Jeff Stein
@JStein_WaPo
Chief economics reporter for The Washington Post. John Brown podcast @ https://americancarnage.net/. Founder @ithacavoice. Signal: 9178872891
NEW: THE STAGGERING RISE OF AMERICA'S GLOBAL ECONOMIC WARFARE 1st in a series @federicacocco & I found: 1. ~1/3 of all nations on Earth now face some form of US sanctions. Huge increase from when mostly applied to Cuba & a handful of regimes 2. +*60%* of *all poor countries*…
🚨 “Sanctions cause over half a million deaths each year - about as many as are caused by wars.” @frrodriguezc @MarkWeisbrot
SCOOP: Hegseth's texts about bombing Yemen derived from a classified email labeled "SECRET/NOFORN," per info provided to the DOD Inspector General for a forthcoming report, flying in the face of longstanding Trump administration claims that no classified info was shared: sources
Would love to know if @Neil_Irwin has a response to this, maybe there is one but I haven’t seen it
The strong 2Q growth in business equipment production is almost entirely a base effect driven by monthly Sept & Oct declines, and that decline was concentrated in transit equipment. Why did production of transit equipment so sharply decline over those 2 months? The Boeing strike.
It's my first day at @washingtonpost covering economic policy in Congress! Working on something money-related on Capitol Hill? Add me to your lists and let me know what you think is interesting: riley.beggin (at) washpost.com
“U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie’” Their accounts mirror Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s descriptions of torture at CECOT. via WaPo🎁🔗 wapo.st/3GZuXCW
Honestly who needs “Europe” when we have Chicago #bookresearch
I have traveled a decent amount and have never seen anything like this in an airport … until this morning in St. Louis. Am I crazy? Are these normal?
NEW: There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment. I dug a little closer and a striking story emerged: Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay.
Not sure there’s a figure loved universally by millennials on the left and right the way Shane Gillis is
I'm not under any illusions that anyone cares much about this but for those who are interested here's transcript of my exchange this morning with White House budget chief Russ Vought: Me So I just checked the DOGE website. They claim $190 billion in savings for the American…
BLS's import price indices explicitly do not include tariffs. So this chart is actually making the exact opposite point: foreign producers have likely eaten very little if any of the cost of US tariffs in the form of lower prices. 1/2
It’s really … something … how much attention right now is going to a $9 billion budget cut after passage of a law projected to add +$3 trillion to the debt through tax cuts
SCOOP: Trump taking new steps to block wind and solar projects, undisclosed memo says. Interior Sec Doug Burgum will have to sign off on any permits on federal lands. Stems from recent EO targeting tax credit phaseouts in megabill. w @zcolman subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…
Why is "art of the deal" Trump so ambivalent about trade deals? Because "deals" are not the goal: high tariffs are. Without any deals, he now has those high tariffs. For a protectionist, this is called "winning." My column. wsj.com/economy/trade/…