Civilian employment and nonfarm payroll employment both decline.
Monthly Archives: January 2017
When Last a President Ignored an Intelligence Briefing…
…because he thought he knew better.
CBO Estimates of Repealing the Affordable Care Act a.k.a. “Obamacare”
From the CBO yesterday:
CBO and JCT estimate that enacting [H.R. 3762, the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015, which would repeal portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) eliminating, in two steps, the law’s mandate penalties and subsidies but leaving the ACA’s insurance market reforms in place] would affect insurance coverage and premiums primarily in these ways:
- The number of people who are uninsured would increase by 18 million in the first new plan year following enactment of the bill. Later, after the elimination of the ACA’s expansion of Medicaid eligibility and of subsidies for insurance purchased through the ACA marketplaces, that number would increase to 27 million, and then to 32 million in 2026.
- Premiums in the nongroup market (for individual policies purchased through the marketplaces or directly from insurers) would increase by 20 percent to 25 percent—relative to projections under current law—in the first new plan year following enactment. The increase would reach about 50 percent in the year following the elimination of the Medicaid expansion and the marketplace subsidies, and premiums would about double by 2026.
Here is one estimate of how many people additional people are dying each year because of 25 states opting out of Medicaid expansion, as implemented under the ACA. I don’t know of a calculation for what happens if legislation like H.R. 3762 is implemented.
Guest Contribution: “Looking Back on Barack”
Today, we present a guest post written by Jeffrey Frankel, Harpel Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and formerly a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. A shorter version appeared on January 13th in Project Syndicate.
More Data on Atlanta, in Georgia’s “Horrible” Fifth Congressional District
From Wells Fargo Economics Group today, data relevant to Donald J. Trump’s comments regarding Congressman John Lewis’s district:
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Measuring the economic effects of uncertainty
Economists have had a lot of interest recently in whether uncertainty itself may have measurable effects on the economy. Last week I participated in a session devoted to economic research on this question at the meetings of the Allied Social Science Association in Chicago. Here I relate some of the comments I made there.
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Mr. Trump on the Socio-Economic Statistics for Georgia’s Fifth District
Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested).
As usual, data and Mr. Trump are distant strangers.
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Why Trumpist Rejection of Trade Openness Is Regressive
From Furman, Russ and Shambaugh:
[t]ariffs are imposed in a regressive manner – in part because expenditures on traded goods are a higher share of income and non-housing consumption among lower income households, but also due to explicit regressivity within categories.
What Explains the Trump Dollar?
Elevated real interest rates and policy uncertainty explain a dollar about 4% higher than election day.