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The 2025 American Community Survey should have come out today. But it has been delayed because of unusual political encroachment at Census. ACS drives business and policy decisions, especially in local communities, and is the primary input to Census’s immigration estimates.
U.S. consumer prices rose 0.4% in August and were up 3.4% from a year earlier. “Core” prices, excluding the volatile food and energy categories, were up 0.3% month-over-month and 2.4% year-over-year. Data: www.bls.gov/news.release... Full coverage: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09... #NumbersDay
Mark Cuban: "James Talarico. Let's go. I'm a big fan. He's honest, trustworthy, he cares. He'll do the right thing as opposed to the politically expedient thing. To Texans, do what's best for Texas. You've been voting for Republicans all these years, what have they done for you?" #momsky#sheshed
Oh, and the National Association of Broadcasters is pushing a captured FCC to sunset ATSC 1.0, so they can guarantee the implementation of DRM across networks. Requiring internet allows for targeted advertising. Too bad for rural folks without broadband who just want to watch the news!
The vast theft of wealth by Wall Street, Trump and corporate America is pretty much an endorsement of socialism. When you foster a legal system where property ownership has nothing to do with merit but only raw power you foster this political reaction.
I wrote up an obvious reason why the war in Iran didn't crash the economy. America prepared for it by stockpiling oil, a decision made in the 1970s when we aggressively managed markets with public power. There's a lesson here - preparing for shocks works. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/one-obviou...
This podcast episode (hosted by @ddayen.bsky.social and @matthewstoller.bsky.social) on how Meta is dying has an amazing, must listen side discussion on resistance to authoritarianism. Starts at 36:00. pca.st/episode/6aa8...
Positioning on Platner has become a way of re-litigating the war debates of the 2000s and the Bush/Obama response to the financial crisis. Those choices were unpopular for everyone but elites, so the discourse happens through scandal. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Enshittification by @doctorow.pluralistic.net has been such a fun, enlightening, and frustrating read. I loved the section on the so-called Anti-trust Renaissance under Biden's FTC. I've always been anti-monopoly but I'm as convinced as ever that it is crucial in de-enshittifying society.
A very weird manufacturing indicator, the sector is growing and the growth is accelerating, but manufacturing employment is contracting. And the comments from executives are deeply pessimistic. www.ismworld.org/supply-manag...
1. Trump has repeatedly promoted an online casino, Stake, on social media after its founder and owner, Bijan Tehrani donated $1 million to Trump's Super PAC, MAGA Inc. According to multiple state regulators, Stake is an illegal operation.