The Economy: When We Last Entered a Land War on the Asian Mainland
Employment fell as EPU rose; production stalls as Geopolitical Risk spiked. Figure 1: Nonfarm payroll employment, 000’s (blue, left log
Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Economic Theory Summer Camp
About Me Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
Podcast with Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer
Mostly about geopolitics, plenty of fresh content. And here is the transcript. Excerpt: Jon Finer: Should the United States be
Brazil facts of the day
Pensions cost the government 10% of GDP. If no reforms are made by 2050, Brazil will spend more on pensions
Minimum wage hikes and robots
This paper studies how minimum wage policy affects firms’ adoption of automation technologies. Using both state-level measures of robot exposure
Those new service sector jobs
Who needs to be a programmer, be hired to close the doors on Waymo vehicles: Or see here. And more
Households under Debt Stress: Two Pictures
From Bloomberg: Auto ABS prices, from Fitch: Source link
The Layoff Announcement-Labor Force Ratio and Recessions, 1989-2025
Using Challenger, Gray, Christmas data at quarterly frequency, normalized by civilian labor force. Figure 1: Challenger layoff announcements to civilian
Effective tax rates for billionaires
Here is the tweet, here is the source data. The post Effective tax rates for billionaires appeared first on Marginal
Nowcasting “Core GDP” | Econbrowser
From Atlanta Fed and Goldman Sachs, numbers that perhaps better represent the trajectory of aggregate demand. Figure 1: Final sales