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As we stated in a blog post last June, and it’s even more the case today, at no time in the past 20 years has the intensity of the focus on the job market been stronger. While the economy has …

Initial filings for jobless claims declined for the second week in a row at the end of January, indicating that the labor market is recovering from the temporary disruption caused by the Omicron variant. According to the newest Unemployment Insurance …

  Over the past 6 months or so, our view regarding the job market has been that, rather than being afflicted by a labor shortage, the economy has suffered from an enormous bid-ask spread between employers and employees. Beyond the …

The Covid-19 Omicron variant now makes up nearly all sequenced cases in the US, driving a massive increase of infections across the nation that threatens to strain hospitals and further block the path to pandemic recovery. According to data from …

Peloton shares have been on a wild ride as of late. And when we say wild ride, it’s less the kind you get on a stationary bike, and more “mountain bike with malfunctioning brakes careening downhill while being chased by …

As we ring in the year New Year amid climate chaos and a seemingly never-ending pandemic, to name just two of the leading sources of our collective trauma these days (not to mention the fact that we’re now in an …

Regarding the job market, the dominant narrative over the past few months has been that an unprecedented labor shortage is to blame for all sorts of nasty maladies afflicting the nation – evils ranging from the murder of the economic …

This past May, following a disappointing jobs report for April, we posited that the job market was not afflicted with a labor shortage but rather a wage shortage. In subsequent months, we expanded our argument by laying out the case …

There are seemingly endless ways to compare the job markets during the recoveries following the Great Recession and the Global Pandemic, but we’ve reached a particularly noteworthy intersection following July’s jobs report from the BLS. Last month marked the 15th …

The healthcare industry remains in the spotlight, where it has been firmly planted since the pandemic began. Now with the rapid evolution of Delta and the new wave of cases that have come with it, we see story after story …