…have an excellent record of forecasting the trend in the unemployment rate in the ensuing months, and so lead the Sahm rule for forecasting recessions by several months. Here is…

…are lower by -1.0%: Jobless claims are very much forecasting continued economic growth over the next several months. Finally, I almost always point out that jobless claims lead the unemployment…

…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…

What Is The Bielefeld School Of Economics? by Barkley Rosser @ Econospeak This piece is about a paper I have just written for a special issue to appear in a…

…funny and so true. The state of Ohio supreme court . . . And regarding the food item’s being called a “boneless wing,” it is common sense that that label…

…Let me now turn to the economic questions. A first economic question is, what caused the deficits and rising public debt? The answer comes in two parts: present deficits and…

…not bode well for Wall Street. Forty percent to seven percent, hmmmm . . . No recession yet. NDd has his report below. The Quick and Dirty forecasting model now…