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Real Wages are Falling. It’s More Common than You Might Think.
Here are the takeaways from today’s nonfarm payrolls report:
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Employers added 29,000 jobs
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The unemployment rate rose from 4.1% to 4.2%
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Average hourly earnings grew by just 0.1% month-over-month
Is 29,000 a good number or...
Sufferin’ Potash
This week, I’m heading to Canada for a Thursday evening event at The Vancouver Playhouse. Doors open at 6pm, and the program runs from 7:00-8:30 pm. I’ll be in conversation with Dr. Joy Johnson, the president and vice-chancellor of Simon Fr...
Brer Rabbit and AI Extinction
There are so many dimensions of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) conversation that interest me. But my background as both an economist, who looks at the financial system through a Minskyian lens, and a former senate staffer, who remembers w...
Warren Mosler to Robin Brooks on Japan's Fiscal Situation
Early this morning, I took a break from working on my book to trade text messages with Warren Mosler, the canonical “father” of MMT. I had been asking for Warren’s thoughts on Japan. In particular, I wanted to know what he would say to Robi...
My Brief Remarks at the Annual ASSA Meeting
Today is the final day of the Allied Social Science Association’s (ASSA) annual meetings. They take place in early January each year. For most of my career, I rarely missed one, but I haven’t been for several years. It used to be a huge eve...
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Stony Brook University. Author of the NYT bestseller The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy.
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