by Robert Waldmann I like this Ed Kilgore post Ed Kilgore wrote (among other things) “accept the validity of other religions”, ” Erick Erickson’s denials that I’m a Christian at all”, “the confusion of belief with fundamentally secular efforts to advance laissez-faire capitalism, American nationalism (and sometimes militarism), partriarchal family structures, and what God-hater Ayn […]

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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 […]