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Derek Thompson

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Writer @TheAtlantic. "Plain English" podcast host @Ringer. Mondays on NPR's @hereandnow. Co-writing a book about abundance.

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I’m done making fun of this. I’m surrendered to its genius. These folks need a way to communicate “ugh some more bad shit happened” and they have an absolute banger of a marketing campaign. Snack companies should hire the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to deal with Ozempic.

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Waiting for the narrative to shift from “don’t believe the hard data, the economy sucks, just look at consumer sentiment” to “you can’t believe the consumer sentiment data either”

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WSJ: 'The share of consumers in December who expected to be financially better off a year later reached the highest level since June 2021, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey.'

WSJ: 'The share of consumers in December who expected to be financially better off a year later reached the highest level since June 2021, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey.'
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This is such an important piece:

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

In 2022/23, America had a murder spike and an inflation spike. We enter 2024 with both murder and inflation rates falling back to normal.

This is such an important piece: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… In 2022/23, America had a murder spike and an inflation spike. We enter 2024 with both murder and inflation rates falling back to normal.
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We need a President who Gets It.

Ape holders can use multiple slurp juices on a single ape. So if you have 1 astro ape and 3 slurp juices you can create 3 new apes.

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Boosting this, because I'm absolutely fascinated.

Obviously, births in China have been declining for a while. But annual births declined more in the last 8 years than in the previous 20 years.

What changed in ~2016?

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On the one hand, I always enjoy chatting with Derek Thompson!

On the other hand, we only talk when bad stuff is happening.

This time is no different: we cover what it means to be 'a world at war'

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