Ara Kharazian Substack: econlab.substack.com Website: ramp.com/data Contact: press@ramp.com Writing and analysis of AI, business spend, and the economy. Building a team dedicated to producing public-facing economic research with first-party data from Ramp. My research has been covered on NBC, ABC, the New York Times, Planet Money, Bloomberg, Fortune Magazine, the Financial Times, the Globe and Mail, Axios, the Atlantic, the Guardian, Vox, and more. I was previously the Economic Research Lead at Square, where I developed Square Payroll Index, which became one of the key public datasets used to track restaurant worker wages, tips, and overtime in the United States. Before that, I was an economic consultant at Cornerstone Research.