…Doug Henwood sneering at Dean Baker that he did not just pop up with one. US exports have a substantial agricultural component as well as a substantial high skill labor…

…to 5.397 million Part time for economic reasons: rose +181,000 from 4.621 million to 4.802 million Employment/population ratio ages 25-54: unchanged at 79.7% Average Hourly Earnings for Production and Nonsupervisory…

…which had a nice pop this month: These are somewhat of an “alternative good” to single family homes, so the improvement may well reflect the stress of higher sales and…

…the turn of the Millennium these mainly have had to do with fluctuations in the price of gas. The big “pop” in real wages in 2014-15 was when gas prices…

…on the presumption of market efficiency: if existing textbook publishers, who are disciplined by competition, can’t put a book on the market for less that $200 a pop, where could…

…to the customer. This is how it used to work with beer, pop, milk, water for the water cooler. It is what consumers and producers have to get back to…

…spades. This has major implications for the index of leading indicators this month, which can be expected to pop. And since housing permits are a long leading indicator, this, along…

…encounter (i.e., pop-up notifications asking if it’s O.K. for an app to access certain data, such as location, address book contacts, photos, etc.). These unsuspecting users were mistaken. We discovered…

by David Zetland (One handed economist) Mark Miodownik’s 2014 book is another in the most-welcome genre of “pop science” — a genre of books that explains scientific ideas in clear…

…pop in cases about two to three weeks after the ruling, which rather matches Terry’s (and the world’s) initial expectations. If you look at the time after those two well-predicted…