Why Can’t We Find Productivity Gains?
Soaring Productivity Is Missing From the Numbers We produce more with less because of technology. But data measurement hasn’t kept...
Charting the Automation Potential of U.S. Jobs
Click for the interactive graphic. Source: Visual Capitalist
Portland is a Boomtown
I spend a decent amount of time traveling around the U.S. speaking at conferences and visiting clients. Doing this is a visceral form of...
Karma Still a Bitch: Seattle Min Wage Edition
@TBPInvictus here (second time today!): Although it bears absolutely no relevance to the city of Seattle proper, AEI’s Mark Perry...
No Cure for Stupid: Seattle Min Wage Edition
@TBPInvictus here: The New York Post’s editorial board apparently cares very little for factual data that disagree with their...
Emerald City Minimum Wage Shenanigans
@TBPInvictus The recent piece by AEI “scholar” Mark Perry on Seattle’s minimum wage – see here – has...
The Great Minimum Wage Experiment
We’ll Find Out Soon If Higher Minimum Wages Kill Jobs But don’t jump to conclusions before the data are in. Bloomberg, March...
The Ongoing, Fraudulent Assault on Seattle’s Min Wage
@TBPInvictus (Thanks to Michael Hiltzik (@hiltzikm) at the LA Times for his recent piece, which is linked to below. It is on his work...
Donald Trump and Other Republicans Are Unemployment “Truthers”
Bruce Bartlett is an economist who has worked on Capitol Hill, the White House and the Treasury Department. ~~~ Among Donald Trump’s...
