Jordan Weissmann

Editorial Director at PPI. Former journo. Tweets represent my own opinions, not those of my employer or colleagues.

[Kevin Roose @kevinroose]

thrilled to announce we have built the “trick old people into handing over their bank passwords machine” from the classic sci-fi horror novel “don’t build the trick old people into handing over their bank passwords machine”

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

I fear we're getting number to this. But it's just really disgustingly corrupt. https://t.co/bKrGWEZaSB

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

My wife and I have let our child have some truly shameful amounts of TV some weekends but how do you manage 4 hours of daily screen time for a 3 year old?

[Isabella Dini @IzzybellaDini]

Toddlers should be talking their parents' ears off, but some of them are falling behind, and it looks like excess screen time could be to blame.

[Chris Kennedy @ChrisJKennedy]

The obvious outcome of this misguided law is that fewer landlords will allow dogs. The inability of @RobertWhite_DC and many other councilmembers to think through even the most rudimentary secondary effects of regulation is baffling.

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

@MattZeitlin Makes his artistic output even more puzzling.

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

one of the best running bits of the last 30 or so years is that ben affleck is actually really smart

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

@talmonsmith

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

If Republicans think things are bad now, imagine where Trump's approvals will be if we spend 2027 with mortgage rates over 7.5%.

[Nick Timiraos @NickTimiraos]

Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan says the Fed likely will need to raise rates by at least another 50 bps to ensure inflation doesn’t settle above the central bank’s 2% goal.

Logan said those additional increases, together with September’s, would merely reverse the three cuts the Fed made last year. She said the Fed needs to set interest rates at a modestly restrictive level, a threshold that remains uncertain and could require even more increases.

Logan drew a distinction on the run-up in bond yields. To the extent higher Treasury yields reflect expectations of a more aggressive Fed, those increases “don’t do our work for us,” she said.

But if the increase in yields is driven by rising term premiums, or the extra compensation investors demand to hold longer-term debt, the moves “can slow the economy, reducing the need to tighten monetary policy.” https://t.co/7CR3iduR5s

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

@talmonsmith Returning to trend

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

@ZaxxonGalaxian It gets complicated with ownership stakes in private businesses but I agree on index funds

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

Members of Congress and political appointees should actually be more highly paid and face stricter ethics rules about investments pass it on.

[Kathryn Watson @kathrynw5]

INBOX: Sen. Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) introduced legislation to ensure political appointees in the federal government do not earn a salary higher than members of Congress.

"If you’re paid by taxpayers, you shouldn’t make more than those who were elected by taxpayers," he said

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

Its been the case for a while, but journalism school should be an undergraduate degree (because why not?) or 1-year, practical experience focused masters at absolute best. You can't possibly justify a 2-year grad program.

[Spencer Davis @spencerdaviis]

NEW: The Columbia Journalism School is pausing admissions for its Master of Arts degree amid a “critical evaluation” of the M.A. curriculum, Dean Jelani Cobb announced in a Thursday afternoon email to alumni.

[Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky]

really handling all the important stuff voters care about here

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

I think DC absolutely needs to improve its bike infrastructure, because our half-committed status quo is not good.

But this kind of thing is why I don’t think it’s a substitute for cracking down on bad riders.

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

Wrote for Citycast DC about how the city turned Lime and other shared scooter/ebikes into a public nuisance and safety debacle. Molly’s horror story is worse than mine. https://t.co/ehpDtftHoX

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

You should in fact read this.

The core idea is that no deal should ever be done that gives any wins to the fossil fuel industry, meaning that no politically realistic deal will ever be good enough and we'll just never get the transmission changes we need to build renewables.

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

Hell yeah

[Martin Heinrich @SenatorHeinrich]

This is going to mean more jobs. It's going to mean cheaper energy. And it's going to mean America can build big things again.

[Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler]

This law is intended to make it easier to find pet-friendly housing by making it illegal for landlords to limit the breed and/or size of pets that can live in their properties.

It will almost certainly have the opposite effect as landlords adopt blanket "no pets" policies.

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

@hortonhearsafoo The teens are legally not supposed to be on the bikes, because everyone understands that young people are kind of lunatics by nature.

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

Oh.

[Max Roser @MaxCRoser]

Future population projections expect that fertility rates stop declining and roughly stabilize.

This new NBER paper asks what evidence we have to expect this. It finds there is none. "Instead, where and when fertility has fallen low, it has tended to keep falling."

https://t.co/Wc0PDHGWJu

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

DC's agencies really should be asking Claude to check their math https://t.co/5bMzucGux9

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

Guy is playing to win

[Natasha Korecki @natashakorecki]

In 2022, James Talarico signed a pledge "not to accept a dime of fossil fuel money."

On Sat, his campaign was told it had 1 week to return $36k in donations from oil execs & lobbyists to avoid the No Fossil Fuel's "wall of shame."

Talarico's campaign tells us he's keeping it.

https://t.co/8Jt7NlkS21