The 'increase in gig work' apparent in tax data seems to reflect a change in taxpayer reporting behavior, not an actual change in the amount of gig work happening in the economy.

New NBER paper by Andy Garin Emilie Jackson & Dmitri Koustas.

nber.org/papers/w32368

Nick Timiraos Looks like union wages are playing catchup, and that's helping boost private wage growth.

(Susan Collins cited this piece in February, by the way)

MAYBE WE NEED MORE 'FINANCIALIZATION'

In today's Bloomberg Markets newsletter, I wrote about the new proposal from Arnab Datta Alex Turnbull and Alex Williams to build more liquid markets for minerals critical to the energy transition.

Alright the trade structure is out for how DOE can secure critical minerals supply with Arnab Datta and Alex Williams ! #lithium employamerica.org/researchreport…

All credit and blame should go to Preston Mui if this happens

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something funny i noticed in the fedspeak week before last is kashkari thinks apartments are strong and SFH weaker, Barkin said the opposite. Someone send kashkari the housing starts data!

new entry in the Employ America fedspeak monitor?