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Question #2 for 2024: How much will job growth slow in 2024? Or will the economy lose jobs?

Calculated Risk

Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2024. 2) Employment: Through November 2023, the economy added 2.6 2) Employment: Through November 2023, the economy added 2.6 Or will the economy lose jobs? Or will the economy lose jobs? million jobs in 2023. million jobs in 2023.

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Collapse in Prospective Home Buyer Traffic

The Big Picture

Sure, RRE/CRE is a huge part of the economy, so its health is always important. But for the purposes of our discussion about the state of the economy and rising interest rates, Real Estate is where the rubber meets the road. Rising Fed Funds Rates make capital and credit more expensive; the calculus around both debt and equity shifts.

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The Equity Beat: Can the Swift Economy Remain on Stage?

Brown Advisory

The Equity Beat: Can the Swift Economy Remain on Stage? economic impact of the Eras tour at close to $5 billion. economy afloat this summer! Gilmore published an article in the Harvard Business Review titled, “Welcome to the Experience Economy”. cities over the past few months. In 1998, co-authors and economists B.

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GDP When? (Not Now)

The Big Picture

It uses (13 or so) inputs 1 to extrapolate a rough approximation of economic growth. I find these to be useful models but must constantly remind myself that they are merely rough approximations of the BEA GDP , which itself is a rough approximation of the US economy. Higgins Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, July 1, 2014 1.

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Major coastal metros have been hubs of the kind of educated workers coveted most by high-powered employers and economic development officials. These urban centers have become a class of their own — “superstar cities” — with outsized impact on the American economy fueled by the clustering of workers with degrees. (

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

Perhaps we’ve all just become economic snowflakes? dollar, it would reshape the global economy and geopolitical landscape. Finance in 2023 The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns (2014-2023) Source: Visual Capitalist Sign up for our reads-only mailing list here. ~~~ I am still on book leave!

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Which is Worse: Inflation or Unemployment?

The Big Picture

And it was a miserable economic time, with both of these elevated measures together creating a period of unhappy people that the Misery index neatly captured. As Zunbrun observes, “ The Misery Index, as commonly constructed, doesn’t adequately capture how overall economic conditions affect attitudes.”. 46, October 2014).

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