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Economy in Brief
UK Consumer Sentiment Hits Lowest Reading since 1996
(when the GFK survey began; also lowest reading 'ever')
Of these 13 readings eight of them declined on the month in May three of them improved and two of them were unchanged...
U.S. Existing Home Sales Continue to Fall in April as Houses Become Less Affordable
The combination of soaring home prices across the nation and rising interest rates is making homes less affordable...
U.S. Index of Leading Indicators Fell in April
Five of the index's components fell in April, one was unchanged and four increased...
U.S. Unemployment Claims Rose in the Latest Week
The state insured rates of unemployment in regular programs vary widely...
CBI Gauge in the UK Continues to Be Upbeat
The global economy has a lot of challenges...
Gerald D. Cohen
Haver Analytics is pleased to bring Gerald D. Cohen's commentaries on the state of the U.S. economy to its clients.
Gerald D. Cohen was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Macroeconomic Analysis at the U.S. Department of Treasury from 2014 to 2017. He was responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and briefing senior staff on U.S. macroeconomic developments. He helped formulate and evaluate the impact of policy proposals on the U.S. economy, and was a senior member of the team that developed the semiannual Administration 10-year economic and financial forecast.
Prior to joining the Department of Treasury, Gerald was a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution where his research focused on the intersection between financial markets and economic fundamentals. This research agenda followed from his almost ten year career managing the Global Macro Group of Ziff Brothers Investments, where Gerald and his team were responsible for analyzing global macroeconomic conditions and developing and implementing long-term investment strategies based on these analyses. Prior to Ziff, Gerald worked at Merrill Lynch and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and is co-author of Political Cycles and the Macroeconomy with Alberto Alesina and Nouriel Roubini.