Mike Smitka …Gold is for Fools… The case for commodity metals as an investment must rest either on a supply/demand story or on expectations. Now…
Economics 398 Winter 2017
Mike Smitka …Leviathan is the creation of 10-year-olds… What of Leviathan? Let’s rely upon data, here the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Table B-1.…
The Tea Party makes liberal reference to the “founding fathers” as the bedrock, the principals upon which their principles rest. So what of taxes on…
Mike Smitka …the source of the red ink is an economy run amok, not a government run amok…” Most of my analysis is of the…
Let’s look at a variation on employment, which I call the number of “happily employed.” It’s simply the civilian employment number less the number of…
Two charts. One is the number of employed, compared to where employment should be absent the Great Recession. I’ve not tried to correct this for…
The latest employment data release unfortunately shows little signs of a return to “normalcy” any time in the next few years. The economy needs to…
There’s widespread discussion of an improving US economy, that we’ve turned the corner. It is true that we’re no longer seeing as high a level…
Mike Smitka The brouhaha in Wisconsin is confusing issues. Whatever the merits of unions, changing their status will not alter the budgetary problems of state…
Originally published at Autos and Economics on August 11, 2010 Social Security Projections, 80% Confidence Intervals Pay-Go and the Trust FundEconomic StructureMost consumption in the…
Original post March 3, 2009 on “Autos and Economics” blog, moved here as part of reorganization of my blogs. This has become a hot topic:…
This was originally posted April 30, 2010 on the Japan and Economics blog. I’ve moved the blogs that focus primarily on the US economy here,…