- January 11, 2022
Omicron Kills Output, Spares Jobs
The dramatically-named Omicron COVID-19 variant is moving fast. If you don’t know anyone who’s had it (or been infected yourself), you probably will soon.
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- December 21, 2021
Labor Force Sickness
For almost two years after COVID’s emergence, the Federal Reserve pumped money into the economy every way it could. Jerome Powell and his crew kept the pace even as the economy improved a lot.
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- November 16, 2021
The Great Resignation is Becoming Self-Aware
In The Terminator films, we were told Skynet became self-aware at 2:14 am on August 4, 1997. Bad things followed.
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- October 11, 2021
Big Bad Employers
If you’re an American worker, you probably have a new job, or you’re looking for a new job, or you at least want a new job. Pundits call all this shuffling “The Great Resignation.” The pandemic caused it, they say.
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Editor, Connecting the DotsPatrick Watson is a compulsive trend-observer and John Mauldin's senior economic analyst. He and John first began collaborating around 30 years ago, and he contributes research and ideas to John's wildly popular weekly e-letter, Thoughts from the Frontline. When John needs to make sense of the senseless, Patrick is often the first person he looks to.
