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Trade gets headlines, but it’s more about past Fed rate hikes and the TCJA’s waste September 17, 2019 By Josh Bivens Blog What’s good for Wall Street is often bad for American workers and manufacturing: The overvalued dollar June 27, 2019 By Robert E. Scott Blog Focus on the boom, not the slump—The Fed’s new policy framework needs to stop cutting recoveries short: EPI Macroeconomics Newsletter June 18, 2019 By Josh Bivens Blog There’s no economic constraint on the fiscal space available to fight the next recession May 20, 2019 By Josh Bivens Blog Evidence that tight labor markets really will increase labor’s share of income: Economic Policy Institute Macroeconomics Newsletter April 30, 2019 By Josh Bivens Blog What should we know about the next recession? April 18, 2019 By Josh Bivens Report Predicting wage growth with measures of labor market slack: It’s complicated March 19, 2019 By Josh Bivens Blog The Fed shouldn’t give up on restoring labor’s share of income—and measure it correctly January 30, 2019 By Josh Bivens Blog Updated employment multipliers for the U.S. economy January 23, 2019 By Josh Bivens Report What labor market changes have generated inequality and wage suppression?: Employer power is significant but largely constant, whereas workers’ power has been eroded by policy actions December 12, 2018 By Josh Bivens and Heidi Shierholz Report What to Watch on Jobs Day: Will we see signs of stronger wage growth? December 6, 2018 By Elise Gould Economic Indicators The Fed’s current path might be leaving lots of money on the table unnecessarily September 26, 2018 By Josh Bivens Blog The “wage puzzle” is real—but low inflation and low productivity are also puzzles that need to be solved August 1, 2018 By Josh Bivens Blog Recommendations for creating jobs and economic security in the U.S.: Making sense of debates about full employment, public investment, and public job creation March 27, 2018 By Josh Bivens Report No, the stock market isn’t throwing a tantrum because the economy is “overstimulated” February 9, 2018 By Josh Bivens Blog The bottom line on Trump and the economy: We’re not in good hands February 5, 2018 By Josh Bivens Blog Lessons from today’s GDP report: Long-expected rebound in productivity finally seems to be happening, and no reason for Fed to raise rates in their next meeting January 26, 2018 By Josh Bivens Economic Indicators What is the ideal mix of federal, state, and local government investment in infrastructure? September 11, 2017 By Hunter Blair Report The potential macroeconomic benefits from increasing infrastructure investment July 18, 2017 By Josh Bivens Report Is 2 percent too low?: Rethinking the Fed’s arbitrary inflation target to avoid another Great Recession June 9, 2017 By Josh Bivens Report News from EPI › Growth falters in the first quarter April 28, 2017 By Josh Bivens Economic Indicators The economy will continue to improve, as long as policymakers don’t thwart its progress March 10, 2017 By Elise Gould Blog News from EPI › Economy continues steady but slow growth with 1.9 percent expansion in last quarter of 2016 January 27, 2017 By Josh Bivens Economic Indicators Already a big gap between Trump’s promises to the middle class and his policies November 23, 2016 By Josh Bivens Blog Why is recovery taking so long—and who’s to blame? August 11, 2016 By Josh Bivens Report Worst recovery in postwar era largely explained by cuts in government spending August 2, 2016 By Robert E. 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