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@jimtankersley

White House Correspondent, The New York Times. Econ policy nerd. Dad. Backpacker. Cardinal🌲 Oregonian eternal.

Washington, D.C.
Joined April 2010
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 4

    I started paternity leave this week, and as part of the focus on caring for my daughter, I'm logging off Twitter for ... a while! See you all on the flip side, please fix everything in the economy while I'm gone.

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    25 Dec 2021

    As Prices Rise, Biden Turns to Antitrust Enforcers A Christmas competition tale w/ ⁦⁩

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    23 Dec 2021

    The Biden administration just signed a bill barring products made with forced labor in China into law. The implications for global supply chains will likely be sweeping, but much will hinge on the next few months with

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    23 Dec 2021

    Had to come out of Twitter sobriety to say RIP to one of the best to ever do it. Joan became an American icon, but she was a California writer.

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  5. 23 Dec 2021

    Excellent reporting from my amazing WH team colleagues &

    NEW: and I have spent much of this year reporting on Kamala Harris. Here’s our year-end story on the Vice President and the growing concern over the struggle to define her role in the Biden White House.
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  6. 19 Dec 2021

    If there is still a path for Build Back Better left after Joe Manchin’s statements today, this is it: Fewer programs, no sunsets — and hard choices Biden has thus far been unwilling to make.

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    18 Dec 2021

    Chico’s reporting from Italy in 2020 was invaluable if you wanted to know what was heading our way. This dispatch is from Copenhagen and it’s sobering.

    “The next month will be the hardest period of the pandemic.” “This will overwhelm hospitals." Even a full lockdown “won’t stop this from getting out of control.” My story on the warnings coming from Denmark’s world-class variant trackers:
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  8. 17 Dec 2021

    Missed opportunity for the Bluth Company.

    AF1 has landed in South Carolina and Eagle Aviation appears to have gotten a branding opportunity.
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  9. 17 Dec 2021

    Continued my fun recent trend today of asking if the WH Econ team sees any policy responses needed for omicron. (Same answer: nothing to report yet)

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  10. 17 Dec 2021

    Early flight for Biden to SC this am. One of the perks: this sunrise.

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  11. 15 Dec 2021

    This analysis suggests the typical American worker has experienced declining real earnings under the Biden administration, due to rising inflation.

    Updated figure on (annualized) nominal wage growth and CPI inflation by wage percentile. Workers in the bottom 2/3 saw pay growth exceed inflation over past 24 months This share fell to 1/3 over past 6 months due to elevated inflation in recent months.
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    15 Dec 2021

    The Federal Reserve on Wednesday said it will speed up the timeline for ending its extraordinary aid to the economy — a likely first step toward raising interest rates during the 2022 election year to help fend off heightened inflation. Three hikes projected for next year.

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    15 Dec 2021

    Republican governors have blamed Biden’s $1.9 stimulus package as wasteful and inflationary. Yet they’re happily using the money. ⁦⁩ explains.

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  14. 11 Dec 2021

    “Home Alone is actually a lesson in the sunk-cost fallacy” is a very normal thing I just told my teenager.

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    11 Dec 2021

    “I have never seen a stronger labor market than the one we’re seeing today,” tells .

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  16. 10 Dec 2021

    A central problem for Biden right now: His economic team sees the best labor market in memory. But voters are focused on high prices.

    How’s the Economy? Biden Sees a Boom. Many Americans Don’t.
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  17. 10 Dec 2021

    The D stands for Drama in FDIC:

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  18. 10 Dec 2021

    Biden loves to say he wants to be the most pro-union prez ever. My colleague on his efforts to wade into the Kellogg strike:

    NEWS: President Biden wades into the Kellogg strike, takes company to task for hiring permanent replacement workers. "Permanently replacing striking workers is an existential attack on the union and its members’ jobs and livelihoods,” he said.
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  19. 10 Dec 2021

    Interspersing inflation reporting/writing today with updates about another lockdown situation at my son's high school. All is well; school is safe. I've lost count of the number of times this has happened in his school career. It never gets easier.

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    9 Dec 2021

    Friends, there's a rare and exciting opportunity here. The WSJ is hiring a tax reporter, focused on the personal-finance side of the tax world. So... come work with and me. Here's the posting. You know what to do.

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