Each Saturday, Opinion columnist Philip Bump makes and breaks down charts explaining the latest in economics, pop culture, politics and more. “Imagine a pie chart that shows Visuals at 42 ...

The files are standalone and freely available. They use Visual Basic code to support buttons, scroll bars, and other controls to create sophisticated Excel implementations of core macro models such as ...

Economists also look at two realms. There is big-picture macroeconomics, which is concerned with how the overall economy works. It studies such things as employment, gross domestic product, and ...