ECONOMY

The Free Press is joining Paramount
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . October 8, 2025
Announcement here, congratulations! And from the WSJ. And Katherine Boyle comments. The post The Free Press is joining Paramount appeared

Delaying Employment Situation Release, CPI Release Next?
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . October 5, 2025
Is the Administration secretly happy that the employment situation release was delayed? Without inside information, one can’t

Nowcasting Private NFP for September
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . October 2, 2025
We won’t have the BLS series for private NFP as of Friday. Can we use the ADP-Stanford

Guest Contribution: “Does the Zillow rent measure help predict CPI rent inflation?”
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . September 29, 2025
Today we are fortunate to present a guest post written by N. Kundan Kishor (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). The Divergence

AI and the FDA
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . September 26, 2025
Dean Ball has an excellent survey of the AI landscape and policy that includes this: The speed of drug development

Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Flier on RFK Jr
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . September 23, 2025
About Me Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

Is it the phones?
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . September 20, 2025
Or perhaps we should just credit Sydney Sweeney? That is from Chris Said. The post Is it the phones? appeared

Business Cycle Indicators at Mid-September
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . September 17, 2025
Industrial and manufacturing production, and retail sales, all beating consensus. Nonetheless, there’s a tendency toward trending sideways. Figure 1: Nonfarm

The British War on Slavery
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . September 14, 2025
In August of 1833 the British passed legislation abolishing slavery within the British Empire and putting more than 800,000 enslaved

Housing 101
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . September 11, 2025
John Arnold points us to this table on new apartments and pointedly notes that the population of LA (18.5 m)