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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…

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Pakistan experiences a whirlwind week of diplomacy amid the…