How do we compare these numbers to anything approximating a functioning economy?
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The Economy in Context: June (and May) 2020
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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: December 2019
2019 will be the weakest year for job creation of the Trump presidency.
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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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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 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: December 2018
[T]he president's misbegotten policies are presently the biggest factors in the market today.
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Gauging Trump’s Jobs Facade
The fact that so many Americans are not participating in the labor force today, a problem that exploded under Obama, so he bears responsibility, is the single largest problem facing America today, and Trump and his supporters never talk about it.
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The Economy in Context: November 2018
Americans should remain skeptical of the rosy picture painted by the latest jobs report, because fundamental problems in the economy remain.
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The Economy in Context: October 2018
The current administration's economy has only outperformed the average performance of the previous administration (post recession) eight months out of the last twenty-one months, or roughly one-third of the time.
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A Battle of Wits with the Unarmed
The Trumplican's argument as to why labor force participation hasn't increased? It's too hard, because Baby Boomers.
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The Economy in Context: August 2018
Despite numerous deregulation victories and his incessant bragging in 2016, Trump's economy has created more jobs than Obama's second term (post recession) economy only 7 out of the last 20 months.
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The Economy In Context: July 2018
At 157,000 net jobs created, the preliminary numbers in the July Jobs Report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics came in well below the 190,000 jobs expected by market watchers, and well below the average established during Obama's second term.
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The Economics Quarterly: July 2018
While the quarterly GDP growth rate hasn't been below 2.0% since the first quarter of 2017, it also hasn't been above 5.0% since the second quarter of 2014, and it's a long way from the 7.0% rate in the third quarter of 2003.
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Trump’s Labor Farce Problem
If the labor force participation rate were still at its peak (roughly around 67%), roughly 10 million more Americans, that's the entire population of New York City plus an additional 1.5 million people, would still be in the labor force.
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Busting 4 of Trump’s Economic Myths
[O]ne thing Trump is very good at is claiming responsibility for the things that are going right for the United States economy, but these claims don't actually hold up to any rigorous scrutiny.
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The Economy in Context: May Jobs Report
It seems to me that it's hard for Trump to be making America "great" again, if his economy is under-performing Obama's economy.
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Piercing the Republican Propaganda
The Republican pundit class is lying right into our faces, pouring falsehoods and delusions right onto the heads of the tens of millions of Americans so desperate to believe in the infallibility of their political movement that they believe everything that they're told.
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