US Jobs Report September 2016

The good news: The US economy added 156,000 jobs in September and wages rose by $0.06 per hour. The not Continue reading →

Income Inequality Is Unhealthy

Income inequality is being uncovered in health care and life expectancy data. “I believe income inequality rivals smoking and obesity Continue reading →

Food Prices Drop

Food prices have been dropping for longer than any time since 2009, and before that, 1960. For 9 months, food prices Continue reading →

Colonizing Mars

Elon Musk revealed his plans for colonizing Mars and the rest of the Solar System. Good. Pardon me as I Continue reading →

US GDP Held Back By Housing

The US may be past the most recent era of foreclosures, but housing now has two other affordability issues: high Continue reading →

Extreme Long Term Unemployment

Unemployment is down. Celebrate that. For those 151,000 people who got jobs in August it was good news. Within the Continue reading →

UN Conference Suggests Jubilee

A debt jubilee may be coming. In the simplest form of a jubilee, all debts are erased. While that may Continue reading →

Electric Car Sales Surge

Electric cars are becoming popular. There aren’t many of them, relatively; but, their sales growth rate is ten times that Continue reading →