Will the US labour market withstand monetary tightening?
By Christophe Blot In March 2022, the US central bank began tightening monetary policy in response to rapidly rising inflation. Since then, the target rate […]
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United States: Slowdown or recession?
by Christophe Blot In the first quarter of 2022, US GDP fell by 0.4%, ending the recovery that had begun in the summer of 2020. […]
Can the US Federal Reserve bring inflation back to 2%?
by Christophe Blot At the monetary policy meeting on 16 March 2022, the Federal Reserve raised its interest rate by a quarter point to 0.5%[1]. […]
How will US fiscal policy affect pressure on prices?
by Elliot Aurissergues, Christophe Blot and Caroline Bozou The latest inflation figures for the United States confirm the trends seen over the last few months. […]
Waiting for the recovery in the US
By Christophe Blot As with the economic performance of all the industrialized countries, economic activity fell off sharply in the second quarter of 2020 across […]
Europe/US: How has fiscal policy supported income?
By Christophe Blot, Magali Dauvin and Raul Sampognaro The sharp fall in activity and its brutal social consequences have led governments and central banks to enact ambitious support […]
The COVID-19 crisis and the US labour market: Rising inequality and precariousness in perspective
By Christophe Blot In the United States as in France, the COVID-19 crisis has led to numerous measures restricting economic activities intended to limit the […]
Trump’s budget policy: Mortgaging the future?
By Christophe Blot While the momentum for growth has lost steam in some countries – Germany, France and Japan in particular – GDP in the […]
The end of a cycle?
OFCE Analysis and Forecasting Department This text is based on the 2018-2019 outlook for the world economy and the euro zone, a full version of […]
The Janus-Faced Nature of Debt
by Mattia Guerini, Alessio Moneta, Mauro Napoletano, Andrea Roventini The financial and economic crises of 2008 have been intimately interwined with the dynamics of debt. […]