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When unemployment for recent college grads is relatively low, NYT tells readers that college grads can't find jobs https://cepr.net/nyt-invents-story-that-young-college-graduates-cant-find-jobs/
NYT Invents Story That Young College Graduates Can’t Find Jobs

The media are trying every way they can to push a bad economy story in spite of massive evidence that we are seeing the best economy in half a century. (No that doesn’t mean everyone is doing great, it means they are doing better on average than in the past.)   NYT columnist Peter Coy […]

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"...there is an especially pernicious aspect to these discussions of tariffs and the contrast with “free trade.” While tariffs are undeniably protectionist measures, they are actually much smaller barriers to free trade than government-granted patent and copyright monopolies."

Turns out the kicker who told graduating women to go back to the kitchen, Harrison Butker, was raised in affluence by his physicist mother who specializes in gamma knife surgery, went to Smith, & hyphenates her name

Actually not a lot to unpack there. Basic af, really

But…

I didn’t know what a Gamma Knife was? But it sounded UNBELIEVABLY badass & sinister & also 💯 the title of a a bestselling dystopian SF YA series whose protagonist is named Soliloquy

THEN I LOOKED IT UP AND REALITY AGREES

Contrary to what you hear in the media, inflation is not out of control and the Fed really CAN lower rates https://cepr.net/blog/dean-bakers-beat-the-press/
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From Elsewhere:

DONT THROW AWAY YOUR ECLIPSE GLASSES‼️

stick your glasses in an envelope & mail to the address below so that kids in Latin America can use them Oct 2, to watch the South American Eclipse

Eclipse Glasses USA, LLC
PO Box 50571
Provo, UT 84605

Oklahoma’s governor refuses to let kids in his state access the federal government’s new summer EBT program, to ensure that kids can have meals when school is out. In response, five tribal nations have teamed up to provide the benefits to any eligible kids who happen to live on tribal land (which is a lot of Oklahoma). https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/us/politics/school-meals-summer-ebt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jE0.NZAi.mehkrnKm8xuN&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ugrp=u&sgrp=c-cb
Another Red-Blue Divide: Money to Feed Kids in the Summer

Congress passed bipartisan legislation to provide families that rely on subsidized school meals with help buying food over the summer. Nearly half of Republican-led states have yet to sign on.

The New York Times
Damn. Edge woke up today and chose violence 😂

One telling aspect of the targeted drone strike on World Central Kitchen is how, as Israel approaches its 200th kill of a humanitarian worker, neither Netanyahu nor the IDF even pretends there will be consequences for the soldiers or changes in policy.

Because it is the policy.

Imagine how annoying it must be for ISIS. You spend months planning a brutal terror attack, pull it off, claim credit and then everyone just comes up with their own harebrained conspiracy theories about who was really behind it. What’s even the point? #terrorism
The Washington Post's charts on how the economy has changed since Covid do not tell us the whole story https://cepr.net/correcting-the-washington-posts-11-charts-that-are-supposed-to-tell-us-how-the-economy-changed-since-covid/
Correcting the Washington Post’s 11 Charts That Are Supposed to Tell Us How the Economy Changed Since Covid

The Washington Post made some serious errors or omissions in its 11 charts that are supposed to tell us how Covid changed the economy. Wages Starting with its second chart, the article gives us an index of average weekly wages since 2019. The index shows a big jump in 2020, which then falls off in […]

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