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Mike Konczal
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People who are 3-5x a week generally provide ā€œreading the news and commentingā€ content; original analysis is hard and that you are at the pace you are is remarkable. You could imagine giving yourself a once-a-week freebie post (ā€œmailbag!ā€) but I personally wouldnā€™t trade your quality for quantity.

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mikekonczal.substack.com/p/will-the-l... Deep dive into some of the empirics of disinflation and the theory that the ā€œlast mileā€ will be the hardest. Came away from the exercise that these arguments, which may or may not be true, donā€™t jump out in the data so far. šŸ“ˆšŸ“‰

Will The ā€˜Last Mileā€™ Of Inflation Be the Hardest? Three Reasons Why It May Not.
Will The ā€˜Last Mileā€™ Of Inflation Be the Hardest? Three Reasons Why It May Not.

A place to organize my thoughts, debut my new inflation density app, put code somewhere, and outline some things I'm watching on the inflation front as we go into the end of 2023.

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Thank you! Itā€™s actually hosted on shiny apps for now; the basic static Quarto GitHub site wonā€™t run a shiny server. The shinylive library allows you to do this, but itā€™s brand new and I didnā€™t want to take that on with the application itself. But soon!? cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

shinylive: Run 'shiny' Applications in the Browser
shinylive: Run 'shiny' Applications in the Browser

Exporting 'shiny' applications with 'shinylive' allows you to run them entirely in a web browser, without the need for a separate R server. The traditional way of deploying 'shiny' applications involv...

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This is so weird - why doesnā€™t the link work from bluesky!!??!??

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Hi, I'm Jaime and I've been working for 8 years for the Wikimedia Foundation. The following are personal views and do not represent in any way the position of the Foundation (I don't and cannot speak on behalf of it). However, you may have seen this question by Mr. Musk and I wanted to respond A šŸ§µ:

Elon Musk answers to the Foundation Drive "Wikipedia is not for sale" asking "Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? [...] So, what's the money for?"
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I take I wouldnā€™t put anywhere that was out of closed beta is that you can clock the end of ā€˜indie sleeze eraā€™ to CHVRCHES.

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Is this a format thatā€™s common somewhere else? I love it, it feels like a 1980s computer handbook.

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A) how much did a stint in gov teach you about economics? B) a year from now, whatā€™s the guess at how you split your work between X/bsk/threads?

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Hmm it's out today, I had actually been thinking about doing something live tomorrow. Maybe tonight? www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfi...

Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF)
Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF)

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

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This is a great suggestion and the week gives me enough time to make sure I pull the right columns (Iā€™ve mostly played around with net wealth and student debt).

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Mike Konczal
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