…the job market, particularly among younger workers. Youth optimism about the U.S. job market has fallen sharply in 2024 and 2025, even as the worst of the pandemic disruptions and…

…market share? Itcould only make the prices fall further. “While OPEC+ supply management policies may tip the oil market into a small deficit at the start of the year, strong…

…looking at the data I was struck by how small (relatively) the worldwide market for gold really is. That means that relatively small inflows of funds into the market for…

…ordinary Americans) hold dear–the right’s admitted goal since Reagan has been to reduce the size of government, on the ill-founded belief in market fundamentalism that private markets can do everything…

…push to use Fair Market Valuation for relatively stable programs with good returns. The Food Stamp program is but one area for Fair Market Valuation to come from Jason Richwine….

…– to January 2006 when gasoline prices were $2.32 per gallon. Back in April of last year, real gasoline prices had increased to around $2.30 with Robert Novak blaming the…

…1. Low prices from 1948-73: 2. High prices from 1976 through 1985: 3. Low prices from 1986 through 2000: 4. High prices from 2001 to the present:: Notice that high…

…terms has been affected by gas prices. For example, in the middle of the worst recession in nearly 70 years, real wages actually went up! Why? Because gas prices fell…

…2014, hospital-prices for inpatient care grew 42 percent compared to 18 percent for physician-prices for inpatient hospital care – For hospital-based outpatient care, hospital-prices rose 25 percent compared to 6…

The incipient housing choke collar: July prices update Three months ago I first wrote about the concept of a “housing choke collar” constraining economic growth, to wit: The FHFA and…