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As crypto and private credit hit the mainstream, investor risk seen multiplying reut.rs/4pVTavk
As crypto and private credit hit the mainstream, investor risk seen multiplying
U.S. investors may soon have access to a greater array of products tied to asset classes like private credit and crypto as the Trump administration and SEC push to open markets, a change that some investment advisors say puts too much onus on individuals to protect themselves.
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December 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
As crypto and private credit hit the mainstream, investor risk seen multiplying reut.rs/4pVTavk
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Thinking today about this sentence:
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
Inflation is making homelessness worse
Rising housing costs, combined with persistent inflation for basic necessities like gas and food, have left more Americans newly homeless and millions more fearing they’ll soon lose their homes.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Thinking today about this sentence:
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
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It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love.
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
Happy Hanukkah
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love.
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
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I've been blown away by the generosity shown to my book this year, and wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the books that meant the most to me in 2025—along with a few I'm especially excited to see out in the world in the new year.
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December 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I've been blown away by the generosity shown to my book this year, and wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the books that meant the most to me in 2025—along with a few I'm especially excited to see out in the world in the new year.
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lol but like historically, if you want rights you have to fight for them. There is no silver bullet and there is no messiah.
December 8, 2025 at 3:19 AM
lol but like historically, if you want rights you have to fight for them. There is no silver bullet and there is no messiah.
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It’s not just NYC that loves free buses: two Maryland counties and the city of Baltimore already have them, and offer a great model for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and all lovers of free public transit!
truthout.org/articles/fre...
truthout.org/articles/fre...
Free Buses Can Be a Reality — Just Look at Maryland
Zohran Mamdani’s plan for free buses is not a pipe dream. Montgomery County, Maryland, made its buses free this year.
truthout.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
It’s not just NYC that loves free buses: two Maryland counties and the city of Baltimore already have them, and offer a great model for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and all lovers of free public transit!
truthout.org/articles/fre...
truthout.org/articles/fre...
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They’re busy podcasting, unfortunately
Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
They’re busy podcasting, unfortunately
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Jared Bernstein and Aya Ibrahim are LIVE for Let’s Do Lunch! They’re breaking down how inflation affects you + answering your burning econ questions Tune in:
https://open.substack.com/live-stream/79918
https://open.substack.com/live-stream/79918
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Jared Bernstein and Aya Ibrahim are LIVE for Let’s Do Lunch! They’re breaking down how inflation affects you + answering your burning econ questions Tune in:
https://open.substack.com/live-stream/79918
https://open.substack.com/live-stream/79918
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Jared Bernstein is LIVE tomorrow at 12:00pm ET for another episode of Let’s Do Lunch with special guest Aya Ibrahim!
Got questions about Trump’s tariff failures or whether we’re heading toward a recession? Drop them below.
Got questions about Trump’s tariff failures or whether we’re heading toward a recession? Drop them below.
November 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Jared Bernstein is LIVE tomorrow at 12:00pm ET for another episode of Let’s Do Lunch with special guest Aya Ibrahim!
Got questions about Trump’s tariff failures or whether we’re heading toward a recession? Drop them below.
Got questions about Trump’s tariff failures or whether we’re heading toward a recession? Drop them below.
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“Stablecoins may dazzle as the latest financial fad. But they risk destabilising finance while enriching a few.” In a guest essay, an economics professor outlines the drawbacks of these digital tokens
A Nobel laureate on why stablecoins may be nothing of the sort
Payments systems must be built on public infrastructure, not speculative tokens, writes Jean Tirole
econ.st
October 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
“Stablecoins may dazzle as the latest financial fad. But they risk destabilising finance while enriching a few.” In a guest essay, an economics professor outlines the drawbacks of these digital tokens
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“We took an oath to defend the constitution. These are the moments we took that oath for.”
Incredible bravery by Paul Osadebe & many others at HUD fighting to keep discrimination out of housing against an admin hellbent on ignoring it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...
Incredible bravery by Paul Osadebe & many others at HUD fighting to keep discrimination out of housing against an admin hellbent on ignoring it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...
Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
“We took an oath to defend the constitution. These are the moments we took that oath for.”
Incredible bravery by Paul Osadebe & many others at HUD fighting to keep discrimination out of housing against an admin hellbent on ignoring it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...
Incredible bravery by Paul Osadebe & many others at HUD fighting to keep discrimination out of housing against an admin hellbent on ignoring it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...
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That's right. What's more alarming is ~97% of the current highway storm drains in the United States were designed using rainfall information that was published in *1961* using 1930s-1950s data. We're using infrastructure built for the rainfall of nearly a century ago. engrxiv.org/preprint/vie....
September 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
That's right. What's more alarming is ~97% of the current highway storm drains in the United States were designed using rainfall information that was published in *1961* using 1930s-1950s data. We're using infrastructure built for the rainfall of nearly a century ago. engrxiv.org/preprint/vie....
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In 2021, I warned that “family offices”—investment firms that manage the $ of tech titans & other billionaires—have more assets combined ($6TN) than all of private equity ($4TN).
Unlike PE, the public has NO insight into where they put that money. Zero.
www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/o...
Unlike PE, the public has NO insight into where they put that money. Zero.
www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/o...
Opinion | These Invisible Whales Could Sink the Economy (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
In 2021, I warned that “family offices”—investment firms that manage the $ of tech titans & other billionaires—have more assets combined ($6TN) than all of private equity ($4TN).
Unlike PE, the public has NO insight into where they put that money. Zero.
www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/o...
Unlike PE, the public has NO insight into where they put that money. Zero.
www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/o...
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A New Democratic Think Tank Wants to Curb the Influence of Liberal Groups
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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In 43 states, the highest-paid public employee is a college coach. Yet the athletes propping up the $19bn college-sports industry earned no salary--until this year. My piece on the upending of one of America's strangest economic systems
www.economist.com/united-state...
www.economist.com/united-state...
A $19bn industry is about to pay its workforce for the first time
The economics of American college sports have been upended
www.economist.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
In 43 states, the highest-paid public employee is a college coach. Yet the athletes propping up the $19bn college-sports industry earned no salary--until this year. My piece on the upending of one of America's strangest economic systems
www.economist.com/united-state...
www.economist.com/united-state...
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That’s my friend 🗣️🗣️ yes @ayyuhhh.bsky.social !!!
President Trump has attempted to exert control over the Federal Reserve, an entity that is supposed to be independent.
“The president would like control of the money spigot,” says Aya Ibrahim, former senior policy advisor at the White House National Economic Council.
“The president would like control of the money spigot,” says Aya Ibrahim, former senior policy advisor at the White House National Economic Council.
August 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
That’s my friend 🗣️🗣️ yes @ayyuhhh.bsky.social !!!
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President Trump has attempted to exert control over the Federal Reserve, an entity that is supposed to be independent.
“The president would like control of the money spigot,” says Aya Ibrahim, former senior policy advisor at the White House National Economic Council.
“The president would like control of the money spigot,” says Aya Ibrahim, former senior policy advisor at the White House National Economic Council.
August 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
President Trump has attempted to exert control over the Federal Reserve, an entity that is supposed to be independent.
“The president would like control of the money spigot,” says Aya Ibrahim, former senior policy advisor at the White House National Economic Council.
“The president would like control of the money spigot,” says Aya Ibrahim, former senior policy advisor at the White House National Economic Council.
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I don't care how deep into the deep state you get, there is nobody randomly looking at mortgage applications on performing mortgages. Anyone doing this would have to be asked to do it. And hopefully we will find out how and when they were asked.
The full story of the assault on the Fed has to include Bill Pulte, the Trump appointee who has been manufacturing the allegations against Powell and Cook. If Cook does indeed sue, we may learn more about how he used his government position to target Trump critics via lawfare.
August 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I don't care how deep into the deep state you get, there is nobody randomly looking at mortgage applications on performing mortgages. Anyone doing this would have to be asked to do it. And hopefully we will find out how and when they were asked.
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Dollar struggles to recover from Powell's dovish surprise reut.rs/3HNdFJC
Dollar struggles to recover from Powell's dovish surprise
The U.S. dollar attempted on Monday to pull itself up from a four-week low on the euro after a dovish pivot from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sent it tumbling more than 1%.
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August 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Dollar struggles to recover from Powell's dovish surprise reut.rs/3HNdFJC
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Hot U.S. inflation data rattles global bond markets reut.rs/3Hc13f5
Hot U.S. inflation data rattles global bond markets
U.S. stagflation fears seeped into global markets on Thursday after surprisingly hot inflation data applied heavy pressure to U.S. Treasuries and sparked selling of government bonds everywhere from Germany to Japan.
reut.rs
August 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Hot U.S. inflation data rattles global bond markets reut.rs/3Hc13f5
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“Trust is very hard to earn and it is very easily lost… once you have injected doubts into the way that we collect and analyze information about the state of our economy, it’s a very difficult genie to put back in the bottle.”
Watch Economist Aya Ibrahim in conversation with Jen Rubin:
Watch Economist Aya Ibrahim in conversation with Jen Rubin:
Trump's economics are intellectually inconsistent: Aya Ibrahim explains
"Trust is very hard to earn, and it is very easily lost."
contrarian.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“Trust is very hard to earn and it is very easily lost… once you have injected doubts into the way that we collect and analyze information about the state of our economy, it’s a very difficult genie to put back in the bottle.”
Watch Economist Aya Ibrahim in conversation with Jen Rubin:
Watch Economist Aya Ibrahim in conversation with Jen Rubin:
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Since Trump fired Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, can we still trust the data on our economy?
Economists Jared Bernstein and Ryan Cummings will answer your pressing questions in a new ‘Let’s Do Lunch’ tomorrow at 12pm ET.
Comment yours below & watch LIVE on Substack!
Economists Jared Bernstein and Ryan Cummings will answer your pressing questions in a new ‘Let’s Do Lunch’ tomorrow at 12pm ET.
Comment yours below & watch LIVE on Substack!
August 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Since Trump fired Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, can we still trust the data on our economy?
Economists Jared Bernstein and Ryan Cummings will answer your pressing questions in a new ‘Let’s Do Lunch’ tomorrow at 12pm ET.
Comment yours below & watch LIVE on Substack!
Economists Jared Bernstein and Ryan Cummings will answer your pressing questions in a new ‘Let’s Do Lunch’ tomorrow at 12pm ET.
Comment yours below & watch LIVE on Substack!
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The impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on consumer prices is just getting started, according to research by Goldman Sachs
US Consumers to Bear Brunt of Tariff Hit, Goldman Economists Say
The impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on consumer prices is just getting started, according to research by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., adding more uncertainty to a Treasury market that has been gripped by shifting bets on the pace of interest rate cuts.
bloom.bg
August 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on consumer prices is just getting started, according to research by Goldman Sachs