David Harrison

GDP growth has come in strong so far in 2025. Yet, job growth in 2025 was barely above 0 at 15,000/month. So it looks like an AI productivity boom! ...economic data is never that simply. We may in fact be seeing a productivity boom...but certainty and why are still TBD. 1/

Can’t tell you how many times I’ve almost been run over by a driver turning right on red who looks left for cars but doesn’t look right for pedestrians or cyclists.

no one does crypto winters like @declanharty politico.com/news/2026/02/0…

I thought Murray did a good job at the WSJ but maybe he just doesn't understand how a major metro daily is not the same as a global financial publication.

No struggling newspaper ever saved itself by becoming a worse and less essential product. But what's happening today at the @washingtonpost is not just the latest devastating contraction of the news industry; it's the gutting of an American institution vital for a healthy society

Broad swaths of the American workforce may no longer have the spending power to meaningfully affect the economic statistics, says @nirkaissar. That has far-reaching consequences bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

‘Kiss the ring:’ Silicon Valley CEOs struggle to respond to Trump’s involvement in their businesses politi.co/4mmnjkK via @politico

Fed allies see Trump’’s attempt to upend the central bank as the greatest threat to the institution’s autonomy since Nixon put the screws to Arthur Burns. Unfortunately for the Fed, the coalition that’s preserved its independence is beginning to fray. politico.com/newsletters/mo…

The Wall Street fight you should be paying attention to. Really good piece by @declanharty politi.co/4myD8Fl via @politico

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, his first major action as interim NASA administrator. ow.ly/AWEI50WzIwL

Higher borrowing costs are here to stay. Even if Trump's new Fed chair cuts interest rates. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Trump just asked by ABC’s @jonkarl why he fired head of Bureau of Labor Statistics after dismal jobs report: “Because I think her numbers were wrong.”

Fed Chair Powell on Wednesday:

This is big: Trump demands firing of BLS chief after soft jobs report politi.co/47aiC9G via @politico

Biggest shift in labor market sentiment from one jobs report I've seen in a long time.

New: Crypto billionaires Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss pressed President Donald Trump over the weekend to reconsider his nominee to lead a small but powerful Wall Street regulator that helps oversee the $4 trillion market. w/@SophiaCai99 politico.com/news/2025/07/3…

Winklevoss brothers pressed Trump to dump pick for top Wall Street regulator politi.co/4lQhixb via @politico

"We have made no decisions about September," Fed Chair Powell says re: the possibility of a rate cut

Trump got his tariff hike. The rest remains murky. politi.co/3H4ISYz via @politico

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