Real Economy Blog: timely insights for the middle market economy
Oct 23, 2025 · The Real Economy Blog from RSM US LLP was developed to provide timely economic insights about the middle market economy.
When money has a price: How the higher cost of capital is …
Oct 9, 2024 · The objective of this research is to identify the current weighted average cost of capital for middle market firms and across a variety of industries in America’s real economy.
Canada’s unemployment rate rises as U.S. tariffs strain key industries
May 9, 2025 · Canada’s jobs report for April showcased the sheer impact of U.S. tariffs as the economy added a mere 7,400 jobs and the unemployment rate rose 0.2 percentage points to …
Author: Joseph Brusuelas | The Real Economy Blog
Oct 21, 2025 · An award-winning economist, Brusuelas has more than 20 years’ experience analyzing U.S. monetary policy, labor markets, fiscal policy, international finance, economic …
To understand rising rates and volatility, look to regime change in ...
Jan 22, 2025 · Read RSM’s global economic outlook for 2025 in the latest issue of The Real Economy. Now, the global economy is experiencing a regime change featuring a normalization …
Market Minute: Do falling heavy truck sales indicate recession?
Sep 17, 2025 · One such bellwether on the real economy is the sale of heavy trucks, which move everything from food to basic materials to retail goods. Since 1979, when the data became …
The rise of debt in the G-7 nations | The Real Economy Blog
Sep 30, 2025 · While Japan’s experience on the surface might argue otherwise, Japan’s moribund economy has long relied on zero interest rates. The problem comes when an …
Market Minute: The widening gap between equities and the real …
Jul 28, 2025 · There is a widening gap between equity market performance and economic growth, similar to the second phase of the personal computing revolution in the 1990s, when …
How an escalating trade war will affect global growth, inflation and ...
Feb 3, 2025 · Read more of RSM’s insights on the economy and the middle market, and go deeper on RSM’s perspectives about the effects of tariffs. There are several explanations for …
U.S. households show robust gains on spending and income
Jan 31, 2025 · Read RSM’s global economic outlook for 2025 in the latest issue of The Real Economy. There was even progress on inflation as the Federal Reserve works to bring its …