Michael McKee
@mckonomy.bsky.social
International economics and policy for Bloomberg.
And some snark
Usually 35,000 feet above somewhere ✈️
And some snark
Usually 35,000 feet above somewhere ✈️
Even better than I suggested, from @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Even better than I suggested, from @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
Reposted by Michael McKee
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
Why do the words F-You come to mind?
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Why do the words F-You come to mind?
Surprised I haven't seen this in every post about the "promised vote" on health care premiums.
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Surprised I haven't seen this in every post about the "promised vote" on health care premiums.
Who is it that you will keep fighting?
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Who is it that you will keep fighting?
If you give a mouse a cookie....
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
If you give a mouse a cookie....
Once again, YGBFKM
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Sources: Trump wants D.C. stadium named for him
A senior White House source said there have been back-channel communications with a member of the Commanders ownership group, led by Josh Harris, to express Trump's desire to have the $3.7 billion dom...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Once again, YGBFKM
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Can we all agree that cinnamon-pecan-swirl coffee is not something that should be consumed?
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Can we all agree that cinnamon-pecan-swirl coffee is not something that should be consumed?
One wonders what kind of human beings they are in our federal government.
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‘Our hearts hurt’: USDA directs Oregon grocer not to offer discounts to SNAP recipients
“You cannot treat SNAP-EBT customers differently than any other customer,” the USDA’s SNAP Equal Treatment Rule reads.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
One wonders what kind of human beings they are in our federal government.
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Totally sucks he got drafted by the Raiders
He’d have been a first round draft pick after his freshman year, it is frankly unfair that we got him for 3
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Totally sucks he got drafted by the Raiders
Challenger announced job cuts released early. 153,074 in October, up 175% from Oct 2024, highest for the month since 2003. YTD hiring plans down 35% from last year. Seasonal hiring plans lowest since Challenger began tracking in 2012.
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Challenger announced job cuts released early. 153,074 in October, up 175% from Oct 2024, highest for the month since 2003. YTD hiring plans down 35% from last year. Seasonal hiring plans lowest since Challenger began tracking in 2012.
Reminds me I haven't heard him talk about his "Michigan Man of the Year" award in a while.
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FIFA Will Award Its Own Peace Prize Next Month in Washington
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November 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Reminds me I haven't heard him talk about his "Michigan Man of the Year" award in a while.
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Barrett, a key swing vote, presses Sauer to show where Congress has in the past delegated tariff power to the president, other than perhaps TWEA. He struggles.
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Barrett, a key swing vote, presses Sauer to show where Congress has in the past delegated tariff power to the president, other than perhaps TWEA. He struggles.
Trump's IEEPA tariff is not a tax, Solicitor General John Sauer argues. "It's a foreign-facing regulation of international commerce."
Justices don't seem persuaded.
Justices don't seem persuaded.
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Trump's IEEPA tariff is not a tax, Solicitor General John Sauer argues. "It's a foreign-facing regulation of international commerce."
Justices don't seem persuaded.
Justices don't seem persuaded.
That we go into today's SCOTUS hearing assuming Trump already has 3 votes, and wondering how the justices could twist the law in his favor, is not a good thing.
And Bessent coming to sit in the front row is a bit Sopranos-like: Nice court you got here. Too bad if something were to happen to it...
And Bessent coming to sit in the front row is a bit Sopranos-like: Nice court you got here. Too bad if something were to happen to it...
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
That we go into today's SCOTUS hearing assuming Trump already has 3 votes, and wondering how the justices could twist the law in his favor, is not a good thing.
And Bessent coming to sit in the front row is a bit Sopranos-like: Nice court you got here. Too bad if something were to happen to it...
And Bessent coming to sit in the front row is a bit Sopranos-like: Nice court you got here. Too bad if something were to happen to it...
The K-shaped economy:
*MCDONALD'S SEES CONSUMER PRESSURES CONTINUING IN 2026
*MCDONALD'S: LOWER-INCOME TRAFFIC FELL NEARLY DOUBLE DIGITS
*MCDONALD'S SEES CONSUMER PRESSURES CONTINUING IN 2026
*MCDONALD'S: LOWER-INCOME TRAFFIC FELL NEARLY DOUBLE DIGITS
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The K-shaped economy:
*MCDONALD'S SEES CONSUMER PRESSURES CONTINUING IN 2026
*MCDONALD'S: LOWER-INCOME TRAFFIC FELL NEARLY DOUBLE DIGITS
*MCDONALD'S SEES CONSUMER PRESSURES CONTINUING IN 2026
*MCDONALD'S: LOWER-INCOME TRAFFIC FELL NEARLY DOUBLE DIGITS
Reminder to any president suggesting he might withhold funds from New York: the state send more tax revenue to the federal government than it gets back. So maybe we.....
November 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Reminder to any president suggesting he might withhold funds from New York: the state send more tax revenue to the federal government than it gets back. So maybe we.....
Courts? Judges? The law? Not in Trump's America....
November 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Courts? Judges? The law? Not in Trump's America....
@treasurydept.bsky.social Secretary says the Supreme Court should declare Trump's IEEPA tariff policy legal because... it's one of Trump's "signature policies."
Now, I'm not a lawyer but I don't think that is actually in the Constitution.
Now, I'm not a lawyer but I don't think that is actually in the Constitution.
November 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
@treasurydept.bsky.social Secretary says the Supreme Court should declare Trump's IEEPA tariff policy legal because... it's one of Trump's "signature policies."
Now, I'm not a lawyer but I don't think that is actually in the Constitution.
Now, I'm not a lawyer but I don't think that is actually in the Constitution.
Okso, what if a deal to reopen the government is reached and Mike Johnson can't get vacationing House members back to Washington to vote on it because all the flights are canceled because air traffic controllers are staging a sick-out? Can't end the shutdown because of...the shutdown?
November 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Okso, what if a deal to reopen the government is reached and Mike Johnson can't get vacationing House members back to Washington to vote on it because all the flights are canceled because air traffic controllers are staging a sick-out? Can't end the shutdown because of...the shutdown?
Basic primer on Trump cabinet interviews these days:
Cut off anyone who starts to lecture on the shutdown being Democrats' fault. We know you think that. There is no news value in allowing a filibuster on that.
Ask if Trump will promise no recission, no impoundment on any budget deal.
Cut off anyone who starts to lecture on the shutdown being Democrats' fault. We know you think that. There is no news value in allowing a filibuster on that.
Ask if Trump will promise no recission, no impoundment on any budget deal.
November 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Basic primer on Trump cabinet interviews these days:
Cut off anyone who starts to lecture on the shutdown being Democrats' fault. We know you think that. There is no news value in allowing a filibuster on that.
Ask if Trump will promise no recission, no impoundment on any budget deal.
Cut off anyone who starts to lecture on the shutdown being Democrats' fault. We know you think that. There is no news value in allowing a filibuster on that.
Ask if Trump will promise no recission, no impoundment on any budget deal.
I get it, no one would turn down an interview with the president of the United States. But there has to be a point to it.
November 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I get it, no one would turn down an interview with the president of the United States. But there has to be a point to it.
Hawk's nest: at least 3 #Fed bank presidents opposed this week's rate cut: Hammack and Logan (voters next year) and Schmid (dissented Wednesday). All speaking out today as blackout ends. Bostic, swing voter, supported cut but say now is preferrable to move slower. 10 other FOMC speakers next week.
October 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Hawk's nest: at least 3 #Fed bank presidents opposed this week's rate cut: Hammack and Logan (voters next year) and Schmid (dissented Wednesday). All speaking out today as blackout ends. Bostic, swing voter, supported cut but say now is preferrable to move slower. 10 other FOMC speakers next week.
*US HAS DECIDED ATTACK VENEZUELA MILITARY SITES: MIAMI HERALD
*US STRIKES ON VENEZUELA COULD COME AT ANY MOMENT: MIAMI HERALD
Just another normal Friday in America
*US STRIKES ON VENEZUELA COULD COME AT ANY MOMENT: MIAMI HERALD
Just another normal Friday in America
October 31, 2025 at 12:58 PM
*US HAS DECIDED ATTACK VENEZUELA MILITARY SITES: MIAMI HERALD
*US STRIKES ON VENEZUELA COULD COME AT ANY MOMENT: MIAMI HERALD
Just another normal Friday in America
*US STRIKES ON VENEZUELA COULD COME AT ANY MOMENT: MIAMI HERALD
Just another normal Friday in America
*BESSENT SAYS CHINA TO BUY 12M METRIC TONS OF SOYBEANS THIS YEAR
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October 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
*BESSENT SAYS CHINA TO BUY 12M METRIC TONS OF SOYBEANS THIS YEAR
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