- September 19, 2023
When the Worker Shortage Can Kill You
The US labor shortage isn’t really “news” anymore.
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- August 15, 2023
Summer of Strikes
Remember when summer meant baseball, hot dogs, and swimming pools?
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- July 18, 2023
The Worker Shortage Will Get Worse, Not Better
Wishful thinking is a powerful force. We all want to believe good things are coming.
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- June 20, 2023
Labor Market Math
Quite a few experts think the US economy will enter recession soon. If so, someone forgot to tell the labor market.
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Patrick Watson
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.
