Since 1982 the number of small businesses in the nation has increased by 49%.Share on X Increases in small business have created over 8 million new jobs since 1990.Share on X It is estimated that 543,000 small businesses launch each month.Share on X Small business has created over 65% o...
The 20 million jobs lost during the early months of the COVID-19 lockdown have been fully recovered. More Americans are working today than at any time in history. This remains one of thestrongest job markets in the past 50 years, no comfort for those hoping for a slowdown which would re...
When it becomes concentrated in one part of the market, that part could blow up and domino’s start falling. The FED’s second job is to prevent that. The FED has no other jobs. All the inflation talk is irrelevant to the banks. That’s a political...
Although the Fed has attempted to clarify its reaction function, we have become increasingly uncertain. The FOMC has zeroed in on the jobs market and to a lesser extent in reduced downside risks: both argue strongly for near-term tapering. However, the Fed’s mandate is to manage the overall...
Remember that most healthy working people “were force to take the Kill Shot to keep their jobs” – and now these once healthy people who are not simply outright dying “are retiring from their jobs disabled” – causing “a lack of skilled workers” who produced all the critical products ...
It isn’t just wages. The past 2 years many many people have acted like total shits towards workers just doing their jobs, in particular frontline grocery store clerks. My sister in law runs the front end at a large chain grocery store. The staff are underp...
Moreover, combined total gov’t, “illth care”, “education”, and household and business debt service is an equivalent of 54% of GDP. The economy cannot grow unless these sectors cumulatively grow, but the remaining 46% of the private sector cannot sustain growth with the drag from the ...
“It is time for police chiefs to step up and *get* their officers do their jobs”. There, fixed it. 2 Patrick MJD October 10, 2022 1:29 am The police have long since dispensed with protecting law abiding citizens…but upset some one’s feelings…you get arrested on the spot. ...
I remember similar complaints from union members when Gov. Scott Walker (Wisconsin?) ran for re-election some years back because he wanted to get his state out from under the boot of the tax-payer funded union pensions by having union members contribute more. They went ballistic. Well, grow...
3. One possible mechanism would be that freshly printed money is used for real investment, that creates jobs and thereby creates increases in household income. However, interest rates are already at near record lows and companies are still not embracing real investment, so it seems unlikely that...