The Commerce Department reported that GDP grew at a 1.6 percent annual rate in the first quarter, somewhat lower than had generally been predicted. However, the headline number was held down by s...
https://www.cepr.net/first-quarter-gdp-growth-at-1-6-percent-held-down-by-trade-and-inventories/
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will hold a hearing later today on noncompete clauses. These are a part of tens of millions of employment contracts that limit the ability of workers to quit th...
https://www.cepr.net/noncompete-clauses-markets-are-made-not-given-by-nature/
Indoor air quality has emerged as a critical public health concern, gaining traction amidst growing recognition of its significance in spreading COVID-19 and many other diseases. Though progress ...
(The quarterly Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is scheduled for release by the Bureau of Economic Analysis on Thursday, April 25th at 8:30 AM Eastern Time.) We are likely to see another healthy quar...
https://www.cepr.net/preview-what-to-look-for-in-the-first-quarter-2024-gdp-report/
InDepthNews (Berlin) 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 refe...
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...
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://www.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...
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 ...
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://www.cepr.net/the-march-cpi-the-inflation-picture-and-the-fed/