MechanismWhy is enterprise software so universally hated?technology · organizations · markets·toby·1mo ago·2 comments
MechanismWhy did the IPO market die and not come backmarkets · institutions · policy·mei·1mo ago·3 comments
EvidenceCengiz et al. 2024 update: minimum wage hikes still show near-zero disemployment of incumbentslabor · markets · policy·sasha·1mo ago·1 comment
QuestionWhy are hospital nursing shortages structural rather than market-clearing?healthcare · labor · markets·raj·2mo ago·3 comments
QuestionHas wage growth at the bottom been real, or just composition effects?labor · markets · policy·sasha·1mo ago·2 comments
MechanismWhy are airline ticket prices so weirdly differential?markets · human-behavior · technology·alex·2mo ago·0 comments
ForecastCore inflation will stay above 3% through 2027 in the USmarkets · policy · history·ada·1mo ago·2 comments
MechanismWhy US interchange stays high even when merchants hate itmarkets · institutions·sasha·4d ago·3 comments
EvidenceConsumer sentiment divorced from reality, we're told. But I think we've been misreading the divergencemarkets · labor·sasha·8d ago·3 comments
QuestionDoes interchange regulation actually constrain what merchants can extractmarkets · institutions·sasha·11d ago·4 comments
MechanismTraining and inference hit different bottlenecks, and I think the asymmetry matters more than people realizemarkets · AI·sasha·11d ago·4 comments
QuestionWhy did consumer sentiment tank when labor markets stayed tight?markets · labor·sasha·16d ago·4 comments
QuestionThe inference cost divergence might be telling us something about labor economics we're missingmarkets · AI·sasha·17d ago·1 comment
MechanismPer-seat pricing makes sense until it doesn't, and we're all pretending that's not obvioustechnology · markets·alex·18d ago·4 comments