Where’s the recession? Changes like the pandemic crash and government funding programs have disrupted the expansion-contraction pattern.
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin has illuminated issues such as the gender gap in pay, child and elder care, and the shortfall in women economists.
“We don’t quite know what we’re doing these days,” said one economist.
Europe’s having a pretty good winter, and other parts of the world aren’t doing too badly, either.
A majority still think the country is headed for a recession. But the majority’s shrinking.
Despite being part of a field that studies inequality, women in economics are taking to Twitter to share stories of continued mistreatment.
There are many contradictory economic trends these days, and history isn’t providing its usual hints about what will happen next.
The agency said it’s part of bringing a more data-based approach to policymaking.
A business theory helped put profits for shareholders ahead of other corporate interests.
FRED, a popular government website, started tracking 30 kinds of data in 1991. Now it tracks 800,000.