Happy Labor Day! Wrote up some thoughts on labor market tightness and how good that's been for workers' bargaining power basu.substack.com/p/did-labor-wi…

Some thoughts on the economics of adult-use marijuana in Maryland (puns were mostly kept to a minimum): basu.substack.com/p/legal-weed-i…

Part I of our January Q&A covers inflation, automation, and why we can't switch to the metric system basu.substack.com/p/jan-23-q-and…

"Construction wages have increased faster than overall wages in 10 of the past 12 months and increased at a faster rate than overall monthly inflation in each of the past six months," ABC Economist Zack shares w/ Construction Dive. ow.ly/n1HI50MGUKa #ABCMeritShopProud

New Sage Econ series called Monday Morning Optimism, and our first MMO post is about how the pandemic and remote work have helped Americans with disabilities participate in the workforce basu.substack.com/p/monday-morni…

Yep, this is a real reason to worry about consumer health. Borrowers aged 18-39's auto loans transitioned into serious delinquency at the fastest pace since 09 in Q2 (according to NY Fed credit panel, the best data series on this stuff)

Jarring to see, but it's a little surprising this didn't happen to Florida sooner

"a massive increase of Tariffs on Chinese products." Would be great to get tariff news any time other than a Friday afternoon.

That's "reduction in force" and probably not a great sign for an already weak labor market