drug abuse

The JOLTS of Drugs

By Jeffrey P. Snider|2017-09-12T12:08:46-04:00September 12th, 2017|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

Princeton University economist Alan Krueger recently published and presented his paper for Brookings on the opioid crisis and its genesis. Having been declared a national emergency, there are as many economic as well as health issues related to the tragedy. Economists especially those at the Federal Reserve are keen to see this drug abuse as socio-demographic in nature so as to [...]

National Tragedy, But Where From?

In 1928, the fertility rate of American females (aged 15 to 44) was 93.8 per 100,000. By 1931, the first year of full Great Depression and collapse, the rate had declined to 84.6. It would bottom out, unsurprisingly, around 1933 and 1935 and the end of the contraction part of the depression. But what made that economic event “great” wasn’t [...]

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