New state jobs data came out today, and you can really start to see the negative effects of DOGE cuts on DC Fastest growth: S. Carolina (2.7%), Idaho (+2.6%), New Mexico (2.7%), Utah (2.3%), Hawaii (2.3%) Slowest: DC (-0.9%), VI (-0.8%), Maine (-0.2%), Iowa (-0%), MA (-0%)

Well, good thing the EU is a tiny place and not our #1 source of imports or anything like that

The American Time Use Survey came out recently, giving the most detailed look at how the country spends its days, so here's a quick thread 1st, the share of Americans reading for personal interest on an average day has fallen to the lowest level on record, down 10% from 2003🧵

Sure why not let's do one trillion percent tariffs who cares

I think this building is so bad it loops all the way back around to being cool

This website is so cooked that I am getting unlabeled advertisements from UFO conspiracy theorists

Actually, another month of the better US data is in, and there's still 0 evidence that anyone but Americans are paying for the tariffs on Japanese cars Will Oren Cass admit he has been lying & cherry-picking to support his pro-tariff agenda, or just move on to another argument?

THATS NOT HOW TRADE DEALS WORK

re: tariff inflation discourse, it's worth mentioning again that if tariffs *don't* raise prices, then there's no way they "incentivize" domestic production The mechanism by which they're supposed to re-shore industry is by increasing prices for imported goods and reducing trade

Literally two days ago, Trump announced they were blocking a bunch of sugar imports. Today, Trump says he's gonna make Coca-Cola use sugar. It's like he's actively trying to design the least sensible trade policy possible