…of the year. A similar dynamic turns up when we compare real spending on durable goods vs. nondurable goods: The former have trended sideways since last December, while the latter…

…dollars are so powerful, nimble and quick that even if you raised the price of the goods, the dollars can still catch them. You now have inflation. Now imagine goods…

…“Irrational exuberance.” The goods markets are wrong. The market for newly-produced goods and services is setting the prices for newly produced goods below the production’s actual value. GDP is wrong….

…we had a trade surplus when measuring both goods and services. But wait: Goods exports totaled $266.0 billion; goods imports totaled $278.1 billion. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Canada…

…fossil fuels, consumed most of the goods produced, and contributed the bulk of the emissions. Today, manufacturing has shifted to China, India, … and, so, consumption of goods, consumption of…

…that of the nation’s needs. brief and easy read. “US inflation gauge rose last month as Trump’s tariffs lifted goods prices,” Associated Press  The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge ticked…

…do about health care. Both of them initially, or at least at some point, signed on to the “Medicare-for-all” label for a single payer government run health insurance system that…

…of whether hydroxychloroquine should be prescribed off label based on the in vitro results is not the same as the question of should we be confident that it will work…

Labeling for Increased Profits, Farmer and Economist, Michael Smith It is a well-known marketing ploy to label, relabel, and even mislabel a product again and again to increase sales. We…

…which people can Google that wants us to pay $350 to be able to put their label on our packaging. But nobody knows who the hell they are, and this…