UwU!

Remember when everyone panicked about Verrilli stammering in NFIB v Sebelius, then it turned out Kagan, Breyer, and Roberts’s willingness to legislate from the bench was what really mattered?

US real GDP grew 3% over the last year, a large pickup from the 1.7% year-on-year growth seen at the start of 2023

Meanwhile, year-on-year nominal GDP growth actually decelerated from 7.1% at the start of 2023 to 5.5% now, hitting the lowest level since mid-2020.

Real GDP growth came in at 1.6% in Q1, softer than expected. But that appears to be driven by weakness in volatile components, especially net exports. Private domestic final purchases--'core GDP' made up of consumption & fixed investment--grew 3.1%, a very strong print.

The bad news in this report is not new news: quarterly inflation accelerated. I think Q1 overstates the remaining excess inflation--trend is probably running more like 2 1/2-3%--but it's still anxiety-inducing.

Today's issue of German newspaper Das Schwarze Korps (written specially for SS members) contains an attack on Superman and his Jewish creator, Jerry Siegel, for anti-Nazi views: research.calvin.edu/german-propaga…

Fellas, is it communist to use pricing to address negative externalities?

Apr 25th - The perfect date, it's not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.

📽️📅 Miss Congeniality (2000)

I screamed

does anybody on this app understand what presidents do

Need him to pull a Torsella

Viola Zhou what a kicker!

Viola Zhou more--just read the whole piece it's all excellent someone needs to write a book about this

TSMC Takes on Arizona needs to be a documentary

'U.S. engineers told Rest of World that some Taiwanese male engineers had calendars with bikini models on their desks and occasionally shared sexual memes in group chats.

A female American colleague, according to an American

Even the small, selective crowd isn’t feeling it

(in my head) “MF, we *invented* shibboleths”