Murphonomics

Welcome to Murphonomics! Whether you came here because I sent you the link or whether you stumbled upon it by accident, I'm glad you're here and I want to share a little about what this project is and why it exists.

It started as a Substack article. I was a new member of the corporate world trying to be a sponge and absorb as much information as possible. I'd read the Wall Street Journal on the bus to work, listen to the Morning Brew at the gym, and catch Odd Lots on my walk home. I wanted to stay plugged in, but with the constant barrage of headlines, the news was (and still is) hard to keep up with. Tariffs, Iran, interest rates, the national debt, Israel, AI, unemployment—how is anyone supposed to digest information while drinking from a firehose? And how is anyone supposed to form an opinion when every outlet spins the same story differently?

In an attempt to organize my thoughts and figure out what I really believe, I wrote The Trump Economy—a short summary of too many economic variables—which admittedly failed at remaining unbiased. Among those many topics was AI. While it's undoubtedly one of the most important factors in a modern economy, most experts have thrown their hands up, and I did too. There's no easy way to predict who the winners and losers will be, but as a member of Gen Z, and someone who struggled to find a job after college, it's difficult to ignore the employment shock on college graduates. Following that article, I wanted to learn more. Is the job market slowdown a symptom of fiscal policy or is AI actually coming for all our jobs? To answer this question I followed the Instagram hype and switched from ChatGPT to Claude and downloaded VS Code.

Murphomics is the early-stage, exploratory answer to those questions. It's a place for me to test the capabilities of AI while tackling a problem I've run into myself: too much information, not enough clarity. I pull together data into digestible summaries, share some educational context, and offer an opinion nobody asked for.

I am not without bias, but the information on the dashboard is. It's pulled directly from the Federal Reserve, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and sources you can trust. I hope you find the information as easy to understand as building this website was with Claude.