Heather Long
Post Opinions Columnist at The Washington Post
Economic columnist @washingtonpost | Data aficionado | Views my own | Email: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
phillytrib.com | Heather Long
President Donald Trump is pushing the economy into a recession. The early signs are already apparent with autoworker layoffs in Indiana and Michigan, a stock market sell-off in recent days and Americans pulling back on spending. But as Trump’s tariffs took effect in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, something even more alarming occurred: panic in the bond markets. Investors started dumping U.S. government bonds. They sold and sold and sold. This is not normal.
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2 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Heather Long
President Donald Trump is pushing the economy into a recession. The early signs are already apparent with autoworker layoffs in Indiana and Michigan, a stock market sell-off in recent days and Americans pulling back on spending. But as Trump’s tariffs took effect in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, something even more alarming occurred: panic in the bond markets. Investors started dumping U.S. government bonds. They sold and sold and sold. This is not normal.
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3 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Heather Long
Another ‘shock’ is coming for American jobs (washingtonpost.com) Another ‘shock’ is coming for American jobs By Heather Long 2025040110003500 When a recent Harvard University graduate expressed concern to me last summer about getting a job — any job — I brushed him off. Hiring had slowed, but it was hard to imagine an Ivy League alum would struggle.
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3 weeks ago |
marshallnewsmessenger.com | Heather Long
President Donald Trump is pushing the economy to a breaking point with sweeping tariffs and rapid cuts to immigration and the federal workforce. There is growing fear of not just a recession but stagflation, a frightful situation — not seen in the United States since the 1970s — in which the economy contracts and people lose jobs but prices remain high. This is a self-inflicted wound from Trump.
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3 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Heather Long
Something worse could be coming for the economy than a recession (washingtonpost.com) Something worse could be coming for the economy than a recession By Heather Long 2025033111004900 President Donald Trump is pushing the economy to a breaking point with sweeping tariffs and rapid cuts to immigration and the federal workforce.
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