← AI-Generated Economic Briefings

A copy, not a working form. This is the request screen that Jason and his friends and family use on jasonfurman.org, reproduced to show what asking for a briefing involves. Every control is disabled and nothing here submits. What it has produced is on the AI-Generated Economic Briefings page.How the Economic Briefing works, step by step →

Economic Briefing

One request. Up to three kinds of evidence — the research itself, what people are saying, and our own numbers — written up, checked, and delivered by email as a PDF and an interactive web page.

Briefings posted online are collected at posted briefings.

How the Economic Briefing works →

Answer a questionrun a fresh analysis Extend a paperbring it to today / another country Critique a pieceassess its argument, evidence and claims
Attach anything useful — files or links, up to 10, optional

    Documents are read; spreadsheets and CSVs become data for the numbers work; a ZIP is treated as a replication package or unpacked; a link is fetched, and a repository or Dataverse link counts as a replication package. Anything we cannot open is reported back, never quietly dropped.

    Up to 200 MB per file.

    How much of an answer
    Quicklighter research and shorter writeup, usually under an hour Normalfull research and longer writeup, usually about an hour to an hour and a half

    Not sure which evidence to ask for?

    Describe the request above and press the button; we'll set the dials below to a recommended plan.

    I've set the dials below to my recommendations. Scroll through them, or go straight to building.

    Where the evidence comes from
    Read the academic literature

    the papers, reports and articles — on its own, at Full, this is the classic dossier

    Off Light Full

    Full: reads the papers themselves; they can be bound into the PDF or sent as files.

    Which literature
    Peer-reviewed journals only Broader: think tanks and central-bank working papers

    ✓Sweep the commentary

    what officials, think tanks, bank research, the press and blogs are saying now

    Official & central banks Think tanks Bank & desk research Press, op-eds & blogs

    Run the numbers

    our own charts and analysis; we save the exact data used so every number can be re-checked

    Off Light Full

    Full: original analysis with its own data work.

    At least one kind of evidence is needed — this one stays on.

    Stance — Jason's own default is a view
    Lead with a view Balanced survey Just describe
    Length
    Let me choose Short 10–14 pages Standard 18–28 pages Long 28–40 pages
    about to pages (leave blank and we pick)
    Outputs
    PDF HTML interactive
    Source documents — the papers themselves, alongside the briefing
    None Separate files Bound into the PDF

    Note: the file will be several hundred pages.

    Before building
    Ask me a few questions Just build it
    Start time Jason only — when the build begins
    Immediately Schedule

    Scheduling only delays the build. Questions, if you ask for them, are still asked right now, and the briefing itself waits. It starts at the first check after the time you set, and only if the machine that builds briefings is awake.

    Post it online
    Advanced — Jason only
    What this can draw on

    The data, notes and past work the briefing can use, grouped, as last checked.

    On the working form this lists every data source the briefing can draw on — U.S. agencies, international sources, surveys and microdata, firms and markets, the fiscal record and the house tools — with each one's health as last checked.

    Reading the request and thinking about angles  

    Gathering, writing, and checking take a while — the finished briefing arrives by email when it is done.

    You're all set.

    The finished briefing will arrive by email.

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    Written by Claude, may contain mistakes. Jason makes this free and would appreciate any feedback — reply to the delivery email.