AI, Immigration, and Fed Independence: Understanding the Risks Facing the US Economy

This week, EconoFact Chats features an abridged version of an Ask Me Anything Webinar with Binyamin Appelbaum. The discussion touched on a range of issues, including whether AI will prove labor-enhancing or labor-replacing, how a shrinking immigrant workforce will affect a labor market already facing a crunch, why oil markets are seemingly underpricing supply shocks, and whether the central bank can maintain its independence in the face of mounting political pressure to lower interest rates.

 

Binyamin is the lead writer on economics and business for the New York Times editorial board, and the author of The Economists’ Hour.