Mike Konczal

Our New Affordability Dashboard and the Microeconomic Vibecession

Health care, housing, and food are driving a micro Vibecession, and the macroeconomic numbers won't see it.

Aug 13 • Mike Konczal

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July 2026

How I Use AI as a Policy Researcher: HTML Dives, Git Diffs, and Elaborate Rehearsals

Learning git to escape the permanent underclass, and showing up late to the vibe-coded app party with a writer's IDE.

Jul 9 • Mike Konczal

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June 2026

A Good Housing Bill and Trump's Bad Affordability Politics

Signing even a symbolic housing bill would buy Trump some breathing room. The ROAD Act is much more substantive than that.

Jun 27 • Mike Konczal

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Kevin Warsh’s Press Conference Collides Into 30 Years of Michael Woodford

The new Fed chair argued that the Fed should stop reflecting markets back at themselves. Forgotten debates show how this leads to confusing…

Jun 23 • Mike Konczal

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Our New Housing Affordability Report is Live!

Tackling both the broken incomes and broken markets of housing.

Jun 10 • Mike Konczal

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May 2026

I Gave (Fake?) House Testimony on Debt, Waste, and Overregulation

Embracing Orange Man Bad #resistlib in public.

May 29 • Mike Konczal

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Discussing the Wage Standard with Arin Dube

Including minimum wages, pandemic social insurance, inflation, the low vibes, and AI.

May 23 • Mike Konczal and Arin Dube

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The Weirdness of Jay Powell's Legacy

Plus my favorite video of him, and the tattoo I got in response to the soft landing.

May 15 • Mike Konczal

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The Irony of a Jobs Pickup That Lands Right Where It Started

And what tariffs and immigration have to do with it.

May 9 • Mike Konczal

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April 2026

Cherry-Picking the Wrong Inflation Measures With Kevin Warsh

Kevin Warsh's favorite inflation metrics are exactly the ones that failed us during the inflation wave

Apr 27 • Mike Konczal

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Is the Vibecession Homogeneous to Degree Zero?

Why doubling the average price and every income might still leave people worse off.

Apr 23 • Mike Konczal

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The Girlboss Takeover Has a Data Problem

The sub-industries that already employed women just grew faster.

Apr 17 • Mike Konczal

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