The Mismeasurement of America: How Outdated Government Statistics Mask the Economic Struggle of Everyday Americans

Former Comptroller of the Currency Gene Ludwig deconstructs four economics measures we see in the news every day--unemployment, wages, the consumer price index, and GDP--and how they are compiled in a way that masks the lived economic reality of the majority of Americans.

Gene Ludwig is an internationally recognized leader on matters relating to banking, including financial technology, regulation, risk management, and fiscal policy, and served as the US Comptroller of the Currency from 1993 to 1998. He founded the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity in 2019 to improve the economic well-being of middle- and lower-income Americans. Ludwig is the author of The Vanishing American Dream.]