Eric Pelofsky

For three years, there were more job openings than unemployed workers — at peak, 2 jobs per job-seeker.

That has now flipped under Trump, and unemployed workers outnumber available jobs for the first time since the pandemic. My @Morning_Joe Chart:

New: Classified military intelligence assessments from early this month show Iran has regained access to most of its missile sites, launchers and underground facilities. Including: U.S. intel assesses Iran has restored operational access to 30 of the 33 missile sites it maintains along the Strait of Hormuz, and ~90% of Iran's underground missile sites are "partially or fully operational." w @Adamentous @maggieNYT nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/…

@JeremyKonyndyk Are we facing a hockey stick problem?

💯 A very scary time for these very courageous folks.

WHO declares health emergency due to Ebola outbreak in Congo w 80+ deaths. Undetected for weeks. USAID and CDC once worked there to strengthen surveillance. As I wrote in 2023, that cut detection to <48 hrs & costs. That’s now gone. This is the result. nytimes.com/2023/12/25/opi…

worth remembering the 2014-2015 ebola outbreak in west africa. the united states was fully engaged, deploying nearly 3,000 service members to help with logistics and health care, and had the Intelligence community studying and mapping out road, air, and water transport routes to limit the potential spread.   important example of effective us leadership and international engagement.

Price Increases over last 5 years... New Cars: +20% Groceries: +26% Family Health Insurance: +27% Shelter: +29% Restaurants: +30% Home Prices: +37% Electricity: +39% Dozen Eggs: +39% Gas Utilities: +42% Gasoline: +42% Transportation: +43% Auto Insurance: +58% Fuel Oil: +63% Ground Beef: +68% Coffee: +105%

Whoa.

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario. a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose. the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant. he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests. Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time. GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead. Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on. Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for. then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company." GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing. then he splits the users by income. Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%. 18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time. so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for. it isn't recommending the best option for you. it's reading the room. and the room is paying. read this: arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525

Great to see President @EmmanuelMacron today at @Elysee. We discussed key humanitarian crises and efforts to advance solutions for those forced to flee. Grateful for France’s longstanding leadership in supporting refugees and for its strong partnership with UNHCR.

May the fourth be with you

Pain at the pump: According to the latest data from AAA, US consumers are now paying a national average of $4.176 per gallon for regular gas (petrol)—a notable jump amid continued sharp regional price disparities. #economy #markets #gas #oil #inflation @AAA_Travel

US FARM BANKRUPTCIES UP 46% YoY — 70% IN THE MIDWEST

Reuters got DOJ's own records. 4,000 law enforcement jobs cut. National Security Division down 38 percent. Civil rights division down more than half. Drug prosecutions at a 20-year low. 7,000 positions unfilled. A former DOJ employee said they have no idea who handles a major espionage case right now. This is the tough-on-crime record. It's in their own budget documents.

The planet can spell your name – literally. 🔤🌍 This Earth Day, see your name written in landscapes captured by Landsat: go.nasa.gov/4ak4Cdu

Looking forward to about 9:30 pm ET on Election Night 2026, when the KS Senate race is called for the Democrat, and it becomes clear Democrats will take the Senate.

"That's no moon. It's a space station..." @starwars & @NASA forever! (photo credit: @NASAArtemis II crew)

Rockefeller will continue the conversation at its semi-annual Finance Forum on the margins of the 2026 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings -- looking at the size and scope of the #debt crisis, the impact of the #IranWar, and possible solutions.

Breaking News: The U.S. will allow a Russian oil tanker to reach Cuba, letting critical fuel in after months of what amounted to a blockade. nyti.ms/4ddfEEw

🚨 🚨 🚨 Whut?! cnbc.com/2026/03/23/vol…

🚨 🚨 🚨 Feels very familiar this morning … m.youtube.com/watch?v=L24Wol…