Economy

GDP Per Capita | Econbrowser

Are you better off than you were 4 years ago? Figure 1: GDP per capita (blue), lagged 4 years (orange),…

8 months ago

VoxEU: “The Russian sanctions and dollar foreign exchange reserves”

From a VoxEU article today, by Robert N. McCauley with Hiro Ito and Menzie Chinn: Will the freezing of the…

9 months ago

Inflation Expectations in July (and June)

Michigan is down in July, while business unit costs are up slightly. Figure 1: Year-on-year actual CPI inflation (bold black),…

9 months ago

Odds: PredictIt 4pm ET | Econbrowser

For Rep/Dem, 53 cents/51 cents. Notes: Last o observation end-of-day July 26. + denote 4pm ET on 7/27/2024. For Kamala…

9 months ago

Growth in Swing States | Econbrowser

As measured by the coincident index, over the last 3 months: Figure 1: 3 month growth in coincident index map.…

9 months ago

Russia: Policy Rate Raised to 18%

As of today: For comparison, here is the y/y (official) inflation rate (through June).   With the policy rate at…

9 months ago

Still strong after all these years

The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that seasonally adjusted U.S. real GDP grew at a 2.8% annual rate in…

9 months ago

Prediction Markets on the Election: July 24, 2024

From PredictIt, 4:30pm ET: Republican/Democratic win probabilities back to where they were the day before the debate. Source: Predict, accessed…

9 months ago

Instantaneous Core Inflation | Econbrowser

Four out of five measures down: Figure 1: Instantaneous inflation for core CPI (blue), chained core CPI (tan), supercore CPI…

9 months ago

Real Wages Rising in Wisconsin

For all private workers, as well as production and nonsupervisory: Figure 1: Wisconsin average hourly wages for all private sector…

9 months ago