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This week's (December 28 - January 2) and next week's (January 5 - January 9) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Saturday Saturday 1 194
Project 2025 Tracker 1 Hugin Dec 17 Dec 18 11 398
ADP Announces National Employment Report Preliminary Estimate Publicly Available on a Weekly Cadence 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 25 Nov 25 2 447
S&P 500 closed Tuesday 12/30 at 6896, down 0.1% ## Fed Meeting Minutes # Buffett indicator yipes 😬! 19 progree Mar 2025 Nov 15 12 4868
'It's like when you see the tsunami coming in': Agricultural economists sound the alarm about produce prices doubling 10 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Oct 22 18 1633
How is Bureau of Labor Statistics data collected, and why is Trump targeting it? 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 915
EF-0. Economy Stats with links to original sources. Links to LBN jobs threads thru 12/16/25 40 progree Sep 2012 Jul 2025 17 43693
Please help track data suppression and alternative sources. 7 jmbar2 Jan 2025 Jul 2025 11 2714
Markets - auto-self-updating embedded graphs: Dow, Oil, Dollar, Pound, Euro. Also: bonds and Listmania 5 progree Sep 2024 Apr 2025 8 5331
Notes on the Crises: Currently: Comprehensive coverage of the T&M Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025 2 usonian Feb 2025 Feb 2025 9 2308
Baloney Detection Kit 0 Hugin Feb 2025 Feb 2025 17 1942
Welcome to the Economy Group 0 Hugin Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 2007
USA Dollar Crashes - Joe Blogs 2 TexasTowelie 3 hrs ago 33 min ago 2 313
Sprinkles Cupcakes abruptly closing all stores nationwide: Full list of current locations 1 mahatmakanejeeves Wednesday Wednesday 2 302
They Want You Working Until You Die (Social Security In Danger) Retirement Is Dead - Large Man 7 appalachiablue Wednesday Wednesday 14 579
List of H1-B jobs accepting applications, by state and agency 2 jmbar2 Wednesday Wednesday 2 247
AI being deployed to cap future wages/layoffs of new recruits 3 jmbar2 Monday Tuesday 7 301
USA Jobs Shock - Joe Blogs 5 TexasTowelie Monday Tuesday 8 540
Bank of America CEO says "the market will punish people if we don't have an independent Fed" - Face the Nation 8 Rhiannon12866 Monday Monday 5 438
50% of Americans Can No Longer Afford Rent, IT'S OVER. Private Equity. Half of Americans Risk Homelessness 8 appalachiablue Saturday Saturday 15 1030
Sears had more than 3,400 stores in 2005 -- then it was purchased by a hedge fund magnate. 8 mahatmakanejeeves Friday Saturday 29 1043
One Strong GDP Print vs. Zero Job Growth: Justin Wolfers Breaks Down the Data - Justin Wolfers BBC News 1 Rhiannon12866 Dec 25 Dec 25 4 344
Justin Wolfers: Why the Media Gets the Economy--and the Market--Wrong - The 11th Hour - MS NOW 0 Rhiannon12866 Dec 25 Dec 25 8 432
Jobs Could Soon Replace Prices as Focus of Anxiety - Greg Ip 2 question everything Dec 22 Dec 23 2 382
Healthcare Future, A CEO Wanted To Run Healthcare Like TACO BELL Fast Food Restaurant 🔔 How His Patients Are Doing 0 appalachiablue Dec 22 Dec 22 6 506
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern file historic $85 billion rail merger proposal with federal regulators 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 22 Dec 22 3 298
Mitt Romney: Tax the rich, like me 0 peppertree Dec 21 Dec 21 15 389
Economic Confidence Slips; Holiday Spending Plans Plummet 6 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 19 Dec 19 8 450
Trump's glowing account of progress is at odds with his government's own stats 4 peppertree Dec 18 Dec 18 5 296
Inflation expected to remain above Fed target in November as economic data schedule gets back on track 2 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 18 Dec 18 1 282

Economy Continued...

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Trump says he plans to send more checks, this time to service members 10 TexasTowelie Dec 17 Dec 18 5 414
Employers likely added 40,000 jobs in November as government releases report delayed by shutdown 9 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 16 Dec 17 5 522
'FIRED FOR THE HOLIDAYS' Ford Lays Off Entire Factory As Job Market Collapses, Corporate Abandonment 5 appalachiablue Dec 16 Dec 17 19 1056
The White House spread tonight as Americans continue to struggle with high grocery prices 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 16 Dec 16 8 720
Exclusive-Tesla board made $3 billion via stock awards that dwarfed tech peers 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 15 Dec 15 1 274
Ford takes $19.5B charge in hybrid pivot, cancels F-150 Lightning EV, launches new battery storage business 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 15 Dec 15 2 290
Robots everywhere is the 0.0000001% (whites only) ultimate goal. 0 Justice matters. Dec 14 Dec 14 4 485
1 Million Jobs Disappeared In America, And The US Job Market Is Collapsing 🪚 21 appalachiablue Dec 11 Dec 12 11 1090
This week's (December 15 - December 19) and next week's (December 22 - December 26) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 12 Dec 12 2 274
The Fed Chair Can't Be A Sock Puppet For Donald Trump - Senator Elizabeth Warren - CNBC 0 Rhiannon12866 Dec 12 Dec 12 5 316
How the White House is using misleading comparisons to make inflation sound better - CNN The Source 7 Rhiannon12866 Dec 11 Dec 12 10 505
Federal Reserve cuts interest rates amid mixed economic data and divisions in its ranks - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Dec 10 Dec 11 5 349
U.S. private payrolls increase by 4,750 on average in 4 weeks to November 22 - ADP 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 10 Dec 11 7 445
Powell says high inflation caused by Trump's tariffs - Reuters 2 TexasTowelie Dec 10 Dec 10 9 442
Home sellers are giving up at 'unusually high rate,' says new Realtor report 4 OnlinePoker Dec 9 Dec 9 15 820
Economic Policy/ Pick Your Financial Crash 6 Passages Dec 9 Dec 9 8 440
This week's (December 8 - December 12) and next week's (December 15 - December 19) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 8 Dec 8 2 348
The F.T.C. Chairman Who Tilted the Agency to Trump 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 8 Dec 8 2 380
Economic Policy Meet the Connectors 0 Passages Dec 8 Dec 8 1 294
Rail Safety Megathread. Updated December 6, 2025 [View all] 114 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2016 Dec 6 5 41750
I don't understand the employment data 6 question everything Dec 5 Dec 6 2 585
If you've seen the media ballyhooing today's positive consumer sentiment report 3 progree Dec 5 Dec 6 7 600
Inflation Report: The Fed's Next Rate Move Depends on Today's PCE Release 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 5 Dec 5 1 377
Layoffs 2025: Tech and government hardest hit as more than 1 million job losses announced so far this year 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 4 Dec 4 4 432
This week's (December 1 - December 5) and next week's (December 8 - December 12) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 3 Dec 3 1 377
Construction labor crunch drives up costs and deepens America's housing affordability crisis 4 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2 Dec 3 2 441
The Hidden Horrors of Whole Foods Grocery Chain 🫒 12 appalachiablue Dec 2 Dec 2 61 2630
Economic Policy Selling the Poor on Spending Like They're Rich 2 Passages Dec 1 Dec 2 26 797
Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers after city alleges years of abuses 0 Passages Dec 2 Dec 2 4 384
Economic Policy Sources of America's Hidden Inflation 1 Passages Dec 1 Dec 1 5 414

Economy Continued...

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Economic Policy The Historic Reversal of Cultural Affordability 0 Passages Dec 1 Dec 1 1 376
Abercrombie & Fitch, Walmart, Nike, and other major brands that say Trump's tariffs are pushing them to raise prices 2 Eugene Nov 27 Nov 27 3 715
CBS News Journalist Uses Pie To Illustrate Wealth Inequality In America 🥧 8 appalachiablue Nov 26 Nov 27 30 1536
The Poverty Line is actually $140K for a family of 4. Why so many are struggling and angry. 8 jmbar2 Nov 26 Nov 27 21 1239
The 'S&P 493' reveals a very different U.S. economy WaPo 1 question everything Nov 25 Nov 25 12 769
Busy busy day: ADP payrolls, Retail sales, Producer Price Index, Consumer Confidence 😱 UPDATED with LBN threads 4 progree Nov 25 Nov 25 10 593
BLS: Revised news release dates following the 2025 lapse in appropriations 2 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 19 Nov 23 3 511
The Middle Class Is Buckling Under Almost Five Years of Persistent Inflation 1 question everything Nov 22 Nov 22 5 545
This week's (November 17 - November 21) and next week's (November 24 - November 28) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 20 Nov 20 3 454
Delayed September Jobs Report Expected to Show Continued Weak Growth 12 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 19 Nov 19 7 1182
What to expect in Thursday's jobs report 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 19 Nov 19 0 435
Crypto coins are all dropping. 6 multigraincracker Nov 19 Nov 19 6 878
US Department of Labor welcomes senior Trump Administration appointees 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 19 Nov 19 2 774
US jobless benefits rolls in mid-October were the highest since August, Labor Dept says 2 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 19 Nov 19 7 527
10 Reduced inequalities Progress and setbacks in reducing income inequalities 0 Passages Nov 16 Nov 16 2 370
Bill Maher on Mamdani, A.O.C., Bernie and Democratic Socialists. So he goes off on the failures of Socialism. 4 3Hotdogs Nov 16 Nov 16 3 811
World Inequality Report 2026 Coming out soon 0 Passages Nov 16 Nov 16 1 532
Apple intensifies succession planning for CEO Tim Cook, FT reports 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 15 Nov 15 1 474
This week's (November 10 - November 14) and next week's (November 17 - November 21) major U.S. economic reports 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 13 Nov 14 2 371
Private Equity's Big Scheme, Gut Everything from Red Lobster to Hospitals, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA) 3 appalachiablue Nov 13 Nov 14 11 696
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