How the Fed decides its highly influential "dot plot" rate projection (basically).
www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

I've always wondered where "bought the farm" came from. Turns out we don't know, beyond this:
www.snopes.com/fact-check/b...

NYT has more sources contradicting the FAA's claim than Newark International has air traffic controllers this evening.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/b...

Dear Indiana state lawmakers, Individual professors don't graduate students, universities do.
www.indystar.com/story/news/p...

In trove of Farmers Insurance internal records,
@susien.bsky.social + @meganmunce.bsky.social found the insurer shut down a probe of inaccurate rebuild estimates when wildfire survivors began to sue.

Experts reviewed the records for the Chronicle said Jázmin’s time inside the for-profit facilities appeared to worsen her mental health.

Over her last two years, Jázmin was hospitalized roughly 40 times in nearly a dozen different locked for-profit and nonprofit psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric units in general hospitals and emergency departments.

Depression and trauma from early childhood sexual abuse drove Jázmin to self-medicate, run away, self-harm. Her mother made desperate efforts to secure effective care.
But for-profit psych hospitals are now the backbone of the state’s emergency mental health system for kids.

By the time 15-yr-old Jázmin Pellegrini was found dead in an SF driveway last April, Chronicle reporters Cynthia Dizikes and Joaquin Palomino had already spent months investigating California's for-profit psychiatric hospitals.
They soon found her story epitomized the crisis inside these facilities.

Las Meninas

This review of a celebrated SF steakhouse is so brilliantly caustic it could probably dissolve flesh.
www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...