The editorial desk behind our recurring news beat. An Organization-typed byline — not a single named author — covering economic, regulatory, and policy news that changes what our 500+ calculators output. Original commentary, dated primary sources, no aggregation.
NNNG calculators are only as accurate as the underlying rules they implement. When the IRS publishes new bracket figures, when the Fed shifts the federal funds target, when Freddie Mac's weekly PMMS reading moves, when the BLS releases CPI or jobs data — those events flow directly through the math in our tools. The Wire exists to log those events as they happen and explain what they mean for the specific calculators they touch.
Each Wire post is 400 to 600 words, dated, attributed to a single primary source, and written in plain language. Where a Wire post says "according to the BLS" or "the IRS announced," that statement is anchored to a specific news release identifier or data series.
The Wire is not an aggregator. We don't repost agency text, we don't lift summaries from third-party news outlets, and we don't run press release rewrites. Every Wire post is original prose written by our editorial desk based on the underlying primary source. Facts are paraphrased in our own words. Direct quotations are short and used sparingly with clear attribution.
The Wire is also distinct from our long-form author byline, which is reserved for in-depth calculator guides and educational content authored by Derek Giordano personally. The Wire is an editorial collective with an Organization byline, appropriate for time-sensitive news commentary where the byline is the publication itself rather than an individual author.
The Wire's coverage map mirrors the calculators that NNNG publishes most heavily. We focus on:
Many publications attach a single named editor to every news item. We chose an Organization-typed byline for the Wire because (a) the work is genuinely collaborative across our editorial process, (b) Schema.org's Organization type is well-supported by major search engines for institutional bylines, and (c) it allows us to maintain a separate, individually-authored byline for the long-form educational and calculator content that does carry single-author authority. Both bylines are real; they're just different scopes.
For corrections, tips, or editorial inquiries to the Wire desk: hello@nnng.com