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Now that government data is more or less back to normal distribution, the jobs report for the month came out this morning, and it’s just the kind of feeble growth the bulls wanted to see. In a nation of a third of a billion humans, a mere 50,000 jobs were added to the entire economy for the month. Over the past four years, the trend in job growth is clear.
A decade ago, Stack Overflow was where every CS engineer went to ask questions and get answers. It’s fascinating to see how, now that ChatGPT (and the like) make such places unnecessary, it has shrunk to nothingness.
Here’s where homes are coming onto the market (or not):
Every so often, I get the urge to run barefoot through Slope’s wonderful economic database. Here are some of the more interesting charts I found, any one of which you can click for an easier-to-read, screen-filling version.
