Employment up 256,000 in December 2024; average gain of 186,000 jobs per month in 2024 Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 256,000 in December 2024. Employment rose by 2.2 million in 2024 (an average monthly gain of 186,000), less than the increase of 3.0 million in 2023 (an averag...

Not a totally fair comparison given post-covid bounceback in '21. Average of 186k per month in '24 though. www.bls.gov/opub/ted/202...

@loadingreadyrun.com siiiigh, fine, I'll sign up to the patreon.

If distracted walking can give me the power to finally recruit and train the Royal Spider Battalion then this missive has had the opposite of its intended effect.

For context: Class 1 & 2 ebikes are limited to 20mph and generally aren't what people are thinking of when they're complaining about giant ebikes. The problem is that the difference between a class 2&3 is generally just a software speed limiter that is usually ridiculously easy to switch off.

While I do think there should be a lot more enforcement of "class 3 bikes aren't allowed here", I'd settle for traffic enforcement keeping the actual motorcycles out of the bike lane to start with.

Reading through the most recent Epic V. Apple opinion feels like a manual in how to celebrate winning 9 out of 10 counts in your antitrust case by losing that 1 other count as hard as humanly possible.

Hey #EconSky, I'm looking to crowdsource examples for a paper. Any stories of disintermediation from a gig platform (Fiverr, Taskrabbit etc.) that you've regretted and where you would have been able to get a refund if you'd gone through the platform but could not because of transacting directly?

#Econsky Looking for some light reading at the end of a Monday? Consider my new paper with @leistenecon.bsky.social.

I'm freeloading off my coauthor's excellent summary, but TLDR: privacy regulation can have unintended distributional effects for viewers of platforms using a freemium model.

I had to buy ski goggles to bike to work because my eyes were getting cold. IN DC!!!

For the longest time I thought the complaint you're referring to was things not showing up in the subscription feed. I was extremely surprised when I realized it was stemming from people completely ignoring that feed's existence.