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The Labor Department says it will release a key report on the September job market next Thursday, almost seven weeks behind schedule.
The jobs report is one of many closely-watched economic indicators that were held up by the government shutdown.
The report — which details hiring, layoffs and the unemployment rate for September — was almost complete when the government economists who tally jobs were abruptly furloughed by the shutdown.
Since the data was already in hand, th…

Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices Across the Economy #walmart

Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices Across the Economy
The Trump FTC tried to hide a complaint showing Pepsi forced shoppers to pay higher prices everywhere but Walmart. But now it's unsealed. And the politics of affordability are explosive.

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

Who is a Better Matchmaker? Human vs. Algorithmic Judge Assignment in a High-Stakes Startup Competition
Sarina Xi, Orelia Pi, Miaomiao Zhang, Becca Xiong, Jacqueline Ng Lane, Nihar B. Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12692

Who is a Better Matchmaker? Human vs. Algorithmic Judge Assignment in a High-Stakes Startup Competition
There is growing interest in applying artificial intelligence (AI) to automate and support complex decision-making tasks. However, it remains unclear how algorithms compare to human judgment in contexts requiring semantic understanding and domain expertise. We examine this in the context of the judge assignment problem, matching submissions to suitably qualified judges. Specifically, we tackled this problem at the Harvard President's Innovation Challenge, the university's premier venture compet…

Research: AI's ability to complete long and complex software engineering tasks doubles every 6-7 months, but there is a "messiness tax" for real-world tasks (Boaz Barak/Windows On Theory)
https://windowsontheory.org/2025/11/04/thoughts-by…

Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics
Crossposted on lesswrong Modern humans first emerged about 100,000 years ago. For the next 99,800 years or so, nothing happened. Well, not quite nothing. There were wars, political intrigue, the in…

This is also a good way to make the protests actually valuable. The #NoKingsDay protests let people see how big the resistance was. It informed a section of the elite that their best bet was to resist rather than comply. The shutdown is already hurting the economy. The an economic blackout could be enough to break it... and we're all still waiting for the AI bubble to pop. It's gonna get really hot, really fast.
The great thing about the economic blackout as a strategy is that they don't have a mechanism to compel people to buy stuff. So it turns out that "make the economy scream" is a two player game. Go fucking figure.

Generalized Fokker-Planck equation for the active Brownian motion
Sanju S Pillai, M Muhsin, M Sahoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12240 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Generalized Fokker-Planck equation for the active Brownian motion
We investigate the dynamics of an inertial active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle suspended in a non-Markovian environment. The particle is additionally subjected to external forces, such as harmonic confinement and a magnetic field. Motivated by the importance of understanding the non-Markovian behavior of complex environments, we examine the impact of a viscoelastic medium by employing the Jeffrey fluid framework for modeling the particle motion, which effectively captures both viscous and elasti…

A en croire les CFF, c’est exactement ce qui s’est produit. Siemens a battu Stadler sur tous les critères, y compris ceux liés au développement durable. Car la durabilité ne se limite pas Š la proximité du lieu de production ou au respect de la convention collective de travail suisse, c’est un calcul bien plus complexe.
https://www.rts.ch/info/economie/2025/article/cff-choisissent-siemens-polemique-sur-les-criteres-des-marches-publics-29056136.html

Event: Rejoicing Rabbis and the Roman Economy of Emotions
https://ift.tt/o8YfS92
ResearchGate: Publishers Take Formal Steps to Force Copyright Compliance A summary of…
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product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …