February 26, 2023
J. Bradford DeLong discusses why despite the material progress of the last 150 years, the utopia that people in earlier, more materially dire periods believed would come about, remains elusive.
May 8, 2022
To understand the myriad factors affecting the outlook of the US economy, EconoFact Chats welcomes back a panel of distinguished economic journalists: Binyamin Appelbaum (NYT), Scott Horsley (NPR), Greg Ip (WSJ), and Heather Long (Washington Post).
July 6, 2021
Julia Coronado, president and founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives, joins EconoFact Chats this week to describe how she and her team organize their thinking and analysis of the U.S. economy at a time when the pandemic has disrupted the conventional models and rules of thumb that forecasters traditionally use.
February 16, 2021
The collapse of GDP in the spring of 2020 was the most precipitous on record, no matter how it is measured. But different ways of reporting can lead to confusion.
February 2, 2020
About 1.1 billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in the last 25 years. Broad-based growth is the most important source of poverty reduction.
February 1, 2020
The CBO projects federal budget deficits to average more than 5 percent of GDP in the last three years of this decade, compared to Trump administration estimates below 2%. Why do they differ?
March 5, 2019
There can be big differences in GDP growth depending upon whether it is calculated over a 12 month period or by comparing GDP in one calendar year to GDP in the previous year.
November 25, 2018
While productivity growth is hard to measure and predict, there are a few factors that could be contributing to the productivity growth slowdown in the U.S.
February 8, 2018
The stock market is not the entire economy. Price earnings ratios are high but it is important to look at other economic indicators of how our economy is doing.