Stevenson and Wolfers on the Debt Ceiling
Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers have a new article in Bloomberg on the debt ceiling fight (both the last one and the next one), including these charts (click to enlarge) showing what happened to consumer confidence and job growth during the political shenanigans:
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Brandon Dupont, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Economics at Western Washington University where he teaches economic history, the history of economic thought, microeconomics, labor economics and political economy. He has published on a variety of topics in American economic history and labor economics and is currently working on an undergraduate history of economic thought textbook.