Jared Bernstein, Member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, joins the podcast to discuss the state of the U.S. economy, including the labor market, inflation, housing and recession risks.

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Mark and Cris welcome Jonathan Smoke, Chief Economist of Cox Automotive and colleague Mike Brisson, Senior Economist at Moody's Analytics, to discuss the outlook in the vehicle market. 

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The odds of a U.S. recession are on the rise. Michael Strain, Director of Economic Policy Studies at American Enterprise Institute, joins the podcast to discuss the risks driving a potential recession. Everyone shares their probability of a recession.

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Mark, Ryan, and Cris welcome back Marisa DiNatale, Senior Director at Moody's Analytics, to breakdown the March U.S. Employment Report. They also discuss inflation, wage growth, and the current state of the economy.

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Eric Gaus, Senior Economist at Moody's Analytics, joins the podcast to discuss an array of issues that are bothering them, including U.S. stock prices, yield curve, and the labor market. The podcast also provides an update on the economic impact of the military conflict between Russian-Ukraine. The big topic is geopolitical risk.

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Mark, Ryan, and Cris do a deep dive into GDP. What is it? How is it measured and what are it's shortcomings?

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Kennedy notably outlined why he thought the gross national product was an insufficient measure of success.[Note 1] He emphasized the negative values it accounted for and the positive ones it ignored:[6]

Even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all.

Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.

Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.

If this is true here at home, so it is true elsewhere in world.

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Mark and Cris welcome two guests from Zelman & Associates, Ivy Zelman, CEO and Dennis McGill, Director of Research to discuss the state of housing and mortgage markets.

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Mark, Ryan, and Cris welcome more Moody's Analytics colleagues to discuss energy commodity shortages due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how this effects the global economy.

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Mark, Ryan, and Cris welcome back Marisa DiNatale, Senior Director at Moody's Analytics to discuss the February U.S. employment report and discuss the Russia-Ukraine war and how that might impact the U.S. economy. They also mix it up and play the statistics game at the end of the show.

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Mark, Ryan, and Cris welcome a number of Moody's Analytics colleagues from around the world to discuss the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war and what this means for the global economy.

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