28 Episodes

  1. How will the Federal Reserve revise its monetary policy framework in 2025?

    Published: 12/18/2024
  2. How will the clean energy transition affect wages?

    Published: 12/4/2024
  3. How does Congress react to budget deficit projections?

    Published: 11/20/2024
  4. What is the value of dynamic scoring for legislators?

    Published: 11/6/2024
  5. What role should sanctions play in foreign policy? The case of Russia.

    Published: 10/23/2024
  6. What is the efficient rate of unemployment?

    Published: 10/9/2024
  7. Did behavioral changes reduce COVID-19 deaths?

    Published: 6/20/2024
  8. What should regulators do about the risks to mid-sized banks?

    Published: 6/6/2024
  9. What global factors could make inflation less stable?

    Published: 5/23/2024
  10. What do Americans think about inflation?

    Published: 5/9/2024
  11. Do US states have different recoveries from economic shocks?

    Published: 4/25/2024
  12. How did Jamaica halve its debt in 10 years?

    Published: 4/11/2024
  13. What do we miss in standard supply chain measures?

    Published: 12/21/2023
  14. How worried should we be about wage-price spirals?

    Published: 12/7/2023
  15. Is the post-pandemic surge in business dynamism here to stay?

    Published: 11/30/2023
  16. How have Fed interest rate hikes affected other national economies?

    Published: 11/9/2023
  17. How did Germany fare without Russian gas?

    Published: 10/26/2023
  18. Why is life expectancy falling faster for adults without a BA?

    Published: 10/12/2023
  19. What’s BPEA’s role in shaping economic policy?

    Published: 6/8/2023
  20. Why haven’t workers returned to the labor force after COVID-19?

    Published: 5/25/2023

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The Brookings Podcast on Economic Activity connects you to cutting edge economic policy research and the renowned economists who create it. On each episode, the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity editors introduce new BPEA research and present a conversation between the author and a Brookings scholar to bridge the divide between economic theory and practical policy solutions.