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Immigration Enforcement in the U.S.
This week, EconoFact Chats features an abridged version of an EconoFact Ask Me Anything Webinar held on September 17th featuring Tara Watson, Director...
A Changing Economic Geography
In a new article in Foreign Affairs, 'The New Economic Geography: Who Profits in a Post-American World?,' Adam Posen, the President of the Peterson In...
Retreat from Globalization? Current U.S. Policies and Historical Precedents
The post-war international economic order was based on two fundamental pillars: American leadership and multilateralism. Both of those are, to some ex...
The Impact of Tariffs on Prices
The Trump Administration claims tariffs will help protect American jobs, revitalize manufacturing, and raise revenues, while keeping prices stable. Wh...
Taking Stock of the Economy: Fed Independence, Tariff Uncertainty, and a Shrinking Workforce
Binyamin Applebaum of The New York Times, Larry Edelman of The Boston Globe, Scott Horsley of NPR, and Claire Jones, the US Economics Editor The Finan...
The U.S. Economy: Still the “Envy of the World”?
Less than a year after The Economist labeled the U.S. economy the 'envy of the world,' concerns are arising from disappointing jobs reports, slowing G...
The Hazards of a Zero Sum Mindset
This week, EconoFact Chats features an abridged version of an Ask Me Anything Webinar held on July 17th, 2025, with Michael Strain, Director of Econom...
Foreign Students and U.S. Higher Education
United States colleges and universities currently enrol about 900,000 international students, representing 5% of all students – although the percentag...
Is Dollar Dominance Durable?
The U.S. dollar is the most widely used currency in global commerce. Many commodities are priced in dollars. Much of world trade in goods and services...
Can Manufacturing Still Provide Inclusive Growth? (Re-broadcast)
Manufacturing employment has been declining as a share of total employment in the U.S. What's driving this decline? Does the reduction in manufacturin...
The Vital Importance of Good Economic Statistics (Re-broadcast)
Erica Groshen, former Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) uses the acronym AORTA to characterize good data; Accurate, Objective,...
Immigration and Deportation (Re-broadcast)
Most of the United States’ population growth is now due to immigration. Among these is an estimated 11 to 12 million undocumented immigrants. Undocume...
Covering What Matters in Economic Journalism
Reporting on economics often focuses on the 24-hour news cycle and the ups and downs of financial markets. But the stock market is not the economy, an...
Understanding the Rise and Risks of Stablecoins
Stablecoins -- crypto-tokens whose value is pegged to fiat currencies -- aim to blend the stability of traditional government-issued money with the sp...
Dissecting the Budget Bill
This week, EconoFact Chats features an abridged version of the EconoFact Ask Me Anything Webinar held on May 27th with Bill Gale, Senior Fellow at the...
Throttling Back: The Long and Short-run Economic Effects of Continued Uncertainty
The first half of 2025 has been marked by broadening macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty. How is this uncertainty likely to affect the U.S. eco...
Child Well-being in the United States
The poverty rate among children is a crucial indicator of child well-being. Yet, the overall well-being of a child depends on more than just economic...
The Role of America's Top Financial Diplomat
The Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs plays a key role in shaping how the United States engages with the world financial system...
Unpacking Tariff Uncertainty, the Budget Bill, and a Debt Downgrade
EconoFact Chats regularly hosts a panel discussion with top economic journalists. Since the panel last met in March, the House passed the 'big, beauti...
The Consequences of Tighter Work Requirements for SNAP
Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. social safety net has been geared towards policies that encourage and reward work. While steady jobs and decent wages ar...
Trade, Tariffs, the Dollar and the World Economy
This week, EconoFact Chats features an abridged version of the EconoFact Ask Me Anything Webinar held on April 22nd, featuring Maurice Obstfeld, forme...
The Significance and Solvency of Social Security
About one in five Americans receive retirement, survivor, disability, or supplemental income Social Security benefits. These payments represent a vita...
The Stock Market, The Economy, and Your Finances
This EconoFact Chats episode is an abridged version of the EconoFact Ask Me Anything Webinar held on March 26th that featured John Campbell (Harvard),...
Treasury Bonds, Safe Havens, and Financial Stress
United States Treasury bonds have long been viewed as a highly liquid investment with very little risk of default. They have served as a safe haven fo...
Long Run Fiscal Solvency and Its Consequences
US federal debt is currently almost as large as annual national income, something not seen before the pandemic. Expenditures like interest payments on...
Looking Ahead to the 2025 Economy
President Trump inherited an economy that was, at least in the aggregate, performing exceptionally well. Since taking office, however, the stock marke...
Tariffs: Jobs, Prices, and Retaliation (Re-broadcast)
Tariffs are taxes. But unlike most taxes, politicians on both sides of the aisle are calling for maintaining or raising tariffs. The goal is to save j...
Tariffs, Immigration, and DOGE: Assessing the Policies of Trump 2.0
Labeled by The Economist as 'the envy of the world' in October 2024, the US economy today is marked by growing fears of a recession amid aggressive ta...
Costs of Corruption
In his 2012 book, 'A Capitalism for the People,' Luigi Zingales notes the deep economic problems that arise when people are rewarded for who you know,...
The State of Health Insurance in America
The United States is an outlier in health insurance coverage. Almost all other high-income countries have near-universal coverage, while almost 10% of...
On the Economics, Geopolitics and Technological Challenges of AI
Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, improvements in large language models have continued at an impressive clip, driving a surge of investme...
The Economics of College Sports (Re-broadcast)
Football and basketball teams at Division I universities generate billions in revenue. But the student-athletes themselves do not receive salaries. Sh...
Can We Mitigate Climate Disasters?
High intensity flooding events, storms, wildfires, and droughts are becoming more frequent in many parts of the world. Are there measures that can hel...
Rethinking Global Governance
Much like national economies, countries that economically interact with each other need rules to help ensure markets work well, and that economic outc...
Principles of Economics: Insights for Better Policy
The basic principles of economics are not only worthwhile reading for students, but for the wider public, and perhaps especially, for those involved i...
Abraham Lincoln and the Role of Government in the Economy (Re-broadcast)
In 1860, the United States had no national currency, no national bank, and no income tax. Lincoln had a vision of advancing the economic fortunes of t...
Immigration and the Economy (Re-broadcast)
Immigration promises to be a key issue in the U.S. Presidential elections. Candidates from both parties favor limits but differ on the extent of restr...
What Populists Don't Understand About Tariffs (but economists do) (Re-broadcast)
Both presidential candidates have supported tariffs, albeit at very different levels. Can tariffs bring back manufacturing jobs, reduce the trade defi...
Moving Away from the Economics of Grievance (Re-broadcast)
A center-right economic policy agenda has traditionally meant a focus on lower marginal tax rates, fiscal prudence, an openness to immigration, free t...
The Challenges of Trump's Economic Plans
President-elect Trump's campaign promises included imposing broad tariffs to bolster U.S. manufacturing jobs, pursuing mass deportations to free jobs...