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Why We Teach International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Together

White House Tries to (Ineptly) Spin the Preliminary Benchmark Release

Implications of the Preliminary Benchmark Revision

Sound the Alarm: “White House Prepares Report Critical of Statistics Agency”

“The Misuse of Statistics” Module in Stats Class

Clifford Winston: “Academic Toadies Impair Government Performance”

“Is the US already in recession?”

Mid-Session Review Technical Supplement Is Out

How’s Manufacturing Doing?

Trouble in Estimating Seasonals As a Reason for the Low NFP Growth?

“The data are pretty clear that we are not in a recession.”

Why Did Mr. Trump Say before the Employment Release “the real numbers”…”will be in a year from now on”?

Employment in the Context of Business Cycle Indicators

Yield Curves over the Last Year

“How Tariffs are Affecting Wisconsin Economy”

Bloomberg: “Economists Rally Behind Cook, Fed Independence in Open Letter”

Bordo-McCauley: “A wrong Fed could do the dollar in: An open letter to the US Senate”

The Employment Picture — Pre-August Release

The Financial System: Some Graphs

Nowcasted “Core GDP” Decelerates

It Can’t Happen Here: Inflation Edition

Instantaneous Core Inflation Rising

Guest Contribution: “Turning Medical Science Back to 1900”

Still on the Trade Policy Uncertainty Roller Coaster

Business Cycle Indicators as of End-of-August

Deceleration Confirmed

Term Premium and Trsy-TIPS Breakeven

G. Dirk Mateer Asks: “Do We Still Really Need the Bureau of Labor Statistics?”

Re-Arranging the Syllabus (Again): Barro-Gordon Moved Up

Economic Policy Uncertainty Spikes

And You Want to Be My Latex Salesman? (cont’d)

Watch the Term Premium (10yr)

Confidence Drops (to above Consensus)