In Case You Thought Policy Uncertainty Had Declined

Remember, we’ve got tariff *pauses* (pl.), OBBB, debt ceiling limit, etc. Do you expect the folks in the present administration to have a handle on things?

Figure 1: EPU (blue, left scale), EPU 7 day centered moving average (dark red, left scale), EPU-trade (teal, right scale), EPU-trade 7 day centered moving average (red, right scale). Source: policyuncertainty.com. 

As a check, here’s the Caldara et al. measure compared against the Baker, Bloom and Davis measure of trade policy uncertainty.

Figure 2: Trade Policy Uncertainty (black, left scale), EPU 7 day centered moving average (pink, left scale), EPU-trade (teal, right scale), EPU-trade 7 day centered moving average (red, right scale). Source: policyuncertainty.com, and Iacoviella et al.