Charges against whom?? Cohen? Avenatti? Someone else??
C’mon TPM, this is just lazy writing.
The person who leaked the SAR’s will be simultaneously charged, and given a medal.
The full CNN story provides more context. The SAR’s must have been released by someone who had access to them, but was not legally entitled to release them, i.e., someone in law enforcement or Treasury. I don’t believe Avenatti would be at risk, and certainly not Cohen.
Breaking news: Something may happen to someone. And at some point!
And consequences!!
Yeah, that is often the case, but it irks me that I have to chase the links to get something which could be quite easily disambiguated by a phrase or two. For example, my question is completely answered with the addition of half a dozen words:
Anyone have any idea why unemployment numbers went up today?
02/09 expected -225.000 versus actual -239.000.
The shutdown ended January 25th, would some federal workers still be counted?
Don’t blame me. I haven’t done a day of paid labor since 1999, so I don’t count.
Interesting. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
People working for contractors maybe?
To be fair, TPM tries very hard not to HuffPost it, with considerable original reporting. They will however put a placeholder when NYT, WaPo, WSJ or CNN break something, until they can fully report it out. My pet peeve is the AP stuff that crops up from time to time here and is so clearly ‘bothsiderist’. With this story, I suspect what has yet to be fleshed out was whether someone at Treasury was trying to tank Cohen on behalf of the President or in spite of him.
That’s a definite maybe!
It may be due to people who had stopped looking for a job and were no longer counted in the unemployed numbers restarting their job search thus are counted back among the unemployed.
Exactly. Ironically, a strong labor market can produce precisely that effect, and cough up weird little blips in the stats.
Yeah, I get your point.
However, even if they don’t know specifics at this time, once again, the addition of text along the line of “it is unclear at the moment who may be charged” would tell us that. If they leave it open as in the article, we just don’t know if the information is not available or if the writer is being lazy, so we have to chase down the original article to figure it out. Which I personally find irksome.
One of the hazards of getting our news second- or third-hand, I think.
Also ironically, like you I have no intention of ever again doing a single day of paid labor. As I said to a cousin a couple of years ago “I rather like spending my days sitting on the porch watching the Loons on the lake”.
Anyone have any idea why unemployment numbers went up today?
02/09 expected -225.000 versus actual -239.000.
The data can be noisy, and would be harder than usual to predict coming out of the shutdown. You can’t conclude much from a single week.
The current level of initial unemployment claims is still very low relative to recent decades, so there are a lot of eyes watching for a turnaround.
My go-to on economic data commentary is calculatedriskblog.com. He will release the data initially, then follow up later if there is something of particular interest in it. He had the housing bubble nailed, with data and explanations, long before those in a position of responsibility were willing to admit it existed.
A couple of weeks ago the new claims were under 200,000. Just seems like 39,000 is a big jump in two weeks. I did read that a record 7 million Americans are behind on their car payments earlier this week.