Browsing: Economy

Question: One common argument against public assistance taking the form of direct cash handouts is that the recipients will use…

From CRFB on 6/25 “CEA’s Fantastical Economic Assumptions”:

This economy tracker during the war is a more concise format of the monthly research on the state of Ukraine’s…

by Calculated Risk on 7/01/2025 02:46:00 PM From the Census Bureau reported that overall construction spending decreased:Construction spending during May…

I’m not a fan of left wing views on “class”. Progressives often define class in terms of income or wealth,…

As of today: Figure 1: EPU (blue, left scale), 7 day centered moving average (red, left scale), VIX (green right…

It took firefighters two days to extinguish the flames at Oleksiy Tarnopolskiy’s warehouse in Kyiv after a Russian attack on…

by Calculated Risk on 6/30/2025 01:16:00 PM Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Freddie Mac House Price Index…

0:37Intro. [Recording date: June 9, 2025.]Russ Roberts: Today is June 9th, 2025, and my guest is mathematician and author Paulina…

Various observers have argued for final sales to private domestic purchasers as the best measure of economic momentum. Nowcasts and…