The Unexpected Changes within the Economy

Season 4, Episode 12: Welcome back to Keeping it Real with Dr. Kuehl. This week Dr. Kuehl focused on why economists are bad at predicting… these last few weeks were unexpected.

ASA Chief Economist Dr. Chris Kuehl is back with his weekly economic update podcast. In Season 4, Episode 12 (5:48 in length), Dr. Kuehl talks about the unexpected economic updates from the last few weeks. 

• No more job creation prediction… what happened?    
• Is inflation back? Do we have it under control?   
• What is still driving inflation?      
• What happened to the oil prices within literally one week?
• What does “dynamic production territory” mean? 
• What is the bottom line with all this unexpected change?   
• Can we accurately predict some things for the economy come summer?  
• What part of the population is skewing expectations??    
• How are all of the sectors doing? Do we see growth?

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