... article was about policy uncertainty if it remarked about any policy- related aspects of economic uncertainty, even briefly, including: 1. Uncertainty over who will make future economic policy decisions ... long-run trend, σEt-1 is economic uncertainty, dwEt are economic shocks, σPt-1 is policy uncertainty and dwPt are the policy shocks. Then, when policy uncertainty (σPt-1) is higher ... of policy uncertainty. In summary, we provide data that suggests we have a measure of economic policy uncertainty, that while noisy, does match up to what a human reader would call policy uncertainty, ...