…payment in the form of an adequate retirement benefit for their own longer life expectancy. As the ad says, this is “priceless.” There might be some minor “inequity” in the…

…much higher levels of healthcare spending, the United States performs poorly on foundational measures of health outcomes. Life expectancy in the United States (78.4 years) is much lower than the…

…widespread. Opioid-involved deaths have contributed to the decline in U.S. life expectancy beginning in 2015. In addition, the opioid crisis has impacted family structure, children’s well-being, and labor force participation….

…much per person and over $14,570 per person in 2023—compared to other high-income nations. Despite this, the U.S. does not achieve better overall health outcomes, often experiencing lower life expectancy…

…indexed to 2005, home values are down 10.1% over the year in July and dropped 21.3% since the August 2007 peak. What explains this real depreciation in home values? I’ll…

…direct dependence on Mideast oil. It is already starting to happen and on a net basis US real oil imports have been cut almost in half from their 2005 peak….

…a share of consumer spending was 5.78% in February as compared to the recent September peak of 6.24% and 7% at the July, 2008 peak. Forgot to add: GO KENTUCKY…

It’s now two years after the end of the Great Recession, and the unemployment rate has ticked downward just 9 pps (percentage points) since its 10.1% peak. Pundits call this…

…till industrial production surpassed its prior peak. You can see that on average this was a good rule in both mild and severe recessions. But this cycle some 19 months…

…it took 20 months from the Bush 2 recession for the peak of what I call Person Weeks Unemployed (a multiple of the number of people out and the number…