Alex Tanzi

@atanzi

Senior Editor at @business. @jhucarey MBA. Consulted to international organizations, including @worldbank @wbg_ida and @the_idb

Maryland, USA

Joined December 2008

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Alex Tanzi@atanzi · May 1

Companies started the year optimistic about the economy. They are unlikely to slash spending and workers before policy clarity emerges from the White House, @conorsen says bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via @opinion

atanzi's tweet card. Sentiment surveys have taken a dive, but the data on consumption and the labor market won’t catch up until much later this year.

Alex Tanzi@atanzi · Jul 24

"higher cost and this cost will be passed through to customers. We also produce retail products, and this is an even slower process to gain price increases. It will take three to six months to fully pass those costs on" kansascityfed.org/surveys/manufa… via @KansasCityFed

atanzi's tweet card. Tenth District manufacturing activity edged up slightly, and expectations for future activity remained expansionary. Price growth cooled slightly for both raw materials and finished products.

Alex Tanzi@atanzi · Jul 17

Recent Employment Changes in the D.C. Area richmondfed.org/region_communi… via @richmondfed

atanzi's tweet card. The DMV region comprises a large share of federal employees who have experienced both employment declines and elevated unemployment claims. Employment changes are occurring in the private sector as...

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Ben Casselman@bencasselman · Jul 15

The BLS's issues with CPI data collection appear to be getting worse. The share of uncollected items subject to "different cell" imputation (meaning they're based on different items or items from different geographies) hit another record last month. (Data goes back to 2019.)

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Aadit Sheth@aaditsh · Jun 20

This guy literally drops a masterclass on going viral and making millions

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Alex Tanzi@atanzi · Jun 7

Los Angeles is openly refusing to cooperate with ICE - siding with illegal aliens over American citizens and small businesses. Therefore, effective immediately, @SBAgov will begin relocating its Regional Office out of L.A. If a city won’t protect its people, we won’t stay.

MMayor Karen Bass@MayorOfLA · Jun 6

We will not stand for this.

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Louis.Saillans@LSaillans · Jun 6

I spent over 100 hours compiling and analyzing over 5,000 videos of soldiers trying to escape UAV drones — pulling material from Telegram, Reddit, and other sources. Here is what i found out.

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Alex Tanzi@atanzi · Jun 4

More negative job revisions coming, 4Q 2024 QECW data was released today and it doesn't look good

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Alex Tanzi@atanzi · May 30

Kalshi has taken a battering ram to regulators in its bid to give Americans the right to bet on just about everything. Now, the seven-year old financial exchange is taking it to a whole new level. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

atanzi's tweet card. Armed with a federal license and allies in Trumpworld, the tech start-up is pushing prediction markets across America into a legal gray zone: sports betting.

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Alex Tanzi@atanzi · May 27

Wall Street keeps inventing new ways to ride the digital-currency boom and crypto competitors keep circling, but the trade still delivering the biggest rewards belongs to Michael Saylor bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

atanzi's tweet card. Wall Street keeps inventing new ways to ride the digital-currency boom — from amped-up ETFs and tokenized funds to structured products — and crypto competitors keep circling. But the trade still...

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Amanda Goodall@thejobchick · May 26

YIKES - @FICO_corp report: April 2025 "Roughly 2.7 million borrowers had a new student loan delinquency reported as of February 2025, an additional 5.4 million consumers had no student loan delinquency reported yet, even though they have not made any student loan payments since…

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Alec MacGillis@AlecMacGillis · May 12

Quite a stat from Chicago inner suburb where Pope Leo grew up: "In Dolton, 94 percent of residents were white and 2 percent were Black in 1980. By the 2010 census, 5 percent of Dolton residents were white and 90 percent were Black."

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Alex Tanzi@atanzi · May 5

Wall Street stock market strategists have largely abandoned the lofty expectations they took into 2025, but one bull isn’t budging: Wells Fargo’s Christopher Harvey bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @markets

atanzi's tweet card. Wall Street stock market strategists have largely abandoned the lofty expectations they took into 2025, but one bull isn’t budging: Wells Fargo Securities LLC’s Christopher Harvey.

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Alex Tanzi@atanzi · May 5

Scoop: Trump plans to announce D.C. will host 2027 NFL Draft axios.com/2025/05/05/nfl…

atanzi's tweet card. The announcement will come days after the Washington Commanders and D.C. officials announced a plan to bring the team back to the city with a new domed stadium.

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The Palm Beach Post@pbpost · May 3

At age 115, England woman Ethel Caterham is officially the oldest person alive, following the death of 116-year-old Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas. palmbeachpost.com/story/news/wor…

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Alex Tanzi@atanzi · May 2

Beginning May 5, student loan borrowers not making payments will face involuntary collections bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @wealth

atanzi's tweet card. The federal government is restarting ‘involuntary collections’ on education debt after more than five years.

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Jennifer Jacobs@JenniferJJacobs · May 1

BREAKING: National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, will be leaving their posts, multiple sources familiar with the situation tell me. @CBSNews

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Alex Tanzi@atanzi · Apr 26

Rajan Upbeat on U.S.-India Trade Talks, Sees Deal as Likely open.substack.com/pub/kathleenha…

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Amanda Goodall@thejobchick · Apr 24

This is bigger than most realize. Student debt has tripled since 2007 - now $1.77T 9.3M borrowers are already in default or delinquent - collections restart May 5 (those are gonna be nasty ya'll) Average student loan balance? $37K+ 265,200 borrowers aged 50–59 had wages…

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Unicus@UnicusResearch · Apr 23

🚨 The student loan repayment resumption is expected to significantly shrink consumer credit availability for prime and subprime consumers. The 2020 student loan forbearance and the upcoming reality shock for the consumer credit... - a detailed thread🧵

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