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In a post 3 days ago, I referred to an article by Doug Short on his graph for the ratio of initial unemployment claims to the civilian labor force. He made the point that the ratio may have already hit a trough. If that turns out to be true, weekly initial unemployment claims will trend […]

Good Jobs First’s new report, Show Us the Subsidized Jobs, is its third assessment of state subsidy transparency, following up on reports published in 2007 and 2010. The good news is that transparency continues to spread: From 23 states in 2007 to 37 in 2010 to 47 plus the District of Columbia in 2014.* The […]

I have a student in Mozambique, Africa, who is doing an essay on how to create real economic growth among the general population. His main thesis was… “The Strenth of a man is determined by his ability to rise when he falls” I asked him to change his thesis to this idea… “The Strength of […]

I have a student in Afghanistan. He reports that capital flows are disrupting business there. He says that foreign and domestic money is leaving the country. The most important thing he tells me is that businesses are not paying wages. Many businesses have not paid wages in the past 3 months. He says that many […]

RB Energy describes the problems with commercial and residential propane markets: We’ve been talking a lot over the past year about the need for increasing exports to balance the U.S propane market as growth in production from gas processing plants outruns domestic demand.  U.S. propane production from gas processing has increased by over 100 Mb/d […]

No, no; of course, I don’t mean that Paul Krugman has expressly disputed something I wrote here on AB.  Or that he has ever read a post of mine.  Or that he knows that I exist.  Those latter two things have happened, but only in my dreams. The first of those has never happened at […]

The growth rate of the U.S. population has been in a generally downward trend since the post-war baby boom peaked in 1957.  Graph 1 shows the YoY percent change in the total population. Graph 1 – U.S Population Growth since 1952 The precipitous growth rate drop through the sixties came to an abrupt halt in […]

Doug Short has an insightful article out today… The Civilian Labor Force, Unemployment Claims and Recession Risk. I want to highlight one graph from that article, where he plots the % ratio of initial unemployment claims to the civilian labor force. He explains the graph…