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I'm in Briefing Book this morning with Ryan Cummings looking at the effect of the switch to online interviews in the University of Michigan Survey of Consumers. TL;DR: Consumer Sentiment is currently being biased down by 9 points due to the switch. /1 briefingbook.info/p/the-effect-o…

Older Americans are exposed to considerable financial risk from long-term care needs. Gopi Shah Goda and Courtney Van Houtven (she/her) make the case for expanding coverage of paid home care through Medicare. brookings.edu/articles/expan…

Today in Briefing Book, Fariha Kamal, Erica L. Groshen, @rothstein_jesse, Victoria Udalova, Jed Kolko, Gopi Shah Goda, Alex Hertel-Fernandez, chloe gibbs, and I flag issues to watch as the administration changes briefingbook.info/p/quick-hits-p…

Incomplete take-up of the itemized medical deduction diverts savings from less healthy individuals. Claiming imposes significant economic burdens, reducing the implied net savings, from Gopi Shah Goda nber.org/papers/w33213

Join us Thursday, January 16th for our next #LTC Seminar! Gopi Shah Goda of the The Brookings Institution will present, "Subsidizing Medical Spending through the Tax Code: Take-Up, Targeting and the Cost of Claiming." Register at g2aging.org/ltcseminar

I write in today's Briefing Book how Trump tariffs have misfired economically & geopolitically. Trade modeling shows Trump tariffs to date would raise US prices 5.4% and lower US real income 0.8%. And they hurt Canada and Mexico far more than China. briefingbook.info/p/the-economic…

Message Sept. 12 is the submission deadline for the 2025 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award for outstanding scholarly writing on lifelong financial security. Don’t miss your chance to apply. Learn more: tiaa.org/public/institu… #Econ #InstFellows #FinancialSecurity