Sameera Fazili

Former White House, Treasury, and Atlanta Fed. RT's ≠ endorsements.

[Katie Bergh @Katie_Bergh]

I’m remembering the House Agriculture Committee markup of that bill last year, when a Republican member claimed — despite all evidence to the contrary — “If you have young children at home, your benefits are unaffected by this bill.”

205,000 kids. In one state.

[Rahul Bali @rahulbali]

IMPORTANT UPDATE: 11 Cobb County precincts will stay open past the 7 p.m. voting deadline due to technical issues earlier.

One in Fulton County will be open until 11:02 p.m. after it was locked down for four hours. #gapol

Click for details. https://t.co/B6VrfJUk8E

[Sameera Fazili @sameerafazili]

@Brad_Setser @DianeSwonk @BobEUnlimited And to reinforce the supply chain shock point—the US economy remains highly dependent on those Asian economies for intermediate inputs for our factories or retail goods for our consumers. The Asian product shortages could become American product shortages.

[Sameera Fazili @sameerafazili]

@nealemahoney @InclsvAbundance I am not following the BTR issue but want to offer one cautionary note on over indexing on #1. From my past life on housing and housing finance policy: In the early ‘00s subprime lending was also a growing share of the home ownership market. Didn’t turn out so great.

[Faiz @fshakir]

What happened to Trump's purported desire to cap credit card interest rates at 10 percent?

It got no mention last night. Bank lobbyists won. Affordability issues for working Americans remain.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Trump: "I took prescription drugs, a very big part of healthcare, from the highest price in the entire world to the lowest."

Drugmakers raised prices on more than 350 drugs this year. The median price hike was 4%.

[Bharat Ramamurti @BharatRamamurti]

Today's ruling does not signal a new era of the Roberts Court. It's simply the latest example of how the Court operates: siding with the policy interests of the Republican Party except in those rare instances where that conflicts with the interests of Corporate America. 6/

[Bharat Ramamurti @BharatRamamurti]

I hope everyone stands back and admires the jaw-dropping hypocrisy of the three dissenters in today's tariff case (Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas) ruling against Biden's student debt relief plan. 5/

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

When I was at the FTC, I heard from various people that social media companies were hiring tons of psychologists. So I asked our law clerk to go on LinkedIn to try to figure out how many they had. She came back to me and told me there were too many to count. She suggested I focus on PhDs, and I said sure let's try that.

A day later she came back and told me that just three or four companies had 180 or 190 PhD psychologists and brain scientists, and that one company, alone, had around 150.

So I then asked her to figure out what these people were doing. For that, we looked at job postings. And the sad fact we saw was that while a minority of the open posts were for jobs that would mitigate or prevent addiction and other harms, the large majority of those posts were aimed at maximizing "engagement" -- at keeping people hooked for longer.

So, with the support of Chair Khan, we started building the first behavioral team at the FTC, and hired on our first pediatrician, our first psychologist, and a human-computer interaction specialist (a technologist). This was the scrappy, brilliant group that was starting to help us assess the public allegations against these companies.

I always wished that more of my parent friends could talk to -- and learn -- from Dr. Radesky, the pediatrician and youth development expert who was the anchor of that group. And now she has generously agreed to field questions from @thefairfightpod listeners -- details on how you can submit a question are below. If you have a question about your kids, teens (or yourself) and AI chatbots and social media, this is a rare chance to get that answered by a top expert in the field.

[Jason Furman @jasonfurman]

Every former living Fed Chair (Bernanke, Greenspan, Yellen)

Bipartisan former Treasury Secretaries (Geithner, Paulson, others)

Bipartisan former CEA Chairs (Hubbard, Mankiw, Romer--and me)

This is not a difficult or controversial issue. The attack on Powell is dangerous.

[Michael Linden @MichaelSLinden]

Kudos to Mitt Romney for changing his mind and calling for higher taxes on the rich. I'm not going to nitpick his op/ed (though there are a few things I disagree with), because the gist of it is right: We need real tax reform to make the rich pay more.

https://t.co/1dWkJRu5Kc

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

🙏 would love to hear for people who work as actors, especially any background actors who have been body scanned on the lot

[WABE News @wabenews]

Ghazala Hashmi, who on Nov. 4 was elected Virginia’s lieutenant governor and became the first Muslim woman in the country to win a statewide election, has roots from Stateboro to Atlanta. Via WABE media partner @285SouthAtl. #gapol https://t.co/V4LxXrK8iW

[Conor Sen @conorsen]

Looks like Dems are going to sweep the PSC seats in Georgia.

[Josh Schwerin @JoshSchwerin]

The big under the radar race of the night was the PSC race in Georgia. First time in 20 years Dems will hold these seats.
It was a race entirely about utility prices and Republicans paid a huge price for overseeing out of control prices increase.

[Jacob Rubashkin @JacobRubashkin]

This is the first Democrat to win a state level race in Georgia in 20 years.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

If you live in these states, your ACA premiums are about to jump:

SD - Up 235%
LA - Up 150%
WV - Up 387%
WY - Up 382%
TN - Up 320%
MS - Up 314%
AK - Up 346%

Republicans are fighting to make sure this happens to their own constituents.

[Nick Timiraos @NickTimiraos]

NEW: Every living former Fed chair (Greenspan, Bernanke, Yellen) ...

have joined several former Treasury secretaries (Rubin, Summers, Paulson, Geithner, Lew) ...

and CEA chairs (Hubbard, Mankiw, Romer, Furman, Rouse, Bernstein) who served presidents of both parties ...

in an amicus brief to the Supreme Court warning a ruling against Lisa Cook's ability to stay in her job would significantly erode Fed independence https://t.co/oNa1wJoBau

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

One day, the world is going to ask how Israel was allowed to commit genocide and there will see messages like this proving that people knew and just did nothing