From the Economic Report of the President, 2025, forecast finalized 7 November 2024.
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Impending Systemic Financial Crisis in Russia?
From Newsweek:
The President-Elect’s Economic Advisers
From Rappaport, Swanson, Duehren, in NYT yesterday, an interestingly monochromatic picture of the incoming economics team.
Guest Contribution: “Retrospective on the First Year of Trump’s Second Term”
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. An earlier version appeared at Project Syndicate.
Economic Report of the President, 2025
Rhodium Group: Another Estimate of Chinese GDP Growth
From Rhodium Group (h/t Stephen Nagy):
Teaching Macro Policy (Upper Division Undergrad), 2025
Iterating toward new readings for Econ 442 (Macroeconomic Policy). Last year I added to the undergrad course climate change and r*. Thanks for suggestions I asked for in this post. Here’s this year’s additions:
100% Tariffs on Goods from Denmark – Doubling the Price of Ozempic?
Per DJT. That’ll show those elitist diabetes/weight-loss drug consumers! Some back of envelope calculations for Wegovy and Ozempic (both manufactured by Novo Nordisk).
US Economic Policy Uncertainty: Buckle Up!
EPU through yesterday, and VIX as of 2pm today:
Teaching Macro, 2025
I’ve got undergrad upper division and MSc level macro courses (latter w/Charles Engel) to teach this spring (also a stats course, where I use lots of examples from comments as cautionary notes, [1], [2], [3], [4]). Last year I added to the undergrad course climate change and r*. This year, I’m taking suggestions.