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(This post is part of a series that began with this post.) The overarching theme of Musa al-Gharbi’s book is…

Torsten Slok provides this illuminating picture of discretionary spending (y/y), by category. A year ago, I wrote…

At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:Click on graph for larger image.• Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up…

My last post in this series on We Have Never Been Woke by Musa al-Gharbi ended by mentioning another form of symbolic…

From Newsweek today: Source: Zandi Via Newsweek. Here’s a map indicating q/q AR NFP growth through July…

by Calculated Risk on 8/30/2025 08:11:00 AM The key report this week is the August employment report on Friday.Other key…

President Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, after July’s jobs report showed very little job growth…

For the first time in four years, I get to teach a course on the Financial System,…

We’ve long been told that if there’s one issue economists agree on… it’s free trade. Maybe economists still agree, but…

I’d say “yes”. From RealClearPolitics: So, if the BLS job numbers are so unpredictable, and we employ so many people…