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The Irony of a Jobs Pickup That Lands Right Where It Started

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There’s been a pickup in the labor market in the six months of employment data we’ve gotten since November 2025. The unemployment rate has ticked down slightly, by around 0.2%, and has since...

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Cherry-Picking the Wrong Inflation Measures With Kevin Warsh

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Let’s play a game. Below is a list of 13 inflation measures. I want you to guess two of them. Specifically I want you to guess the two inflation metrics Kevin Warsh said were his preferred measures during his Senate nomina...

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Is the Vibecession Homogeneous to Degree Zero?

Paul Krugman and Jared Bernstein have been going back and forth on the vibecession, or why economic sentiment and polling are at record low levels, worse than the Great Recession, given the overall non-recessionary environment. Krugman emph...

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The Girlboss Takeover Has a Data Problem

A new argument is growing on the post-liberal Right: that women’s economic achievements are themselves the problem. This had its cleanest articulation in a recent First Things piece by Inez Stepman, “The Myth of the Independent Girlboss,” w...

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The Cross-Section of Non-Citizens and the Job Slowdown

Average private sector job growth was 85,000 a month in 2024. That fell to 25,000 in 2025. Here’s a question: of a list of 250 notable private sector sub-industries tracked by economists, which had the biggest slowdown in job growth between...

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