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industrial and manufacturing production rebounded strongly in August

  - by New Deal democratIn the past, industrial production has been the King of Coincident Indicators, since its peaks and troughs tended to coincide...

Using Economy-Wide Modeling of Climate Change Policies

In my podcast series, “Environmental Insights: Discussions on Policy and Practice from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program,”  I’ve had the pleasure of chatting with...

not even close to recession

  - by New Deal democratThere are some economic and financial indicators that aren’t classic leading or lagging indicators. Rather, they are “over-sensitive” in one...

The Road to Incoherence: Arthur Burns and the Agony of Central Banking

UPDATE: My concluding paragraph was inadverently deleted from my post, so even if you’ve already read the post, you may want to go back...

The Future of Health Care Reform – J. W. Mason

This is a guest post by Michael Kinnucan. The Collapsing Center and Solidifying Periphery of the US Healthcare System Contrary to what most people on the...

Sweden prepares for a sequence of interest-rate cuts

It was only yesterday that we were looking at the interest-rate cut and other monetary easing in China. Today we see that a bit...

Manufacturing remains in contraction, with construction on the brink

  - by New Deal democratThis month we started the month with not just the usual two important reports on the leading sectors of  manufacturing...

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Biden Admin Scrambling To Auction Off Border-Wall Sections Before Trump Takes Office

With Donald Trump set to retake office in January, the Biden administration is scrambling to auction off unused sections of Trump's border wall, the...

Do You Have a Passion for Political Solutions?

This week, as expected, the Federal Reserve did not hike nor cut the federal funds rate.  Instead, following the two-day FOMC meeting, the central...

MiB: Tony Kim, Blackrock Active Technology

     This week, we speak with Tony Kim, Managing Director and Head of the Fundamental Equities’ Global Technology Team at BlackRock. he is manager of...