Browsing: policy

Congress has passed one of the most draconian cut to social safety net programs in modern American history. President Donald…

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

Here’s the data through 7/9: Figure 1: EPU-trade category (blue, left scale), and Trade Policy Uncertainty index (red, right scale).…

The last few weeks have been a roller coaster for U.S. policy in the Middle East: from diplomacy to military…

See here and here. Every morning I wake up, think I can’t see anything more crazy than what occurred yesterday,…

In the Summer issue of RegulationI suggest that the growing popularity of industrial policy (also called “industrial strategy”) all over…

A picture (or two) is worth a thousand words: Figure 1: Sum of nonresidential equipment and structures investment, bn.Ch.2017$ SAAR…

Measured trade policy uncertainty, from Baker, Bloom and Davis, and Caldara, Iacoviello,  Molligo, Prestipino, and Raffo: Figure 1: EPU-trade category…

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

In the days before the surprise U.S. attack on Iran, Politico reported that one man in the Defense Department was…