According to Gregory Mankiw (“The Fiscal Future”), ___.

Imagine that the yield curve is upward sloping and then we receive two unexpected pieces of news: (a) the job market is much stronger than expected; and (b) the U.S. government has a credible plan to balance the budget for the foreseeable future.  After those two pieces of news were released, you should expect that the yield curve responded by ___.

The labor force participation rate has been ___ over the past 25 years.

In 2025 (the first year of President Trump’s second term), the U.S. trade deficit ___.

What happened after the enhanced ACA subsidies expired in January of this year?

Foreign investors have more money invested in ___ than in ___.

In the BLS’s “benchmark revision,” the BLS compares the establishment survey with ___.

China’s consumer spending is a ___ percentage of GDP than seen in the median OECD country.

If you think that AI is a bubble and that the bubble is about to burst, you would be better off investing in the ___ S&P 500 rather than the ___ S&P 500.

Fed Chair Powell indicated that the current Fed funds rate might be slightly ___ than the neutral rate.