He 100 percent panicked and couldn't think of a player on the A's.

Hell yeah

Taking a few months from MM to get to know this girl. Extremely fortunate that POLITICO offers six months paternity. Savoring every minute of it.

Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday suggested that victory over inflation is within sight, signaling that they are likely done raising interest rates and that borrowing costs will go down somewhat next year.
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This is as good an ending to 2023 as anyone could’ve realistically imagined for the economy.
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OpenAI is so advanced it just figured out how to say “don’t worry about it” twice

Wall Street's 'Never Trump' dream hasn't burned out, but it's starting to fade away. politico.com/news/2023/12/1…

Average job growth in 2019 was 163,000, a fact I plan on repeating ad nauseum for the next few months (last 12 months was 243,000)

It's not a soft landing unless Ohtani lands at SFO

The employment-population ratio for those 25-54 ticked up remaining above the February 2020 level

The IRS is cracking down on a strategy private fund managers have used to duck self-employment taxes. It's raising the hackles of hedge fund lobbyists and Wall Streeters who view the agency’s attempt to curtail use of LP exemptions as overreach. politico.com/newsletters/mo…

Dispatch from the DealBook Summit. politico.com/newsletters/mo…

Longer version of this morning's Morning Money -- A soft landing would be an economic miracle. It might not solve the public's view that 'Bidenomics' is lousy. politico.com/news/2023/11/2…

Why a ‘soft landing’ might not solve Biden’s polling problem
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Scoop: Treasury is asking Congress for more power when it comes to cracking down on illicit finance in crypto. New secondary sanctions, jurisdiction over USD stablecoins are among the asks. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2023/1…

Today's MM: Spending heavy in a bargain bin economy politico.com/newsletters/mo…

Monitoring the Nanit

CFPB chief's warning: AI is a “natural oligopoly” in the making politi.co/47oiy3k via Sam Sutton

Back from parental leave. In today’s Morning Money: Rohit Chopra and Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero break down what the future could hold for AI regs in the aftermath of turmoil at OpenAI. politico.com/newsletters/mo…

Breaking my paternity leave Twitter moratorium to say: That Kittle tudder was hella sick.