Policy Uncertainty In The US, Globally
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As measured by Baker, Bloom and Davis’s EPU. I was in Europe, and conversations were in high gear about how things now seemed. And text mining confirms:
Figure 1: US EPU (blue), Global EPU (GDP weighted at market exchange rates) (brown). Orange denotes periods from election to end-Trump administration. NBER denoted peak-to-trough recession dates shaded gray. Source: policyuncertainty.com, and NBER.
Global EPU in January matches EPU in May 2022.
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