That’s the title of this year’s Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs Spring Symposium, on April 3 (organized by Mark Copelovitch and myself):
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Our spring symposium two years ago focused on Europe in Crisis, bringing in Gillian Tett (FT), and Peter Hall (Harvard) as keynote speakers.
California GDP has grown a cumulative 13 percentage points more than Wisconsin over the Brown and Walker years. Employment, 10 percentage points…
Laura Elise Schwendinger Artemisia
Continuing the commitment to amplifying the voices of female artists across multiple mediums, this year’s Time’s Arrow festival juxtaposes old and new stories of the biblical figure Susanna. Exploring sensitive themes of our time, the festival includes the fully staged world premiere of the new opera Artemisia (composer Laura Schwendinger, librettist Ginger Strand and Stage Director Christopher Alden) and concerts of Handel’s Susanna as Trinity continues its presentation of the composer’s oratorios. Artemisia tells the story of the Baroque artist who portrayed herself as Susanna in her famous painting Susanna and the Elders.
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 in Project Syndicate on February 25th.
Continue readingRecessions, once they are underway, happen fast — a lot faster than expansions. Who’s forecasting recessions, according to the WSJ February survey (the February Survey of Professional Forecasters has been postponed until March because of the data delays associated with the Trump government shutdown).
Continue readingIs this what we want the Chinese to peg against?
Continue readingPart of the yield curve is already inverted.
Continue reading“The Coalition for a Prosperous America” releases what it burbles as a “Groundbreaking CPA Study…” entitled “Quantifying Economic Growth and Job Creation from a Competitive Dollar”. Don’t be fooled by all the footnotes and the numbers. At the basis of the analysis is the aphorism: “Neither a borrower nor a lender be”.
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