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Jason Furman

  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    US universities
    Trump’s attack on Harvard won’t make America great again

    Banning foreign students from US universities will hurt the economy and slow innovation

    Ann Kiernan illustration of a line of students queueing at a passport control where Donald Trump is the customs officer
  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
    Economic statistics
    ‘Core’ GDP is the signal among all the noise

    Against an uncertain policy outlook, we need to utilise durable economic statistics that tell the real story

    People shop inside Saks Fifth Avenue
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    The hopeful tariff endgame isn’t so hopeful

    Even if Trump backs down he will have succeeded in building uncertainty, which is itself a sort of tariff

    Ewan White illustration of Donald Trump playing with a set of building blocks that look like cargo containers, with different countries’ flags on them
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    Jason Furman: ‘Immigration has been the most important factor’ Premium content

    Plus AI, the jobs report, and more

    Jason Furman speaks
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    The Economics Show podcast30 min listen
    Has the US finally borrowed too much?

    A conversation with Jason Furman about the limits of debt

  • Saturday, 21 October, 2023
    Technology regulation
    Britain’s proposed regulation of Big Tech must not be weakened, US economist warns

    Jason Furman and others write to Sunak in push to fend off industry requests for more leeway in appealing against enforcement

  • Monday, 10 October, 2022
    The Henry Mance Interview
    Jason Furman: ‘Everyone should wake up every morning figuring out how to get paid more’

    The US economist argues that the Federal Reserve cannot ease up on inflation, despite global market jitters

  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2019
    Big Tech
    UK to create regulator to police big tech companies 

    Watchdog will have power to implement enforceable code of conduct

    Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook
  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2019
    Diane Coyle
    We need tougher scrutiny of Big Tech’s data use and deals

    Tougher regulation can insure digital markets are not controlled by monopolies

  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2019
    Big Tech
    Tech giants should ‘open up their customer data to others’

    Report commissioned by UK government calls for loosening of stranglehold to boost competition

    File photo dated 03/01/2018 of social media apps displayed on a mobile phone. According to a survey by Stephensons Solicitors LLP, a third of people in a relationship say they have suffered "screen snubbing" from their partners being distracted by their mobile phone use. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Sunday March 10, 2019. More than a third of people (36%) in a relationship surveyed said they or their partners had been distracted due to their mobile phone usage, rising to 57% for millennials aged between 25 and 34. See PA story TECHNOLOGY Snub. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire
  • Thursday, 20 September, 2018
    News in-depthFT Alphaville
    America's economic sugar high is starting to wear off
    America's economic sugar high is starting to wear off
  • Wednesday, 15 August, 2018
    News in-depthUS companies
    Swelling clout of US corporate giants is depressing pay, analysts say

    The tightening grip of a small group of large companies comes under scrutiny

    FILE PHOTO: The Australia Amazon site shows deliveries have started in this illustration photo December 5, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White/File Photo
  • Wednesday, 1 August, 2018
    US companies
    UK appoints former Obama adviser to lead tech review

    Jason Furman has been an influential US advocate for increased competition

    Jason Furman, former chairman for the Council Of Economic Advisers, smiles during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, U.S., on Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. Furman discussed his thoughts on tax reform and what it means for the U.S. economy. Photographer: Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg
  • Friday, 1 June, 2018
    Social Media
    Trump’s tweet in advance of jobs data draws fire

    Traders speculate about strong employment figures based on president’s morning missive

    US President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he makes his way to board Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House on May 23, 2018 in Washington, DC. Trump is heading to New York to attend a roundtable discussion on immigration. / AFP PHOTO / Mandel NGANMANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2017
    Larry Summers' blogLawrence Summers
    A modest proposal part II: the debate over US tax reform
  • Thursday, 19 October, 2017
    News in-depthFT Alphaville
    Is “growing the pie” overrated, and does that explain why everything is terrible?
  • Thursday, 5 October, 2017
    US tax
    Republicans step up campaign to defend tax plan

    Party pushes back against claims that corporate cuts would benefit the wealthiest

    WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks as Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and other congressional Republicans listen during a press event on tax reform September 27, 2017 at the Capitol in Washington, DC. On Wednesday, Republican leaders proposed cutting tax rates for the middle class, wealthy and businesses. Key questions remain on how they plan to offset the trillions of dollars in lost tax revenue. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
  • Friday, 5 May, 2017
    ExplainerFT Alphaville
    Podcast: Jason Furman on economic policymaking
  • Sunday, 6 March, 2016
    Gavyn Davies
    Is US inflation (finally) rising?
  • Friday, 5 June, 2015
    US trade
    US economy: the case (in charts) for optimism

    Labour market appears robust with 280,000 jobs created in May

    A worker cuts a piece of pipe as he builds a new home on Jan 21 2015 in Petaluma, California
  • Sunday, 29 March, 2015
    US healthcare reform
    US healthcare costs starting to rise, say experts

    Slowdown to lowest growth in 50 years may be unsustainable

    Protesters demonstrate in favour of the healthcare reforms outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday
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