…I was watching C-span, the Senate. My Senator, Mr. Whitehouse was speaking on the need to move on the extension for unemployment insurance. Two comments were made. First, that 7000…

Robert Waldmann is very very late with this one. Appears that long long ago (in blogtime) Michelle Malkin said that Larry Katz once wrote that unemployment insurance causes unemployment. I…

…months earlier. But in Greece, new records continue to be set, with unemployment in June 2013 (most recent month available) hitting 27.9%. By contrast, as Eurostat shows, unemployment has steadily…

…closer to coincident, but carry more signal. When we compare continuing claims (right scale) with the unemployment rate through August (left scale), it suggests that in tomorrow’s report the unemployment…

NELP (National Employment Law Project) notes: For administrative reasons, states need to shut down their extended unemployment programs in advance of the federal government’s Nov. 30 cut-off. NELP estimates that…

…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…

…models of this sort by the late Richard Goodwin, who had a Marx-influenced predatory model of class struggle cyclical fluctuations. Their early models were labeled as Kynes-Wicksell-Goodwin (KWG) models. But…