Wolfers is an economist with broad policy-related interests and experience. He is also affiliated with the NBER, Brookings and the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is a contributing columnist for the New York Times and host of the “Think Like An Economist” podcast. He is a popular teacher and author of a leading economics textbook.
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Justin Wolfers Q&A about the urgent need for economic literacy, the meaning behind his new platform, Platypus Economics, and how it aims to help people make sense of today's economy and political climate.
Professors Morela Hernandez, Mara Ostfeld, Megan Tompkins-Stange, and Justin Wolfers will be teaching courses for the Ford School's Online MPA program this fall.
Ford School professor and economist Dr. Justin Wolfers recently testified at a hearing for the Michigan House Appropriations Committee. The hearing, titled "Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference," is the first in a series of two hearings determinin...
The Ford School's Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers appeared together on MS Now for a talk on the future of healthcare under the Trump administration.
Justin Wolfers reacted to the Fed's latest rate cut on MSNBC: "Don't read too much into this. "The Fed putting on the gas." It's really the Fed taking its foot off the brake. The Fed put the brakes on to deal with the post-pandemic inflation, now it'...
Early this week, Ford School economist Justin Wolfers delivered the Australian Broadcast Corporation’s annual Boyer Lecture. For 66 years, the Boyer Lecture has brought leaders in policymaking and academia together to discuss the challenging, endurin...
"Economics is like baking a cake," said Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan. "You put a whole lot of ingredients into the mixing bowl and we bake our economic cake. Sometimes, though, in America, we discove...
"It's government intervention. It's the heavy hand," said Wolfers, a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan. "Sometimes it's the greedy hand as well, because some of these moves, particularly when it comes to crypto an...
"This whole thing is just a casino, and if Vegas goes bankrupt, we let them go bankrupt. But if the president goes down with it, I have a funny feeling there might be a bailout. And it's a bailout of yours and my money to keep a bunch of grifters ric...
Following a disappointing jobs report, CBS News turned to the Ford School's Justin Wolfers for insight on what this means for the economy. "There's no question that the economy is slowing, and it's slowed quite dramatically. The real question is if t...
Ford School professors Brian Jacob, Betsey Stevenson, and Justin Wolfers are among a bipartisan group of economists who signed a letter urging Congress to expand funding for modernizing U.S. statistical systems. “Data provided by the federal statis...
Wolfers on MSNBC: Here's the most important thing if you look at markets: If you look at every singly day where Trump has backed his own instincts, when he's imposed new tariffs, every single time he's done that, markets have gone down. When he's bac...
Ford School economics professor Justin Wolfers makes regular appearances in the media discussing the economic implications of the Trump administration's actions, among other be seen on MSNBC and CNN, among others, and in print in The New York Times,...
Ford School economics professor Justin Wolfers told MSNBC, "Center-right and center-left economics all agree that this is going to have a massive effect blowing up the national debt. The White House Council of Economic Advisors... has put out a claim...
Ford School economics professor Justin Wolfers is one of the most prolific “public” scholars at the school. His analyses about current economic events regularly appear on the pages of The New York Times (among others), on the screens at Bloomberg (am...
Ford School professor Justin Wolfers explained to the New York Times why the bon market sell-off is so problematic, he said, “People feel nervous about lending us money,” and more than that, “They are saying, ‘We’ve lost our faith in America and the ...
As the news buzzes with discussions of President Trump’s tariffs, economists and policymakers continue weighing the potential impacts of these policies. In a new opinion article published in the New York Times, Professor Justin Wolfers argues that “t...
Economist Justin Wolfers says levies could have a dramatic and long-lasting impact on consumers and the U.S. economy in an interview with Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
"The air is thick with recession talk, and stocks are cratering. But it just may be a mirage, a refraction of partisan distortions" wrote Ford School professor, Justin Wolfers, in a recent guest essay for The New York Times. "It started with a projec...
If Trump's proposed 200% tariffs on alcohol coming from the EU are enacted, “it means your liquor store probably won’t stock it." Noted Justin Wolfers, an economics professor at the Ford School. He told CNN that he believes the tariff “would drive im...
Justin Wolfers, Ford School professor talked with ABC Australia about Trump's trade war and how other countries like Australia have yet to retaliate. Wolfers said "we haven't seen any action of non-US countries imposing tariffs on each other so its n...
