Ben Casselman
Chief Economics Correspondent for The New York Times. Adjunct at CUNY Newmark. Ex: FiveThirtyEight, WSJ. He/him.
Email: ben.casselman@nytimes.com
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📸: Earl Wilson/NYT
- The 90-day truce in the U.S.-China trade war reduces the risk of product shortages and makes a recession less likely in the short-term. But it does little to lift the cloud of uncertainty that has hung over the U.S. economy since Trump took office. My story: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/b... #EconSky
- U.S. consumer prices rose 0.2 percent in April and were up 2.3 percent from a year earlier. "Core" prices, excluding volatile food and energy, were up 0.2 percent month-over-month and 2.8 percent year-over-year. #NumbersDay Data: www.bls.gov/news.release...
