Consumer Price Level – Alternatives
How’s dropping prices for everyday folks going?
Figure 1: CPI all (black), CPI for food (tan), Everyday Price Index (green), all in logs, 2025M01=0....
How Much Longer Can We Trust Our Economic Statistics?
The Commerce Department eliminated two advisory committees on economic statistics gathering (see Marketplace). BLS received some additional funds in March as part of...
Why Trade Uncertainty – Illustrated
Here’re the Baker-Bloom-Davis categorical trade policy uncertainty measure and the Caldara et al. Trade Policy Uncertainty index. Why are these measures elevated? In...
EJ Antoni/Heritage: “Back from the Brink: Trump’s Economy Soars Instead of Crashing”
What’s this guy smoking? From the article (originally Wash Examiner):
Many so-called experts predicted that President Trump’s economic agenda would usher in an inflationary...
Guest Contribution: “Recession Detection Along the Anticipation-Precision Frontier”
Today we are fortunate to present a guest post written by Pascal Michaillat (UCSC).
Is the U.S. economy in a recession? While economists debate...
James Marriott on Reading – Econlib
0:37Intro. Russ Roberts: Today is June 19th, 2025, and my guest is writer and journalist James Marriott of The Times of London, where...
“Groceries” under Trump | Econbrowser
ERS predicts 2.2% increase in food-at-home prices in 2025.
Figure 1: CPI food-at-home (black); ERS forecast of January (light blue square), ERS forecast of...
