Economic Calendar for the Week of December 22, 2024
Welcome to Cautious Optimism, a newsletter on tech, business, and power.
Last week in CO: AI spend by big tech … Bring your own satellites … Who run the world? Elon … ChatGPT’s latest hit … splitting atoms to answer questions …
Weekend reading: The fight for anime … White knights for WaPo … Japan versus Google … Curing headline anxiety with AI (product here) …
It’s Christmas week, and that means earnings activity is in the doldrums.
So instead of trying to spin the earnings that are coming out as interesting, let’s see what some of the biggest stories were in tech at this time last year.
We’ll be using Techmeme’s archive feature to help us out! Let’s have some fun.
— Holden
Monday
Big news in 2023: OpenAI in talks to raise $100B … Humane Ai Pin launch (and then flop) … Apple paying publishers …
U.S. economic events: Chicage Fed National Activity Index, CB Consumer Confidence
Global economic events: Consumer confidence (South Korea) … Balance of trade and mid-month inflation (Mexico), 2-year note auction
Tuesday
Big news in 2023: Nigeria lifts crypto ban … Twitter failed to pay out bonuses … Quantum computer expectations are too high …
U.S. economic events: Durable goods orders MoM, Richmond Fed manufacturing index, Money supply, Building permits final
Global economic events: Leading economic index (Japan)
Wednesday
Big news in 2023: Open source LLM released … Sam Altman’s resume … GM stops selling Chevy EV Blazers …
U.S. economic events: 🎄
Global economic events: Business confidence (Turkey), Corporate profits (Russia)
Thursday
Big news in 2023: GTA V source code leak … DEI programs fade out of corporate life … North Korea laundering crypto …
U.S. economic events: Continuing and initial jobless claims, 15 and 30-year mortgage rate
Global economic events: Unemployment benefit claims and jobseekers in total (France), Unemployment rate (Japan), Industrial profits YTD (China)
Friday
Big news in 2023: Biden doesn’t stop an Apple Watch trade ban … Microsoft launches CoPilot for Android … Israel wants an Intel plant …
U.S. economic events: Goods trade balance, EIA natural gas stocks change, Home Prices YoY
Global economic events: Unemployment rate (Brazil and Russia), GDP YoY (Russia)