Jonathan Finegold

SEO, CRO, and digital analytics at Ignite Visibility, w/ a background in econ. RT's ≠ endorsement.

[Jonathan Finegold @JFCatalan]

@StatisticUrban Permanently low new housing construction seems like a pre-'70/post-'08 issue from the data here: https://t.co/YVpqkHBOH7. What if as people moved to the suburbs and the sunbelt - i.e. into space -, that the definition of starter home changed (as avg. sq. ft. increased).

[Jonathan Finegold @JFCatalan]

@BradWilcoxIFS @wapo 2/3rds of single young adults. The sample does not include married young adults.

[Jonathan Finegold @JFCatalan]

@EricLevitz The article from which that chart is taken excludes energy. Electricity and gas prices have risen by 2x+ than the avg wage. Average wage growth differs by quintile, with some quintiles growing very little. The article also talks about how no one is hiring. Seems relevant.

[Jonathan Finegold @JFCatalan]

If Google wins, do web owners get to sue Google for scraping their websites and illegally using them to train Google's AI?

[Barry Schwartz @rustybrick]

Google had sued SerpAPI over scraping the Google search results - Google knows SerpAPi can't pay the damages https://t.co/IX9xiwaiYV

[Jonathan Finegold @JFCatalan]

@JosephPolitano The decrease in the foreign-born unemployment rate seems to support Ottaviano and Peri's research that negative wage/labor effects from immigrants specifically impact other recent immigrants, and raise wages for natives.

[Bryan Caplan @bryan_caplan]

Compared to the media, first-hand experience is an oracle.

[Lewis Hamilton @LewisHamilton]

Wishing everyone a great week. Go after your goals and remember I’m rooting for you

[Similarweb @Similarweb]

Period-over-period growth for leading GenAI websites:

→ Grok 3, released on February 17, gained traction, significantly increasing traffic.

→ Despite DeepSeek's strong 2025 start, it struggles to compete.

→ ChatGPT's growth, though smaller than Gemini's, is remarkable, given its 4-5 billion monthly visits.

[Similarweb @Similarweb]

GenAI Traffic Share Update —

🗓️ 12 months ago:
ChatGPT: 84.4%
Google: 8.9%
Perplexity: 1.4%
Claude: 1.9%
Microsoft: 0.9%

🗓️ 6 months ago:
ChatGPT: 86.7%
Google: 5.7%
Perplexity: 1.9%
Claude: 1.5%
Microsoft: 1.5%
DeepSeek: 0.7%

🗓️ 3 months ago:
ChatGPT: 78.8%
DeepSeek: 6.8%
Google: 5.5%
Grok: 3.1%
Perplexity: 1.5%
Claude: 1.3%
Microsoft: 1.3%

🗓️ 1 months ago:
ChatGPT: 78.6%
Google: 7.9%
DeepSeek: 5.3%
Grok: 2.1%
Perplexity: 1.7%
Claude: 1.4%
Microsoft: 1.1%

🗓️ Today:
ChatGPT: 78.6%
Google: 8.6%
DeepSeek: 4.8%
Grok: 2.1%
Perplexity: 1.6%
Claude: 1.5%
Microsoft: 1.1%

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[David Beckworth @DavidBeckworth]

Is a healthy interbank market important? Most CBs-- other than Fed--answer "Yes!" and have designed their operating systems accordingly. https://t.co/fVWE4XuAkr @GeorgeSelgin @ChrisGiles_ @greg_ip

[Jonathan Finegold @JFCatalan]

@JackPosobiec You've obviously have never seen the show Cops and all the dumb stuff white trash do the police.

[Jonathan Finegold @JFCatalan]

@Noahpinion Noah, what percentage of the protestors fit this description? Are you buying into the frequency illusion caused by social media's focus on outliers (if these are outliers)? Are you helping amplify that illusion?

[Jonathan Finegold @JFCatalan]

@MichaelTontchev It may not be. Not all of the civil rights movement was peaceful, but that's not the most important part we remember. Most important is that the movement as a whole was successful and that it addressed an injustice. I think we are just seeing the beginning, anyway.

[Jonathan Finegold @JFCatalan]

History will not be kind to the people complaining that the protests are "bad optics." What they are protesting is much worse.

[Jonathan Finegold @JFCatalan]

@StephenM I live in California. It still is. You’re just a liar.

[Jonathan Finegold @JFCatalan]

@Noahpinion No these people are just being honest and fighting for what they believe is right, not what they believe are good optics.

[Jonathan Finegold @JFCatalan]

@Noahpinion You’re off in this case. Most of those people in LA have multiple identities and they are proud of their Mexican heritage. They wave those flags for the same reason whites talk about how they came from Scotland.

[Jonathan Finegold @JFCatalan]

@HD2Memes Thats like telling a guitarist not to use pedals

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

If you find talk of bond and forex markets hard to track, this graph does an amazing job illustrating what's going on (and why).

[DCinvestor @DCinvestor]

just fired my maid who’s been cleaning my house for 20 years

because i realized that for all i paid her, she never bought anything from me

no more getting ripped off!