Jeff Helgerson
@jeffhelgerson.bsky.social
Engineer by day, beer drinking engineer by night.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Assuming it works out to like a $500-600 average value, I’d bet the median is like $100 or maybe less. And higher income households are already spending, so that might just go to savings. Again, that’s just my analysis pulled out of thin air though.
January 23, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Assuming it works out to like a $500-600 average value, I’d bet the median is like $100 or maybe less. And higher income households are already spending, so that might just go to savings. Again, that’s just my analysis pulled out of thin air though.
I’m about as far from an expert as you can get, but is there really a consensus that a few hundred dollars extra per tax paying household is going to juice spending by a large degree?
January 23, 2026 at 5:16 PM
I’m about as far from an expert as you can get, but is there really a consensus that a few hundred dollars extra per tax paying household is going to juice spending by a large degree?
I’d consider 7% of a company to be pretty decent layoffs.
January 23, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I’d consider 7% of a company to be pretty decent layoffs.
Legitimately thought it was the guy from Parks and Rec for a second
January 6, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Legitimately thought it was the guy from Parks and Rec for a second
Wait, schools are giving full weeks off in fall and spring semester with a 3 week break between now? Are summer breaks only like 2.5 months now to compensate?
December 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Wait, schools are giving full weeks off in fall and spring semester with a 3 week break between now? Are summer breaks only like 2.5 months now to compensate?
Oooph good luck with that. I feel Chicago’s airports are a bit of crap shoot when they’re fully staffed…
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Oooph good luck with that. I feel Chicago’s airports are a bit of crap shoot when they’re fully staffed…
As someone who lives here, I feel like I I must have missed some news somewhere…
October 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
As someone who lives here, I feel like I I must have missed some news somewhere…
1.6% is substantially less than I would have expected. I assumed they’d be closer to 5% honestly.
August 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
1.6% is substantially less than I would have expected. I assumed they’d be closer to 5% honestly.
Now you listen here sir, as a Denver resident and Rockies fan, this is….. probably a bit too close to the truth
August 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Now you listen here sir, as a Denver resident and Rockies fan, this is….. probably a bit too close to the truth
I wonder if the people responding to you can hear the “whoosh” as the joke whips right over their head…
July 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I wonder if the people responding to you can hear the “whoosh” as the joke whips right over their head…
As a Coloradan, I’d say it’s two things:
1. A lot of people held off selling hoping interest rates would drop. Our property taxes are crazy low so interest have a massive impact on how much you can sell for.
2. Our inventory was abnormally low pre-2020 so larger percentage increase.
1. A lot of people held off selling hoping interest rates would drop. Our property taxes are crazy low so interest have a massive impact on how much you can sell for.
2. Our inventory was abnormally low pre-2020 so larger percentage increase.
July 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
As a Coloradan, I’d say it’s two things:
1. A lot of people held off selling hoping interest rates would drop. Our property taxes are crazy low so interest have a massive impact on how much you can sell for.
2. Our inventory was abnormally low pre-2020 so larger percentage increase.
1. A lot of people held off selling hoping interest rates would drop. Our property taxes are crazy low so interest have a massive impact on how much you can sell for.
2. Our inventory was abnormally low pre-2020 so larger percentage increase.
Is there a longer interview where he explains how they duped him in more detail? The implication from this snip is that he was flat out lied to and manipulated into giving testimony that was false, which is a huge issue if the governor’s employees are doing that to secure testimony.
July 1, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Is there a longer interview where he explains how they duped him in more detail? The implication from this snip is that he was flat out lied to and manipulated into giving testimony that was false, which is a huge issue if the governor’s employees are doing that to secure testimony.
The seeming hostility towards all pedestrian bridge programs (such as the one off Sante Fe mentioned in this episode) is a little strange to me. If you want to argue the asthetics of this one that’s definitely fair, but taking pot shots at all pedestrian infrastructure improvements feels a bit off.
June 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The seeming hostility towards all pedestrian bridge programs (such as the one off Sante Fe mentioned in this episode) is a little strange to me. If you want to argue the asthetics of this one that’s definitely fair, but taking pot shots at all pedestrian infrastructure improvements feels a bit off.
What are the odds that he just finally sobered up and realized the last year wasn’t a ketamine introduced fever dream?
June 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
What are the odds that he just finally sobered up and realized the last year wasn’t a ketamine introduced fever dream?
The impact of tariffs is definitely important to consider, but assuming we settle somewhere around that 10% mark, the Tax Foundation estimates we’d still be adding about a trillion dollars (or more) to the deficit. We’d need around 20% tariffs to balance it, which would noticeably lower GDP.
May 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The impact of tariffs is definitely important to consider, but assuming we settle somewhere around that 10% mark, the Tax Foundation estimates we’d still be adding about a trillion dollars (or more) to the deficit. We’d need around 20% tariffs to balance it, which would noticeably lower GDP.
I think you can make the case that it works for a certain subset (high tech/high margin) in certain areas, but my state has a minimum wage of almost $15/hour and my city’s is almost $19/hr. I can’t see paying factory workers less than $30/hr here. Hard to make that work financially I imagine.
May 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I think you can make the case that it works for a certain subset (high tech/high margin) in certain areas, but my state has a minimum wage of almost $15/hour and my city’s is almost $19/hr. I can’t see paying factory workers less than $30/hr here. Hard to make that work financially I imagine.
Sometimes you timelines just match up perfectly…
April 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Sometimes you timelines just match up perfectly…
Judges are already putting injunctions against funding freezes though.
https://apnews.com/article/judge-blocks-trump-federal-funding-freeze-alikhan-484747ed8d8199f3fd029104dfd1cc3c
https://apnews.com/article/judge-blocks-trump-federal-funding-freeze-alikhan-484747ed8d8199f3fd029104dfd1cc3c
Judge extends block on Trump administration's sweeping freeze on federal funding | AP News
A federal judge has agreed to continue blocking President Donald Trump’s administration from freezing grants and loans potentially totaling trillions of dollars. U.S.
apnews.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Judges are already putting injunctions against funding freezes though.
https://apnews.com/article/judge-blocks-trump-federal-funding-freeze-alikhan-484747ed8d8199f3fd029104dfd1cc3c
https://apnews.com/article/judge-blocks-trump-federal-funding-freeze-alikhan-484747ed8d8199f3fd029104dfd1cc3c
What funding are they actually proposing to withold? Didn’t NFIB v. Sebelius say the Federal Government isn’t allowed to outright withold funds to coerce states? Furthermore, the president is bound by the impound control act to pay out funds allocated by congress.
March 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
What funding are they actually proposing to withold? Didn’t NFIB v. Sebelius say the Federal Government isn’t allowed to outright withold funds to coerce states? Furthermore, the president is bound by the impound control act to pay out funds allocated by congress.