American Labor's Real Problem: It Isn't Productive Enough
Factory workers want more pay and fewer hours, but that’s at odds with how U.S. manufacturers have lost ground
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Factory workers want more pay and fewer hours, but that’s at odds with how U.S. manufacturers have lost ground
Eyes Are on Fed's Dot Plot; Inflation Risk Rises as Oil Prices Surge By James Christie Good day. With the Federal Reserve having signaled it would hold interest rates steady today and make no...
Inflation has cooled, but many prices are still well above their pre-pandemic levels.
U.S. Incomes Fall; Boom in Factory Construction; New Green-Energy Commodity Dependence By Perry Cleveland-Peck Good day. Surging inflation gobbled up household income gains last year, making...
Sep 10, 2023 // The 2008 financial crisis was marked by a debt supercycle which affected first the U.S., then later Europe, and more recently many of the world's low-income and lower-middle-income countries. Now, the debt supercycle could be coming to China, with unprecedented implications, writes Kenneth Rogoff.