Trends in Educational Attainment in the U.S. Labor Force

found 2025 › May › 11 (Sun) @ 14:55 UTC

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The first graph shows the unemployment rate by four levels of education (all groups are 25 years and older) through April 2025. Note: This is an update to a post from several years ago.

Unfortunatel…

Recession Watch Metrics

found 2025 › May › 05 (Mon) @ 18:50 UTC

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Early in February, I expressed my "increasing concern" about the negative economic impact of "executive / fiscal policy errors", however, I concluded that post by noting that I was not currently on r…

Recession Watch Metrics

found 2025 › Apr › 07 (Mon) @ 14:55 UTC

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Early in February, I expressed my "increasing concern" about the negative economic impact of "executive / fiscal policy errors", however, I concluded that post by noting that I was not currently on r…

UK scientists develop DNA sequencing system to fight superbugs

found 2025 › Mar › 06 (Thu) @ 06:46 UTC

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Exclusive: Sequencing will help doctors identify bacteria that cause infections and offer effective treatments faster and more accurately

Scientists have developed a rapid DNA sequencing system to ste…

Heavy Truck Sales Decreased 9% YoY in February

found 2025 › Mar › 05 (Wed) @ 06:31 UTC

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This graph shows heavy truck sales since 1967 using data from the BEA. The dashed line is the February 2025 seasonally adjusted annual sales rate (SAAR) of 460 thousand.

Heavy truck sales really col…

‘It shatters my heart’: the slow death of India’s once-famous Urdu book bazaar

found 2025 › Feb › 25 (Tue) @ 07:15 UTC

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For over a century, poets, publishers and printers filled this Delhi district’s narrow lanes. But as profits plummet, bookshops are being replaced by kebab shops

Inside one of the oldest bookshops in …

Housing Starts and Recessions

found 2025 › Feb › 23 (Sun) @ 21:27 UTC

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This morning, Carl Quintanilla posted a graph on Bluesky from BESPOKE suggesting the US is heading towards a recession.

Quintanilla quoted BESPOKE:

“On a 12-month average basis, .. Housing Starts h…

Heavy Truck Sales Increased 5% YoY in January

found 2025 › Feb › 04 (Tue) @ 21:41 UTC

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This graph shows heavy truck sales since 1967 using data from the BEA. The dashed line is the January 2025 seasonally adjusted annual sales rate (SAAR) of 534 thousand.

Heavy truck sales really coll…