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Andrew Lazzeroni
Andrew is the founder and editor of Off Script Wire, where he writes the plain-English explainers that make the day’s business and markets news click into place.
He covers how the money machine actually works — from what moves a stock price to what the Fed is really up to — and edits to one standard: if a sharp friend couldn’t follow it, it isn’t done.
Stories by Andrew Lazzeroni
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A deletion request is now a standing instruction
Since August 1, a California deletion request has been a standing instruction rather than a one-time message: brokers must keep deleting every 45 days, and the bar on selling you again has fewer ways out than the duty to delete.
PJM's power auction bought less generation at its price cap
PJM's own auction reports, read in one column: the price of scarcity climbed toward its ceiling while the new generation it bought fell to a few hundred megawatts, and PJM has asked FERC to stop counting some of the demand behind that climb.
Nine appliance rules took DOE's shortcut in fourteen months
A Fifth Circuit ruling on one appliance rule turns on a mandatory off-switch DOE never pulled: one of nine standards set the same way, with DOE's own reasoning laid out across two documents.
A bulletin, not the statute, sets the FAIR Plan split
The bulletin that lets insurers recoup a FAIR Plan assessment from their own policyholders sets no ceiling above one billion dollars, unlike the three other California safety nets it says it resembles.
The economy got quieter than the jobs survey can hear
BLS's own revision record shows the routine gap between a first print and a final number is now bigger than the average month it is trying to measure.
Rent nobody pays outweighs food, gas and new cars combined
BLS's own relative-importance table shows owners' equivalent rent outweighs food, gasoline and new vehicles combined in the CPI-U. The homeowner survey behind it sets only the weight, never the price.
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