Calculated Risk: Tuesday: Housing Starts
by Calculated Risk on 8/18/2025 08:31:00 PM From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Rates Trickle to Another…
AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over
“Everywhere we went, people treated energy availability as a given,” Rui Ma wrote on X after returning from…
Spending on AI data centers is so massive that it’s now two-thirds of GDP—and it could crash the American economy
The mighty American consumer may have finally met their match, and it’s a giant hulking rectangle box that…
China’s economists weigh pros and cons of consumption benchmarks
As Beijing gathers public input on China’s next five-year plan – a mission statement for the next half-decade…
Republican Says State’s GDP Has Plunged 6% Due to Trade War—’Troubled Time’
A Republican congressman has warned that tariffs are having an outsized impact on his state’s economy. “We’re now…
Inflation’s Drag on the Economy
But tariffs are an especially dumb and destructive kind of tax in that they do not produce a…
‘The Big Short’ investor: As Trump mounts new tariffs, economy is experiencing ‘stagflationary period’
Following the latest round of tariffs, it’s only a matter of time before the other economic shoe drops,…
From ‘He’s crashing the economy’ to ‘It’s a mirage’
FROM ‘HE’S CRASHING THE ECONOMY’ TO ‘IT’S A MIRAGE.’ Go back three months, when the government released gross domestic…
‘We have a long way to go’ to see full impact of tariffs on economy, Powell says
WASHINGTON (TNND) — In one of the most scrutinized – but least surprising – monetary policy decisions in…
Strong second quarter GDP growth numbers are "misleading," say experts – marketplace.org
Strong second quarter GDP growth numbers are “misleading,” say experts marketplace.orgU.S. Economy Slowed in First Half of 2025 as…
Pressure Mounts on Powell in Tee-Up to GDP, Jobs Data: Eco Week
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues will step into the central bank’s board room on Tuesday…
Japan might be in a technical recession already
Recent economic indicators suggest that Japan might already be in recession, according to a think tank report released…