…to 2005 period. Employment growth – as measured by the payroll survey – was very strong during the Clinton years with employment continuing until March 2001. Employment growth since Bush…

…money to spend, less employment results. Government spending cuts are expansionary. People have less money to spend, and more employment results. I have to say that at my age, contractioning…

…know what “full” employment is, my point still stands. We are not constrained by Thoma’s silly belief in full employment and capacity restraints for two reasons. First off, assuming we…

…went well beyond our debate on the employment to population (EP) ratio, Ellwood documents the substantial rise in the labor force participation rate (LFP) from 1980 to 2000 – with…

…increases in employment. Non-farm payroll employment was 133.786 million as of July 2005, which compares to 132.015 million as of July 2000. In other words, employment growth has averaged less…

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes was labeled one of the ten most harmful books over the past two centuries by this group of…

Kash noted today’s good news on employment growth and provided a graph of the employment-population (EP) ratio, which increased from 62.4% to 62.6%. While this is the first time since…

…profits by restricting yourself to corporate profits. Either (a) divide corporate profits by corporate employment, or (b) divide total profits by private employment. Corporate profits divided by a measures of…

…them.) 2.Obama’s proposed chained-CPI cut would typically reduce benefits for 3 percent, and by as much as 6 percent for some recipients. 3.The White House’s decision to label this cut…

…also added the final two sentences. The post is a followup to a post from earlier Friday. I’ve also created an additional label: mainstream-journalism gimmickry. I’ve left the original rather…