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Dan Sichel on Measuring and Understanding Inflation

Posted July 17, 202200:19:43

Inflation erodes purchasing power, but the reported inflation rate can mask very different experiences across groups of people. For example, the current...

The Economics of Infant Formula Shortages

Posted July 10, 202200:15:55

The pandemic has resulted in supply chain disruptions, and goods shortages across multiple industries. But few shortages have caught the public’s...

Jeffry Frieden on the Plateauing of Globalization

Posted July 3, 202200:25:59

Looking from the early 2000s, the rise in international trade and financial flows seemed almost inexorable. Yet, political opposition to greater integration...

Eswar Prasad on China's Economic Rise, and Its Current Economic Challenges

Posted June 26, 202200:23:44

China's economic rise -- which brought hundreds of millions of its citizens out of poverty, and drove about one quarter of global GDP growth over the...

High Inflation: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses

Posted June 19, 202200:24:46

The Pew Research Center reports that the U.S. public now views inflation as the top problem facing the country, by a wide margin. It's not hard to...