Long Covid Appears to Have Led to a Surge of Disabled in the Workplace (2022)(libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)

51 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 44 comments

Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?(libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)

22 points by jnord 2 months ago | 21 comments

Why does the U.S. always run a trade deficit?(libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)

300 points by jnord 1 year ago | 685 comments

What's Driving Rising Business Costs?(libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)

26 points by jnord 7 months ago | 33 comments

Sports Betting Is Everywhere, Especially on Credit Reports(libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)

38 points by m-hodges 7 months ago | 31 comments

Fed raises rates 25 bps(federalreserve.gov)

28 points by mutant_glofish 3 years ago | 0 comments

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon(wilsoniumite.com)

466 points by Wilsoniumite 8 months ago | 597 comments

A personal blog post revisiting the author's failed prediction of a 2025 US economic crash and arguing a crash may still be coming, using data such as FRED unemployment charts.

Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals(ft.com)

447 points by kvee 1 year ago | 2007 comments

Financial Times article examining why the US economy is outperforming other major economies, shown behind a subscription paywall.

US inequality is getting worse in ways you might not expect(theconversation.com)

19 points by JKCalhoun 1 day ago | 19 comments

The Conversation article by an economist on how US wealth inequality is worsening, citing Fed data on the top 0.1%, 2025 tax cuts, tariffs, and energy costs.

Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions(twitter.com)

954 points by enraged_camel 7 months ago | 633 comments

A post on X by economics writer Joseph Politano claiming tech-sector employment is now worse than during the 2008 or 2020 recessions.

Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years(dataforprogress.org)

543 points by hubraumhugo 12 days ago | 519 comments

Data for Progress blog post presenting survey data showing Americans' social activity has declined sharply over the past 30 years, amid concerns about a loneliness epidemic.

Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor Are Further Removed from Prosperity(lusopt2016.blogspot.com)

6 points by inandout 20 hours ago | 0 comments

A Portuguese-language blog post discussing why global economic inequality between rich and poor keeps widening, citing technology, cost of living, and billionaire wealth.