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This week's (December 28 - January 2) and next week's (January 5 - January 9) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Saturday Saturday 1 166
Project 2025 Tracker 1 Hugin Dec 17 Dec 18 11 383
ADP Announces National Employment Report Preliminary Estimate Publicly Available on a Weekly Cadence 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 25 Nov 25 2 431
S&P 500 closed Friday 12/26 at 6930, down 0.03% # Gold: +1.4%, Silver: +11.1% both to new records 19 progree Mar 2025 Nov 15 12 4842
'It's like when you see the tsunami coming in': Agricultural economists sound the alarm about produce prices doubling 10 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Oct 22 18 1615
How is Bureau of Labor Statistics data collected, and why is Trump targeting it? 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 902
EF-0. Economy Stats with links to original sources. Links to LBN jobs threads thru 12/16/25 40 progree Sep 2012 Jul 2025 17 43655
Please help track data suppression and alternative sources. 7 jmbar2 Jan 2025 Jul 2025 11 2692
Markets - auto-self-updating embedded graphs: Dow, Oil, Dollar, Pound, Euro. Also: bonds and Listmania 5 progree Sep 2024 Apr 2025 8 5309
Notes on the Crises: Currently: Comprehensive coverage of the T&M Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025 2 usonian Feb 2025 Feb 2025 9 2294
Baloney Detection Kit 0 Hugin Feb 2025 Feb 2025 17 1929
Welcome to the Economy Group 0 Hugin Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 1995
USA Jobs Shock - Joe Blogs 5 TexasTowelie 18 hrs ago 9 hrs ago 8 478
AI being deployed to cap future wages/layoffs of new recruits 1 jmbar2 13 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 6 217
Bank of America CEO says "the market will punish people if we don't have an independent Fed" - Face the Nation 8 Rhiannon12866 Yesterday 21 hrs ago 5 386
50% of Americans Can No Longer Afford Rent, IT'S OVER. Private Equity. Half of Americans Risk Homelessness 8 appalachiablue Saturday Saturday 15 944
Sears had more than 3,400 stores in 2005 -- then it was purchased by a hedge fund magnate. 8 mahatmakanejeeves Friday Saturday 29 1012
One Strong GDP Print vs. Zero Job Growth: Justin Wolfers Breaks Down the Data - Justin Wolfers BBC News 1 Rhiannon12866 Thursday Thursday 4 328
Justin Wolfers: Why the Media Gets the Economy--and the Market--Wrong - The 11th Hour - MS NOW 0 Rhiannon12866 Thursday Thursday 8 408
Jobs Could Soon Replace Prices as Focus of Anxiety - Greg Ip 2 question everything Dec 22 Tuesday 2 362
Healthcare Future, A CEO Wanted To Run Healthcare Like TACO BELL Fast Food Restaurant 🔔 How His Patients Are Doing 0 appalachiablue Dec 22 Dec 22 6 465
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern file historic $85 billion rail merger proposal with federal regulators 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 22 Dec 22 3 279
Mitt Romney: Tax the rich, like me 0 peppertree Dec 21 Dec 21 15 371
Economic Confidence Slips; Holiday Spending Plans Plummet 6 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 19 Dec 19 8 426
Trump's glowing account of progress is at odds with his government's own stats 4 peppertree Dec 18 Dec 18 5 284
Inflation expected to remain above Fed target in November as economic data schedule gets back on track 2 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 18 Dec 18 1 260
Trump says he plans to send more checks, this time to service members 10 TexasTowelie Dec 17 Dec 18 5 404
Employers likely added 40,000 jobs in November as government releases report delayed by shutdown 9 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 16 Dec 17 5 507
'FIRED FOR THE HOLIDAYS' Ford Lays Off Entire Factory As Job Market Collapses, Corporate Abandonment 5 appalachiablue Dec 16 Dec 17 19 1043
The White House spread tonight as Americans continue to struggle with high grocery prices 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 16 Dec 16 8 702

Economy Continued...

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Exclusive-Tesla board made $3 billion via stock awards that dwarfed tech peers 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 15 Dec 15 1 261
Ford takes $19.5B charge in hybrid pivot, cancels F-150 Lightning EV, launches new battery storage business 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 15 Dec 15 2 279
Robots everywhere is the 0.0000001% (whites only) ultimate goal. 0 Justice matters. Dec 14 Dec 14 4 474
1 Million Jobs Disappeared In America, And The US Job Market Is Collapsing 🪚 21 appalachiablue Dec 11 Dec 12 11 1066
This week's (December 15 - December 19) and next week's (December 22 - December 26) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 12 Dec 12 2 261
The Fed Chair Can't Be A Sock Puppet For Donald Trump - Senator Elizabeth Warren - CNBC 0 Rhiannon12866 Dec 12 Dec 12 5 304
How the White House is using misleading comparisons to make inflation sound better - CNN The Source 7 Rhiannon12866 Dec 11 Dec 12 10 485
Federal Reserve cuts interest rates amid mixed economic data and divisions in its ranks - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Dec 10 Dec 11 5 338
U.S. private payrolls increase by 4,750 on average in 4 weeks to November 22 - ADP 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 10 Dec 11 7 429
Powell says high inflation caused by Trump's tariffs - Reuters 2 TexasTowelie Dec 10 Dec 10 9 427
Home sellers are giving up at 'unusually high rate,' says new Realtor report 4 OnlinePoker Dec 9 Dec 9 15 807
Economic Policy/ Pick Your Financial Crash 6 Passages Dec 9 Dec 9 8 424
This week's (December 8 - December 12) and next week's (December 15 - December 19) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 8 Dec 8 2 337
The F.T.C. Chairman Who Tilted the Agency to Trump 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 8 Dec 8 2 369
Economic Policy Meet the Connectors 0 Passages Dec 8 Dec 8 1 281
Rail Safety Megathread. Updated December 6, 2025 [View all] 114 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2016 Dec 6 5 41656
I don't understand the employment data 6 question everything Dec 5 Dec 6 2 566
If you've seen the media ballyhooing today's positive consumer sentiment report 3 progree Dec 5 Dec 6 7 587
Inflation Report: The Fed's Next Rate Move Depends on Today's PCE Release 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 5 Dec 5 1 365
Layoffs 2025: Tech and government hardest hit as more than 1 million job losses announced so far this year 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 4 Dec 4 4 422
This week's (December 1 - December 5) and next week's (December 8 - December 12) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 3 Dec 3 1 365
Construction labor crunch drives up costs and deepens America's housing affordability crisis 4 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2 Dec 3 2 426
The Hidden Horrors of Whole Foods Grocery Chain 🫒 12 appalachiablue Dec 2 Dec 2 61 2612
Economic Policy Selling the Poor on Spending Like They're Rich 2 Passages Dec 1 Dec 2 26 782
Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers after city alleges years of abuses 0 Passages Dec 2 Dec 2 4 372
Economic Policy Sources of America's Hidden Inflation 1 Passages Dec 1 Dec 1 5 399
Economic Policy The Historic Reversal of Cultural Affordability 0 Passages Dec 1 Dec 1 1 363
Abercrombie & Fitch, Walmart, Nike, and other major brands that say Trump's tariffs are pushing them to raise prices 2 Eugene Nov 27 Nov 27 3 696
CBS News Journalist Uses Pie To Illustrate Wealth Inequality In America 🥧 8 appalachiablue Nov 26 Nov 27 30 1521
The Poverty Line is actually $140K for a family of 4. Why so many are struggling and angry. 8 jmbar2 Nov 26 Nov 27 21 1215

Economy Continued...

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The 'S&P 493' reveals a very different U.S. economy WaPo 1 question everything Nov 25 Nov 25 12 756
Busy busy day: ADP payrolls, Retail sales, Producer Price Index, Consumer Confidence 😱 UPDATED with LBN threads 4 progree Nov 25 Nov 25 10 579
BLS: Revised news release dates following the 2025 lapse in appropriations 2 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 19 Nov 23 3 499
The Middle Class Is Buckling Under Almost Five Years of Persistent Inflation 1 question everything Nov 22 Nov 22 5 533
This week's (November 17 - November 21) and next week's (November 24 - November 28) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 20 Nov 20 3 441
Delayed September Jobs Report Expected to Show Continued Weak Growth 12 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 19 Nov 19 7 1162
What to expect in Thursday's jobs report 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 19 Nov 19 0 424
Crypto coins are all dropping. 6 multigraincracker Nov 19 Nov 19 6 866
US Department of Labor welcomes senior Trump Administration appointees 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 19 Nov 19 2 761
US jobless benefits rolls in mid-October were the highest since August, Labor Dept says 2 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 19 Nov 19 7 517
10 Reduced inequalities Progress and setbacks in reducing income inequalities 0 Passages Nov 16 Nov 16 2 360
Bill Maher on Mamdani, A.O.C., Bernie and Democratic Socialists. So he goes off on the failures of Socialism. 4 3Hotdogs Nov 16 Nov 16 3 800
World Inequality Report 2026 Coming out soon 0 Passages Nov 16 Nov 16 1 520
Apple intensifies succession planning for CEO Tim Cook, FT reports 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 15 Nov 15 1 465
This week's (November 10 - November 14) and next week's (November 17 - November 21) major U.S. economic reports 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 13 Nov 14 2 361
Private Equity's Big Scheme, Gut Everything from Red Lobster to Hospitals, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA) 3 appalachiablue Nov 13 Nov 14 11 687
The Boss Has a Message: Use AI or You're Fired 8 question everything Nov 11 Nov 11 4 857
Trump goes after America's meat producers over rising prices after failed bid to boost Argentine beef 8 Eugene Nov 9 Nov 9 2 680
Trump team is secretly handing out massive tax breaks to wealthy American corporations: report 1 Eugene Nov 9 Nov 9 10 650
U.S. freight-rail traffic drops 3.9% in Week 44 4 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 9 Nov 9 7 515
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