How Were Doing as the Economy Falters – Ted Gayer, Co-Director, Economic Studies and Darrell M. West, Vice President and Director, Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution and The Washington Post
As the dust settles from the partisan fight over the debt ceiling, the recovery continues to falter, the labor market remains weak, the stock market is volatile and the public mood is increasingly pessimistic. In the ninth “How We’re Doing” Index, a team of scholars at the Brookings Institution has looked at the past five quarters to assess the state of our political and economic conditions. Facing a real risk of recession, and with the Iowa caucuses only six months away, the impact on the 2012 elections of macroeconomic performance and three military conflicts loom large. Continue reading below chart“
