Unemployment – ricardian ambivalence

When +50k is -5k (maybe)

Getting right to the point, my view is that the Feb 2014 jobs report is bunkum. The survey is not

The Jan 2014 labour market report was BAD. The unemployment rate rose to 6% — exceeding the GFC peak —

In the comments, there are often comments to the effect that the labour under-utilisation rate is a better indicator of

The May labour market report was a little better than I had expected (and the market also): the unemployment rate

I could fairly be accused of a little recent pessimism about the outlook for the Australian economy. Today, I want to

Following on from my casual survey of the relationship between various measures of demand and inflation, I thought it appropriate

I have been fairly strident about the need for lower rates — ignoring some of the commentators that are generally

The long term employment data tells a chilling tale of a decade already lost in the USA. There is a