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[@JosephPolitano](/creator/twitter/JosephPolitano)
"EJ Antoni has never worked in statistics collection. He is X years out of his PhD. He's only ever written one economics paper. His explicit only qualifications are that he works in ultra-conservative think tanks & believes Trump's conspiracies about the BLS. Grim stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1955049575057707061) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-08-11T23:31Z 88.3K followers, 812K engagements


"To add to this thread with the annual National Accounts update released recently we got our 1st estimates of real data center construction It's tripled since 2022 reaching $25B/yr. Keep in mind this doesn't include investment in computers within which have risen by $100B"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1975694442809204842) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-07T22:47Z 88.4K followers, 20.2K engagements


"@Polyhaline Yes yes so much Northern Aggression that seven states left the Union before Lincoln was even inaugurated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1977518670407712892) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-12T23:36Z 88.3K followers, 1841 engagements


"Great example of how tariff supporters lie: The investment boom Oren credits to Trumps tariffs actually comes almost entirely from data center & computer investment which remain *completely exempt from tariffs* Theres almost zero growth in construction/industrial investment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1975351961898918049) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-07T00:06Z 88.5K followers, 86.6K engagements


"God you gotta love Ulysses Grant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1977485998193066387) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-12T21:26Z 88.4K followers, 57K engagements


"As US job growth slows XX major metro areas have lost jobs over the last year Fastest growth: Charlotte (2.5%) San Juan (2.3%) Richmond (2.2%) San Antonio (1.9%) Philadelphia (1.9%) Largest decline: Milwaukee (-.7%) St. Louis (-.6%) SF (-.5%) DC (-.3%) Denver (-.2%)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1978088624697626927) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-14T13:20Z 88.5K followers, 5805 engagements


"42 of America's 50-largest metro areas have now recovered to pre-COVID jobs levels Fastest: Austin (19.9%) Raleigh (15.6%) Nashville (13.4%) Dallas (12.5%) Orlando (12.5%) Slowest: SF (-3.8%) Milwaukee (-2.1%) San Jose (-1.4%) Boston (-1%) Cleveland (-1%)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1978088628669592022) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-14T13:20Z 88.5K followers, 3859 engagements


"EU industrial production fell in data released today dropping X% compared to last month but up XXX% compared to last year Ireland (28.6% mostly pharma) & Luxembourg (8.7%) had the fastest year-on-year growth while Bulgaria (-8.6%) & Slovakia (-6.3%) had the slowest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1978435092566471035) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-15T12:17Z 88.5K followers, 5344 engagements


"Tariffs are taxes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1978459807796343246) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-15T13:55Z 88.5K followers, 73.9K engagements


"This month is kind of a funny grab bag of weird extensions to US train sytems. Besides the Honolulu skyline extension opening today the Kansas City Streetcar is being extended to UKMC next Friday and Dallas Area Rapid Transit is opening the Silver Line next Saturday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1978961790550569348) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-16T23:10Z 88.5K followers, 5983 engagements


"Donald Trump once again remembers that China is a large country that manufactures many things and so putting infinity tariffs on them comes at a big economic cost in a way it doesn't for e.g. Brazil. Tomorrow he will again forget this fact"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1979146894442901871) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-17T11:26Z 88.5K followers, 21.7K engagements


"immigrant grocery store owner who voted for Trump to lower grocery prices and then got wrecked by tariffs. mfer you run a business called "Wong Kai Imports" what the hell did you think was gonna happen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1979578425800278392) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-18T16:00Z 88.5K followers, 502.3K engagements


"Good example of how much of a hack Oren Cass ison April 2nd he had *the White House* publish his praise for Trump's tariffs and now suddenly those tariffs were "haphazard" created "heightened uncertainty" and have "needlessly antagonized Allies""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1979610787854328244) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-18T18:09Z 88.5K followers, 126.5K engagements


"NEW from me: California keeps losing tech jobs Amidst the AI boom the US is in the largest sustained drawdown in tech employment since the dot-com bust And what tech jobs remain continue to leave California for the rest of the US 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1979957757475168721) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-19T17:08Z 88.5K followers, 267.5K engagements


"Recent steps to address Californias high cost of living are likely to slow the states pace of tech job losses but arent yet enough to stop the process. Yet the bigger unresolved question is to what degree AI will replace or complement existing tech jobs in the long run"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1979958357113888979) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-19T17:10Z 88.5K followers, 10.2K engagements


"It is very funny that the "America is a NATION not an economic zone or a shopping mall" people have a retvrn aesthetic based entirely on the consumer products of multinational corporations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1980293512173363548) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-20T15:22Z 88.5K followers, 140K engagements


"Extremely frustrated by these misleading factoids which are calculated by accounting for all the AI-related *investment* but not AI-related *imports* AI is nowhere near XX% of US GDP growth because most of the data centers built in America are using computers built in Taiwan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1979244704697827697) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-17T17:54Z 88.5K followers, 56.3K engagements


"The US continues bleeding tech jobstech employment is down 90k from its 2023 peak and down more than 10k over the last year. Thats a massive slowdown from the 300k/year growth pace seen in the 2022 tech boom or the 150k/year pace regularly sustained in the years before COVID"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1979957762881737003) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-19T17:08Z 88.5K followers, 11.5K engagements


"The slowdown in tech means that SF has seen the largest job losses of any metro area in the US with employment dropping by 11.6k over the last year and down XXX% since COVID Nearby San Jose MSA has also suffered though not quite as harshly losing 2k jobs over the last year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1979957776219578763) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-19T17:08Z 88.5K followers, 24.7K engagements


"Guys I like Ford Broncos and Coca Cola's too my pitch is that you would actually have more of them if you gave up the pop ultranationalism and lowered the tariffs on cars/soda"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1980293514698412163) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-20T15:22Z 88.5K followers, 6118 engagements


"The people who built New England were not the most conservative political group in American history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1977915133528572339) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-14T01:51Z 88.4K followers, 80.5K engagements


"SAY IT AGAIN: GET IN LOSER WERE URBANIZING CALIFORNIA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1976693203991449890) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-10T16:55Z 88.4K followers, 66.4K engagements


"GLORY TO THE GOLDEN STATE AND MAY TEN THOUSAND TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENTS BLOOM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1976693206277329331) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-10T16:56Z 88.4K followers, 4257 engagements


"Congrats to Honolulu SkylineAmerica's newest metro system and the only one that's fully automatedwhich just opened a major extension today Trains will now reach Pearl Harbor & Honolulu airport boosting low ridership though the system won't be extended to downtown until 2031"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1978961787451056188) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-16T23:10Z 88.5K followers, 90.6K engagements


"Post-COVID California went from leading the rest of the country in tech job growth to trailing it significantly. As overall US tech job growth has stagnated the result is that the Golden State is seeing its largest sustained loss of tech jobs in decades"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1979957768967606642) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-19T17:08Z 88.5K followers, 8840 engagements


"@nomoredawg Tag urself Im State Department-Federal Reserve station"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1980379477478896117) [@JosephPolitano](/creator/x/JosephPolitano) 2025-10-20T21:03Z 88.5K followers, XXX engagements