Browsing: Economy

A major disagreement between James Buchanan and Anthony de Jasay is whether it is possible to devise a constitution that…

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…

by Calculated Risk on 7/18/2025 02:44:00 PM From BofA: Since our last weekly publication, our 2Q GDP tracking is down…

by T J Martinelli, The Center SquareJuly 14, 2025. Excerpt: Washington state faces deficit spending by 2028 as lawmakers just…

That’s the title of a report by the Trump administration CEA earlier this month. It’s an interesting question whether this…

At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:Click on graph for larger image.• Housing Starts Increased to 1.321 million…

I really enjoyed Scott Sumner’s recent post about how people are bad at understanding coincidences. There are many reasons why…

Policy uncertainty has remains high; does it matter for economic uncertainty? Figure 1: EPU-trade category (blue, left scale), and Trade…

by Calculated Risk on 7/19/2025 08:11:00 AM The key reports this week are June New and Existing Home Sales.For manufacturing,…

Although Paris still gets fed, our economy is facing turbulence. There’s presumably more than one reason for this. One reason…