Here’s How We’ll Have Labor Shortages and High Unemployment at the Same Time
Guest Post by Charles Hugh Smith at Oftwominds.com: This is how we’ll end up with severe shortages of truly skilled labor and high unemployment of
Guest Post by Charles Hugh Smith at Oftwominds.com: This is how we’ll end up with severe shortages of truly skilled labor and high unemployment of
Originally posted by Liam Cosgrove on Mises.org: I recently dug into our government’s convoluted unemployment insurance system. As is typically true with most government policy,
After more than a decade of chained stimulus packages and extremely low rates, with trillions of dollars of monetary stimulus fueling elevated asset valuations and
This is fast moving now, but the Fed is still pouring fuel on the fire. Struggling to re-establish its shredded and ridiculed credibility as The
The global lockdown revealed several great truths to many idled workers: 1) I’m wasting my life slaving away for an employer to whom I am
Economist Peter Bookvar recently analyzed the the anecdotal evidence of capacity constraints piling up in recent industry surveys, including the following: “Business is strong in
Europe is frequently held up as an example of how the rest of the world should behave on a variety of issues. But this comparison
It’s the same story every time: Imbalances build up during a recovery but most investors ignore them because good times have become the new normal
The First Rebuttal website has coined a term that gets to the heart of an increasingly dysfunctional system: The too-big-to-fail stock market. The general thesis
Like any other weak-willed entity, an over-indebted country eventually finds that formerly-easy things get harder to do. Today, for instance, banks are having trouble attracting
One of the frustrating things about the monthly US jobs report is the way everyone focuses on the wrong number. The headline says “unemployment falls…”
One would think that great health coverage would be a basic perk of working for an insurance company, but those days are apparently over. Investment
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