Keith Romer

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Keith Romer |Jess Jiang |Sam Kesler |Amanda Aronczyk

The U.S.-China trade war, according to game theory : Planet MoneyOver the last few months U.S.-China trade relations have been pretty hard to make sense of – unless you look at what's happening through the lens of game theory. Game theory is all about how decisions are made, based not just on one side's options and payoffs, but on the choices and incentives of …

1 week ago | ctpublic.org | Kenny Malone |Keith Romer

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1 week ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Kenny Malone |Keith Romer

There are all kinds of people online spotting informal recession indicators. Planet Money takes some of those to see how they compare to the indicators economists watch.

2 weeks ago | wrvo.org | Kenny Malone |Keith Romer |Marianne McCune |James Sneed

Lately we've noticed that something we think about all the time here at Planet Money is having a viral moment: recession indicators!From the more practical (like sales for lipstick going up and men's underwear going down) to the absurd and nonsensical (like babysitter buns coming back into style?) — people are posting to social media every little sign they see that a recession is coming. And we LOVE it.

2 weeks ago | npr.org | Kenny Malone |Keith Romer |Marianne McCune |James Sneed

How economists (and TikTok) know if a recession is coming Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1252663619/1269345350" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Romain Costaseca/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images Romain Costaseca/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images Lately we've noticed that something we think about all the time here at Planet Money is having a viral moment: recession indicators! From the more practical (like...