Congress spent too much money trying to keep the economy afloat during what looks to be the increasingly ill-advised coronavirus lockdown. The effort to flatten the curve to keep hospitals…
Will the recovery be V shaped, quickly roaring back to the previous level? It does that every January 2 after the long Halloween-Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Years slowdown, and it did in 1984.…
If no one ever said, “If people are talking about you, it means you’re important,” someone probably should have. It’s always been true in America, a place where hype is…
How good is the U.S. economy? So good that even CNN, the monomanically anti-Trump television network, was forced to admit it last week. “As 2019 comes to a close, the US…
The Great Depression of the 1930s was by far the greatest economic calamity in U.S. history. In 1931, the year before Franklin Roosevelt was elected president, unemployment in the United…
by Tom Rogan • Washington Examiner Economic growth and broadly shared prosperity matter. They matter because they inform whether people can pursue their dreams or whether they suffer unnecessarily. Thus…
Americans are increasingly foregoing paychecks due to disability, school or retirement by Kasia Klimasinska How come more people are retiring in their early 20s? Why are middle-age men becoming stay-at-home…
by Stephen Moore • NY Sun What ever happened to the old-fashioned American work ethic? I ask this because Thursday’s Labor Department report for June found…
by Jeff Cox • CNBC At a time when 8.5 million Americans still don’t have jobs, some 40 percent have given up even looking. The revelation,…
by the Oklahoman Editorial Board Barack Obama has always seen himself as an agent of change, a la Ronald Reagan. His goal was to do for progressive politics what Reagan…
by New York Daily News Happy days are not yet here again for American workers, regardless of the cheering generated by the government’s latest report on job creation. The number…
Three new Fed surveys highlight damage to the labor market. Wall Street Journal Editorial Most of the political class seems to have decided that ObamaCare is working well enough, the…
by Peter Morici • FoxNews The U.S. economy created only 142,000 jobs in August, down from 212,000 in July, indicating the economy significantly slowed this summer. Job creation…
by Kerri Toloczko • Investor’s Business Daily In a fit of political pique and campaign considerations, President Obama’s Department of Education is proposing higher education regulations…
Public policy intended to make layoffs less painful actually made layoffs cheaper and more common. by Casey B. Mulligan Why has the labor market contracted so much and why does…