After Office Hours with Puget Sound Economic Forecaster

Episode 27 - Raspberries and Coachella

The team discusses the troubles with forecasting in uncertain times and state of the economy in the region and nationally.  Touching on topics such as retail sales, labor marketing and…

Episode 26 - It's Not Policy, it is a Social Media Post

We rang in the new year in Seattle much like we are bringing you this podcast – with a lot of fog obscuring the show. If you think weather forecasts are unreliable, try predicting the economy with…

Episode 25 - Push it Until it Breaks

The team covers myriad hot topics, including the impact of the government shut down on economic statistics, the impact of AI on the job market and the economy, how tariffs are or are not impacting…

Episode 24: The Positive Outlook

Episode 23: The Curious Case of the Converging Goals of Tariffs

Episode 22: Game of (Credible) Threats

The team explores game theory and how it relates to recent economic news.

The one with all of the opinions

Episode 20: It's not the establishment

Hart and James bring in all of the research economists to discuss the latest data around unemployment, construction, rate cuts, water adjudication and what it all means for the Puget Sound economy.

Episode 19: Living in the Riviera - of the PNW

Episode 18: New Year, Same Data?

Episode 17: A (Taylor) Swift Effect

The team gets together to chat about the current forecast.  Are interest rates coming down? Inflation rates?

Episode 16: Summertime Data Funtime

Grab your Coffee and Popcorn (it will make some sense later) and listen in on what the team has to say in this glorious summer of 2023.

Episode 15: A Hundred Acre Wood full of Eeyores?

Spring has sprung in our region – from Tulips in the Skagit Valley to a fresh dusting of pollen just about everywhere else.  There is always such a rush of optimism when the cold dark days of winter…

Episode 14: The PNW Canary in the Coal Mine

Creators & Guests James McCafferty - Host Hart Hodges - Host

Episode 13: My Economy, Your Economy

The team starts the discussion with what they are currently understanding from the data, also how different outlooks can come from the same data.  Fun with data leads the team to discuss recession…

Episode 12: That's my number!

James, Hart and Bethany get together once again to talk forecasting while faced with a global pandemic, global changes throughout the labor market, supply chain, and massive turmoil within the…

11: One Month Does Not a Trend Make

Join James, Hart, Bethany and newcomer Audrey as they discuss the current events of the economic day!  In this episode the team covers the current forecast of Covid impacts, Inflation and recession…

Episode 10: Inflation Thoughts for Early 2022

Covid Impacts - Omicron Inflation concernsSupply Chain updates - Imports are rising what does that mean?Employment - natural rate of unemployment, are wages actually rising?  Discussion of real wages…

Episode 9 - For Pessimists, We Are Pretty Optimistic

Hello and welcome to After Office Hours with the Puget Sound Economic Forecaster.  This is your home for discussion about the Puget Sound region’s economy.  The economy and what is affecting it…

City Center Rent is on the Rise

If rent is rising, what does that tell us? Listen to the full podcast for more information.