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Monetary and Fiscal Policy: How America’s Policy Playbook is Quietly Changing
2+ hour, 41+ min ago (276+ words) Fiscal and monetary policy were once designed to act as shock absorbers'tightening in booms and cushioning in recessions. But over the past decade, that playbook has changed. Instead of stabilizing the cycle, policy has increasingly fueled it'running large deficits across…...
Two U.S. Inflation Stories: Why Truflation and the Consumer Price Index Are Sending Conflicting Signals
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (142+ words) Data scale and infrastructure represent another important difference. The CPI relies on structured field collection and statistical sampling. Its strength lies in methodological rigor, representativeness, and long historical continuity. TI, in contrast, emphasizes scale and decentralization. Its data are recorded…...
A High-Stakes Poker Game at the Fed: Kevin Warsh, Senate Gridlock, and the Future of Central Bank Independence
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1324+ words) A High-Stakes Poker Game at the Fed: Kevin Warsh, Senate Gridlock, and the Future of Central Bank Independence'Substack A High-Stakes Poker Game at the Fed: Kevin Warsh, Senate Gridlock, and the Future of Central Bank Independence Former Global Chief Economist…...