Why pay for Stay-At-Home Macro?

Your support will allow me to write regularly here. Most posts will remain open to everyone, so you'll also be helping me bring macro to the people. And, of course, you'll get some special posts.

Sep 7, 2021

I have three goals with my Substack:

Bring economic policy to the people.
Bring the people to economic policy.
Bring more diverse voices to the conversation.

Across all my platforms, especially Twitter, I pursue those goals. On Substack too, but so far my posts have been intermittent. With your financial support, I will do more here.

What will everyone get—paying or not?

Two posts a week. They will be data-driven and distinctive—much like my posts on Substack already. Here are the topics and examples in prior posts:

What’s going on in the economy and the economic lives of people?

Stay-At-Home Macro

Inflation is cooling some, but not all the reasons are good ones.

Inflation rose 0.4 percent in July, a clear step down from its red-hot pace in the spring. Even so, the average, annualized pace of inflation since the pandemic began in March 2020 is 3%, which is above the Fed’s target of 2%. Contentious debates about the future path of inflation and what the Fed should do about it are distracting us from investigating…

a year ago · 13 likes · 3 comments · Claudia Sahm

What’s going on in economic policy?
Stay-At-Home Macro
Stimmies Work: Relief and Recovery!
I recently published a research brief, “They Worked: The effects of $1,400 stimulus checks on families and the economy," with support from the Jain Family Institute. The new module at the Surveys of Consumers that I helped design on the $1,400 checks shows clearly that the $1,400 stimulus checks provided relief to millions of families and helped restart…
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2 years ago · 4 likes · 3 comments · Claudia Sahm

What’s missing from the conversation? Whose voices do we need to hear more?
Stay-At-Home Macro
Racism skews our beliefs about what's possible
“Fears of a Too Hot Economy Ignore Racial Inequality,” my recent piece for Bloomberg Opinion discusses how “potential output”—an abstract concept that inflation hawks have wielded against economic policies—takes systemic racism in the labor market as immutable. It’s not. I lay out the problem here and suggest three ways to improve our tools and thus imp…
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2 years ago · 7 likes · 4 comments · Claudia Sahm

What will paid subscribers get?

An extra post every other week. And you’ll be helping me write more for everyone here, including people who don’t have the means to pay. Here are the topics and examples in prior posts:

Q&A posts where you can ask me your econ questions.

Who gets a free ‘paid’ subscription?

Students, research assistants, pre-docs, or anyone considering a career in economics. Email me at stayathomemacro@gmail.com, and I will add you to my paid subscribers list. It’s very important to me that I support our next generation and show them how they can bring themselves to their work. The future is bright!