EJ Antoni noted a year ago (Sept 6, 2024):
gov’t and the gov’t-dominated healthcare sector [employment growth].. it’s all tax-payer funded, and it’s not at all sustainable
FOMC votes to reduce the Fed funds rate by 25bps with one dissent (Stephen Miran, on loan from CEA), who argued for 50 bps decline.
Industrial and manufacturing production, and retail sales, all beating consensus. Nonetheless, there’s a tendency toward trending sideways.
If credibility is degraded, then tariff induced cost-push shocks are less likely to manifest as one-off price level increases, and more likely to spur a bout of inflation.
Video of proceedings tomorrow (Tues, 9/16) on WisconsinEye [link updated 9/17].
Source: Pawel Skrzypczynski, accessed 9/14/2025.
That’s the title of an article reprinted at the Heritage.com, by current BLS Commissioner-nominee EJ Antoni,
Coffee prices up and away — in the US.
The CEA-OMB-Treasury (“Troika”) forecast looks out of line with the CBO projection and the SPF median forecast.
That’s former CBO Director Doug Holtz-Eakin (seem minute 2 on this video) (h/t Philip Webre):
Here are standardized indices for Michigan Sentiment, Conference Board Confidence, and Gallup Confidence.