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Joseph Politano
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Joseph Politano writes Apricitas Economics, a personal blog at apricitas.io about economics, business and data. Since 2022, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 92 times, most often “America's Productivity Boom”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Joseph Politano's Substack for economics writing, including US productivity growth. Commenters cite one of his posts as a source in a thread on why economic growth has slowed.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Data-driven Insights on Economics, Business, Finance, and Public Policy. Click to read Apricitas Economics, by Joseph Politano, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- America's Productivity Boom3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-25
- New Zealand's Building Boom–and What the World Must Learn from It2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-21
- America Is Flying Blind on Immigration2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-05
- Low-Income Countries Are Falling Behind2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-03
- California Keeps Losing Tech Jobs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-19
- The Most Important New Disinflation Indicator2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-15
- America's New Business Boom2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-15
- Are Real Wages Rising?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-11
- ChatGPT, Please Take My Job2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-06
- The Death of NYC Congestion Pricing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-19
What Hacker News says?
I find that substack has a lot of good authors on the topics that are relevant/interesting to me (e.g. economics). You can search here [1] to discover authors. If you find an author on substack interesting, you can then see a list of their recommendations down on their homepage (e.g. [2]). If you follow this process enough times and subscribe to a few authors, you'll get a list of curated content in your inbox each…
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on “Ask HN: Where do you escape for non-clickbait thoughtful/informational content?”Submitted America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI? as a story · 547 points
HN discussion> That doesn't seem consistent with this source: https://www.apricitas.io/p/americas-productivity-boom His work contact information is available online if you want to ask him about the supposed discrepancies: * https://economics.northwestern.edu/people/directory/robert-g... * https://gordon.economics.northwestern.edu/contactinfo/
Comment linking /p/americas-productivity-boom
on “Why Has Economic Growth Slowed When Innovation Appears to Be Accelerating? (2018”Submitted The AI Investment Boom as a story · 278 points
HN discussionThat doesn't seem consistent with this source: https://www.apricitas.io/p/americas-productivity-boom
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on “Why Has Economic Growth Slowed When Innovation Appears to Be Accelerating? (2018”Submitted The Death of NYC Congestion Pricing as a story · 171 points
HN discussionHey, I think getting into arguments for a day then randomly giving up and wandering off is what the sites all about. Actually, I think the guy who stops replying first kind of wins - it's similar to why you shouldn't double-text when dating. > I don’t think asking for a twitter space is all that weird. My issue is that I don't think I have anything to contribute as I'm not making original conclusions but kind of jus…
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on “Catch-23: The New C Standard Sets the World on Fire”Submitted How rate hikes are affecting the economy as a story · 116 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mexico's Investment Boom as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted California Keeps Losing Tech Jobs as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted California Keeps Losing Tech Jobs as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted California Is Losing Tech Jobs as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Tariffs Are Breaking US Trade as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted America Is Flying Blind on Immigration as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted America Is Flying Blind on Immigration as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Low-Income Countries Are Falling Behind as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The EU Joins the EV Trade War as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Universal Tariffs Are Universally Bad as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted America Is Losing Blue Collar Jobs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Tariff Exemption Behind the AI Boom as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trump's Retreat Still Leaves Tariffs at 90-Year Highs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Germany's Industrial Slowdown (2023) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weight Loss Drugs Continue to Power Denmark's Economy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Detailed Look at Biden's New China Tariffs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted America's Manufacturing Productivity Problem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The UK's Stagnation: What's Going Wrong in the Not-So-Great British Economy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Americans' Excess Savings Are Mostly Spent as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Core Inflation Is (Finally) Cooling as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI and the Fall? Of the Creative Class as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trump's 2nd Trade War Begins as a story · 2 points
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