The Economic Data You Need to Make Decisions Through Volatility

March 17, 2025

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It seems like every day recently, something new lands in the news cycle—sometimes contradicting what was announced a few hours before. Tariffs are on. Now they’re off again. The nuclear safety experts have been fired. Now they’re hired again. Funding for Ebola has been frozen. No it hasn’t. Wait, maybe it has?

Martha Gimbel is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Budget Lab at Yale. She has worked in economic policy and research in the executive branch, the legislative branch, the private-sector, and in philanthropy. Previously she was a Senior Advisor at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Director of Economic Research at Indeed.com, Senior Manager of Economic Research at Schmidt Futures, Senior Economist and Research Director at Congress’s Joint Economic Committee, and a Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Labor. She has commented widely on the economy, including in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, NPR, and other news outlets.

Ernie Tedeschi is the Director of Economics at the Budget Lab at Yale. Until March 2024, Ernie was the Chief Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Prior to CEA, he was Managing Director and Head of Fiscal Analysis at Evercore ISI, a macro advisory firm. He was also previously an economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Ernie completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University and graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley.

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The Economic Data You Need to Make Decisions Through Volatility

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