4% Growth?! – Trump channels Bush's 2015 pipe dream

mike smitka Just a quick cross-reference to a February 2015 post on this topic, " Promises versus Deliverables: Jeb Bush and 4% Growth ...

US Employment relative to Population Growth

Mike Smitka, Economics, Washington & Lee Univ Today's Employment Situation. Adding jobs isn't enough, because our population is ...

Labor Market Update: little bad news, but no acceleration

I post below a series of graphs on the US labor market updated through September 2014. As I read it, the latest CES (Current Employment Surv...

Janet Yellen's Dashboard

Once a quarter, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and her colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee take a thorough look at where the...

Talking Macro: WREL show February 20, 2014

Here are notes from my weekly radio show on WREL Lexington, Virginia. The actual show seldom covers all of the topics I prepare, as what I d...

(un) Employment

The latest Current Population Survey (and Current Employment Survey) data show a labor market that barely grew, once you account for demogra...

Data Check: Should you add inventory or build capacity?

One side effect of the government shutdown is a delay in data collection and release. If you're in business, you either track directly d...