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Pedestrians walk by a 'Now Hiring' sign outside a store on August 16, 2021 in Arlington, Virginia. Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images Some say the

Daniel Alpert has a Jobs Quality Index showing that workers don't want crappy jobs. But he also has data showing they'll run out of cash soon.

One of the best things that we could do to avoid port pile-ups in the future is to ensure that no more than 25 per cent of any crucial supply be sourced from one place, or come into one port.

Post-pandemic inflation fears are overblown The deflationary forces of technology and the brave new future of work are more important than the transitory price hikes coming through in current data. Share Too much in our market system revolves around the short term. That certainly holds true for the debate about inflation. Last week’s data showed US prices rising at their fastest pace in 13 years. That has led everyone from top investors to restaurant and hotel owners, who are now finding that...

ADVERTISEMENT THE BIG DEAL—Spiking inflation weighs on Biden economic agenda: A surprising June spike in inflation has created another obstacle for President Biden Biden and congressional Democrats are taking steps toward passing both a bipartisan infrastructure deal and a much larger party-line bill before the end of August, all while needing to raise the federal debt limit. But new data shows there was an unexpected surge in consumer prices, putting the White House on the defensive after we...

NPRs Steve Inskeep talks to investment banker Daniel Alpert, a senior fellow in financial macroeconomics and an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, about the pandemic economy and low wage jobs.

But it's helping people finally be picky about turning down lousy jobs.

Joe Raedle/Getty Image Commercial real estate — hotels, malls, offices — are facing down massive post-pandemic problems. We can all see the work from home and ecommerce trends coming and the CRE disaster seems like a slow motion trainwreck. And that trainwreck could drag the rest of the US economy down with it. This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author. Back in 2016, a colleague of mine, Michelle Wuc ker, published a terrific boo...

The U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index (JQI)® February 2021 Share Article U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index Revised to 81.58, from Previous Month - Reflecting a Lower Proportion of Low Quality Production and Non-Supervisory Jobs Relative to the Total of All Such Jobs. More workers in Low Quality jobs who were laid off during the peak crisis months, returned to their jobs starting in mid-year and through the fall of 2020, were again laid off in November 2020 through January 2021. This tr...

Drew Angerer/Getty Images Both the COVID relief package and the infrastructure stimulus will not result in high inflation. Theres no reason to fear overheating of the economy. Dan Alpert is an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School and a founding managing partner of the New York investment bank Westwood Capital LLC. This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author. This is the second of my two columns addressing concerns surrounding the Bi...