Justin Wolfers 🎯

DJT on a mission to orange-wash history. We are truly living in Orwellian times. "We've always been at war with Eastasia"....

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Corrupting economic statistics will change our economic reality. Here's how: Tariffs raise prices. Social Security is indexed to inflation. If Trump tells a partisan BLS head to downplay inflation, seniors' social security checks won't keep up. Rigged stats = stolen benefits.

He's never run a Bureau, has no expertise about Labor, and has no expertise in Statistics, suggesting that merit has nothing to do with Trump's decision to nominate him to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Oh America... dirty outdoor shoes on in your homes but shoes off on airplanes.

I expect there will be soul-searching, an investigation, and recriminations, as the White House explores how its negotiators fell $600 billion short of the deal the President thought he had struck. Resignations seem likely, and a re-think of the entire deal-making apparatus.

I’m not writing this as a fan, but as a dad. A football-loving, middle-aged man who’s watched the noise online grow louder and uglier. And I can’t stay silent anymore. I’m talking about Taylor Swift. Not her fashion or fame, but the way people grown adults mock her simply for

Calling tariff revenue a “windfall” is like calling your speeding ticket a bonus for the police budget. Sure, it’s revenue. But for you, it’s a tax.

The lifetime return to college remains enormous: four years of study adds more than a million dollars to expected earnings. And that yields a funny conclusion that I like to remind my students about: It may not feel like it, but these might be the highest earning years of your

For the benefit of those at the back of the room in the red hats who despite all our best efforts to explain Americans and NOT foreign exporters are paying the Trump tariffs. Let’s try once again with the help of an economist (Justin Wolfers ), who is not a convicted felon, has

Summer's Not Over

Crypto corrupts, and absolute crypto corrupts absolutely.

Lemme speak with directness and a sense of urgency about our most important economic threats, and what history teaches us about moments like this.

The Globe and Mail

When I was a kid playing soccer, we’d blame the ref after a loss. It wasn’t a winning strategy then, and it’s not an economic strategy now. Don't deny the numbers. Face reality. Fix your strategy.

We got the soft landing, and inflation fell from 9% to 3% without a recession. But someone put rocks on the runway, and we may not make it back to the gate, even though that's meant to be the easy bit.

Moraine Lake, Banff

"It's impossible to do business under circumstances like this. There are serious debates about whether tariffs could be good or bad. But incompetence, incoherence, illegality -- that doesn't help anyone. "

"I see an American economy that's very much frozen in place." Policy whiplash around tariffs creates the option value of waiting. Firms won’t expand into opportunities that might vanish, and they're not pivoting based on threats that might fade. It's an uncertainty-driven