
05.08.2025 09:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Brits have been consistently misled by both the media and politicians on immigration. I can't imagine that these people didn't know what they were doing.
And it's nothing new. Polling as far back as 2013 show this country has a warped idea of immigration.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...