Tag: US economy
Yes, US economy may be slowing, but don’t forget it’s coming...
D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University
The U.S. economy unexpectedly shrank in the first quarter, according to gross domestic...
How raising interest rates curbs inflation – and what could possibly...
Rodney Ramcharan, University of Southern California
After about three decades of relatively low inflation, consumer prices are skyrocketing again.
Inflation, workforce participation and real wages: 3 key indicators for monitoring...
Veronika Dolar, SUNY Old Westbury; Marlon Williams, University of Dayton, and Melanie G. Long, The College of Wooster
The U.S. economy ended 2021 with...
Wages up as Americans are encouraged back to work and into...
Christopher Decker, University of Nebraska Omaha
After a lackluster jobs report in September 2021, the latest news on employment...
What does the economy need now? 4 suggestions for Biden’s coronavirus...
Steven Pressman, Colorado State University; Melanie G. Long, The College of Wooster; R. Andrew Butters, Indiana University, and Veronika Dolar, SUNY Old Westbury
Editor’s note:...
Coronavirus and tourism: Places like Alaska without a COVID-19 outbreak could...
Kevin Berry, University of Alaska Anchorage and Mouhcine Guettabi, University of Alaska Anchorage
Alaska doesn’t have a single reported case of COVID-19, yet economically it...
Why the Fed has no choice but to keep cutting interest...
Andreas Kern, Georgetown University
The U.S. Federal Reserve is stuck between an apparently booming economy and a financial crisis that might be right around the...
The surprising decline of entrepreneurship and innovation in the West
Wim Naudé, United Nations University
The idea that we are living in an entrepreneurial age, experiencing rapid disruptive technological innovation on a scale amounting to...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
