Today I physically threw myself at an innocent 25 year old at my gym who was talking about buying the dip
Martha Gimbel
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Martha Gimbel
@marthagimbel
Executive director @the_budget_lab, former @whitehousecea, @indeed, @jecdems, @USDOL, among others. Personal opinions.
Joined January 2016
- Update: I am very excited to be working as a Senior Adviser at the Council of Economic Advisers
- The Economic Report of the President has revealed that the quality of interns at CEA is much better than it was when I was there....we never got cool ones like Steve Rogers, Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker, Aunt May, and John Cleese
- I for one am glad at this time that they’ve cancelled the Bloomberg terminal subscriptions in the government - just A+ cost savings that I’m sure are in no way impacting how the government can respond responsibly in this moment
- I just want to state for the record that in my college corporate finance class I was docked class participation points for saying that it was possible to have negative interest rates and yes I am the kind of student who 10 years later wants my points back
- I swear to god the last three weeks have been like being back in high school and I and my friends have done our homework and have come prepared and the athletes are just loudly pontificating in class about how the assignment was unclear and no one could possibly have done itThe U.S. now has World War II levels of indebtedness without fighting a world war. So where did all the money go? The Greatest Generation incurred that debt to defeat the Nazis and Imperial Japan. In our case, nobody even knows where the money went and you’re not allowed to ask.
- It must be amazing to have this much confidence and this little worry about being wrong about something you know nothing aboutNon Farm Payrolls are total garbage so I asked Grok: “Hey Grok, go look at the Bureau of Labor Statistics website for their non farm payrolls data. Tell me how many times their original forecasts have been revised since Jan 2020. And, of those revisions, how many times the data
- Whatever your policy views/differences, I have never understood the Elizabeth Warren is “unlikable” narrative. Every time she talks I just want to go get drinks with her and debate policy until 2am
- My husband just won a Tony award and I am so fucking proud of him
- I am signing off before I say anything out of anger, sadness, and fear I can't take back. Millions are barreling towards long-term unemployment. There are things we can do about this, both to stop it and ameliorate it. This. Does. Not. Have. To. Happen.
- It's $4700 because after we released the admin said it was 145 on China not 125.A new estimate from Yale Budget Lab released Thursday said tariffs will cost households an average of $4,400 annually. The researchers also said consumers face an overall average effective tariff rate of 25.3%, the highest since 1909. abcnews.link/IMRtQR2
- I’m sorry but @LHSummers’s face on the All-In podcast is just a perfect encapsulation of how I personally am doing at the moment
- Guys at some point we are going to have to tax SOMETHING I’m just saying
