Minnesota’s marquee economic indicators such as unemployment still appear strong, but under-the-hood, economists see signs of stress.

The Fed-University partnership has proven it can produce Nobel Prize-winning research at the highest levels. Now it's proving it can build the pipeline from the ground up.

The Federal Reserve releases its Beige Book several times a year to provide a summary of economic activity, labor markets, prices and other factors.

Break-even employment is a sort of balance figure between the number of job seekers and the number of jobs available.

The HHEI Fall Roundtable featured a discussion on wealth taxation with leading experts, HHEI Director Professor Kjetil Storesletten and Professor Florian Scheuer from the University of Zurich.

Heller Hurwicz students go beyond textbooks, tackling projects on poverty, climate change, and more. Meet our alumni and see where their work has taken them.

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Economists say firing a top official for revisions to a jobs report sends a bad message and could destroy trust in data that's central to the economy.

Economists say firing a top official for revisions to a jobs report sends a bad message and could destroy trust in data that's central to the economy.

"Firing the labor statistician delivering the data is akin to breaking the thermometer because of a heat wave," John Rash writes.

The growth of the private equity in recent years has raised concerns about its consequences. This column matches 2.5 million workers who were employed by 3,600 firms in the US that underwent leveraged buyouts with workers at firms that were not acquired to explore the effects of private equity on labour market outcomes. The authors find that unemployment for workers at bought-out firms rises and wages fall substantially after buyouts, with wage losses concentrated among those who leave the bought-out firm. These dynamics appear to be the result of private equity acting to increase efficiency rather than exploiting labour market power.

From columnist John Rash: Fiscal think tanks have sounded the alarm on the impact President Donald Trump's budget bill will have on the national debt.