Browsing: Economy

Lewis, Mertens & Stock WEI vs Baumeister, Leiva-Leon & Sims WECI: Figure 1: Lewis, Mertens, Stock Weekly Economic Index (blue),…

by Calculated Risk on 6/12/2025 12:00:00 PM The Federal Reserve released the Q4 2024 Flow of Funds report today: Financial…

We’re bringing back price theory with our series on Price Theory problems with Professor Bryan Cutsinger. You can see all…

The Economist asks the question, and says — in part — yes. Rebalancing the global economy is Donald Trump’s defining…

by Calculated Risk on 6/11/2025 01:00:00 PM Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 2nd Look at Local Housing…

I’m glad that co-blogger Scott Sumner took on one of the fears about ending the production of pennies. His post…

Part 2 was during the last Trump administration. Some things never change. From Richard Rubin in today’s WSJ: Swagel, a…

by Calculated Risk on 6/10/2025 02:44:00 PM Note: I’ve received a number of requests to post this again.  So here…

One of the myriad of justifications given for Trump’s love of tariffs is that they are actually a negotiating tool…

It’s not smaller than this point in 2024: Source: CBO, Monthly Budget Review: May 2025.