ECONOMY
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Federal Student Loan Defaults Return After Pandemic Pause
Zara Jacob, Donghoon Lee, Daniel Mangrum, Joelle W. Scally, and Wilbert van der Klaauw During 2026:Q1, household debt balances increased…
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Do Job Postings Show Early Labor-Market Effects of AI?
Richard Audoly, Miles Guerin, and Giorgio Topa As generative AI tools become more widely used, a key issue is the…
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Will Mounting Supply Chain Strains Hamstring the AI Investment Boom?
Hunter L. Clark, Jeffrey B. Dawson, and Shad Turney The conflict in the Middle East has precipitated a global supply…
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Stress and Strain from NBFIs to Banks
Viral V. Acharya, Nicola Cetorelli, and Bruce Tuckman Do the recent stresses in the NBFI space—notably the bankruptcies of Tricolor…
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In What Ways Has U.S. Trade with China Changed?
Hunter L. Clark and Gregory Simitian Over the past year, U.S. trade policy with China has undergone enormous changes, but…
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Explaining the K-Shaped Economy: What’s Behind the Divide?
Rajashri Chakrabarti, Thu Pham, Beck Pierce, and Maxim L. Pinkovskiy In our companion post, we used a new module of…
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Use of Gen AI in the Workplace and the Value of Access to Training
Ali Hashim, Gizem Kosar, and Wilbert van der Klaauw The rapid spread of generative AI (AI) tools is reshaping the…
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The R*–Labor Share Nexus – Liberty Street Economics
Sophia Cho and John C. Williams Over the past quarter century, the U.S. economy has experienced significant declines in both…
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Bank Failures: The Roles of Solvency and Liquidity
Bank Failures in the United States, 1863–2024 Source: “Bank Failures: The Roles of Solvency and Liquidity,” Correia, Luck, and Verner…
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What Millions of Homeowner’s Insurance Contracts Reveal About Risk Sharing
Hyeyoon Jung and Jaehoon (Kyle) Jung Housing is the largest component of assets held by households in the United States,…
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