mary childs

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Would you trust an economist with your economy? : Planet Money Trust in experts is down. In all kinds of institutions and professions - in government, in media, in medical science... and lately, economists are feeling the burn acutely. In fact, President Trump ju...

today's @planetmoney.bsky.social: on economists and trust www.npr.org/2025/08/01/1... @amandaaronczyk.bsky.social

Trump, Claiming Weak Jobs Numbers Were ‘Rigged,’ Fires Labor Official

For months, people have been asking me whether I still trusted gov’t data. My answer was always the same: The stats agencies faced longstanding challenges, some of which Trump was making worse. But there was no sign of political meddling.
I can’t say that anymore.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

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Mary's piece is beautiful and true. As an aside, my first two jobs as a journalist were in public radio. Both were new projects, experiments supported by the CPB. Public radio takes risks, and trains the people who move on to other newsrooms.

Lovely, from one of public radio's finest voices working today

!! silvia!! ❤️

What We’d Lose Without Public Radio

an incredibly earnest and apolitical post for Vogue about what we lose if (when?) we lose public radio
www.vogue.com/article/what...

Eric Puchner on Humor, Craft, and Creating “Perfect Ambivalence” on the Page AuthorRVA is a a series of author conversations at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Richmond Virginia, presented by Lit Hub senior editor and novelist Jessie Gaynor, author and NPR host Mary C…

"It’s so seductive to think, `life is elsewhere. If only I had done this and not this, I would have a happier life.' No, you’d just have a different life."
-- novelist Eric Puchner to @jessiegaynor.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/eric-puchner...

Debt Reckoning, by Mary Childs Has the Treasury market started to crack?

“The debt of the U.S. government has a special, almost holy place in global finance.”

@marychilds.bsky.social reports on the state of the U.S. Treasury market.

"as a borrower, the US has been seen as risk-free. That confidence itself confers a benefit, in which rates are fantastically low for “risk-free” borrowers like us."
@marychilds.bsky.social on how the almighty US treasury now goes up and down with Trump tweets harpers.org/archive/2025...

fair!! i can support being mean but ONLY if you are also right (and funny, and not aCTUALLY mean). thank you for acknowledging that bonds are fun. my work here is done

oh no
you summoned me

i was eating melted ice cream once and told kid it was "brown soup" :( she did not question further

? is that supported by the literature? my impression is that in general the lower birth rates have come first

Debt Reckoning, by Mary Childs Has the Treasury market started to crack?

“The supposedly safest and largest bond market, on which the entire global financial system rests, has been cracking for years.”

@marychilds.bsky.social reports on the state of the U.S. Treasury market.

The deadly risk of trying to reach food in Gaza An NPR journalist in Gaza describes his experience seeking food from a site run by private American contractors, facing Israeli military fire, crowds fighting for rations, and masked thieves.

. @npr.org is one of the only US national news organizations that still has a reporter inside Gaza, Anas Baba, and he keeps reporting even though he himself is starving. This piece is unbelievably powerful.
www.npr.org/2025/07/05/n...

Once considered a safe investment, U.S. Treasuries now feel shakier For decades, U.S. Treasuries have been among the safest investments. But in recent months, trust in U.S. Treasuries has felt shakier.

“It’s kind of invisible, like when you set down a bowl and you can hear it crack but you can’t see it yet.”

@marychilds.bsky.social on the fraying trust in U.S. Treasury securities on @npr.org 's Morning Edition.

Once considered a safe investment, U.S. Treasuries now feel shakier For decades, U.S. Treasuries have been among the safest investments. But in recent months, trust in U.S. Treasuries has felt shakier.

on @npr.org this morning talking about the growing risks in the Treasury market!!! and how it feels like when you set a bowl down and you can HEAR a crack in it but you can’t see anything yet
www.npr.org/2025/07/25/n...

Debt Reckoning, by Mary Childs Has the Treasury market started to crack?

“The debt of the U.S. government has a special, almost holy place in global finance.”

Mary Childs (@marychilds.bsky.social) reports on the state of the U.S. Treasury market.

Debt Reckoning, by Mary Childs Has the Treasury market started to crack?

“In the United States, we’ve never had [a fiscal crisis]. Most of us can’t even imagine that this ignorance is a privilege we could lose.”
The pressure on the treasury market by @marychilds.bsky.social >>
harpers.org/archive/2025... via @Harpers

(and thank you <3333)

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I love waking up to a new newsletter from my friend @marychilds.bsky.social, who is much smarter about debt markets than I will ever be. offtherun.substack.com

when my work is done you will know ALL about debt markets!!!!!! it's not a threat it's a warning

How China created a chokehold on the rare earths industry China has been able to entirely cut off Europe and the U.S. from several critical rare earth metals. How did it develop such a stranglehold on an industry the U.S. once controlled?

"China has been able to entirely cut off Europe and the U.S. from several critical rare earth metals. How did it develop such a stranglehold on an industry the U.S. once controlled?" www.npr.org/2025/07/15/n... @emilyzfeng.bsky.social

ahhh thank you!!!

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“As a borrower, the United States has been seen as risk-free. That confidence itself confers a benefit, in which rates are fantastically low for “risk-free” borrowers like us. On trillions of debt, those savings quickly become real money.”— @marychilds.bsky.social