This blog post accompanies the SDPB Monday Macro segment that airs on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Click here to listen to the show. For more macroeconomic analysis, follow J. M. Santos on Twitter @NSMEdirector. In 1895 in response to rumors he was dead, Samuel Clemens—aka, Mark Twain—quipped, “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” […]
On the SDPB Monday Macro segment that aired on Monday, March 4, 2024, SDPB’s Cara Hetland spoke to J. M. Santos about business (higher) education—its mission, opportunities, and challenges—in the Ness School at South Dakota State University and otherwise. Click here to access the segment. For more macroeconomic analysis, follow J. M. Santos on Twitter […]
This blog post accompanies the SDPB Monday Macro segment that airs on Monday, February 5, 2024. Click here to listen to the segment, which begins at minute 12. For more macroeconomic analysis, follow J. M. Santos on Twitter @NSMEdirector. Last week was busy for macroeconomists, particularly those who listened very carefully. On Wednesday, everyone heard […]
This blog post accompanies the SDPB Monday Macro segment that airs on Tuesday, January 2, 2024. Click here to listen to the segment. For more macroeconomic analysis, follow J. M. Santos on Twitter @NSMEdirector. In the September 19, 1966 issue of Newsweek, Nobel laureate American economist Paul Samuelson quipped, “Wall Street indexes predicted nine out […]
This blog post accompanies the SDPB Monday Macro segment that airs on Monday, December 4, 2023. Click here to listen to the segment. For more macroeconomic analysis, follow J. M. Santos on Twitter @NSMEdirector. As the average national interest rate on the thirty-year, fixed-rate mortgage has risen above 7 percent, seems everyone is probing the […]
This blog post accompanies the SDPB Monday Macro segment that airs on Monday, November 6, 2023. Click here to listen to the segment. For more macroeconomic analysis, follow J. M. Santos on Twitter @NSMEdirector. On Friday, November 3, 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its October 2023 Employment Situation—the monthly jobs report, as […]
This blog post accompanies the SDPB Monday Macro segment that airs on Monday, October 2, 2023. Click here to listen to the segment, which begins at minute 25:45. For more macroeconomic analysis, follow J. M. Santos on Twitter @NSMEdirector. These days, seems lots of people are thinking about interest rates. Meanwhile, seems far fewer people […]
This blog post accompanies the SDPB Monday Macro segment that airs on Tuesday, September 5, 2023. Click here to listen to the segment. For more macroeconomic analysis, follow J. M. Santos on Twitter @NSMEdirector. Long-term interest rates—so-called yields to maturity—are rising, raising the cost of financing for the U.S. government, which finances its expenditures less […]
This blog post accompanies the SDPB Monday Macro segment that aired on Monday, July 31, 2023. Click here to listen to the segment. For more macroeconomic analysis, follow J. M. Santos on Twitter @NSMEdirector. Schooled readers and Monday Macro listeners know the drill by now: since the pandemic, extraordinary growth in aggregate demand fueled by […]
This blog post accompanies the SDPB Monday Macro segment that airs on Monday, June 5, 2023. Click here to listen to the segment. For more macroeconomic analysis, follow J. M. Santos on Twitter @NSMEdirector. During the pandemic, the supply of money in the United States rose dramatically, reaching 27 percent year-over-year growth in February 2021. However, since […]
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