Justin Lahart
@jdlahart.bsky.social
Wall Street Journal economics reporter
This map make me think of this map
November 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This map make me think of this map
How much does it matter that the shutdown disruptions are happening during what is on an unadjusted basis usually the strongest quarter of the year for economy?
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
How much does it matter that the shutdown disruptions are happening during what is on an unadjusted basis usually the strongest quarter of the year for economy?
October 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Question is, is this the leading edge, since people can take time to file. And how much is people coming off severance vs. recently fired?
October 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Question is, is this the leading edge, since people can take time to file. And how much is people coming off severance vs. recently fired?
The signal ain't great: Hires minus separations was 15k
September 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The signal ain't great: Hires minus separations was 15k
Wonder what the one exempt BLS employee during a shutdown does
September 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Wonder what the one exempt BLS employee during a shutdown does
Quite the comment from the Dallas Fed manufacturing survey
September 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Quite the comment from the Dallas Fed manufacturing survey
I feel like the Progressive Policy Institute could have picked a better time to send this than 8:29 am on the day producer price index comes out
September 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I feel like the Progressive Policy Institute could have picked a better time to send this than 8:29 am on the day producer price index comes out
Speaking of pictures you can see in the Wall Street Journal, how about this one showing the share of people in different health-services occupations who are foreign-born? www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
September 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Speaking of pictures you can see in the Wall Street Journal, how about this one showing the share of people in different health-services occupations who are foreign-born? www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
National Bureau of Espresso Research has made the call
August 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
National Bureau of Espresso Research has made the call
Arthur Burns and William Miller presided over expansionary monetary regimes that helped fuel inflation. But 10-year yields were pretty well behaved until Volcker came in and started dealing with the inflation problem. The bond vigilantes don't roll in just because people think they should.
August 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Arthur Burns and William Miller presided over expansionary monetary regimes that helped fuel inflation. But 10-year yields were pretty well behaved until Volcker came in and started dealing with the inflation problem. The bond vigilantes don't roll in just because people think they should.
How can this possibly happen with America's massive current account surplus?
August 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
How can this possibly happen with America's massive current account surplus?
Something happen here?
July 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Something happen here?
One way to measure job market churn is to look at private-sector hires plus separations as a share of private-sector employment. In June it reached its lowest level, outside of the pandemic-shutdown, since early 2014
July 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
One way to measure job market churn is to look at private-sector hires plus separations as a share of private-sector employment. In June it reached its lowest level, outside of the pandemic-shutdown, since early 2014
I will buy you a beer if you can get this into the NYT
July 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I will buy you a beer if you can get this into the NYT
New CFO survey from Duke/Atlanta Fed/Richmond Fed includes this
June 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
New CFO survey from Duke/Atlanta Fed/Richmond Fed includes this
Chart is something else
June 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Chart is something else
And I thought I was America-centric
May 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
And I thought I was America-centric
Something happen here?
May 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Something happen here?
Seen some discussion of how the drop in foreign travel data was mostly about the Easter shift. What does a data series with seasonal adjustments that account for moveable feasts show?
May 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Seen some discussion of how the drop in foreign travel data was mostly about the Easter shift. What does a data series with seasonal adjustments that account for moveable feasts show?
Ahead of a sales tax increase in Japan in April 1997, consumers bought a bunch of stuff. You'll never guess what happened next
April 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Ahead of a sales tax increase in Japan in April 1997, consumers bought a bunch of stuff. You'll never guess what happened next
Net trade contribution to GDP lowest on record going back to 1947
April 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Net trade contribution to GDP lowest on record going back to 1947