Leon Kass on the Wisdom of Rousseau
0:37Intro. Russ Roberts: Today is May 26th, 2025, and my guest today is author and teacher, and professor Leon Kass, the Dean of...
Tariffs and Consumer Prices at High Frequency
The recent undershooting of consensus CPI and PPI has been taken to mean that tariffs have not yet had an impact on prices...
Slowdown? Business Cycle Indicator Data as of Mid-June
With SPGMI’s monthly GDP, we have the following picture of series the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee focuses on:
Figure 1: Nonfarm Payroll incl...
Has Trade Policy Uncertainty Decreased a Lot?
Yes, but only because it was so extremely high recently.
Figure 1: Top panel – Economic Policy Uncertainty – trade category (blue); Bottom panel...
