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Saturday, October 31, 2020

What Has Happemed to Manufacturing in the U.S.?

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 I have written this in reaction to an article from The New Yorker,  (https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/will-trumps-broken-promises-...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Is the US manufacturing Sector Collapsing

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Everyone seems to look at the decline in manufacturing employment .  And, yes, it is decling.  But...   Here's another set of facts:  Th...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

The Failure of Net Investment (as a % of GDP) to Return to its Historic Levels

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This began life as a comment on a blog post.  I have decided to post it here... When I think about investment spending, I tend to focus mo...
Tuesday, April 07, 2020

Incentives and behavior

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I read an interesting blog post (well, interesting to someone who spent much of his life teaching and doing research about labor economics...
Sunday, February 09, 2020

Employment Growth,Population Growth, and the Recent Recession/Recovery

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Lately, there has been a lot of discussion about whether the current rate of job creation is greater than usual or less than usual.  And ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

I wish Phil Ochs Were Still With Us

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I wish Phil Ochs were still with us...In the early 1970s, he re-wrote "Here's to the State of Mississippi" into "Here...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

Greatest Economy Ever? Not So Much

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President Trump touts his record on the economy as being “the best economy ever,” with a special emphasis on job growth.  And, to be fair, ...