• March 21, 2023

Worker’s Poker

Remember Salomon Brothers? 

• January 17, 2023

Workers Want to Work but It’s Still Not Enough

Remember when “jobs, jobs, jobs” was a political talking point? 

• December 19, 2022

A New Kind of Recession

• November 22, 2022

It’s Not Just Twitter

If you follow the news on Twitter, lately you’ve see a lot of news about Twitter. New owner Elon Musk wasted no time shaking things up.

• April 19, 2022

American Business Has Never Seen Anything Like This

One year ago, the US labor market was almost at equilibrium. 

• December 21, 2021

Labor Force Sickness

For almost two years after COVID’s emergence, the Federal Reserve pumped money into the economy every way it could. Jerome Powell and his crew kept the pace even as the economy improved a lot.

• November 16, 2021

The Great Resignation is Becoming Self-Aware

In The Terminator films, we were told Skynet became self-aware at 2:14 am on August 4, 1997. Bad things followed.

• October 11, 2021

Big Bad Employers

If you’re an American worker, you probably have a new job, or you’re looking for a new job, or you at least want a new job. Pundits call all this shuffling “The Great Resignation.” The pandemic caused it, they say.

• September 21, 2021

The Labor Shortage Is Bigger than You Think

“Either/or” thinking is one of the great scourges of our time. We want to think every dilemma has a quick answer. This is rarely so.

• August 31, 2021

The Economics of Rudeness

You may have noticed your favorite restaurant is short on staff. The same in retail stores, hotels, and other service businesses.