The Pandemic recession lasted two months, the National Bureau of Economic Research decided this week—more than a year after the supposed end of the recession in April 2020. That is […]
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View All PostsDoes the 2021 Boom Lock the U.S. into 2023-2025 Gloom?
The Congressional Budget Office has issued some dire forecasts about the U.S. economy, which is causing alarm in some quarters. But do those forecasts make sense? As Andrew Van Dam […]
Jobs Easy To Get, They Say
Americans are more enthusiastic about the job market than they have been at any time in the past half century. And yet the official unemployment rate is well above what […]
Driving Inflation
The prices of used cars and trucks are up almost 30% over the past 12 months, contributing a substantial part of the inflation increase – the CPI was up 5% […]
The Big Jump for the April CPI: Silent on the Inflation Questions that Matter
In a companion CFE blogpost, we acknowledge that the supersized fiscal stimulus enacted earlier this year invites serious angst about accelerating inflation. We make the case that the inflation risks […]