Understanding The Fed’s Rate Hike Decision | Diving In
Understanding The Fed’s Rate Hike Decision | Diving In The Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday by a quarter of a percentage p...
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20 of 118 episodesThe Canadian Boycott is About More than Economics | The Professor Is In
Why an "infinity percent" tariff on Canada may hurt Americans more than Canadians. The U.S.–Canada trade war just got weirder, and Justin Wo...
The Hidden Link Between Government Debt and Everyday Credit | Off the Clock
Why does the bond market matter more than the stock market for your wallet? Justin Wolfers and Bloomberg Businessweek columnist Stacey Vanek...
What August’s Inflation Report Means for You
Inflation is stuck at 3.4% and prices are outrunning your paycheck. Here's what August really showed. The August inflation report just lande...
Vote Republican, Get $5,000? | Diving In
Is the promise real, and who actually pays for it? At a midterm campaign rally Wednesday night, President Trump promised every adult America...
How Governments Manipulate Statistics Without Lying | Professor Is In
Can you still trust the jobs numbers after Commerce dropped its ban on political interference? In August the Commerce Department quietly cro...
Hidden Ways the Government Manipulates Data | Diving In
How the government can rig official statistics without ever faking a single number. A few sentences vanished from a Commerce Department dire...
The U.S. Canada Trade War Casts a Much Longer Shadow | Diving In
Canada just retaliated against President Trump's latest tariffs, and everyone wants to know how big the hit will be. Economist Justin Wolfer...
Why Tariffs Can't Rebuild American Manufacturing | The Professor Is In
Why did Trump's tariffs fail? It's a competence problem, not just a trade-theory problem. Economist Justin Wolfers answers your questions ab...
The Jobs Report Beat Expectations. Will The Fed Care?
The economy added 162,000 jobs in August — far above the 50,000 to 60,000 Wall Street expected — and Justin Wolfers is smiling, because this...
The Bond Sell-Off Isn’t the Scary Part | Diving In
Everyone's talking about the bond market, and Justin Wolfers is here to explain what's actually going on — without the panic. In this episod...
Who Actually Paid for the Trade War? | Diving In
Trump’s tariffs were supposed to do five things. So how did they actually score? Justin Wolfers grades the tariff agenda against the adminis...
Can You Sanction a Country That's Already Cut Off? | The Professor Is In
In this episode of the Professor Is In, Justin answers your questions about "Operation Economic Outcast," the White House plan to squeeze Ir...
The Fed Chair Won't Talk (But Markets Listened Anyway) | Off the Clock
On this Fed-heavy episode of Off the Clock, Justin Wolfers and Bloomberg's Stacey Vanek Smith dig into new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's argument...
Why the BLS Guardrails Held — and the Census Bureau's Failed | The Professor Is In
In this episode of the Professor Is In, Justin answers your questions from his earlier episode debunking the Census Bureau’s claim that 24,0...
How To Fake a Voting Scandal | Diving In
The Census Bureau just published a report claiming 24,000 noncitizens illegally voted in the 2020 election. In this episode of Diving In, Ju...
America Is Reusing Cuba’s Sanctions Strategy on Iran | Diving In
Do sanctions on Iran actually work? Sixty years of the Cuba embargo say probably not. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just announced what h...
The Economics of Feeling Ripped Off | The Professor Is In
Politicians keep promising to bring prices down. In this episode of The Professor Is In, Justin Wolfers explains why that's a terrible idea...
What the Heck is Going On In the Bond Market? | Diving In
Bond yields have jumped from a little over 1% just after COVID to more than 5%, and Justin Wolfers walks you through why that matters at you...
What the $20 Burrito Debate Gets Wrong About Affordability | Diving In
A college student said a burrito shouldn't cost $20, and suddenly everyone seemed to be arguing about affordability. In this latest installm...