Media Coverage
2025
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Investors may finally be admitting that the government shutdown has consequences (Market Watch)
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Why Trump’s team is betting on stablecoins (Financial Times)
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The Stablecoin Effect: How Digital Dollars Could Quietly Redefine U.S. Monetary Policy (Medium)
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A Global Stablecoin Glut: Implications for Monetary Policy (Speech by Governor Stephen I. Miran)
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Fed Governor Predicts Multi-Trillion Dollar Stablecoin Boom Will Force Down US Interest Rates (Yahoo Finance)
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US consumers face sharp price increases from Donald Trump’s tariffs, say analysts (Financial Times)
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Tariffs, U.S. Trade and Economic Performance (Haver Analytics)
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Trump Import Taxes Could Fall Heaviest on Midwest and Southeast, Richmond Fed Says Reuters, April 2, 2025.
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VA coffee roasters face higher costs under Trump tariffs (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
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Tariffs: Estimating the Economic Impact of the 2025 Measures and Proposals (Washington International Trade Association)
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Trump Import Taxes Could Fall Heaviest on the Midwest and Southeast (Inc.)
2024
2023
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PodCast EconomistAs (Podcast, Laura Karpuska e Paula Pereda).
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How Companies Should Prepare for Repeated Debt-Ceiling Standoffs (Harvard Business Review).
- Choosing Macroeconomics in Graduate School: A Conversation with Women in Macro (Webinar, AEA-CSWEP).
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How Companies Should Prepare for Repeated Debt-Ceiling Standoffs (Harvard Business Review).
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Partisan Conflict in the U.S. and Potential Impacts on the Economy (Economic Brief – FRB Richmond).
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Trump Charges Will Drive a Summer of Political Conflict. Markets Will Feel It. (Barron’s).
2022:
- Looking back on the 2022 Kuznets Mini-conference, “Political Distortions and Economic Development.” (Yale Economic Growth Center).
2021:
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- EconomicDynamics Interview: Fatih Guvenen on “Global Income Dynamics Project” by Marina Azzimonti (November 2021).
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2020:
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- EconomicDynamics Interview: Nick Bloom on “Working From Home (WFH)” by Marina Azzimonti (April 2021).
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2020:
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- EconomicDynamics Interview: Veronica Guerrieri on the “Macroeconomic Consequences of COVID-19” by Marina Azzimonti (November 2020).
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- How to save lives and protect jobs in a deadly pandemic (Minneapolis Fed)
- Detecting the impact of policy uncertainty on foreign direct investment (VOX CEPR)
- Movilidad y economía durante el coronavirus: la otra cara de la moneda (El Economista)
- Ni asado, ni conciertos, ni fútbol, ni escuelas: ¿medida óptima o sobrerreacción? (El Economista)
- Los costos de la globalización financiera (El Economista)
- Populism, Political Risk And The Economy: What We Can Learn From The Italian Experience – Analysis (Eurasia Review)
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2019:
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- Marina Azzimonti – Argentinos en el Mundo (La Nacion)
- What did the Founders most fear about impeachment? (The Hill)
- Trade-policy uncertainty and partisanship hurt the economy (The Seattle Times)
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Women in Macro Conference interview, Becker Friedman Institute
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- Why are there so few women economists? (Chicago Booth Review)
- Powell Better Brush Up on His Fed History (Bloomberg – Opinion)
- Wall Street Is Desperate for Wonks Who Can Explain the Rise of Populism (Bloomberg)
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2018:
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- Don’t Like Trump? Your Financial Analysis Might Be Biased (Barry Ritholtz-Bloomberg)
- Wall Street credit analysts more apt to cut ratings if the president is of opposing party (CNBC)
- First Women in Macro Conference (The Region)
- Hate the President? It’s Showing Up In Your Work Rating Bonds (Bloomberg)
- Partisan Bias Is Messing With Asset Prices (Bloomberg)
- Trump’s market cheerleading tweets could end up fueling a bubble (CNBC)
- Why Is Volatility So Low? (Bloomberg)
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2017:
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- This Gauge of Political Turmoil Stays Near Record High (Bloomberg)
- President Trump Keeps Taking Credit for the Stock Market. Here’s What’s Really Driving It (Fortune)
- Partisan Conflict Is High, but the Market Doesn’t Care (New York Times)
- The Index of Political Conflict: Quantifying the Political Divide (Barron’s)
- Here’s why stocks keep rallying despite the Trump-Russia headlines, DC paralysis (CNBC)
- US charts that hearten bearish investors (Financial Times)
- Political rancor as stock market heads toward summer doldrums (The Mercury News)
- Stretched valuations for every major asset class (The New Paper)
- US partisan conflict is at historically high levels, but the market doesn’t care (The Business Times)
- Haben US-Aktien ihr Sommerhoch schon erreicht? (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
- Comfortably Numb? An Update on Investor Sentiment (Charles Schwab)
- Politics may be tearing the country apart, but stocks are loving it (Marketwatch)
- Monthly Economic and Financial Monitor (Bank of Canada)
- Washington Will Cast a Shadow Over Stocks (Barron’s)
- Index that tracks political conflict hits high (USA Today)
- Instituciones sanas para crecer sin inflación (La Nacion)
- Does China Present Global Risk? (Global Economic Intersection)
- U.S. political conflict is at an all-time high since at least the 1970s, signaling trouble for stocks (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
- The Daily Prophet: Red Flags Keep Popping Up in the Stock Market (Bloomberg)
- Forget geopolitics, stock-market investors also fear ‘partisan conflict’ (Market Watch-Blog)
- Strife Between Democrats and Republicans Curbs Business Spending (Bloomberg)
- The U.S. Economy In 2017: Why Uncertainty Is The ‘Biggest Risk’ (Behind the Markets – Wharton Business Radio and Morningstar)
- Donald Trump: a incerteza é o maior risco (Revista Amanha)
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2016:
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- Political Tempers Are Hotter Than Any U.S. Election Year Since ’80s (Bloomberg)
- U.S. election risks could push Fed rate hikes further out (Reuters)
- U.S. Politics Scares Overseas Investors (Bloomberg)
- US politics has grown insanely polarized (Business Insider)
- Economy takes hit when gridlock and political uncertainty rise (The Christian Science Monitor)
- Deep dive (Bloomberg). Starts at minute 1.07
- Can A Portfolio Have Politics? (Financial Advisor)
- Beware The “Summer Of Suspense” (Seeking Alpha)
- WSJ: Tallying the Economic Toll of Political Upheaval (Wall Street Journal)
– Proximidade da eleição nos EUA paralisa investimentos e reduz crescimento (Wall Street Journal – Brasil)
– La campaña electoral pesa en la economía de EE.UU. (La Prensa de Honduras)
– La campaña electoral pesa en la economía de EE.UU. (La Nacion -Argentina)
– La incertidumbre electoral pesa sobre la economía de Estados Unidos (El Periodico de Mexico) - Trump Vs. Clinton: What The Election Means For Markets And The Economy (Seeking Alpha)
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2015:
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- Television Interview with Steven Nemerovski from “None of the Above” (GrassRoots Community Network, Cable Television Channel 12 Aspen). Starts at minute 6.45
- Divisiones ideológicas en Estados Unidos podrían haber retrasado la recuperación económica (La Republica)
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2014:
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- It’s Official: Partisan Rancor Worst in Over a Century (Bloomberg News)
- New Way to Measure Washington’s Dysfunction (Businessweek)
- Study: Americans aren’t that divided (Washington Examiner)
- Is Partisan Conflict Really at a Four-Year Low? A New ed Index Says Yes (WSJ)
- The fury of the makers (The Economist)
- Partisan politics grew under Obama; weakens economy (Philadelphia Inquirer)
- Gross National Rancor: A new measure of political failure (ABC 7, Detroit)
- Political Targets (Washington Examiner).
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2013:
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- Political Polarization: It’s Worse Than You Think (Businessweek)
- Lawmaker Squabbles Cost U.S. 1.75 Million Jobs: Cutting Research (Bloomberg News)
- Fed Research Paper: Rise in Partisan Conflict is a Drag on the U.S. Economy (Wall Street Journal).
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2012:
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- Is a concentration of wealth at the top to blame for financial crises? (The Economist)
- The usual suspect (The Economist)
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» Blog coverage:
The rise and risk of fake news
Every democracy needs a little disloyalty (Live Mint -Blog)
Trump Presidency in Historical Context (Cowen Report)
Why Quantifying Partisanship Doesn’t Work (And Why Stocks Don’t Mind) (The Street)
TaxPayerAlert
Global Economic Intersection
Wall Street Cheat Sheet
eWallstreeter
Olympia Snowe´s blog
Economic Logic (2012) and Economic Logic (2014)
Marginal Evolution
NEP-DGE Blog
EconoMonitor
The calculus of discontent
» Short article (blog entry):
Divided we fall: polarization during the 1995 and 2013 shutdowns, one of the Top 10 most read articles of 2013 of this Blog. Version en espanol publicada en focoeconomico.org: Polarización política y crisis de gobernabilidad en EEUU. Earlier version: The Political Polarization Index (2013)




