This is chaos.
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The Economy in Context: July 2020
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The Economy in Context: June (and May) 2020
How do we compare these numbers to anything approximating a functioning economy?
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The Economy in Context: April 2020
The cause of this economic fiasco is the fault of the incompetence of this administration.
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The Economy in Context: March 2020
While the job numbers indicate a fairly normal uptick in jobs created, other key numbers remain weak, and the corvid-19 pandemic threat to international markets continues to grow.
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The Economy in Context: February 2020
Donald Trump is on track to be the first US president in American history to oversee an economy that doesn't reach a very modest 4% GDP growth for even a single quarter during his entire term in office.
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The Economy in Context: January 2020
...[T]he state of the economy remains very much in question, particularly where the job creation market is concerned.
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The Economy in Context: November 2019
The economy is not in the best of shape presently, and this becomes even more obvious the more the administration tries to pressure the Federal Reserve Board to further lower interest rates, and yet the pundits continue to claim that things are going well.
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The Economy in Context: October 2019
One thing is for sure, this isn't the rapid growth economy we were sold.
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The Economy in Context: September 2019
By every objective measure, the economy has been at best mediocre, and, when compared to the performance of the economy since Reagan, this economy has been flaccid, especially in 2019.
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The Economy in Context: August 2019
The current administration is desperate to have American voters believe their blatant mediocrity is somehow better than the blatant mediocrity of the prior administration...
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When did 2.1% become “good”?
In what upside down world is "below average" synonymous with "booming"?
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The Economy in Context: July 2019
This economy isn't "better", and it sure as Hell isn't "great".
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The Economy in Context: June 2019
Bragging about a 3.6% unemployment rate with 62.8% labor force participation is like bragging about how well a cupcake fits in a ring box. No one wants that cupcake or the ring box.
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The Economy in Context: May 2019
Is this a healthy economy?
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Americans Are a Cheap (And Stupid) Date
Are we missing something?
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The Economy in Context: April 2019
There are a lot of indications, not least of which the rhetoric coming out of the White House, that the economy is not as strong as has been sold.
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The Labor Force Participation Problem
While the American left would have everyone believe that banks and investors were to blame for the 2006-2008 subprime mortgage crisis and the resulting recession (and they do share some part of the blame), it's not quite that simple.
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The Economy in Context: March 2019
The only thing keeping the United States economy out of a significant recession have been low interest rates...
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The Economics Quarterly: February 2019
It is obvious something is holding the economy back, but no one is dealing with the underlying problem.
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The Economy in Context: February 2019
Trade talks with China remain a wild card that can stave off an economic slowdown in 2019, or, if things go south in trade negotiations, take the economy of both countries down with it.
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What’s the Federal Funds Rate Telling Us?
There are some fairly unusual things about the economy in the Trump Era, that are reminiscent, albeit opposite, of the Carter Era.
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