“I am No Less American than Mitch McConnell”
…“The Fray.” I came to The Fray and the Best of the Fray at its peak. It was lively place with many intelligent writers across both aisles commenting. Tom Sullivan…
…“The Fray.” I came to The Fray and the Best of the Fray at its peak. It was lively place with many intelligent writers across both aisles commenting. Tom Sullivan…
…in several posts in a recent “Fray” thread that is at http://fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/thread/3902701.aspx.) I also have a blog now called The Ann Arborist, at http://annarborist.blogspot.com/. I live near Ann Arbor, MI….
…to actual hires has risen or fallen has the pace of wage hikes similarly increased or descreased. The exception has been the past few months, where the pace of wage…
…pace, similar to the growth rate we were seeing before the pandemic. It is also encouraging that the pace of growth in healthcare spending seems to be relatively tame. Nominal…
Coronavirus dashboard for April 16: if new infections have passed peak, what pace of decline can we expect? Here is the update through yesterday (April 15). Significant new items are…
Slow pace of improvement in jobless claims continues This week’s new jobless claims were essentially unchanged (but at their pandemic low), while continued claims continued their decline, also to a…
…consumer prices increased at an 8.4% annualized pace (red, monthly right scale vs. YoY, blue, left scale), and the third quarter, during which they increased at a 6.6% annualized pace:…
…annualized rate of wage growth over the last three months was just 4.0 percent. There were several points in 2018-19 when wage growth approached this pace, even as inflation stayed…
…jobs. In addition, the December figure was revised up to 278,000, bringing the three-month average to 289,000 a month. While this is certainly well above a pace that is sustainable,…
(cross-posted from Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo. Just because.)…