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Claudia Sahm
Personal blog · stayathomemacro.substack.comeconomicspolitics
Claudia Sahm writes Stay-At-Home Macro (SAHM), a personal blog at stayathomemacro.substack.com about economics and politics. Since 2021, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Kevin Warsh”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link these posts on economics, including unemployment, minimum wage versus real wage increases, and a post on racism and beliefs. The comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My goal is to make economic policy and macroeconomics better.
Most-linked posts?
- Kevin Warsh2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-02
- Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-07
- /p/racism-skews-our-beliefs-about-whats2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-12
What Hacker News says?
The economy hasn't been good anytime recently until 2019 or so. Unemployment consistently improved over time far past any mainline economists predicted, especially the Larry Summers types who ran the 2010 recovery. Maybe they should've lowered the rates then so they could raise it later - they certainly didn't do enough stimulus. There are weak models behind all of this at best; "cheap money and fiscal discipline" i…
Comment linking /p/racism-skews-our-beliefs-about-whats
on “The QT Timebomb”Submitted Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why as a story · 79 points
HN discussionThe minimum wage in itself doesn't help. [0] Real wage increase is needed. Also tangentially related: https://stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/racism-skews-our-beli... [0] "In the long-run, however, employers have far more flexibility. They can replace labor with capital. They can replace low-skilled workers with higher-skilled workers." - https://www.econlib.org/archives/2017/07/minimally_convi.htm... (note, Caplan i…
Comment linking /p/racism-skews-our-beliefs-about-whats
on “Amazon Union Election: 'No' Votes Outnumber 'Yes' Votes So Far”Submitted Something is shifting in the inflation picture as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sahm rule: I created a monster as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Something is shifting in the inflation picture as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kevin Warsh as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five Facts about Inflation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Supply chain disruptions are not a new threat, and they're not going away as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Claudia Sahm on Kevin Warsh as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted There are no shortcuts to affordability as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Slow down and protect things: Fed independence and the Supreme Court as a story · 1 points
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