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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<p>Nearly 90% of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cut as Trump's government downsizing continues<br>President Donald Trump is drastically shrinking the workforce and mission of the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CFPB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CFPB</span></a>, eviscerating an agency created after the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GreatRecession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatRecession</span></a> with the goal of protecting Americans from fraud, abuse and deceptive practices. <br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-doge-cfpb-elon-musk-456b747c367fccbcf3b74d2893cd1a35" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/donald-trum</span><span class="invisible">p-doge-cfpb-elon-musk-456b747c367fccbcf3b74d2893cd1a35</span></a></p>
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<p>The <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/JobMarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JobMarket</span></a> Is Frozen<br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Unemployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unemployment</span></a> is low, but workers aren’t quitting and businesses aren’t <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/hiring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hiring</span></a>. What’s going on?<br>The answer is that two seemingly incompatible things are happening in the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/job" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>job</span></a> market at the same time. Even as the unemployment rate has hovered around 4 percent for more than three years, the pace of hiring has slowed to levels last seen shortly after the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GreatRecession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatRecession</span></a>, when the unemployment rate was nearly twice as high. <br><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/jobs-unemployment-big-freeze/681831/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/</span><span class="invisible">2025/02/jobs-unemployment-big-freeze/681831/</span></a><br><a href="https://archive.ph/Nx8G8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/Nx8G8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯<p>a bro from the largest american crypto VC firm <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/a16z" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>a16z</span></a> is going to be running the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/CFTC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CFTC</span></a> which in turn will be the agency "regulating" crypto now that the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SEC</span></a> (also now run by crypto bros) has decided cryptocurrency is not a "security" (like a share of stock or a bond) but instead a "commodity" (like corn or pork bellies). which makes sense, as long as you don't think about it.</p><p>fun fact: the CFTC was the agency that regulated (and still regulates) financial derivatives and is more or less directly responsible for 2008's Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession.</p><p><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/02/11/trump-taps-former-cftc-commissioner-a16z-policy-head-brian-quintenz-for-cftc-head" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">coindesk.com/policy/2025/02/11</span><span class="invisible">/trump-taps-former-cftc-commissioner-a16z-policy-head-brian-quintenz-for-cftc-head</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MarcAndreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcAndreessen</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BenHorowitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BenHorowitz</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/VCs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VCs</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NerdReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NerdReich</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GreatFinancialCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatFinancialCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GreatRecession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatRecession</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BrianQuintenz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrianQuintenz</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fraud</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/finreg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>finreg</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/stockmarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stockmarket</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>finance</span></a></p>
Javier Fernández Cruz<p><a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Introduction</span></a> 👋 I work in <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/ComputationalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComputationalLinguistics</span></a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NLP</span></a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/SentimentAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SentimentAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/CorpusLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorpusLinguistics</span></a> at the University of <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/M%C3%A1laga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Málaga</span></a> (.es) @ the Tecnolengua lab.</p><p>My PhD thesis dealt with <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/SA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SA</span></a> and <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/CADS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CADS</span></a> the language of the <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/GreatRecession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatRecession</span></a> in the press and changes in <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/semantics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>semantics</span></a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/discourseanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discourseanalysis</span></a></p><p>💡 I'm into <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/technopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technopolitics</span></a>, <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Autonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autonomy</span></a>, <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/PunkRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PunkRock</span></a>, <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a>, <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a>, and the <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/RightToTheCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToTheCity</span></a></p><p>Here's my Scholar profile: <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EhEnu3wAAAAJ&amp;hl=es" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scholar.google.com/citations?u</span><span class="invisible">ser=EhEnu3wAAAAJ&amp;hl=es</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1733558/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1733558/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Apodaca: Chapman experts make an economic forecast for the coming year <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/accuracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accuracy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/chapman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chapman</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ConsumerSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConsumerSpending</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EconomicAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EconomicForecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicForecast</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EconomicForecasting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicForecasting</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/forecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forecast</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GreatRecession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatRecession</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/InterestRate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InterestRate</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/prediction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prediction</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RaymondSfeir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaymondSfeir</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/thousand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thousand</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>time</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/year" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>year</span></a></p>
Jon PENNYCOOK<p>'The average UK citizen is £10,200 poorer than they were as a result of the "Great Recession", says a new report by the Centre for Cities.'</p><p><a href="https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/01/23/a-torrid-time-for-uk-regions-as-they-level-down-not-up" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">euronews.com/business/2024/01/</span><span class="invisible">23/a-torrid-time-for-uk-regions-as-they-level-down-not-up</span></a></p><p>Andrew Carter, Chief Executive of the Centre for Cities: '"Everywhere, up and down the country, including places that were doing relatively well before, has been levelled down because of the lack of growth."'</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recession</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/growth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>growth</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/productivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>productivity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GreatRecession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatRecession</span></a></p>