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Introducing
Gerald D. Cohen
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Gerald Cohen provides strategic vision and leadership of the translational economic research and policy initiatives at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise.
He has worked in both the public and private sectors focusing on the intersection between financial markets and economic fundamentals. He was a Senior Economist at Haver Analytics from January 2019 to February 2021. During the Obama Administration Gerald was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Macroeconomic Analysis at the U.S. Department of Treasury where he helped formulate and evaluate the impact of policy proposals on the U.S. economy. Prior to Treasury, he co-managed a global macro fund at Ziff Brothers Investments.
Gerald holds a bachelor’s of science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and is a contributing author to 30-Second Money as well as a co-author of Political Cycles and the Macroeconomy.
Publications by Gerald D. Cohen
Global| May 07 2020NEW TT
- Global| May 07 2020
State Initial Jobless Claims Top 33 Million in Last Seven Weeks: New Data on Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program
• Initial jobless claims declined to a still extremely-elevated 3.169 million in the week ending May 2. • Over the last seven weeks 33.5 million people or 20.6% of the labor force have filed new claims. • New data on the federal [...]
- Global| May 01 2020
U.S. Construction Unexpectedly Rises in March
• • • The value of construction put-in-place dropped 1.3% in February ....... The construction spending figures, some of which date back to 1946, as well as and US Population-Weighted Heating and Cooling Days can be found in Haver's [...]
- Global| May 01 2020
U.S. Construction Unexpectedly Rises in March
• Construction spending increased 0.9% in March with downwards revisions to previous months. • Residential activity grew 2.3% while nonresidential edged down 0.1%. • Forward-looking indicators such as mortgage applications and state [...]
- Global| Apr 30 2020
Initial Jobless Claims Top 30 Million in Last Six Weeks
• Initial jobless claims declined to a still extremely-elevated 3.839 million in the week ending April 25. • Over the last six weeks 30.3 million people or 18.6% of the labor force have filed new claims. • Eleven states had over [...]
- Global| Apr 30 2020
Initial Jobless Claims Top 30 Million in Last Six Weeks
• Initial jobless claims declined to a still extremely-elevated 3.839 million in the week ending April 25. • Over the last six weeks 30.3 million people or 18.6% of the labor force have filed new claims. • Eleven states had over [...]
- Global| Apr 29 2020
March Pending Home Sales Drop to Lowest Level in Nine Years
• Pending home sales fell 20.8% in March to its lowest level since May 2011. • Prospective sales declined at double-digit rates in all regions of the country. • Mortgage applications suggest substantial weakness ahead. The National [...]
- Global| Apr 29 2020
March Pending Home Sales Drop to Lowest Level in Nine Years
• Pending home sales fell 20.8% in March to its lowest level since May 2011. • Prospective sales declined at double-digit rates in all regions of the country. • Mortgage applications suggest substantial weakness ahead. The National [...]
- Global| Apr 23 2020
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• • • PREVIOUS >>> Sales of new single-family homes declined 4.4% (+14.3% y/y) during February to 765,000 (AR) from 800,000 in January............. The data in this report are available in Haver's USECON database. The consensus [...]
- Global| Apr 23 2020
New Home Sales Fall in March; More Drops Likely Ahead
• New single-family dropped 15.4% in March to 627,000 with meaningful downward revisions to January and February. • Despite the weakness in March and downward revisions, sales remain elevated relative to recent history. • [...]
- Global| Apr 15 2020
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• • • PREVIOUS>>>Industrial production grew 0.6% in February (unchanged year-on-year) following a downwardly-revised 0.5% decline January... Industrial production and capacity data and US Population-Weighted Heating and Cooling Days [...]
- Global| Apr 15 2020
Largest Drop in Industrial Production in 75 Years
• Industrial production fell 5.4% in March led by a 6.3% drop in manufacturing output. • These are the largest single monthly declines in these measures since September 1945, as wartime production ended. • Durable goods output dropped [...]
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