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Payrolls: Deadly Low

By |2018-08-03T13:00:17-04:00August 3rd, 2018|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

Economists say that the labor market is being restrained by secular factors, those outside of regular macro potential. These are opioid use, demographic changes toward an older population, and the downside effects of globalization as it alters the skills required by employers. Between drug addicts, retiring Baby Boomers, and lazy Americans who won’t go back to school, there is now [...]

The JOLTS of Drugs

By |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 [...]

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