…remain as dictatorial or even more so than they were in the Soviet period, such as Turkmenistan and Belarus, most of the former USSR now has much greater freedom and…

…2023 [Note: instead of YoY, graph is normed to 100 as of just before the pandemic, better to show the surge in prices and the stagnation or decline afterward]: In…

…growth and increases firm formation. Such increases in immigration have no negative impact on wages of natives. Ultimately, several studies find labor force stagnation, and aging of the population, can…

…were 5.3% less than they were on average in 1996. The average weekly wages of other college graduates also experienced a stretch of stagnation, but for a shorter time span…

…By 1980, the ratio was 1.6, and by 1987 it was greater than 2. Now that ratio is approaching 4. Note that TCMDO is also close to 4 times greater…

…by his decision to use the term “productivity,” he unwittingly walked headlong into the stark facts of wage stagnation in the face of significant worker-productivity gains in the last forty…

…the GOP attempt to label the Dems as the tax-and-spend party, the GOP turned out to be the tax-cut-and spend-anyway party. Government grew under Bush, even while revenues shrank. The…

…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…

…considered almost risk-free because if the borrowers default, Fannie or Freddie will pay off the loans (assuming Fannie and Freddie remain solvent). Non-conforming loans go into pools known as private-label…

…ridiculous. But it does have the advantage of carrying with it the Madisonian Freedom/Liberty tag, a label that the Koch right confers upon anything it wishes, because that surely will…