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CBS Chief George Cheeks tested positive for COVID just days after sitting next to President Biden and the First Lady at last weekend's highly coveted White House Correspondent's dinner.
Zidong An, Prakash Loungani A pre-requisite for good macroeconomic policymaking is timely information on the current state of the economy, particularly when economic activity is changing rapidly. Given that GDP figures are usually only available on a quarterly basis, and that monthly survey-based indicators (such as the Purchasing Managers’ Indices) can become unreliable when changes in economic activity are abrupt and massive, the current crisis has prompted a search for alternative high frequency indicators of economic activity. The OECD Economic Outlook (OECD 2020), and a recent OECD pap...