William Dickens

China’s Slide Into Deflation Raises Concerns About Economic Future

William T. Dickens, a professor of economics and social policy at Northeastern University, told VOA he is concerned that deflation is likely to persist in China.

Business Insider

The real monster behind soaring prices

William Dickens, a distinguished professor of economics at Northeastern University, told me that it would be “impossible” to implement any meaningful inflation-fighting law in the current political environment.

American Banker

Will pandemic compel Congress to ease bank capital requirements?

“Somebody’s got to … reemploy people once this thing is over, and they’re going to need capital, and the banking system is the major source of that,” said William Dickens, a professor and chair of the … economics department at Northeastern University.

WMAR2

Surprising shortages pop up amid the coronavirus pandemic

“Coke is facing is a different sort of thing right now; it’s something that’s a shift in demand, which is temporary, and they’re not in position to respond to it other than to…put all of their eggs into the baskets that are going out the door fastest,” said William Dickens, University Distinguished Professor and chair […]

Federal Reserve opts to wait on the American consumer with rate cut pause

William Dickens, a professor at Northeastern University and a visiting scholar at the Boston Fed, suggested that the Fed is waiting for the lag. “With three cuts on the record now they want to see what effect those cuts have before they push further,” he said.

2018 global growth to roll to highs not seen in eight years

A majority of economists in a separate Reuters poll last week said NAFTA will probably be renegotiated successfully with no significant changes, despite the Trump administration’s saber-rattling. “I still suspect that adults will prevail and NAFTA will not be allowed to collapse,” said William Dickens, head of the economics department at Northeastern University in Boston.

CFO Magazine

Team Trump’s tug-of-war

Other economists express similar concerns about Navarro. “He makes crazy comments that are disturbing, illogical, and inane,” says Fratrik of BIA/Kelsey. “If the president followed what Navarro wanted, it would devalue what the [country’s] founders did and wanted. Fortunately, I have enough faith in the ways of American government that I believe the dastardly things […]

A cautious Fed holds key interest rate steady

William Dickens, chairman of the economics department at Northeastern University, said he remains concerned about the millions of Americans who dropped out of the workforce during the recession who have not returned to jobs. These workers — and those taking part-time jobs because they can’t get full-time work — are not included in the official […]

Fed weighs more ambitious goal for sweet spot on full employment

William Dickens, a visiting scholar at the Boston Fed, isn’t so sure, saying “there are mixed signals as to whether we are at full employment.” While his research indicates “we are at the natural rate now,” the lack of certainty suggests holding off on rate increases, said Dickens, a Northeastern University professor and Brookings Institution […]

The Daily Signal

2% of American workers have been unemployed for at least six months

The Beveridge Curve is a visual relationship between unemployment and job vacancies. As Northeastern University’s Rand Ghayad and Bill Dickens first showed, the Beveridge Curve for the long-term unemployed has shifted sharply since the beginning of the recession. The shift shows that the job market for the long-term unemployed is uniquely bad–despite research finding less […]