ECONOMY

Six Measures of Core Instantaneous Inflation

With the core PCE deflator, we have these measures of what’s happening to core. Figure 1: Instantaneous inflation for core CPI (blue), chained core CPI (tan),

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When You Hear a Critique of Mainstream Economists, Run

“Trumpflation” Risks Likely Overstated by Lance Roberts via Zerohedge: The question is whether policies being considered by the next Presidential administration will lead to “Trumpflation” or not.

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QCEW Employment Change Y/Y to June 2024

The percentage change is less than that for the CES estimate. Does this mean there are a lot fewer people employed that indicated by the

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Russia: Policy Rate at 21%, Official Inflation Rate at 10% (m/m annualized)

Locking up the butter in Russia (CNN). Official inflation in October was 0.8% m/m (annualize that and it’s about 10%. That’s the official inflation rate.

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Natural (but Stupid) Experiments? | Econbrowser

Since the incoming administration has indicated the deportations will start on day one, I thought it of use to consider the sectoral impacts of a

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Instantaneous Consumer Inflation in October

Including HICP and nowcasted PCE deflator. Figure 1: Instantaneous inflation per Eeckhout (2023) for CPI (blue), chained CPI (red), HICP (green), PCE deflater (bold black),

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Guest Contribution: “How Institutions Interact with Exchange Rates After the 2024 US Presidential Election: New High-Frequency Evidence”

Today, we are pleased to present a guest contribution written by Joshua Aizenman (University of Southern California) and Jamel Saadaoui (Université Paris 8-Vincennes). This post is based

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The Echo Chamber of Stupid: “Recession since 2022”

Daniel Lacalle via Zerohedge writes Professors EJ Antony and Peter St Onge recently published an excellent study, “Recession Since 2022: US Economic Income and Output

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The Return of Economic Policy Uncertainty

Not that it ever disappeared completely. But expect the EPU to rise as the tariffs start flying, and the deportations begin. Figure 1: Economic Policy

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Guest Contribution: “The anti-incumbent wave is real. But it’s not (really) about inflation”

Today we are pleased to present a guest contribution by Mark Copelovitch (Political Science and La Follette School, University of Wisconsin – Madison) and Michael