U.S. Economy

Blog Posts

Up Front

How does the Consumer Price Index account for the cost of housing?

David Wessel and Sophia Campbell

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Up Front

Inflation-related updates to ‘Recession Remedies’

Wendy Edelberg and Mitchell Barnes

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Up Front

Hutchins Roundup: Data, firm entry, and more

Sophia Campbell, Lorena Hernandez Barcena, Eric Milstein, and David Wessel

Thursday, May 12, 2022

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Events

Recession remedies: Lessons learned from the US economic policy response to COVID-19

1:30 PM - Thursday Apr 28, 2022 12:00 PM EDT

BPEA Spring 2022 conference

1:00 PM - Friday Mar 25, 2022 2:00 PM EDT

Tracking the recovery from the COVID-19 recession

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

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Edited by Janice C. Eberly and James H. Stock

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Unlocking Africa’s Business Potential

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Equitable Land Use for Asian Infrastructure

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Experts

Makada Henry-Nickie

Robert and Virginia Hartley Fellow - Governance Studies

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William G. Gale

The Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Director - Retirement Security Project

Co-Director - Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

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Aaron Klein

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center on Regulation and Markets

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Multimedia

Podcast Episode

What should we learn from the economic policy response to COVID-19?

Wendy Edelberg, Jason Furman, and David Wessel

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Sprawled out on Second Avenue behind his truck, a FEDEX worker sorts out packages to be delivered on Christmas Eve, New York, NY, December 24, 2020. With a resurgence in COVID-19 infections, package shipping services such as FEDEX, UPS and the USPS are expecting to deliver a record number of packages for 2020. (Photo by Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Podcast Episode

How workers got left behind in the pandemic while shareholder wealth soared

Molly Kinder and David Dollar

Monday, May 16, 2022

Podcast Episode

Introducing Recession Remedies, a podcast about lessons learned from the economic policy response to COVID-19

David Wessel

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

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More on U.S. Economy

Person looking at receipt in a grocery store.

Inflation is outpacing wage growth. But there’s still hope for workers.

Harry J. Holzer

Monday, May 16, 2022

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell takes questions during a news conference following the two-day Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy meeting in Washington, U.S., March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1E639BA290

Who has to leave the Federal Reserve next?

David Wessel

Thursday, May 12, 2022

Abortion rights protest in front of the Supreme Court

Overturning Roe highlights need for family planning, especially in trigger ban states

Ember Smith and Morgan Welch

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Hutchins Roundup: Fintech, tax forms, and more

Lorena Hernandez Barcena, Eric Milstein, Nasiha Salwati, and Louise Sheiner

Thursday, May 5, 2022

Frontline workers were excluded from companies’ pandemic windfalls. No wonder so many are forming unions.

Molly Kinder and Laura Stateler

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Examining overdraft fees and their effects on working families

Aaron Klein

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

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Reports

Recession remedies: Lessons learned from the US economic policy response to COVID-19

BPEA Spring 2022 conference

Tracking the recovery from the COVID-19 recession

Robert and Virginia Hartley Fellow - Governance Studies

The Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Director - Retirement Security Project

Co-Director - Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center on Regulation and Markets