RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Find out what our senior staff and colleagues have to say about current economic news, financial developments, regional and country issues, and public policy.

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RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Biden's student loan plan will increase inflation by only a small amount

David Wilcox (PIIE)
August 30, 2022
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Russia's war on Ukraine: A sanctions timeline

Chad P. Bown (PIIE)

August 15, 2022
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

China's zero-COVID policies are crippling its economic outlook

Tianlei Huang (PIIE)

August 11, 2022
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Record US productivity slump in first half of 2022 risks higher inflation and unemployment

Jason Furman (PIIE) and Wilson Powell III (Harvard Kennedy School)

August 9, 2022
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Who controls the world’s minerals needed for green energy?

Luc Leruth (Tbilisi University) and Adnan Mazarei (PIIE)

August 9, 2022
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Inflation and unemployment. Where is the US economy heading over the next six months?

Olivier Blanchard (PIIE)
August 8, 2022
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

No sign of inflation relief in July US jobs report

Karen Dynan (PIIE) and Wilson Powell III (Harvard Kennedy School)

August 5, 2022
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Private firms bear the brunt of China’s weak growth

Tianlei Huang (PIIE) and Nicholas R. Lardy (PIIE)

August 2, 2022
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

The Fed is wrong: Lower inflation is unlikely without raising unemployment

Olivier Blanchard (PIIE), Alex Domash (Harvard University) and Lawrence H. Summers (Harvard University)

August 1, 2022
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

The Senate's climate change agreement will not secure US solar supply chains from China

Cullen S. Hendrix (PIIE)
July 29, 2022