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EconReporter
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Sep 2, 2026
Why Canada’s Counter-Tariff Is More Than ‘Dollar for Dollar’
Canada calls its counter-tariffs "dollar for dollar." Add up the actual tariff list, though, and the number lands billions higher — here's why.
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Canada Economy
Boxed News
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Aug 31, 2026
WTF Is Boxed News? 📦
A user’s guide to the latest part of the Tedium LLC empire, which will focus on all things mini PC.
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boxed news
EconReporter
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Jun 24, 2026
The curious case of why UK and Canada CPI use grocery scanner data but the US can’t
A deep dive on why the US's—the world's most important economy—inflation statistics enhancement progress has surprisingly lagged compared to the UK and Canada?
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Canada CPI
PostHog Blog
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Jun 23, 2026
What is a Scout? A technical deep dive
A scout is a small scheduled agent that watches your PostHog data, learns what is worth knowing, and emits useful signals you (or your agents) can act on. Here is how they work, with real examples.
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Research
PostHog Blog
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Jun 2, 2026
In-depth: DuckDB vs SQLite
DuckDB has often been called the "SQLite of OLAP". Is it an apt comparison? DuckDB and SQLite are databases with similar design principles. Both are lightweight, embedded, single-file, in-process databases that blur the line between database and…
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DuckDB
PostHog Blog
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Jun 2, 2026
In-depth: DuckDB vs Postgres
We've made some apples to oranges comparisons over the years. None have been so diametrically opposing than Postgres and DuckDB. However, that also makes for a neat pairing: comparing Postgres and DuckDB is a masterclass on how databases are layers…
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DuckDB
PostHog Blog
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May 1, 2026
DuckDB vs ClickHouse: Why we use both at PostHog
ClickHouse and DuckDB are two heavyweights in the OLAP category. This makes them appear as direct competitors. In a few respects they are, but they are essentially tangential products that have garnered popularity in the OLAP world for separate…
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ClickHouse
EconReporter
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Apr 15, 2026
Are you ready for Federal Reserve Chair Miran? A question on chair pro tem appointment
Powell says he will be Chair Pro Tem as long as Warsh is not confirmed. Is it 100% going to happen?
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Arthur Burns
EconReporter
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Feb 15, 2026
Understanding Hong Kong’s Exchange Fund Bills & Notes — Liquidity Flow Analysis
This page compiles the expected liquidity flows between Hong Kong Monetary Authority's (HKMA) Exchange Fund Bills and Notes (EFBNs) and the Aggregate Balance. Estimates of these liquidity flows can provide a lens into the HKMA's liquidity management practices
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Exchange Fund Bills
PostHog Blog
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Feb 11, 2026
WTF is a forward deployed engineer? (and why everyone is hiring them)
If you've been living anywhere except under a rock lately, you've probably heard the term forward deployed engineer 50 times by now and thought: WTF does that even mean? This role has been called “ the hottest job in startups ” according to a16z…
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Product engineers
PostHog Blog
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Feb 3, 2026
How startup secondaries actually work
Secondaries - so hot right now. For those not in the loop, a secondary stock sale or ‘secondary’ is where existing stockholders of a private company sell their stock to someone else. This is great for founders and employees - and early investors…
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PostHog Blog
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Dec 8, 2025
Product engineer vs software engineer: How are they different?
Software companies were once dominated by two types of roles: product managers and software engineers, but this is changing. A new role is emerging: the product engineer . Want proof? Look at this graph : Online searches for product engineers have…
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Product engineers
EconReporter
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Dec 2, 2025
Standing Repo Operations—the Fed’s interest rate ceiling tool
The Federal Reserve announced after the December meeting that it removed the aggregate limit on the Standing Repo Facility (SRF). Repo rates spiked toward the end of the week, with SOFR and the Tri-party General Collateral rate (TGCR) reaching 4.12% and 4.08% on Friday, respectively, breaching the Federal Reserve's overnight interest rate target range.
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PostHog Blog
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Sep 12, 2023
Feature flags as a service: Should you build or buy?
Feature flags are a tool to conditionally turn on or off code and components. They enable you to safely deploy or roll back new features, which helps you follow the best practice of disconnecting deployment from release . The basic functionality of…
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Explainers
PostHog Blog
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Jun 30, 2023
In-depth: ClickHouse vs Redshift
We've written extensively comparing ClickHouse to other analytical databases, including Google BigQuery , Elastic , and Apache Druid . Most of those articles had the same gist – a tuned ClickHouse instance is faster by many orders of magnitude…
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ClickHouse
PostHog Blog
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Apr 26, 2023
What is a growth engineer? (And why they're awesome)
Every startup loves to see its growth metrics – signups, subscriptions, and revenue, etc. – go up, yet most engineers work on things that don't directly impact those metrics. Growth engineers are different. They focus entirely on projects dedicated…
Explainers
PostHog Blog
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Apr 12, 2023
The modern data stack sucks
Every startup needs data to build a better product. This isn't up for debate. But, as we've found from working with hundreds of startups at all stages, the "startup data stack" can quickly devolve into a mess of tools slowing you down. In this…
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Explainers
PostHog Blog
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Mar 20, 2023
In-depth: ClickHouse vs Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch and ClickHouse are both open-source frameworks with advantages over conventional databases like PostgreSQL for performing tasks over lots of data, but they serve very different needs. Elasticsearch, as the name implies, was designed…
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ClickHouse
PostHog Blog
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Jan 24, 2023
Product engineer vs product manager: What's the difference?
Are product engineers a better choice for your startup than product managers are, or do you need both? To answer that, this post compares the approaches they take to product development, like we recently did with product engineers and software…
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Product engineers
PostHog Blog
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Jan 13, 2023
In-depth: ClickHouse vs Druid
Contrary to what the names might suggest, ClickHouse isn’t an TikTok influencer house and Druid isn’t (just) a D&D character class – they're both modern online analytical processing (OLAP) databases designed to store and retrieve lots of data fast…
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ClickHouse
PostHog Blog
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Dec 1, 2022
What is a product engineer (and why they're awesome)
Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this need came the role of product engineer. They are a core part of many teams building the next generation of great products. More startups are hiring…
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Product engineers
PostHog Blog
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Oct 31, 2022
What is SSO and why you should enable it for PostHog
Existing at an intersection of convenience and security, single sign-on (SSO) authentication is used and appreciated by both IT teams and everyday users — which is why we strongly recommend setting it up on new PostHog instances. In this article we…
Explainers
PostHog Blog
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Oct 10, 2022
Permissions and projects in PostHog, explained
So, you’ve installed your snippet and started tracking data in PostHog. What’s next? Before forging ahead into the heady world of insights , session recordings , experimentation and feature flags , we suggest taking a second to invite your…
Explainers
PostHog Blog
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Jul 25, 2022
Is autocapture ‘still’ bad?
Is autocapture bad? Has it ever been good? Earlier this year Amplitude posed these questions in a blogpost by Product Evangelist Adam Greco. Yes, he said, ‘ Auto-track is still bad ’ – and he went on to explain the four main reasons why. Unlike…
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