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Employment Numbers: Good or Bad?

Don’t you hate it when the best answer to that question is a variant of: “well, it depends”? But it does. It depends on whether you read the household survey first or the establishment survey. The household survey was taken a week earlier and thus captures the blip caused by hurricane Sandy. The good news […]

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Trench Warfare, Or Something

The word monotony speaks to dullness, but it does fit the modern Republican party rather well. It is anything but dull. Were the Republicans developing military strategy they would have a constant response to any situation: What should we do about the enemy troops storming down the hill? Dig trenches! What about those grenades they’re […]

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Ignorance is Bliss

With economics and politics always closely intertwined one way of understanding how policy making for the economy will play out is to take the political temperature. At the moment that means taking a look at the state of the Republican Party as it tries to figure out how to move forward. Assuming, that is, that […]

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