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A Bond Is a Fancy Word for a Loan
And other bite-sized lessons from this weekend
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Justin Wolfers
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What’s Bigger Than a 50% Tariff?
Answer: An infinity tariff. No, it doesn’t make more sense if you’re an economist.
Sep 13
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Justin Wolfers
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Is It Still a Bond Market If I Don’t Use Jargon?
And the betting markets say Handsome Kevin is raising rates anyway
Sep 12
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Justin Wolfers
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Stacey Vanek Smith
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Inflation Has Stopped Falling
And the four-to-six-week war with Iran is now old enough to eat solid food.
Sep 11
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Justin Wolfers
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I Promise I'm Good for It
So does the president. His check is $5,000, mine is $5,000, and so far the two of us have funded the exact same number of them.
Sep 10
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Justin Wolfers
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The Rules Changed. The Numbers Didn’t.
And I’ll tell you the day that stops being true.
Sep 10
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Justin Wolfers
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The Sentence That Used to Protect American Statistics
"Protection from inappropriate influence is a hallmark of scientific integrity." That line governed the Census Bureau and then the White House quietly…
Sep 9
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Justin Wolfers
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A Deal With the United States Used to Be a Deal
The tariffs Ottawa and Washington traded today are small change. What we're actually spending is Canada's belief that we're a country worth building a…
Sep 8
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Justin Wolfers
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The Day An Economist Became a Poetry Critic
I tell my students not to lose their minds by asking what value is. And I don’t teach them poetry. Maybe I should.
Sep 7
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Justin Wolfers
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Why Don’t We Put a Tariff on Ohio?
Nobody in America is mad at Canada. So how did we end up in a trade war with them — and why can’t Mark Carney end it?
Sep 6
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Justin Wolfers
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We Don’t Know That Tariffs Don’t Work
We just know that incompetence fails.
Sep 5
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Justin Wolfers
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Where Are the Hard Hats in This Jobs Report?
This administration promised a manufacturing revival. What we got is an aging country hiring nurses and aides—and outside of health care, the economy…
Sep 4
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Justin Wolfers
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