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August 10, 2025	Grim Recessionary FactsTrump’s criticism of the BLS and Fed is at best a transparent effort to deflect blame for the ill effects of his tariff obsession.
October 29, 2023	The Association for Business and Economic ResearchResearch discovers something no one knows about a problem.
August 13, 2023	A More Thoughtful Understanding of Quality of LifeRunning through a hypothetical list of amenities is the worst way to think about improving quality of life.
June 18, 2023	New Labor Market Data Is Eye Opening But Under UsedThere’s been more data created on labor and education in the past 25 years than in the preceding 25 centuries.
April 12, 2015	The Information/ Data Revolution and Its PossibilitiesOnline resources have improved our ability to fact-check and conduct our own research on the topics that interest us.
August 25, 2013	A New Antitrust CaseThe proposed business merger between two large airlines brings century-old anti-trust law to the forefront.
March 17, 2013	Economic Data Hold Little Good NewsDespite the delight in the media, the February data tell a wretched story.
February 3, 2013	The Recession Is HereThere has been no quarterly decline in GDP on record without a recession.
December 16, 2012	Forecasts of the EconomyA well thought out economic forecast offers a great deal of useful information.
November 4, 2012	The Problems with Polling and Predicting Conducting voter polls has become more difficult in recent years, despite (or maybe because of) a spate of new technological developments that should have made it easier.
October 14, 2012	Not Lying, Just Bad News in Employment NumbersOne out of every 17 workers are part-time workers due to an ailing economy.
July 29, 2012	Policies for the Coming RecessionAn increasing share of forecasters now join me in predicting a recession later this year or early in the next.
April 9, 2012	Types of UnemploymentThe difficulty [of estimating the unemployment rate] lies not in the statistical analysis or in the quality of the data, but in the fact that people change.
February 7, 2011	Confusing Economic DataOver the long run, Wall Street’s stock brokers thirst for low unemployment, high rates of savings, high wages and productivity growth – just like Main Street.

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