ECONOMY

Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Stanley Fischer

About Me Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University.…

2 hours ago

Why LLMs make certain mistakes

Via Nabeel Qureshi, from Claude 4 Sonnet, from this tweet. The post Why LLMs make certain mistakes appeared first on…

3 days ago

Furniture Prices Up, Up and Away in April

Can’t wait to see May data. Figure 1: PPI for furniture and household durables, n.s.a. (blue, left log scale), and…

6 days ago

You Can See the End of the Great Stagnation Everywhere but in the Productivity Statistics

Eli Dourado continues to keep his eye on the most important number in the world, total factor productivity. It continues…

1 week ago

Chinn-Ito Financial Openness Index Updated to 2022

Just published, Chinn-Ito index, available here. Normalized to [0,1], with 1 being most open, here’s the world. Here’re average values…

2 weeks ago

I talk with Gerry Baker

Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. I use…

2 weeks ago

Glow in the Dark Flowers!

I love these glow-in-the-dark petunias. Aside from the novelty, they speak to science and progress! The petunias were genetically modified…

3 weeks ago

Econ 101 is Underrated: Pharma Price Controls

Econ 101 is often dismissed as too simplistic. Yet recent events suggest that Econ 101 is underrated. Take the tariff…

3 weeks ago

This is Vindication???

Joe Nocera has a strange piece in the Free Press arguing that the “godfathers of protectionism” have been vindicated. It…

3 weeks ago

Has Clothing Declined in Quality?

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) recently tweeted that they wanted to bring back apparel manufacturing to the…

4 weeks ago