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Recession with Decreasing Employment and Increasing GDP?

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Employment seems to be growing very slowly, if not shrinking, while output (measured with lots of noise) seems to be rising, into Q3. Would NBER ever determine a recession occurred when GDP was rising?

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This entry was posted on December 1, 2025 by Menzie Chinn.

US Naval Deployment, December 1, 2025

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From USNI:

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This entry was posted on December 1, 2025 by Menzie Chinn.

Guest Contribution: “How will unsustainable US debt end?”

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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 was published by Project Syndicate. 


 

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This entry was posted on December 1, 2025 by Menzie Chinn.

Alles ist verloren…

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一切都結束了,  所有都失去咗 or whatever language you want to put it in. Bloomberg: “Trump Says He Has Made His Choice to Lead the Federal Reserve”. As of 8pm CT today:

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This entry was posted on November 30, 2025 by Menzie Chinn.

ADP Weekly Employment thru 11/8

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From ADP via Paweł Skrzypczyński:

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This entry was posted on November 30, 2025 by Menzie Chinn.

Private Credit, AI, and Financial Stability

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Private credit, lending from nonbank financial intermediaries (NBFIs), has been on the rise:

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This entry was posted on November 30, 2025 by Menzie Chinn.

Small Firm Employment Falls Again

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Private NFP continues to be sustained by large firm hiring.

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This entry was posted on November 30, 2025 by Menzie Chinn.

High Frequency Readings on Economic Growth

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Growth has decelerated by about half a percentage point since Liberation Day.

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This entry was posted on November 28, 2025 by Menzie Chinn.

Clifford Winston: “Market Corrections Not Government Interventions”

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That’s the title of a new book (Palgrave MacMillan) by Clifford Winston, Senior Nonresident Fellow in  Economic Studies at Brookings.

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This entry was posted on November 26, 2025 by Menzie Chinn.

Under Biden “…prices rose much faster than earnings”

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EJ Antoni, formerly nominated to be BLS Commissioner, says so at 5:50 on this FoxBusiness clip. True? Kind of. Maybe. Sort of. Well, not quite. Let’s take a look at a time series.

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This entry was posted on November 26, 2025 by Menzie Chinn.

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James D. Hamilton is Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego

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