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“If There Is Any Such Thing”: Why read Hoxie on theory?

…archaic and bogus analysis the next year in a pamphlet, “Innovative Supply-Side Policies to Reduce Unemployment” and yet again in 1991, adding Stephen Nickell to the team in Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance…

Kudlow’s Komedy Kapers (Cross-post)

…insurance, although numerous studies have shown that continuous unemployment benefits are associated with higher unemployment. I want to bronze that comment and turn it into an ashtray. Numerous studies have…

Unemployment: Bowyer’s Law

…call it Bowyer’s Law: The emphasis that the mainstream media give to unemployment while a Republican is in the White House is directly proportional to the rate of unemployment. In…

German Unemployment and Tax Rates

The latest in free lunch supply-side spin from William Kucewicz actually provides some useful information. For example, his chart of Germany’s unemployment rate distinguishing between the high unemployment rate for…

Unemployment hits new highs in Spain and France

As if there were not already abundant proof of the failure of austerity in the eurozone, the BBC reported yesterday that both Spain and France have hit new unemployment milestones….