Silvia Killingsworth

my sworn enemy (no, don't think so)

For those looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at skillingswo2@bloomberg.net

How to Teach Your Kids Poker, the Easy Way One card, age four. No flushes, no full houses, no complicated order of hands.

Finally badgered @matt-levine.bsky.social into writing down his theory of poker tinyurl.com/2wfs3krr

Powell Cites Inflation Risk as Fed Holds Interest Rates Steady Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said interest rates are in the right place to manage continued uncertainty around tariffs and inflation, tempering expectations for a rate cut in September.

Reminder that Kugler was not at the meeting this week: "Fed Governor Adriana Kugler didn’t attend the meeting due to a personal matter, according to a central bank spokesperson."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

*Fed governor

Some of America’s Most Important Economic Data Is Decaying A former head of the BLS on why gathering official statistics is getting harder.

i wonder if he knows about the surveys

*TRUMP TO FIRE LABOR STATISTICS CHIEF AFTER WEAK JOBS DATA

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Lovely, from one of public radio's finest voices working today

May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications YouTube video by Road Less Marveled

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was the first and best show I ever let my daughter watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7...

ah well

*CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING SAYS IT IS SHUTTING DOWN

In Defense of Cheating at Golf Bending the rules for beginners could make game play fairer, and faster.

More people should cheat at golf! by @tonyhawk.bsky.social for Bloomberg Weekend www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

at 9am? nah

new york is having a bad week

*NYC SUBWAY SERVICE DISRUPTED DUE TO LOSS OF POWER AT WEST 4 ST

All is well lol

why wouldn't she?

I need 6,000 words on my desk by end of day

*HIGH NOON RECALLS VODKA SELTZERS MISLABLED AS CELSIUS, FDA SAYS

Ok but was there any risk of this changing??

oh that's good

I was fully expecting her to say that it was because he loves America so much he's full of coca cola and it's actually a good thing and DVT is fine

*LEAVITT: TRUMP MEDICAL EXAM FOUND CHRONIC VEINOUS INSUFFICIENCY

*LEAVITT: TRUMP REMAINS IN 'EXCELLENT HEALTH'

missed this one amid all the commotion

*TRUMP ON MAMDANI: HE MAY GET ELECTED

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

(Trump appointed Powell!)

*TRUMP, ASKED IF HE WILL FIRE POWELL: 'NOT PLANNING'

no one say TACO or he's gonna do it

Not now, Alan Dershowitz www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Remember Linda Yaccarino?

no look I agree it's a mess, at least Axios indicates the MoM

inflation aint nothin but a number, and one of many

tariffs show up

Bloomberg is focusing on month-over-month, underlying inflation (core CPI), and it's the fifth straight month economists have overshot and it's come in less than expected. Nerdy economists like to dig into the underlying categories but also the shorter term month to month changes to see how and when

logged on at 8:59:53 just so I could see this