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March 24, 2024
Bloomberg: Fed’s Powell ready to support job market, even if it means lingering inflation
“It’s 'about not wanting the unemployment rate to get momentum,’ said former Fed economist Wendy Edelberg, director of the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Pro…
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March 13, 2024
Axios: How immigration is driving U.S. job growth
"New analysis from the Brookings Institution puts some hard numbers on the relationship between the rise in immigration and the labor market — finding an influ…
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March 13, 2024
Reuters: US immigration fillip shifts economy’s trajectory
“In a paper released last week, Brookings economists Wendy Edelberg and Tara Watson reckoned the CBO revisions - which show 3.3 million net immigrants last yea…
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February 14, 2024
The Hill: Immigration cuts could dent US economy at crucial time, experts say
"‘The vast majority of population growth that we have in the U.S. right now is from immigration,’ Wendy Edelberg, director of The Hamilton Project and a senior…
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January 25, 2024
Marketplace: Cha-ching! Can you hear the economy growing?
"Wendy Edelberg of The Hamilton Project doesn’t want to jinx it, but it looks like the economy has made a ‘soft landing.’"
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October 24, 2023
The Wall Street Journal: How the highest bond yields in 16 years could chill the hot U.S. economy
“Wendy Edelberg, a former CBO chief economist, said higher interest expenses will ultimately force policy makers to choose if they will accept higher borrowing…
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August 8, 2023
Bloomberg: What no landing looks like to a Treasury bond investor
"Quote of the week: 'If households were to sustain their current spending trends and increasingly finance spending with borrowing, financial health could deter…
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August 2, 2023
Bloomberg: Americans spending set to slow as income dips below 2019 trend
“Real income growth has slowed to levels below the pre-pandemic trend, according to the report published Tuesday by Wendy Edelberg, director of the Hamilton Pr…