…other trend line shows a natural unemployment rate of 5.1% for data before 2009. But the unemployment rate ended up falling well below the “better” natural rate of 6%. How…

…now I just want to point out that the trend in longer-term unemployment much more often than not follows that of shorter term unemployment. Unemployment for less than 5 weeks…

…entrants to the labor force who fail to find their first job will not show up in unemployment claims; but they will show up in the unemployment rate. There is…

…physicians what they already k new, Depakote was a very valuable medication for “off-label” (unapproved uses). In the irony department, prescribing and administering Depakote for off-label uses is legal, and…

…information about products’ energy use. Label is voluntary, and Congress ordered it The Energy Star label is voluntary for products that meet certain efficiency levels, and differs from Department of…

…as rising structural unemployment. Actually, unemployment is not structurally higher, it’s that when firms do not reinvest corporate profits, the lack of income flow manifests itself into the unemployment rate….

…second point I would address is that a lot of data is presented in isolation. For example, take the unemployment rate. If you say the unemployment rate in 1938 was…

I was not surprised to learn that conservatives assert that the recent increase in the growth of employment and reduction in unemployment are due to the failure to extend extended…

…the below graph I subtracted the unemployment rate from 6%, meaning that only unemployment rates lower than 6% show as positive numbers, with the lower the unemployment rate showing as…

…is actually estimated and forecast. Krugman’s argument is that the output gap is, in fact, roughly a constant times cyclical unemployment (unemployment minus the natural rate of unemployment). But consider…