Weekly Economic Index, for Data Released through 6/7
Lewis, Mertens & Stock WEI vs Baumeister, Leiva-Leon & Sims WECI: Figure 1: Lewis, Mertens, Stock Weekly Economic Index (blue),
Deport Dishwashers or Solve All Murders?
I understand being concerned about illegal immigration. I definitely understand being concerned about murder, rape, and robbery. What I don’t
“First thing we do, let’s kill all the beancounters” Part 3
Part 2 was during the last Trump administration. Some things never change. From Richard Rubin in today’s WSJ: Swagel, a
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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