Shandon Sahm, the drummer from the Golden Lies lineup and the son of Tex-Mex music legend Doug Sahm, rejoined the Meat Puppets in 2009 and played on their next two studio albums.

W hen Jay Farrar was preparing Day Of The Doug, Son Volt’s 2023 tribute album to Doug Sahm, he turned to the Complete Mercury Recordings.The 5CD set covering Sahm’s work with the Sir Douglas ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Claudia Sahm, Chief Economist for New Century Advisors, what the latest job figures tell us about the state of the economy.

Friday’s jobs report technically meets the Sahm rule's criteria. The jobless rate in July rose from 4.1% to 4.3%, ticking the three-month average more than a half point above the 3.6% average ...

I said, ‘OK, so the Sahm Rule says we would be in a recession, but Sahm says we’re not,’” said Claudia Sahm, the economist who came up with the eponymous recession indicator back in 2019.

The US is not in a recession, despite the indicator bearing my name saying that it is. The Sahm rule, which was triggered with Friday’s weaker-than-expected jobs report, joins a long list of ...

Claudia Sahm's recession indicator, the Sahm Rule, has been triggered for the first time since 2020. But Sahm believes the current signal is a false positive due to rising labor force participation.

The rule was triggered this month when the July jobs report showed a 4.3% unemployment rate (though Sahm herself has said she doesn't think the US is in a recession).. Michaillat and Saez's ...

Per Sahm herself, her rule is meant to show that a recession may be imminent, and therefore the Federal Reserve and other governmental authorities can begin to fight back.

The Sahm Rule is a simple rule of thumb for detecting the early stages of a recession – and it was recently triggered.

Claudia Sahm, the economist whom the indicator is named after, would agree. “A statistical regularity is what I call it,” Powell said on Wednesday. “It's not like an economic rule, where it ...

As Sahm has explained, her rule wasn’t designed to predict recessions. It was, instead, meant to serve as a timely indicator that a recession was already underway and that the federal ...