I have been writing about issues with the minimum wage for (it seems like) decades. During that time, consuming lots of academic...
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I have been putting together my Q2 quarterly client call, and impatiently waiting for two last data points to show: State...
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.1 percent in March on a...
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Nonfarm payrolls came out Friday, and once again they impressed with their underlying strength: 236,000 new workers were added in...
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Very useful dashboard via the St. Louis Fed, which maintains the fabulous FRED database. With a clean and simple interface, it puts all...
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@TBPInvictus here. (Also on Post and Mastodon). Happy holidays to all, and the best for 2023. It’s been a hot minute since...
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I was working on a longer piece about which economic strata the Fed has the greatest impact on (its more complicated than you...
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia The Coincident State Indexes for October 2022 snuck out last week right before...
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You may have missed this wonderful Josh Zumbrun column in the Wall Street Journal last week: “Inflation and Unemployment Both...
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