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After Office Hours with Puget Sound Economic ForecasterEpisode 26 - It's Not Policy, it is a Social Media PostWe rang in the new year in Seattle much like we are bringing you this podcast – with a lot of fog obscuring the show. If you think weather forecasts are unreliable, try predicting the economy with incomplete data, revised later, using assumptions that stop holding the moment you publish. But at least weather forecasters and economists have one thing in common: if their predictions were consistently right, no one would listen to them anymore.Here we sit on January 13, 2026 hitting record for another in-depth economic discussion. A word of caution in what has become a quickly evolving ec...
2026-01-1732 min
After Office Hours with Puget Sound Economic ForecasterEpisode 25 - Push it Until it BreaksThe team covers myriad hot topics, including the impact of the government shut down on economic statistics, the impact of AI on the job market and the economy, how tariffs are or are not impacting consumers and how all of this impacts the Puget Sound economy.
2025-10-1927 min
After Office Hours with Puget Sound Economic ForecasterEpisode 22: Game of (Credible) ThreatsThe team explores game theory and how it relates to recent economic news.
2025-01-1537 min
2024-10-2547 min
After Office Hours with Puget Sound Economic ForecasterEpisode 20: It's not the establishmentHart and James bring in all of the research economists to discuss the latest data around unemployment, construction, rate cuts, water adjudication and what it all means for the Puget Sound economy.
2024-07-1732 min