When President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, America’s labour statistician, he achieved something supposedly rare: he got economists to unite. In a survey by the University of Chicago’s Clark Centre for Global Markets, 100% of the discipline’s most prominent practitioners agreed that there was no evidence the Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) was biased.
The letter I received from Trump, dated January 15th, discusses foreign policy, not domestic economics. It also says thank you...
Escalation talk surrounding a potential U.S. bombing campaign against Iran rests on a familiar premise: that sufficient military bombardment can...
Yves here. The fact presented in the headline is bad enough, but the potential expenditures, even more so, since it...
We have been here before – the Fed monetizing a productivity surge. There are two important differences this time, though,...
Labor divided into the production of different goods or even into various tasks involved in the production of a single...
President Donald Trump greets Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White House in Washington, Monday, June 26, 2017.Alex Brandon...
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