…case unless you accept the idea of “the market for superpremium ice cream” as a meaningful reality. Who’s to say that’s a market of any importance? Who’s to say that…

…force participation ratio is low because of this weak labor market – i.e., because people have been involuntarily excluded from the labor market. Today’s employment report gives me a chance…

Mark Thoma had a tweet asking if the stock market is in a bubble. I do not think so. The market PE on trailing operating earnings is 15.5 and my…

The IS-LM model is built upon two markets, the goods market (IS) and the money market (LM). The alternative view in this post will incorporate the effective demand limit into…

…stock market performance in the last year, he is in he situation where having lived by the stock market he can die by the stock market as well. Barkley Rosser…

Trump is blaming the Fed for the recent poor stock market performance. For once, he may be right. The recent market plunge took the stock market PE from the top…

…500 by market capitalization: This is the most concentrated the market has been in generations. What is most noteworthy is what happens when we break out their profits vs. the…

…convention holiday market. We let it go. By the third and final month, we figured it out. The market decided to combine the craft market with the farmers market, double…

…enactment of the PPACA’s individual market reforms, some STLDI issuers began marketing their plans to consumers for up to 364 days, just shy of 12 months. These policies were cheaper than…

…quite completely) and marketplace enrollment almost doubled from 2020 to 2024, increasing by 10 million. The national uninsured rate reached an all-time low  of 7.7% in early 2023. To some extent, market response…