There have been important methodological changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) over time. These distort comparisons of inflation from…
We study how the recent run-up in housing and rental prices affects the outlook for inflation in the USA. Housing held down the overall…
August 5, 2022, Video: "As administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Samantha Power is dealing now with a global food…
August 5, 2022, Video: (in the larger segment starting at 23:58 and the full segment at 33:22) "On this edition of Wall Street Week, Mona…
August 5, 2022, Opinion: "The July 2022 US employment report surprised to the upside and depicts a labor market that is still very tight.…
August 5, 2022, Interview: "The Senate passed a historic climate, health, and tax bill after marathon negotiations over the weekend, talks…
August 4, 2022, Paper: "When solving discrete-time consumption models with present-biased time preferences, backwards induction generates…
August 1, 2022, Paper: "Research on inequality in American democracy has focused on legislative processes, largely overlooking…
September 2022, Book: "Every year America becomes more diverse, but change in the makeup of the management ranks has stalled. The problem…
August 3, 2022, Video: "Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers sits down with Yahoo Finance's Jennifer Schonberger to assess the Inflation…