April 14, 2024
A discussion with Alejandro Werner on the history of Argentina’s economy, the problems it currently faces, and its prospects for recovery under Javier Milei.
April 7, 2024
A discussion with Tara Watson on the role of immigration in the U.S. economy.
February 11, 2024
A discussion with Larry Summers on the fall in world poverty over the past half-century, America’s role in fostering a rules-based global economic system, and the role of economists in policy making.
January 28, 2024
A discussion on recent U.S. economic performance, the disconnect with consumer sentiment, reasons for continued economic optimism, and key risks going into 2024.
October 8, 2023
A discussion with Binyamin Applebaum, Larry Edelman, Scott Horsley, and Heather Long on inflation, housing, the averted government shutdown, the UAW strike, and the Amazon and Google anti-trust cases.
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.