29,000 Jobs and 3.4% Inflation: Two Numbers That Cannot Both Be Right
For most of the past two years, the Federal Reserve's problem was simple to state and...
Growth and Prices Are Both Holding Up. That Shouldn’t Be Possible.
The quick read The third estimate for Q2 2026, released September 30, shows the economy growing...
Prices at the Factory Gate Are Running Hot. Wages Are Not. Something Has to Give.
Five years ago, the word "transitory" was the most expensive word in American economic policy. The...
Jobs Surge, Prices Linger: The Economy Is Sending Two Messages at Once
For most of 2025, the American labor market looked like it was running out of road....
Who Holds the IOU Holds the Vote
Foreign governments and central banks held about $4.69 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds as of January...
Growing and Stuck: The Economy Is Doing Two Things at Once
For the past year and a half, the Federal Reserve has been trying to cool prices...
The Bill Nobody Voted For
The filed numbers show that interest on the federal debt now costs more, on an annualized...
The Debt Crosses $40 Trillion Any Day Now. The Escape Plan Is 80 Years Old.
America's debt hits $40 trillion any day now. Interest alone runs $3.8 billion a day. The...
Energy is up 14.7%. Jobs just turned negative. The same economy produced both.
Four years ago, inflation was the only story in America. The Consumer Price Index hit a...
The jobs number shrank. The unemployment rate fell. Both are true, and that’s the problem.
In one breath The U.S. economy shed 23,000 jobs in July 2026, according to the BLS...
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