Browsing: Economy

Timothy Taylor, at Conversable Economisthad a post on August 13 titled “What Economic Ideas are True and Nontrivial?” He starts…

SP Global’s monthly GDP series is up (with prediction of flat GDP in Q3): Figure 1: Nonfarm…

by Calculated Risk on 8/13/2025 01:19:00 PM Here is a look at the change in teen employment over time.The graph…

President Trump signed the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (GENIUS Act) into law on July 18thpromising…

A Paper (Nov. 2024) (first version Oct. 2024): Downloadable data used in the paper here [xlsx]. This…

by Calculated Risk on 8/12/2025 07:42:00 PM Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.Wednesday:• At…

The Economist has an interesting article speculating that the red state advantage in housing affordability may be about to shrink:…

Bloomberg, Truflation at 2.8% y/y; Cleveland Fed at 2.72%. Figure 1: CPI-all (bold black), Cleveland Fed nowcast…

by Calculated Risk on 8/11/2025 07:54:00 PM From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Steady Ahead of High…

0:37Intro. [Recording date: July 17, 2025.]Russ Roberts: Today is July 17th, 2025.Before introducing today’s guest, I want to mention that…