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Wolfers on Fed rate cuts: Neutral is a good place to be

Oct 29, 2025 MSNBC
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'...
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Wolfers on market reactions to Trump pronouncements

Jul 23, 2025 MSNBC
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...
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White House debt figures don't add up - Wolfers

Jul 7, 2025 MSNBC
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...
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New Wolfers segment on MSNBC: The Professor Is In!

May 23, 2025
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...
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Trump sees the world in zero sum terms - Wolfers

Mar 11, 2025 MSNBC
Ford School professor Justin Wolfers tried to explain Donald Trump's thinking on the economy. He said, "There is an underlying economics of trump, and you won't be surprised I think it's dead wrong." Wolfers said, "There's the zero sum thinking and t...
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Wolfers weighs in on tariffs, uncertainty, and the stock market

Mar 9, 2025
Ford School professor and economist Justin Wolfers discussed the impacts of tariffs, uncertainty, and consumer sentiment on the US economy with several news outlets last week. Wolfers highlighted the response the stock market had to tariffs and what ...
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Canada is not ripping us off - Stevenson

Mar 5, 2025 MSNBC
Betsey Stevenson, Ford School professor and economist, talked with Chris Hayes about tariffs and Trump's rhetoric, she says "when someone sells me something cheap I don't think you ripped me off I want you to charge me 10% more, but that's basically ...
Betsey Stevenson
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China's retaliation on Trump's tariff policy - Wolfers

Feb 6, 2025 MSNBC
Fixating on the early actions of the Trump administration, Justin Wolfers spoke with MSNBC on President Trump's imposed tariff policy. Wolfers explained how China has pushed back on the tariff policy. "China has levied a bunch of retaliation tariffs....
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Amidst recent acts of terrorism, Ali states ISIS ideology persists

Jan 5, 2025 MSNBC
Covering the recent acts of terrorism in New Orleans, MSNBC has turned to the Ford School's Javed Ali for insights on the situation. Ali urges that even though ISIS has changed over the past decade, "the ideology still remains, persists, and endures....
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Javed Ali comments on the New Orleans attack

Jan 5, 2025
As 2025 began with an act of domestic terrorism, many news outlets have turned to the Ford School's Javed Ali for insights on the matter. Ali spoke with BBC News, MSNBC, and WXYZ, to name a few, about the Jihadist-inspired attack in New Orleans on Ne...
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How Trump won - Ostfeld

Nov 6, 2024 MSNBC
Mara Ostfeld, Ford school professor, coauthored and article for MSNBC on how Trump won last night's election. She wrote, "The mood of the country this election was very pessimistic." In addition to that, "When voters were asked what quality mattered ...
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Wolfers insights on U.S. economic performance

Sep 7, 2023
Over this past summer, Justin Wolfers, professor of public policy and economics at the Ford School, was widely interviewed on the state of the economy and the American public's reactions to its performance.  Here are highlights from his media app...
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Wolfers comments on government-inspired threats to "woke" business

May 25, 2023 MSNBC
Justin Wolfers, MSNBC: What do companies want to do? They want to sell stuff. And if you make things with rainbow flags, they'll be happy to sell it. We do have groups all the time that protest by boycotting and that's their democratic right to do. T...
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Ambassador Page widely sought for Sudan insights

May 10, 2023
As two rival generals continue their deadly feud for control of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, fears are rising of of another major regional conflagration. Ambassador Susan D. Page, Ford School Professor of Practice in International Diplomacy, has be...
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Ford School economists' expertise tapped for bank crisis analysis

Mar 21, 2023
The collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) set off alarms in the financial sector, with flashbacks to the 2008 financial crisis and increased worries about an impending recession.  Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, both professors of public pol...
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Stevenson breaks down new GDP numbers

Jan 26, 2023 MSNBC
Betsey Stevenson, MSNBC: "I think what we have learned is that when we give families and people enough money, to mean that we don't have a bunch of people who are at risk of eviction, losing their house, not putting food on the table, it gives them a...
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Ford School economists weigh in on inflation and recession fears

Jul 28, 2022
News this week that GDP had contracted for the second quarter in a row, combined with the Fed’s interest rate hike and persistent inflationary pressure, are creating fear that the U.S. economy is headed towards recession. Yet the picture is confusing...
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