Jason Furman
Professor of Practice at Harvard. Teaches Ec 10, some tweets might be educational. Also Senior Fellow @PIIE. Was Chair of President Obama's CEA.
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Actually the economists who pay the most attention to market power do not think that it is playing a major role in inflation. See for example @ThomasPHI2. https://t.co/iPOPWJNVv7 h...
I've tried to be respectful but this is despicable ad hominem and insinuation and makes me respect you much, much less. Really sorry you wrote it. https://t.co/Yeifz1iLSD
Hey old friend and colleague @sarahmillerdc, you raise a lot of points here. Let me do my best to address them in this thread. https://t.co/QIOz3HNeCn
Last inflation thread of the day. This month's report--like always--had a lot of special factors that affected the numbers. You could say it was driven up by unusual one-time incr...
In January I had an out-of-consensus view that inflation would be 3 to 4 percent this year (closer to 3 for core PCE and closer to 4 for core CPI), much higher than most forecasts...
This is the inflation story to worry about: core services inflation has increased for four straight months. We're getting the much predicted/hoped for reprieve on goods price incre...
New @PIIE blog on the jobs numbers w/ Willie Powell. The headline is 428,000 jobs added and the unemployment rate unchanged at 3.6 percent. But the real news is the increased sign...
Not everyone agreed with this view. It's definitely easier to criticize the Fed than to say they did something right--especially when the outcome is still more likely to be bad tha...