…quinessential “consumer durable” on Leamer’s list. These declined sharply to an annualized rate of 14.810 million, the lowest monthly number in four years, and over -17% below the peak month…

…is housing units under construction. These both peak and trough significantly after permits and starts. These declined another -11,000 to 1.365 units annualized, the lowest number in over 5 years,…

…more of a “mid-cycle” indicator, as their monthly peak usually happens closer to the mid-point of a cycle than they end. But as I almost always point out, they have…

…the material life that will do us in. It is the cognitive life that has the most potential to do us in. The Trans Pacific Partnership agreement is the realization…

by Mike Kimel Reproduction, Income, and the Future A comment on a post at EconLog, a very libertarian website… I can say that in my lifetime, I have not earned…

…as much as possible. Let’s assume that the work life extends from age 20 to 60. The work that people do before and after those ages is balanced by people…

…to deal with life’s difficult blows or at a job that, at minimum wage, still leaves their family below the poverty line. Without the contacts and influence that smooth the…

…and thus their life is free to you? Do you/we understand that this woman is the realization of two things occupying the same space and time, yet appearing as two…

…Jammed, earned some money on the side. Life was good. But, along came another desire. He needed some money and the playing was becoming less as life with the loved…

…be inappropriate for me to dwell too much on the initiative that we’re announcing today and not speak to my friend. My wife Jill, and my sons Beau and Hunter,…