The headline number of payroll jobs was strong and the markets are reacting strongly to the report that 224,000 jobs were created last month. Moreover, the job gains were widespread with the only secctors to show an employment drop were temporary jobs and government.Private payroll employment rose 268,000, the largest increase this cycle. But the […]
At Balloon Juice, Doug Harlan J wrote I’ve seen posters around for Kaplan test prep where it lists a bunch of answers and says “if you think you have to know the question to know the answer, you need to visit Kaplan”. That is the correct answer. The question is after the jump. The question […]
From his column in today’s FT: Even this is too simple, once one allows for banking: Ireland’s net debt was a mere 12% of GDP in 2007 In other words, in FT World, privatizing the profit and socializing the risk is A Great Idea that deserves the full support of the government.
Sadly noting that Lawrance G. Lux has declared that his blog is at an end. It does not take great skill reading between the lines to know that the blog is not the only thing nearing its end. This post seems to come from a happier time, not just a month ago.
by Mike Kimel Libertarians Looking Vaguely in the Direction of Apostasy Tyler Cowen is a prominent libertarian, a professor at GMU and Director of the Mercatus Institute. He is also on very, very dangerous ground. Lately he has had a couple of posts – the latest one here – that quote a new book by […]
by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Human Resources: Coincidence or Trend I have been around a long time, and have worked with and taught many people, so I get calls from people on career and workplace advice (I also have done expert witness work on certain aspects of employment practices). In the past two weeks I […]
What is wrong with this sentence ? It is true that making the headline corporate income tax rate lower would be a good idea since that might give us a less distortionary tax code,, but in light of the long-term budget crunch that means we need to make up for any rate cuts by closing […]