…More will be necessary for next year due to the ebbs and flows of drought and the scarcity of fertilizers. This is more costly and runs antithetical to our practices…

The Washington Post calls attention to changes in measuring international trade values: The U.S. trade deficit with China may be much smaller than thought according to new trade measurements that…

…out in a post today. That has meant that the US has not had to attract much capital from the private sector. The following chart shows the total inflows of…

…to use the exchange rate as a tool, it would have to fix it. But it then would have to surrender control of domestic money or block capital flows to…

…crisis were years of rapid economic globalization. Trade flows grew on average by 7% a year over the 1987-2007 period. Financial flows also expanded, particularly amongst the advanced economies. Global…

…are becoming clearer. While the capital flows that preceded the crisis have diminished in size, most of the assets and liabilities they created remain. But there are significant differences between…

…where it gets interesting: Domestic flows correlate much more positively with state-level GDP growth and the EIG’s economic dynamism scores than international flows. Meanwhile, international flows are very concentrated: 5…

by Guest Economist Joseph Joyce Capital Ebbs and Flows The disruption of the global economy caused by the COVID pandemic in 2020 had begun to be overcome when the Russian…

…administrative elements of the immigration system and higher immigration flows. Immigration flows over the last two years have been relatively high according to some estimates, prompting calls for more immigration…

…reality with a terminology change and release note to the Q1 2018 Financial Accounts release,3 embracing full modern national-accounting treatments of “economic flows” that include both “volume” (transaction) and “(re)valuation” flows. In…