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Labor Market: Muddy Waters Continue to Run Deep
Earlier this week, Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart gave a speech in Birmingham, Alabama, focused on labor markets, risks to the outlook, and current monetary... Read »
The Same-Old, Same-Old Labor Market
In his March 24 Wall Street Journal piece on declining government payrolls, Sudeep Reddy offers up a key observation: The cuts in the public-sector workforce—at... Read »
Will the Next Exit from Monetary Stimulus Really Be Different from the Last?
Suppose you run a manufacturing business—let’s say, for example, widgets. Your customers are loyal and steady, but you are never completely certain when... Read »
What the Dual Mandate Looks Like
Sometimes simple, direct points are the most powerful. For me, the simplest and most direct points in Chairman Bernanke’s Senate testimony this week were contained... Read »
Half-Full Glasses
Just in case you were inclined to drop the “dismal” from the “dismal science,” Northwestern University professor Robert Gordon has been doing... Read »
What the FOMC Said: More Clarification
UC San Diego professor Jim Hamilton is in my opinion one of the blogosphere’s best commentators on Fed policy, and his most recent post at Econbrowser has... Read »
Nominal GDP Targeting: Still a Skeptic
In a few days the clock will run out on another year of disappointing economic growth in the United States and, generally speaking, in the world. It is inevitable... Read »
Try, Try Again
As a regular, satisfied customer of The Wall Street Journal‘s “Heard on the Street” feature, I was a bit distressed to read this, from an item... Read »
Getting the Questions Right
Among the plethora of post-election exit-poll results, the CNBC website highlights a particularly interesting response, linked from the mega-blog Instapundit with... Read »
Reading Labor Markets
When the September employment report was released on October 5, the top-line payroll employment gain for the month, as reported in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’... Read »







