Economic progress means disruption and that creates pain. We could reduce that pain which would not only be a huge kindness but help to faci...

The Facts The 4-week moving average of initial unemployment claims is at an all-time low. In raw numbers, it was actually lower in 1969...

A Chinese recession? A bumbling Fed Chair? A downturn in stocks? Your blogger predicts a 33% chance of bad news for the American economy in...

Some years I make forecasts for the coming year. This is a blog so there is nothing standard about what metrics I forecast but here is a rec...

We have data on monthly unemployment rates in the US from January 1948 - shortly after World War 2 - through September of 2017. During that ...

I did not see Trump's speech but read it. My initial reaction is that it was filled with about equal number of promises that are too gen...

Today's job reports makes for some great facts. In November, the American economy created 321,000 new jobs. 365,000 jobs were announce...

It won't be until employees have choices about where to work that we will see wage growth, a key to progress. Ben Casselman reports at ...

Last month the economy gained 248,000 jobs but today's announcement is for 317,000 new jobs since July and August numbers were revised ...

The economy is in the best position it's been for all of this century. Households have paid down debt and increased wealth, now positi...

This is  the jobs report I prematurely forecast last month for March . It took a month longer to happen than I thought, but this ~300,000 jo...

Let's get clear on what Republican candidates are advocating. Right now - largely because of recovery from the Great Recession - the f...

Excerpts from The Economist .  Government policy to reduce the deficit and move towards fiscal responsibility is proving economically reckle...

I've never seen anyone suggest that growth in productivity might be the fuel for a growth in debt. The rate of productivity growth has b...

Trying to impress working class voters in Pennsylvania, Barack Obama bowled a 37. On a related note, trying to appeal to college-aged voters...