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Fed's rate cut takeaways, Eric Jackson's bull case for Nextdoor

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Fed's rate cut takeaways, Eric Jackson's bull case for Nextdoor Morning Brief host Julie Hyman takes on the day's morning market developments on December 11, 2025…
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  • Webvan, Cosmo, and Pets.com were sound ideas just built at the wrong time, now succeeded by Instacart and Chewy

    80% confidence
  • Insurance cuts are over and Fed is poised to take a pause in the new year

    80% confidence
  • GDP forecast raised to 2.3% for 2026

    80% confidence
  • AI may be impacting job market on the margins but not a major driving factor

    80% confidence
  • Under Nirav Tolia, notifications were cut by 80% with no effect on 21 million weekly active users

    80% confidence
  • Too early to say AI is boosting productivity, though surprised to see 2% productivity growth

    80% confidence
  • Fed forecasts one additional interest rate reduction in 2026

    80% confidence
  • Inflation is higher on my list of concerns than what the FOMC is signaling

    80% confidence
  • Silent dissents and voting dissents speak to a higher bar for cuts next year regardless of who next Fed chair is

    80% confidence
  • If productivity doesn't prove as accretive to economy, expected productivity gains won't materialize

    80% confidence
  • Major inflation driver is tariff inflation on goods side, not services side

    80% confidence
  • Tariff inflation could peak in Q1 2026 unless new tariff announcements are made

    80% confidence
  • Nextdoor is one of the most misunderstood platforms in the market

    80% confidence
  • Nextdoor has 100 million verified real users with no spam or robots

    80% confidence
  • AI and Agentic AI specifically can now map onto local commerce opportunity in ways previous attempts couldn't

    80% confidence
  • Angie was a $2 billion business from lead generation a couple years ago, representing open ground for Nextdoor

    80% confidence
  • Job growth has been overstated by 60,000 per month, with actual negative job growth of 20,000 per month

    80% confidence
  • Online prices showing we're still in the midst of increasing prices from goods side going into next year

    80% confidence

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