brookstagg.bsky.social
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Here is NYC % Foreign-Born, by Year

Sources
1870-2000: www2.census.gov/library/work...

2020: This is ACS for 2019-2023 www.census.gov/quickfacts/f...

[can't quickly find 2010 online, point me to it]
June 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Long-term perspective: U.S. debt since 1790
#dataviz by @aliciaparlap.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
May 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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April 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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This is driving me crazy too. Not long ago 10% universal tariffs were considered the worst-case scenario, something even Trump wasn’t crazy enough to impose. Now have those PLUS 125% tariffs on China. Together, these raise raise inflation by about as much as original “Liberation Day” tariffs did!
why is *every* newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been.

What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.
April 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.
February 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Zelenskyy showed more courage and intestinal fortitude today than the entire Republican Party since 2016. It's shocking to see someone refuse to bend the knee and become a supplicant.
February 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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This result keeps showing up in studies.

GPT-4 does a good job on patient care tasks, better than the mean doctor, but doctor-AI teams do not outperform AI alone. Figuring out how to gain more when human & AI work together needs to be a bigger priority in integrating AI into work
February 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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JOLTS:

1/ Tentative evidence that labor market stabilization may be underway. Hires and quits haven't fallen much since late summer.

We've had headfakes like this before so I'm cautious, but stabilization is my baseline for 2025 (this is Dec 2024 data).
February 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM