Author name: Economy Mirror Team

Key Takeaways When policymakers consider their nations’ capacities to service growing government debt obligations, the debt-to-wealth ratio is a useful metric to consider alongside the more familiar ratio that measures debt to Gross Domestic Product.Differences in the debt-to-wealth ratios in the United States, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom highlight similarities and differences in wealth

Key Takeaways President Donald Trump’s decision to ban some Canadian imports is a continuation of his administration’s novel and expansive interpretation of tariff powers under Section 338 of the Tariff Act and sets the stage for future escalation of the trade war.Tariffs and import bans risk price increases and shortages of key household items as

This column originally appeared on the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s website at https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2026/sep/what-work-does-generative-ai-do Key Takeaways: Two new measures of AI adoption offer another way to study the technology’s effect on the U.S. labor market. They track what share of workers in an occupation actually use AI and what share of individuals who perform

Authors:Alexander Bick, Federal Reserve Bank of St. LouisAdam Blandin, Vanderbilt UniversityDavid Deming, Harvard UniversityTyler Schumacher, Vanderbilt University Abstract: We measure how workers use genAI for their jobs in a nationally representative survey linking genAI adoption to detailed occupations and tasks. Our data provide the first task-level genAI adoption indexes, which we show can inform analyses