Another JOLT: Jobs Opening Smash Expectations, Despite Another Drop In Number Of Hires

Netflix Grants Warner Bros. One Week Waiver To Reopen Paramount Skydance Deal Talks Warner Bros. Discovery said in a press release that it will temporarily reopen talks with Paramount Skydance after Netflix granted a seven-day waiver, allowing WBD to address "deficiencies that remain unresolved and clarify certain terms of PSKY's proposed merger agreement." "Netflix has provided WBD a limited waiver under the terms of WBD's merger agreement with Netflix, permitting WBD to engage in discussions with Paramount Skydance ("PSKY") (NASDAQ: PSKY) for a seven-day period ending on February 23, 2026, to...

Overeducated Liberals With Worthless Degrees Are DSA's "Sweet Spot" Voter Nate Silver identifies lower-income, highly educated voters as the core demographic of the Democratic Socialists of America, revealing a striking breakdown in the traditional relationship between education and higher income. "Income and education are usually positively correlated. But sometimes the relationship breaks down. What's the most Democratic voting group in America? People with post-graduate degrees but lower-to-middle incomes," Silver wrote on X. In today's newsletter, I argue this is the sweet spot for the DSA. DSA members are *very* college-educated (80% BA+)...

Guns Fall Silent As Qatar Races To Revive US-Iran Talks The guns have actually been silent in the Middle East overnight, after two days of deadly strikes between the United States and Iran, amid a general return to premarket open headlines of 'peace imminent again' as mediators desperately work to get diplomacy back on track. For example, The New York Times writes early Thursday that "Qatar, which helped broker the U.S.-Iran truce last month, has been in talks with Washington and Tehran to de-escalate the crisis, according to two officials with...