• Industrial production declined 0.3% in December on a weather-driven drop in utility output. • Manufacturing output rises 0.2% as a 4.6% contraction in vehicles is offset by gains in other durables as well as nondurables. • Capacity [...]
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| Jan 17 2020U.S. Industrial Production Lower on Utilities
- Global| Jan 16 2020
Petroleum Drives Import Prices Higher while Export Prices Decline
• Import prices rose 0.3% in December, driven by a 2.8% jump in fuel prices. Excluding fuels, import prices were unchanged. • Export prices declined 0.2%. Rounding at lower levels of the aggregation of the price index accounted for [...]
- Global| Jan 16 2020
Petroleum Drives Import Prices Higher, Uncommon Rounding Issue Causes Larger Decline in Export Prices
• Import prices rose 0.3% in December as fuel prices jumped 2.8%. Excluding fuels, import prices were unchanged. • Export prices declined 0.2%. Rounding at lower levels of the aggregation of the price index accounted for a larger [...]
- Global| Jan 10 2020
Wholesale Inventories Decline as Sales Jump
Wholesale inventories edged down 0.1% in November (3.3% year-over-year), following an unrevised 0.1% gain in October. The Informa Global Markets Survey anticipated a 0.1% rise in November. Wholesale inventory swings can have a [...]
- Global| Jan 10 2020
Wholesale Inventories Decline as Sales Jump
Wholesale inventories edged down 0.1% in November (3.3% year-over-year), following an unrevised 0.1% gain in October. The Informa Global Markets Survey anticipated a 0.1% rise in November. Wholesale inventory swings can have a [...]
• Consumer credit jumped $22.1 billion in December. • Credit growth for 2019 was fairly steady at 4.7% versus 4.8% in 2018. Consumer credit outstanding increased $22.1 billion (4.7% year-on-year) to $4.197 trillion in December, [...]
- Global| Dec 19 2019
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The U.S. current account deficit narrowed to $128.2 billion during Q2'19 from an upwardly-revised $136.2 bil. during Q1'19 Balance of Payments data are in Haver's USINT database, with summaries available in USECON. The expectations [...]
- Global| Dec 19 2019
U.S. Current Account Deficit Narrows Slightly in Q3
The U.S. current account deficit narrowed less than expected to $124.1 billion during Q3'19 from a downwardly-revised $125.2 bil. in Q2'19 (was $128.2 bil.). The Action Economics Forecast Survey anticipated a $122.1 bil. deficit. As a [...]
- Global| Dec 13 2019
U.S. Import and Export Prices........................
PREVIOUS>>>Import prices fell a greater-than-expected 0.5% during October (-3.0% year-on-year... Export prices ticked down 0.1% in October (-2.2% y/y), following an unrevised 0.2% decline in September The import and export price [...]
- Global| Dec 13 2019
U.S. Import and Export Prices........................
Import prices fell a greater-than-expected 0.5% during October (-3.0% year-on-year.... Export prices ticked down 0.1% in October (-2.2% y/y), following an unrevised 0.2% decline in September The import and export price series can be [...]
- Global| Dec 13 2019
Import and Export Prices Increase
Import prices rose 0.2% during November (-1.3% year-on-year), following an unrevised 0.5% decline in October. The Action Economics Forecast Survey expected a 0.1% gain in November. These figures are not seasonally adjusted and do not [...]
- Global| Dec 11 2019
U.S. Government Budget Deficit..............
PREVIOUS: The U.S. Treasury Department reported that the federal government ran a $134.5 billion budget deficit during October....... Haver's data on Federal Government outlays and receipts are contained in USECON. Considerable detail [...]
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