Improving The Fed’s Dots (David Wessel, Peter Olson, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/12/13/improving-the-feds-dots/

Survey finds mixed feelings on Fed communication (David Wessel, Peter Olson, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/survey-finds-mixed-feelings-on-fed-communication/

Are Americans better off than they were a decade or two ago? (Ben S. Bernanke, Peter Olson, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/ben-bernanke/2016/10/19/are-americans-better-off-than-they-were-a-decade-or-two-ago/

Inflation on the rise? Not lately (Peter Olson, David Wessel, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/inflation-on-the-rise-not-lately/

Are negative rates a “calamitous misadventure"? ECB economists say no (Peter Olson, David Wessel, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2016/06/16-are-negative-rates-a-calamitous-misadventure-ecb-economists-say-no

China’s transparency challenges (Ben S. Bernanke, Peter Olson, Brookings)

At the recent G20 gathering in Shanghai, three Chinese leaders—Premier Li Keqiang, People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan, and Finance Minister Lou Jiwei—reassured attendees that the Chinese government had the monetary and fiscal tools as well as the know-how to guide the economy through its current challenges. The success of the communications offensive, which seems to have calmed investor concerns for the moment, stands in strong contrast to the communications missteps that exacerbated adverse market reactions to the Chinese government’s stock market and currency interventions over the past year.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/ben-bernanke/posts/2016/03/08-china-transparency

Hutchins Roundup: ACA dependent care, banking unions, and more (Peter Olson, David Wessel, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2016/01/14-hutchins-roundup