Jim Tankersley

L.A. Fire Devastates Historic Black Community in Altadena For Black residents, Altadena represented something more than suburban living. It was a foothold in generational prosperity.

Altadena's demographics were already shifting with gentrification. The fire likely accelerated that and may lead to the erasure of a Black community.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...

Meanwhile, @jimtankersley.bsky.social is headed to Berlin. But as everyone knows, I won't miss him at all.

Do six months of exclusively solo bylines and then report back to me on this!

It's the end of an era on the @nytimes.com econ team, with @jeannasmialek.bsky.social headed to Brussels. Couldn't have asked for a better reporting partner for the past nearly six years.

Oktoberfest in November: WaPo financial reporters (circa 2016) bidding @jimtankersley.bsky.social auf wiedersehen in his backyard biergarten as he heads off to become The New York Times’ Berlin bureau chief! @daniellepaquette.bsky.social

Jeanna Smialek and Jim Tankersley Join International | The New York Times Company

I'm happy for @jeannasmialek.bsky.social and @jimtankersley.bsky.social but the DC economic policy press corps is taking a real hit here.

www.nytco.com/press/jeanna...

Democrats Got the Recovery They Wanted. It Wasn’t Enough. America’s economic growth is the envy of its global counterparts. But voters wanted more from the Biden administration — specifically, lower prices.

The American economy is the envy of the world — but not of the American public.

Me, from Berlin, on the global and domestic economic backdrop to Trump’s win: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/u...

Happy Budget Day. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03...

Big IRA news: CBO has effectively doubled its initial estimate of the costs of climate provisions (comparing 🍎 to 🍎), due to surprising popularity, expansive regs and some knock-on EPA regulations effects: www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/b...

U.S. employers added 199,000 jobs in November, a figure that partly reflects the return of striking autoworkers. The unemployment rate FELL to 3.7%. #NumbersDay
Data: www.bls.gov/news.release...
Full coverage: www.nytimes.com/live/2023/12...

A letter to our readers

a note to Washington Post readers: On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes.

So, an Oil Cartel Walks Into a Climate Summit … OPEC is a participant at COP28. Unlike the United States, it is moving to cut production.

Hello from Dubai, where there was one participant (with its own pavilion!) that announced cuts to oil production on the first day of the conference. It wasn’t the USA.

www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/c...

Simultaneous economic concerns in my colleague's dispatch from Arizona that a) housing price inflation is way too high and b) it is impossible to flip/sell a house right now: www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/u...

The final A-4 circular revision is:

1) a revolution in regulation
2) the update economists have been clamoring for, for years
3) very close to the draft rule except
4) centered on a 2% discount rate, not 1.7, bc it uses PCE for inflation.

Read all abt it! www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/b...

We’re listening to Thriller this morning and my daughter keeps telling me the chorus to “Beat It” is actually “Peanut!” So Halloween is off to a great start.

This remains my No. 1 source of reader complaints. Amazing.

Putting down the marker right now that the correct way to report the 2022 / 2023 deficit numbers is assuming the big Biden student-loan forgiveness never happened. Because it didn't happen!

(The other way is an accounting mirage that adds to the '22 deficit and reduces '23)

Now seems as good a time as any to pop up here, say hi, and ask how everyone is enjoying another week of Congress fumbling around in the dark for Nash Equilibrium?