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29 de nov. de 2023 · Jason Furman: Yeah, great question. So there is been a large increase in inequality, where high-income households have gotten a lot of the benefit of the growth, and middle-income households are better off today than they were 30 years ago, but at a much slower rate than the improvements were before that, and at a much slower rate than the improvements have been for high-income households.
20 de abr. de 2022 · Apr 20, 2022 Jason Furman. Although inflation has risen sharply for multiple reasons, increased demand is by far the most important factor. The common argument about strangled ports, microchip shortages, and other supply-side issues simply cannot explain why advanced economies grew so briskly in 2021. CAMBRIDGE – Commentators have generally ...
24 de feb. de 2022 · Consensus inflation estimates going into 2021, which averaged 2.5 percent, didn’t quite work out. Jason Furman, a Harvard economics professor, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, wonders how economists missed this. Sure, it gives credence to the ...
17 de feb. de 2022 · What we don’t know how to talk about is contradictory extremes coexisting together. But that’s the economy we have right now. And a lot rides on figuring out how to balance those extremes. Because if we solve inflation while killing the labor market, we’ll have blown a hole in our foot to save our hand." HKS Author - Jason Furman ...
30 de jun. de 2024 · Excerpt. January 25, 2021, Opinion: "President Biden has proposed a bold and ambitious $1.9 trillion plan for economic recovery. The plan would benefit from one important change: It should be contingent on the pace of recovery. The Biden plan provides substantial support for the economy through the end of September but essentially ends on that ...
4 de ene. de 2019 · Jason Furman: The unemployment rate being below 4 percent shows that we’re in a great place in the business cycle. We have strong demand. The fact, though, that 12 percent of men between the age of 25 and 54 aren’t working and aren’t trying to find a job—that’s a big problem. That’s a problem that has been decades in the making.
13 de mar. de 2019 · This is the final report of the Digital Competition Expert Panel. Appointed by the Chancellor in 2018, and chaired by former Chief Economist to President Obama, Professor Jason Furman, the Panel ...
