• February 20, 2024

Musical Economics

Music isn’t just entertainment. It activates a different part of your brain where interesting things can happen. 

• 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.

• March 21, 2023

Worker’s Poker

Remember Salomon Brothers? 

• January 17, 2023

Workers Want to Work but It’s Still Not Enough

Remember when “jobs, jobs, jobs” was a political talking point? 

• December 19, 2022

A New Kind of Recession

• April 19, 2022

American Business Has Never Seen Anything Like This

One year ago, the US labor market was almost at equilibrium. 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• July 20, 2021

Why Automation Won’t Solve the Labor Shortage

The official employment data is a bit confusing.