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Macroeconomics
Growth, recessions, and the big-picture forces driving the US economy.
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Can a tight labor market pull young people back to full-time work?
From 2001 to 2013, college enrollment in the US increased rapidly. Young people delayed the full-time work portion of their lives, ostens...
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The U.S. economy looks a lot better, starting in 2014
As we head into 2018, I still occasionally see arguments about the U.S. economy based on data that do not cover the years from 2014 to pr...
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Where Did IFS Go? Accessing IMF Data After the 2025 API Restructuring
Update (2025): The IMF reorganized International Financial Statistics (IFS) data into topic-specific datasets. This post explains the cha...
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Brexit and the feedback of uncertainty through asset prices
The medium- and long-run consequences of Brexit are unknown, but increased uncertainty in response to the event will likely have real glo...
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Machine Reading IMF Data: Data Retrieval with Python (2025 Update)
Update (2025): The IMF API has changed significantly. This post has been completely rewritten to use the new SDMX-based API and the sdmx1...