Monthly Multiplier: EIG’s August Highlights

Our critique of a bad new immigration policy, AI and productivity growth, unpopular but true economic ideas, and more...

Sep 1 • Economic Innovation Group

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August 2026

Understanding AI and Productivity

As part of EIG’s American Worker Project, we are delighted to present this guest post from Chad Syverson.

Aug 28 • Economic Innovation Group

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Monthly Multiplier: EIG's July Highlights

One Big Thing

Aug 3 • Economic Innovation Group

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July 2026

The big exceptions to the American manufacturing jobs decline

A detailed snapshot of subsectors

Jul 24 • Jiaxin (Jason) He

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The Last Ten Per Cent

How task-level AI exposure fits into a jobs forecast

Jul 15 • Economic Innovation Group

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America may be turning 250, but its most prosperous neighborhoods are barely 25

Here’s a striking observation as the nation celebrates its 250th birthday: its most prosperous neighborhoods are barely 25 years old.

Jul 8 • Kenan Fikri

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Measuring the Economic Effects of AI

A path forward

Jul 2 • Nathan Goldschlag

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Monthly Multiplier: EIG's June Highlights

One Big Thing

Jul 1 • Economic Innovation Group

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June 2026

A New Threat to Economic Data

A Commerce Department policy risks damaging the public’s understanding of the economy.

Jun 18 • Nathan Goldschlag

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AI versus the China Shock

Lessons, right and wrong

Jun 18 • Adam Ozimek, Jason Harrison, and Nathan Goldschlag

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Monthly Multiplier: EIG's May Highlights

One Big Thing

Jun 1 • Economic Innovation Group

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May 2026

Smells Like Teen Unemployment

Unplugged by AI?

May 28 • Adam Ozimek

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