Luke Pardue

Join us at the Aspen Institute’s DC offices for a talk with @MikeGeruso and Dean Spears on their forthcoming book “After the Spike,” which makes the case for why we should care about global population decline.

@ThomasHochman I’ll be there

@parduel swing by the office!

Incredibly proud to announce this year’s new and returning members of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group (@AspenEcon) today. I’m excited to work with this bipartisan group to advance evidence-based economic policy. economicstrategygroup.org/publication/as…

Jens Ludwig and Jonathan Guryan @UChiUrbanLabs highlight High-Dosage Tutoring in particular as an evidence-based path to get students back on track:

On a hopeful note, there are evidence-based solutions to address pandemic-induced learning loss: economicstrategygroup.org/publication/co…

The data out in today’s @NAEP_NCES Nation’s Report Card paints a dire picture of educational progress among America’s young students.

@colbyLsmith @nytimes @FT Congratulations, Colby!

Thrilled to announce I’ve joined @nytimes to lead their coverage of the Federal Reserve and write about the US economy. Big thank you to @FT for a wonderful nearly 7 years. You can now reach me at colby.smith@nytimes.com

From @ProfDavidDeming and @LHSummers @AspenEcon paper “Technological Disruption in the US Labor Market” economicstrategygroup.org/publication/de…

Today, the @WhiteHouseCEA released the 2025 Economic Report of the President. Chapter 7 of the report references AESG Policy Director @parduel's IN BRIEF on rising worker productivity in the US: “The CEA estimates that mean real weekly wages paid to college-educated workers who were not K-12 teachers rose by 15.4 percent between 2000 and 2023 as worker productivity also rose, in part due to technological innovation in other sectors of the economy.” whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

In his new @WSJ op-ed, @jasonfurman stresses the importance of considering tradeoffs in economic policymaking. At our recent policy volume launch, he applied this framework to the case of rebuilding America's chip industry. Watch here:

Rare criticism of Trump from Blinken: He said Trump's idea to have the US take Greenland from Denmark was "obviously not a good one." He and the French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, pointed to potential strains in alliances as Trump returns: nytimes.com/2025/01/08/wor…

Check out my quick 2024 job market recap/2025 here: economicstrategygroup.org/publication/20…

Where do they project it will be this time next year? Not too far from where it is now - median projection is 4.3%

Noticed something interesting while taking stock of the job market in 2024: The FOMC’s projections for Q4 unemployment rate moved around quite a bit this year (down to 4% in March, up to 4.4% in June) but they almost nailed it with the median forecast of 4.1% last December!

@jenniferdoleac’s passage on technology from her paper economicstrategygroup.org/wp-content/upl…

This @wsj article highlights a high-profile example of a point @jenniferdoleac makes in her recent @AspenEcon paper: investing in technology to detect and apprehend criminals (being mindful of privacy costs) is a proven way to make communities safer wsj.com/us-news/law/ho…

And here is Zach’s @AspenEcon paper: State Capacity for Building Infrastructure economicstrategygroup.org/publication/li…

New foundations for American infrastructure us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

3pm TODAY! @AspenEcon is cohosting a webinar with @NiskanenCenter on how the US can get better at building infrastructure (like roads/bridges, chips factories, energy transmission lines). @ZLiscow will discuss his new AESG paper with @pahlkadot and @makosloff Link below: