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I joined Charlie Sykes on his To the Contrary podcast this week. He started off strong by asking me to recount the time a fly flew down my throat live on CNN. I responded by turning it into a metaphor for Kevin Warsh’s approach to monetary...
We Don’t Know That Tariffs Don’t Work
This week, I graded the Trump administration’s trade war against five of its own promises — increased leverage, balancing the trade deficit, bringing factories home, increasing national security, and bringing in revenue. They received strai...
Where Are the Hard Hats in This Jobs Report?
The U.S. economy created 162,000 jobs in August. That’s more than most economists expected — Wall Street was looking for 50,000 to 60,000. It’s the sixth consecutive month of job growth in the second Trump administration. Unemployment sits...
Three Borrowers Walk Into The Bond Market
The bond market has been all over the front pages this week. That’s rarely a good thing. Let me take the temperature down: this is not a market panic, a bond rout, or a crisis. Still, it matters, and it’s worth understanding. The bond marke...
Did Trump’s Tariffs Achieve Trump’s Goals?
When the Trump administration pushed out their tariffs, there was a laundry list of great things they were going to achieve. Today, I’m asking: did those tariffs do what the administration promised? I’m an economics professor, so I’m approa...
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