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Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Flier on RFK Jr

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

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Is it the phones?

Or perhaps we should just credit Sydney Sweeney?  That is from Chris Said. The post Is it the phones? appeared

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Business Cycle Indicators at Mid-September

Industrial and manufacturing production, and retail sales, all beating consensus. Nonetheless, there’s a tendency toward trending sideways. Figure 1: Nonfarm

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The British War on Slavery

In August of 1833 the British passed legislation abolishing slavery within the British Empire and putting more than 800,000 enslaved

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Housing 101

John Arnold points us to this table on new apartments and pointedly notes that the population of LA (18.5 m)

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Moving on Up

James Heckman and Sadegh Eshaghnia have launched a broadside in the WSJ against the Chetty-Hendren paper The Impacts of Neighborhoods

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Yield Curves over the Last Year

The yield curve at the short end is almost as inverted as it was in November 2024.

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Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Dear Committee Members

Like many who spend their lives in the ivory tower, I enjoy academic satires. That includes Richard Russo’s novel Straight

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Resources for Teaching Tariffs

Trump has put tariffs on the economics agenda in a way that hasn’t been true for decades. As a new

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How Retrainable are AI-Exposed Workers?

We document the extent to which workers in AI-exposed occupations can successfully retrain for AI-intensive work. We assemble a new