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A typical day

Pull data on jobs, prices, trade or housing. Clean it, model it, and figure out what changed and why. Write it up: a two-page briefing for a deputy minister, a forecast note for bank clients, or a section of a report. Meetings to argue about assumptions. Government economists also answer urgent questions from above when something happens in the news. Bank economists talk to reporters. Academics teach and publish.