(The Center Square) – Despite global challenges including ongoing wars and trade tensions putting upward pressure on prices, the U.S. economy is expected to remain fairly resilient in the year ahead, according to Harvard University economics professor Karen Dynan.
Dynan spoke Tuesday at the Peterson Institute for International Economics’ semiannual Global Economic Prospects event, alongside scholars who discussed how current trade and immigration policies factor into the U.S. economic outlook. Dynan spent 17 years on the staff of the Federal Reserve Board, currently serves on a task force assembled by Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh to review Fed policy and was the chief economist at the Treasury Department under former President Barack Obama.
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