Thanks to everyone for the great comments on my (albeit reluctantly offered) “Notes on Trade” post. I thought I should take the time to try to answer some questions and…

…seemingly endless pattern of modest, short episodes of growth followed by period after period of stagnation or contraction. And now it seems that the most recent “boom” in Japan of…

…rose just 2.8% — better than the stagnation in the first 20 months of this recovery but far short of the solid income growth that would support renewed vigor in…

…country which is faced with a declining population therefore runs a real risk of entering economic stagnation and – ultimately – decline. The German central bank, the Bundesbank, estimates potential…

…wages resulting in a stagnation of wages for much of the population and a skewing of gains to a small minority. “Most importantly, new economic research suggests that changes in…

…A new paper from the Economic Policy Institute provides both diagnosis and prescription of what is arguably the fundamental problem of the United States economy in recent years: wage stagnation….

…like piranhas. As labor’s liquidity has been whittled away over the years through wage stagnation, labor saves less and less. A recession will come within 2 years. Unemployment will not…

…stagnation of real wages and an increase in corporate profits. Thus, the portion of output income that is given to labor to buy production is less. Do companies really think…

…a sharp decline in state funding (25%) of public colleges since 2000. And a stagnation and decline of household income for the vast majority of US households over a similar…

…their wages were not going up… wages are currently expected to double over the same time the cost of SS rises about two percent. But complete wage stagnation would not…