Dangers of a Fact-Free America
@TBPInvictus here: When did America lose interest in reality? There was a time that economic releases from government agencies –...
ShadowStats, Drudge, et. al.
@TBPInvictus here. At some point in the not too distant past, we bid adieu to the quaint notion of taking government statistics at their...
Inflation and Japan’s Ever-Tightening Labor Market
Inflation and Japan’s Ever-Tightening Labor Market Bianca De Paoli, Thomas Klitgaard, and Harry Wheeler Japan offers a preview of...
Does the Gig Economy Cannibalize or Create Jobs?
Last month, I spoke with Arun Sundararajan of NYU about the gig economy. Hew is the author of The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment...
More Good News on Wages
There’s a Raise in Your Future U.S. average hourly earnings change in private sector We interrupt this interminable election...
The problem with U-U (unemployment persistence)
Source: FRED About 50% of unemployed workers this month will be categorized as unemployed in the next month as well....
Trend Job Growth: Where’s Normal?
Trend Job Growth: Where’s Normal? Rhys Bidder, Tim Mahedy, and Rob Valletta FRBSF Economic Letter 2016-32 | October 24, 2016 ...