Financial FAQs “ Personal income increased $115.1 billion (0.4 percent at a monthly rate) in July, according to estimates released toda...

 Popular Economics “The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.1 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in July ...

 Financial FAQs “The number of job openings was little changed at 7.4 million in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today....

Popular Economics Weekly Second-Quarter GDP Growth Estimate Increased “On July 7, the GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth in the se...

 Financial FAQs   “The conflict with Iran has already put fresh stress on the U.S. economy, as businesses are reporting rising prices, fewe...

 Popular Economics Weekly “The number of job openings continued to trend down to 6.5 million in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statis...

  Popular Economics Weekly “I don’t see any kind of well-thought-out, comprehensive strategy coming out of the White House ,” said Berna...

  Financial FAQs The Fed is no longer worrying about inflation, since its preferred inflation gauge, the Personal Consumption Expenditure...

  Financial FAQs Roosevelt Institute Paul Krugman has forwarded an excellent blog piece by Roosevelt Institute Fellow Justin Bloesch o...

  Financial FAQs The current headlines would have us believe the bipartisan $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan and $1.2 trillion American...

  Financial FAQs Calculated Risk The last time we had truly full employment in America was during World War Two. It’s a horrible thoug...

  Financial FAQs FREDcpi It can be no surprise that retail prices have risen 7.5 percent in a year. COVID-19 has scared financial marke...

  Financial FAQs Calculatedriskblog “The number of job openings reached a series high of 8.1 million (yellow line in graph) on the last ...

Financial FAQs     MarketWatch Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has warned of “tragic’ economic risks if another coronavirus aid pac...

Popular Economics Weekly MarketWatch Total nonfarm payroll employment edged up in May (+75,000), and the unemployment rate re...

Popular Economics Weekly What does it mean when 33,000 nonfarm payroll jobs were lost in September? Not much, when many of the losses ...

Financial FAQs We are basically at full employment with a 4.4 percent unemployment rate, which should tell us we are nearing the end of...

Popular Economics Weekly Harvard economist and GW Bush chief economic advisor Greg Mankiw’s recent New York Times Upshot column attemp...

 Americans are going back to work, though mostly in lower paying jobs at the moment.   That’s why those states and cities raising the...