IDN – InDepthNews See article on original site On February 9, less than 100 days into his transitional one-and-a-half-year term, Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa announced an 11-question refer...
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will be holding hearings next week on noncompete clauses. These are a part of tens of millions of employment contracts that limit the ability of workers to quit...
https://cepr.net/noncompete-clauses-markets-are-made-not-given-by-nature/
I was a bit surprised to see a piece on Marketplace radio telling listeners: “In 1947, U.S. workers got about two-thirds of the income from their labors. ‘Now, they’re getting something tha...
https://cepr.net/actually-the-labor-share-has-not-been-declining-over-the-last-seventy-five-years/
I am not ordinarily a celebrant for the state of the economy, but the media have been so over the top in pushing the economic doom story during the Biden presidency, that I feel the need to put s...
https://cepr.net/in-the-good-old-days-one-fourth-of-income-went-to-food/
It is much more acceptable in policy circles to talk about ways to make tax and transfer policy more progressive than ways to structure the market to prevent the distribution of income from being...
https://cepr.net/the-market-is-rigged-to-give-all-the-money-to-the-rich-the-case-of-covid-boosters/
The New York Times did a classic the economy is awful story by highlighting the fact that 1.3 million homeowners might not be moving because of the large gap between current mortgage rates and th...
The higher than expected March CPI released on Wednesday freaked everyone out and got the markets convinced we will see fewer, if any, interest rate cuts this year. I have never been a Fed tea le...
https://cepr.net/the-march-cpi-the-inflation-picture-and-the-fed/
Haiti’s transitional presidential council is expected to be formally established as early as this week, following weeks of internal discussions and delays. On March 27, the council, which is se...
It is a bit bizarre that the NYT decided to frame the March Consumer Price Index data as raising a question about the Fed’s ability to cut interest rates this year. The subhead is: “The surpr...
The inflation hawks took March’s CPI as cause for celebration, inflation may not be dead yet. There is no doubt that it was a disappointing report for those hoping we could put the pandemic inf...