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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · Jul 21

🔔🔔🔔ATTENTION 🔔🔔🔔

Here is my long article on question of why Standing Repo Facility will potentially be one of the most important tools for the Federal Reserve in the post-QT era!!

Please taking some time to read it, i promise it's interesting!

Standing Repo Facility — the Fed’s soon-to-be most important tool?

Standing Repo Facility (SRF) is a relatively young Federal Reserve facility.

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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 12h

For the CPS, it seems like the reference week is this coming week and the interview week starts Oct 19

www.bls.gov/cps/definiti...

Table of reference weeks for the CPS from the Bureau of Labor Statistics website

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 11h

For Bloomberg, I wrote up an amazing trip I took in Italy in 2022. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Art of Being a Follower — Not a Tourist — in Italy

One great benefit of retracing the path of travelers past is finding places that are off the tourist circuit of the present.

www.bloomberg.com

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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 9h

i love that it's Daily Mail exclusive

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Jamie Carson @carsjam.bsky.social · 9h

It's not serious until they shop at Canadian Tire together.

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.bsky.social · 15h

“Big gold gain + big oil loss = historical anomaly.“ www.dailychartbook.com/p/778 via @dailychartbook.bsky.social @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 15h

this piece is 💯

Meet My New Boss. He’s Such a Good Dog

Meet My New Boss. He’s Such a Good Dog.

For years as a remote worker, I resisted the idea of a structured workday. But Thomas Truffle has forced me to see things differently.

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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 15h

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The Verge @theverge.com · 15h

Apple ends support for Clips video-editing app

As of October 10th Clips will no longer receive updates and won’t be available to download from the App Store.

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Ben Jacobs @jacobsben.bsky.social · 16h

🚨 Breaking: Steven Gerrard has decided to withdraw from contention for the Rangers role.

Gerrard has decided the timing wasn’t quite right to return and has now removed himself from the process.

Conversations were positive, and a full agreement was almost reached.

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Jon Mackenzie @jonmackenzie.bsky.social · 21h

Today on @theathleticfc.bsky.social's The Week in Football show we once and for all put to bed the notion that system = formation by exploring the differences between Glasner's Palace and Amorim's Man United.

@aakinwo.bsky.social, JJ Bull and I are joined by Carl Anka.

Link below

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Chad P. Bown @chadpbown.com · 19h

US-China tariffs: where do they currently stand?

- US average tariff on imports from China: 57.6%
- China average tariff on imports from US: 32.6%

Note: We have been updating this chart since September 2019

US-China Trade War Tariffs: An Up-to-Date Chart

Average US tariffs on Chinese exports now stand at 57.6 percent and cover 100 percent of all goods. China's average tariffs on US exports are at 32.6 percent and cover 100 percent of all goods. US tar...

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Mike Bird @birdyword.bsky.social · 17h

Just finished the final touches on the audiobook.Less than three weeks to go now, getting very exciting!

If you're interested, the best thing you can possibly do now is pre-order! Available all over the place - Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Guardian Bookshop and many other bookshops.

rob collins @cobrollins.bsky.social · 3d

Worked on the audio of the upcoming book from @birdyword.bsky.social the section on Japan was fascinating, I'm sure the rest is too. Finance bsky alert @peark.es @weisenthal.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Land-Trap-Hi...

The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset

The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset [Bird, Mike] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset

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Mike Bird @birdyword.bsky.social · 17h

PS, if you would like to review the book, if you'd like me to talk about it for an event, if you'd like me to come on a podcast or anything else, now is very much the time to get in touch and ask!

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Phil Smith @philsmith26.bsky.social · 16h

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 18h

Our new paper on the challenges of measuring AI is online @nber.org www.nber.org/papers/w34330

Making AI Count: The Next Measurement Frontier

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 21h

Kevin Bryan has a whole suite of tools. He even reinvented PowerPoint. www.kevinbryanecon.com/tools.html

Kevin A. Bryan - Tools

www.kevinbryanecon.com

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Chris Weatherspoon @cweatherspoon.bsky.social · 1d

It has, perhaps at least until today, very much gone under the radar how key to Sunderland's recent rise Stuart Harvey was

Sunderland AFC @safc.com · 1d

Sunderland AFC today confirmed the departure of Head of Player Recruitment, Stuart Harvey.

The Club would like to thank Stuart for his contribution and wishes him every success in the future.

🔗 safc.com/news/2025/october/10/safc-confirm-stuart-harvey-departure/

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Austan Goolsbee @goolsbee.bsky.social · 1d

At last week's Midwest Agriculture Conference, we were joined by farmers, the ag business community, and moderator @foxbusiness' Edward Lawrence for discussions on industry updates and trade conditions. www.chicagofed.org/publications... x.com/messages/med...

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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 1d

Google agrees with you :)

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Stacey Vanek Smith @svaneksmith.bsky.social · 1d

This is wild… Qatar will be building an Air Force base in my home state of Idaho to train pilots alongside US soldiers.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/heg...

Hegseth announces Qatar will build air force facility at U.S. base in Idaho

The move is a sign of increasingly close ties between the U.S. and Qatar.

www.cbsnews.com

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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 1d

This is US's SDR holding and allocations

1) kind of interested in how US accumulated that "surplus" of SDR since Covid

2) that surplus is less than USD 20 billion :)

3) In the 70s US has "used" some of its SDR (holdings less than allocations). I want to know more about that period

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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 1d

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

Trump: meeting not canceled with xi

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

BREAKING: President Donald Trump announced an agreement with AstraZeneca whereby the drugmaker will offer its catalog of prescription drugs to the US at a discounted price reut.rs/4mXbSjK

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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 1d

I think so~ :)

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Brian Romanchuk @brianromanchuk.bsky.social · 1d

Although I am happy to argue that the United States cannot be forced to default on US dollar debts, an open-ended guarantee of Argentina would severely test that theory. Because Argentina.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

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