“You Are All $500 Billion Richer Now According To A Revised Biden Admin Spreadsheet” (9/27/2024). I won’t dissect the non-arguments in the article. I’ll just observe that the GDP annual update has brought the GDP series much more in line...
A Main Street Agenda town hall meeting on inflation to be held Tuesday, Oct. 15, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Clinton Rose Senior Center, 3045 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Register here. From the Milwaukee Journal...
With latest available data: Figure 1: Misery Index, calculated as simple sum of unemployment rate and 12 month CPI inflation rate. NBER defined peak-to-trough recession dates shaded gray. Source: BLS via FRED, NBER, and author’s calculations. Note that Misery was...
Upward revisions for both indices from University of Michigan Survey of Consumers: Figure 1: University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment for Democrats (blue, left scale), for Independents (gray, left scale), for Republicans (red, left scale), Shapiro, Sudhof and Wilson (2020) Daily...
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Penguin chicks survive tearaway iceberg BBC Fannie and Freddie: Single Family Serious Delinquency Rate Ticked Up in August Calculated Risk Nobody Knows Anything, The Beatles edition The Big Picture Climate Helene’s impact felt far and wide across several southern states...
Yves here. An important and star-studded talk by TaxCast on the important topics of reducing big corporate tax avoidance and green laundering, as how banks cover up the extent of their funding of fossil fuel producers. The first part of...
Still hard to see the recession in (preliminary) August 2024 data. Figure 1: Nonfarm Payroll (NFP) employment from CES (blue), implied NFP from preliminary benchmark (bold blue), civilian employment (orange), industrial production (red), personal income excluding current transfers in Ch.2017$...
With August data: Figure 1: Instantaneous inflation for core CPI (blue), chained core CPI (tan), supercore CPI (pink), services supercore (light green), PPI core (red), and PCE core (green), per Eeckhout (2023), T=12, a=4. Horizontal chartreuse dashed line at 2% PCE inflation target...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Mourning Warbler, Shannondale Springs Wildlife Managment Area, Jefferson, West Virginia, United States. “As per Wil Hershberger, this recording is of an adult male Mourning Warbler (Geothlypis philadelphia) that was visually...
