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Christine Zhang
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The Fed’s decision today to enact a quarter-point rate cut was not unanimous. Stephen Miran, Trump’s latest appointee to the board, cast a dissenting vote in favor of a bigger cut (half-point)

My chart showing some recent Fed governor dissents in today’s live blog:

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
A line chart showing the federal funds rate enacted during each meeting of the Federal Open Market committee since the start of 2024. The three meetings where there were dissenting votes by Fed governors are shown with the rate that the dissenters voted in favor of.
September 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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NEW: Labor Day is the end of summer (in the cinema box office)

This summer at the movies was the worst $$ since 1981, adjusting for inflation & excluding the Covid period, when many theaters were closed

Story by @theancientqueen.bsky.social & me - 🎁 LINK nyti.ms/42ap6ly
A stacked bar chart of the top five summer movies since 2019, excluding 2020 and 2021. The top-grossing summer films in 2025 produced less revenue than those in prior years.
September 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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If Trump succeeds in replacing Cook and Kugler, his nominees would make up a majority of the Federal Reserve’s 7-person Board of Governors

🎁 link to our story: nyti.ms/4mBYJxm
August 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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last friday, job gains from May+June were revised down by a total of ~258,000. the downward revisions hit virtually every sector, but jobs in state+local government were revised down the most

story by @bencasselman.bsky.social about why revisions happen, 📊📈 by Keith Collins+me

🎁 nyti.ms/4fpAbEI
A bar chart showing the combined revisions to job growth for months of May and June, by sector
August 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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CHART: How Mamdani, Cuomo & Lander voters filled out their ballots

Mamdani’s most common ballot partner was Lander, Lander’s was (to a lesser extent) Mamdani, Cuomo’s was himself/blank

Story by Meghan Morris, Eden Weingart & @emmagf.bsky.social

📊 by Ashley Cai & me
🎁 link --> nyti.ms/3J1Re3R
Charts showing the share of candidates ranked in each position, by ballots that listed Mamdani, Cuomo, and Lander first. A majority of ballots that listed Mamdani and Lander first ranked other candidates. A plurality of ballots that listed Cuomo first left the rest of their ballots blank.
August 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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a surreal scene at the hotel st george in brooklyn heights this morning
August 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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busy week for econ data. jobs report out this morning shows significant downward revisions for jobs in May & June, meaning job growth was a lot lower those months (~258K lower) than initially estimated

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
Chart showing job gains over the last 13 months. In July, the economy gained 73,000 jobs. Growth in May and June was lower than initially estimated due to revision.
August 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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can tariffs pay for tax cuts?

this chart in @lydiadepillis.bsky.social & my story shows an analysis by @taxfoundation.bsky.social

assuming tariffs continue, they won't offset revenue losses from the proposed tax cuts until 2029 — after many cuts are set to expire

🎁 nyti.ms/4kUVgsq
A bar chart showing the impact on federal government revenues of the administration’s tariff policy compared with the impact of the proposed tax cuts, according to a forecast by the Tax foundation. Under this forecast, tariffs would bring in additional revenue, but it would not be enough to offset the revenue losses from the proposed tax cuts until 2029.
June 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Happy Jobs Day (and, apparently), National Donut Day 🍩
news.dunkindonuts.com/blog/celebra...

Charts (though not Donut Charts), to come: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06... 📊
June 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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always thrilling when I get to do a scatterplot for work 🤓

www.nytimes.com/live/2024/01...
January 24, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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my last work project of 2023: trying to distill the Econ/Finance stories of the year the only way I know how … charts !! 📈📊📉

nyti.ms/48Bw3gw
December 30, 2023 at 5:55 PM
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38 additional strike targets for UAW, all distribution centers at GM and Stellantis

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A map showing the locations that are strike targets for U.A.W.
September 22, 2023 at 5:14 PM
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personally I still think a tiktok video is the best way to explain the Fed dot plot (see mine from June www.tiktok.com/@nytimes/vid...) but adding dots to our chart is also good 😊

www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09...
A chart with a line showing the upper limit of the actual target fed funds rate, and circles that show the range of Fed officials’ projections for future rates. As of Sept. 2023, the target rate is at 5.5 percent. The latest projections show, on average, a small rate increase by the end of 2023.
September 20, 2023 at 7:19 PM
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yours truly on the nyt homepage tonite, latest TikTok collab w @clairesandwich.bsky.social on the times/siena poll 🤓

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8NdN5WM/
Screenshot of the New York Times homepage tonight, showing a TikTok video about the Times/Siena poll
August 11, 2023 at 12:57 AM
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I convinced the powers that be at work to let us do this chart 😮💖

Most box office weekends are dominated by one (usually Disney-owned) release. This past weekend was a team effort … BARBENHEIMER dataviz

https://nyti.ms/3Q9NsXu
A stacked bar chart showing the movies that make up the top 4 box office weekends. In general, the number one movie takes up the lion's share of the sales for each weekend, but in the case of the Barbenheimer weekend (July 21-23), a team effort across "Barbie," "Oppenheimer," the latest "Mission Impossible" and others brought the box office total over the $300 million mark.
July 24, 2023 at 11:20 PM