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Payrolls: +311,000 Unemployment: 3.6% Prime-Age Employment Rate: 80.5% (Highest since Feb 2020!)
1/ @LinkedIn Hiring Rate update: February was unfortunately a month of bad news: The US LHR was down 6.5% M/M seasonally adjusted, the biggest 1 month decline since 2020. Hiring is now down 30.8% from April 2022 (when declines began), and 27.9% Y/Y.
Today we release LLaMA, 4 foundation models ranging from 7B to 65B parameters. LLaMA-13B outperforms OPT and GPT-3 175B on most benchmarks. LLaMA-65B is competitive with Chinchilla 70B and PaLM 540B. The weights for all models are open and available at research.facebook.com/publications/l… 1/n
1/5 🧵on changes in thinking in just 2 weeks Today's forward curve (cyan) is now equal to the year-end Fed's (blue), This is a HUGE move from Feb 2 (green). A pivot is no longer priced in. Also, for the first time this cycle, the market is pricing MORE hikes than the Fed.
My unwavering opinion on current (auto-regressive) LLMs 1. They are useful as writing aids. 2. They are "reactive" & don't plan nor reason. 3. They make stuff up or retrieve stuff approximately. 4. That can be mitigated but not fixed by human feedback. 5. Better systems will come
Monthly inflation continues to be mostly a story about core services (including housing)—though January also saw smaller positive contributions from volatile food and energy prices.
US CPI Headline Inflation in Jan was 6.35% YoY (down from 6.44% in Dec) and 0.5% MoM (up from 0.13% in Dec). Core CPI was 5.55% YoY (down from 5.7% in Dec) and 0.41% MoM (flat against 0.4% in Dec). Bar chart is MoM, line chart YoY. Mixed signals with most of MoM driven by shelter
Hottest items in January (YoY): Food at elementary/secondary schools: 301.9% Eggs: 70.1% (Up from 59.9% in December) Margarine: 44.7% Butter: 26.3% Airline fares: 25.6% Lettuce: 17.2% Public transportation: 17.1% Household energy: 15.8% Coffee: 12.8% Food at home: 11.3%
“We came up short. I think the beautiful part about it is everyone experiences different pains, everyone experiences different agonies of life, but you decide if you want to learn from it. You decide if you want that to be a teachable moment. I know I do.” -Jalen Hurts
1st half offensive domination: Eagles turned 20 1st & 10s (or 1st & goal) into 17 new 1st downs (or touchdowns)
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Though they are big advancements, the quick rollout of LLM AI tools in Google search and Bing presents serious risks. People like @timnitGebru have long warned of bias, accuracy and climate risks of LLMs. Potential for crisis of trust if done wrong wsj.com/articles/the-a…
JUST IN: The US economy gained an astonishing 517,000 jobs in January – much better than expected. Unemployment rate: 3.4% --> Lowest in decades. Wages: +4.4% for past year (up 0.3% in January) Bottom line: This is NOT an economy in recession
Today's Employment Cost Index release confirmed that aggregate US labor income growth—a core driver of inflation—continues to decline and looks to be approaching pre-pandemic levels.
Global growth remains weak, but it may be at a turning point. We have slightly increased our 2022 and 2023 growth forecasts. Global growth will slow from 3.4% in 2022 to 2.9% in 2023 then rebound to 3.1% in 2024. imf.org/WEO-jan23
PCE report highlights a broad based deceleration of household demand. Nominal income slowing, nominal spending weakening, headline PCE inflation slowing and core remaining low. In line with retail sales and employment report wages and indicates HH feeling the pinch. Thread:
Philly Nick is FIRED UP
Yeah like they were saying. Anybody would look great at QB for the Eagles.. yeah ooook. HATERS MAN!! Jalen Hurts is SPECIAL. 🤡’s
Retail sales showed weak Nov & Dec, though since its nominal, the composition doesn't match CPI, and prices are moving around important to try to get the right deflators. Below is my cut. All numbers are not annualized. Take in thread.
I object to this chart, because it turns out that the reconstruction of a single location based on an ice core drilled 40 years ago in Greenland that ends in 1885 is not a good representation of global temperatures. If we use hundreds of sites and proxy records worldwide we get:
I object to this chart, because it turns out that the reconstruction of a single location based on an ice core drilled 40 years ago in Greenland that ends in 1885 is not a good representation of global temperatures. If we use hundreds of sites and proxy records worldwide we get: https://t.co/ntjG3NY3M9
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What we are seeing right now with the small banks is pretty normal in any traditional macro tightening cycle. The rise in rates not only has an impact on the macro economy through higher cost of credit, etc, but it also exposes those most sensitive to rates and liquidity.
@federalreserve @abhabhattarai @USTreasury @FDICgov No losses associated with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank will be borne by the taxpayer.
The 2008 Great Financial Crisis would have been so much worse if social media hadn’t been in its infancy Government had to step in with an unpopular but necessary solution. One that involved a lot of compromise and nuance Might not be possible today
Real 10x engineers have no public github activity because they are being paid
Lindsey is the story - thx for your courage. She deserves to have her savings / deposit protected. Not a dollar more for anybody. There are plenty of assets - the FDIC, Fed and Treasury need to speak with clarity NOW that this is over. Sell the assets - deposits 100% protected.
Hi, I’m Lindsey. A bit about me: - Ohio mother of 4 - I employ a team of 15 as a start-up founder & CEO of Strongsuit - drive a used Honda Odessey - husband works in manufacturing - The financial future of my company, team and family are at risk w/ the collapse of SVB (1/23)
Regional bank SVB goes under, and the US govt doesn't look like it will fully standing by depositors *San Francisco Little League* is worried about a bank run everywhere Depositors must be made whole, otherwise all the little guys will suffer
SVB. Wipe out all the fat cats. Sell the assets and send $$ to the folks like this who are rightfully stressed and did nothing wrong. @theallinpod
Idk who needs to hear this, but not everyone in tech is rich. Some have massive student loans. Some are 1st gen supporting their parents. Some are in non-engineering/product roles. David Sachs or Elon aren’t going to see your snarky tweets, but tons of people trying to get by…
Hi, I’m Lindsey. A bit about me: - Ohio mother of 4 - I employ a team of 15 as a start-up founder & CEO of Strongsuit - drive a used Honda Odessey - husband works in manufacturing - The financial future of my company, team and family are at risk w/ the collapse of SVB (1/23)
Silicon Valley Bank’s shareholders and executives lose it all, as they should. Depositors in good faith, however, should recover and have access to their deposits in order to meet their payrolls, pay their suppliers, and to prevent contagion.
When TARP was voted down the first time on 9/29 the S&P fell 9%. 10/3 it was law. Hearing from political folks a desire to wait and see, hesitant to act swiftly to contain risks. That inclination is normal, but delay typically just brings larger eventual action with more cost.
The SVB discourse has already turned into a background hum of nonsense. The FDIC will work to make depositors whole because the alternative will both devastate the tech sector and lead to more bank runs. Victim blaming depositors is schadenfreude pretending to be business savvy
Hearing from some insiders: -big banks actively working on buying svb business -fdic considering insurance / liquidity covering up to 95pct of uninsured depositors to acquirer -Monday 250k on track -50pct of uninsured paid out next wk Cant confirm myself but seemed worth sharing
The tragedy of SVB is that its not the wealthy taking the hit. It's the thousands of companies who borrowed from SVB and were required to keep their cash in SVB. Those entrepreneurs and their employees and vendors are feeling the pain. And they are who the Fed should protect
At some point it would be really nice if those of us trying to run companies could go a solid 12 months without a once-in-a-generation black-swan macroeconomic event
One thing: This isn't 2008. The assets that are the problem here aren't toxic real-estate garbage, they're, like, Treasurys. Everyone can figure out what they're worth, sell them, lend against them, etc. The FDIC should be able to advance money to uninsured depositors pretty fast