…business owners or white-collar workers. “Unlike the stereotypical extremist, many of the alleged participants in the Capitol riot have a lot to lose,” they wrote. “They work as CEOs, shop owners,…

…the idea of a non-white man being in the Whitehouse. Drove them insane. Their democracy had been stolen from them by the voters. First they bought guns, lots and lots…

…during 2018-19. This also continued the dynamic of sharp wage increases for nonmanagerial workers. White-collar professional jobs have almost fully recovered to pre-pandemic levels. Construction is not far behind. What…

…a level only exceeded by one month in 2000, and during 2018-19. This also continued the dynamic of sharp wage increases for non-managerial workers. White collar professional jobs have almost…

…of their increase that coincided with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine invasion (remember my posts in 2010-14 about the “Oil choke collar?”). It’s a reminder that, even as recessions potentially begin,…

…collar,” where gas prices backed off every time they hit a threshold that threatened to cause a consumer recession. It looks like that has happened again. Turning to the CPI,…

…the effects of lower gas prices, which have loosened the “choke collar” on consumer spending, although it may also reflect to some extent a bottoming of the implosion in crypto-related…

…be measured and improved? Nobody has really looked at productivity in white-collar work in a scientific way. But whenever we do look at it, it is grotesquely unproductive. As you…

…of the microprocessor. Yields doing to white-collar workers what the microprocessor did to labor. The remaining jobs will more and more be brought to the worker, not vice versa as…

…blue suit with a light blue, open-collar shirt and black boots — stood on the opposite side of 10 metal bike racks separating him from the crowd. He gave a…