More than 11 million individuals will lose access to emergency unemployment benefits at the end of next week creating a headwind for personal income...
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US | Recovery Tracker soars on the pandemic’s anniversary
Posted by Gregory Daco on Mar 25, 2021 3:06:00 AM
Our US Recovery Tracker rose 1.7ppts to 85.3 in the week ending March 12, a new high one year after the onset of the coronavirus crisis. Health...
US | Stimulus may heat up the economy, but won’t burn it
Posted by Gregory Daco on Feb 12, 2021 2:42:14 PM
The debate around the economy’s need for Biden’s $1.9tn American Rescue Plan (ARP) is heating up. A few prominent economists recently argued that...
A low neutral policy rate with a 1% handle
Posted by Gregory Daco on Jan 18, 2021 10:08:51 AM
What was once considered a floor, may now represent a ceiling for the nominal neutral policy rate (r*). We estimate cyclical and secular factors have...
US | Recovery Tracker plateaus in early July
Posted by Gregory Daco on Jul 23, 2020 10:20:56 AM
Our national Recovery Tracker points to a premature plateauing of the recovery. The tracker only rose 0.3ppts to 76.5 in the week ended July 3,...
US | Dollar strength through the Global Coronavirus Recession
Posted by Gregory Daco on May 27, 2020 12:02:00 PM
While the Global Coronavirus Recession is shifting most macroeconomic goal posts in 2020, we reinforce our earlier call for a strong dollar through...