“Very, very few recessions have been predicted nine months or a year in advance,”Prakash Loungani, an economist at the International Monetary Fund, told me. This doesn’t mean a recessionwon’tstrike in the near future. Over the past few weeks and months, there have been someworrisome ...
since December 2007. The NBER has indicated the move of several employers in reducing payrolls by 1.2 million jobs in the first 10 months of 2008. Furthermore, the economists have predicted a loss of 325,000 jobs.Instituteofrealestatemanagement...
We are so famous for disagreeing with one another that nobody believes we engage in any sort of an exact science. Like the joke says, economists have predicted nine out of the last five recessions. Somebody should do a study on this! Compare the number of people who choose the course of...
All of this can be applied to macroeconomics. Whether or not we should have predicted the financial earthquake is a question that has been debated extensively, so I am going to set that aside. One side says financial market price changes, like earthquakes, are inherently unpredictable -- we w...
A distinct set of famous economists from the United States have made lasting impacts on economic policies and thought, influencing countless generations to follow. Their work has not only affected the national economy but also tremendously impacted how countries across the globe navigate the complex wo...
“Reminder: Recessions usually show big NFP losses, not gains of 142k,” he posted on X.2 Jack Kleinhenz, chief economist at the National Retail Federation, said the jobs data was good enough to support the idea that the economy was avoiding a recession, especially against the backdro...
s a model that targets these variables directly, and whether a parameter is 7 or -0.3 is simple enough to change after the fact: if some parameterization worked, the model could rationalize it. There isn’t such a model, as evidenced by the fact that all recessions have surprised macro ...
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obvious when given any thought whatsoever that the poor earnings growth in very low inflation regimes was probably driven by recessions. The really interest question is this: is there a variable that isnotinflation that might be driving the low returns in the inflationary period we have in the ...