# Claudia Sahm Macroeconomist, formerly of the Federal Reserve Board and the Council of Economic Advisers, best known for the [[Sahm Rule]] — a real-time recession indicator she devised in 2019 as a trigger for automatic fiscal stabilizers. Notable in indicator politics for publicly arguing *against* mechanical readings of her own rule when it technically triggered in August 2024, a rare case of an indicator's author fighting its weaponization in real time.