by Cactusman H-2B, or Not to Be? A Look at Labor Shortages and Immigrant Labor Several publications recently ran stories on issues with the H-2B visa program and impending shortages…

(Dan here…lifted from Robert’s Stochastic Thoughts) by Robert Waldmann The optics are as bad as they look Dean “The Optics aren’t as bad as they look” Baquet just confirmed that…

…quick observations. Libertarians like to point to the 1920s as a great era of growth. Superficially, if you just look at that era one could reach that conclusion. But look…

…mention is that you really should look at the error terms of the regression as well. The errors, or residuals, in a “good” regression look like they came out of…

A detailed look at Industrial Production during this expansion In the past week there’s been a little highbrow relitigation of the drivers of the “Great Recession” between Paul Krugman and…

by Mike Kimel Cross posted at the Presimetrics blog. In Response to Bryan Caplan et. al., Part 1 – An Empirical Look at the US Economy From the Perspective of…

…rate of change in NGDP. In other words NGDP became *less volatile* as its average rate of change *increased*. Let’s have a look. Graph 1 is a scattergram of 12…

…look at what economists say. Another is to look at how the economy has performed during times when one party has had more power and compare that to how the…

…ever more marginalized by Global Warming, beggared with inequality, and sorely lacking leadership; the world is indeed going to hell in a handbasket. Take a look: An index of Fragile…

…Deal democrat Here’s another detailed look at some significant data from last Friday’s employment report.  In this post I’ll look at some leading and coincident indicators. First, about the unemployment…