BLS, Businessweek, and phantom GDP
…if an industry’s output and productivity is being overstated by phantom GDP. They use publicly available import price data and industry productivity data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)…
…if an industry’s output and productivity is being overstated by phantom GDP. They use publicly available import price data and industry productivity data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)…
…despite some concerns that the real estate market is cooling off; 46,000 of the new jobs created last month were in construction. Taking a look at the industry shares of…
…like that includes dog walking. Pet Industry Market Size & Ownership Statistics U.S. Pet Industry Spending Figures & Future Outlook The following spending statistics are gathered by APPA from various…
…Manufacturers and other industry trade groups. In the same way, the mail industry stakeholders — the big direct marketing firms, the pre-sort companies, the periodical publishers, and so on —…
…a few corporations. Today, the meatpacking industry is about 4 majors having >80% of the business. Industry concentrations were largely put to rest by the Sherman Anti-Trust, Wilson’s Clayton, and…
…to industry lobbying (and political corruption and/or naiveté). That’s two generations of brain damage, criminal activity, and poor health — two generations sacrificed to add a few bucks to industry…
…position seems perfectly clear, but it depends on a half-truth. Ceteris paribus, wages vary with the productiveness of industry, but only ceteris paribus. The theory that wages depend entirely on…
…the Trump administration’s ‘hate anything Obama’ approach that has put industry blowhards in charge of the Environmental Protection Administration, an agency created on December 2, 1970 to ensure federal research,…
…Option. In other words, the healthcare industry will lie to the public. A Bit of Healthcare History Advocacy I do not recall the minutia of the healthcare insurance campaign in…
…sector, which saw a stunning ninefold increase in productivity. However, when it comes to the construction industry, not all projects are the same. There are different kinds of construction that…