{"id":270161,"date":"2025-02-01T18:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T18:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/economic-policy-uncertainty-and-vix-on-the-eve-of-trade-destruction\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:09:30","slug":"economic-policy-uncertainty-and-vix-on-the-eve-of-trade-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/economic-policy-uncertainty-and-vix-on-the-eve-of-trade-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Policy Uncertainty and VIX on the Eve of (Trade) Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-55448\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Through 1\/31\/2025, in anticipation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-02-01\/trump-set-to-launch-first-of-many-volleys-in-his-new-tariff-war?srnd=homepage-americas\">tariffs<\/a> that might or might not be announced today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/epu_vix_pix1.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55449\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/epu_vix_pix1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/epu_vix_pix1.png 849w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/epu_vix_pix1-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/epu_vix_pix1-768x507.png 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/epu_vix_pix1-624x412.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Figure 1:<\/strong> EPU (blue, left scale), 7 day centered moving average (red, left axis), and VIX close (green, right scale). Source: policyuncertainty.com and CBOE via FRED, and author\u2019s calculations.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/02\/economic-policy-uncertainty-and-vix\" title=\"9:17 am\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2025-02-01T09:17:31-08:00\">February 1, 2025<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/author\/menzie_chinn\" title=\"View all posts by Menzie Chinn\" rel=\"author\">Menzie Chinn<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/02\/economic-policy-uncertainty-and-vix\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Through 1\/31\/2025, in anticipation of tariffs that might or might not be announced today. Figure 1: EPU (blue, left scale), 7 day centered moving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}