Category · 10 postsJobs
All posts in the automatic “Jobs” category, newest first.
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April 3, 2020
Now We Know Why!
Now we know why decades of deficit spending and debt accumulation, even through times of fake prosperity, storing our national wealth in ridiculously inflated stock…
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January 31, 2018
Good GDP, Bad GDP, Zero GDP
Imagine a simple rural farming community in which the people provide for their own and each other’s needs, trading among themselves and helping each other,…
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January 1, 2018
The WPA and Granny’s Little Brown Shack
In my previous Permanent Fixes Blog I posted a couple of times during the financial crisis about this family relic, using it as an example…
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December 11, 2017
Baloneous Job News
Media typically reported enthusiastically about “creation” of 228,000 new jobs in November of 2017. For Example: Could we have a little context? I checked the…
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January 29, 2017
International Trade: The Boot is Killing Us
It can make a person feel really old to find that a common word of his youth is now classified as archaic. That is what…
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January 2, 2017
A Blue Collar State of Mind
I didn’t vote for Donald Trump for POTUS (or for Hillary Clinton), but I understand exactly why so many did and why he won the…
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November 3, 2016
Measuring Unemployment
Here are three simple true/false questions about employment in the USA.
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October 23, 2016
Job Growth – New Low Predicted
Both sides of the political fence like to pick and choose data points to prove either that the jobs recovery during the Obama administration is…
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October 23, 2016
You Didn’t Create That Job!
A NYT lead editorial, The Myth of Job Creation, published during the 2012 presidential campaigns, tried to make the case that both Governor Romney and President Obama erred…
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July 1, 2016
FDR and Granny’s Outhouse (12/22/2014)
Originally published 12/22/2014 · republished 2016
My grandparents, Oscar and Ezalee, Hobart and Bessie, were born in 1895, 1895, 1897, and 1898 respectively. Their children, three sisters in the first case…
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