“Chaos, Conflict and Coronavirus: How Will the Labor Market Respond?” By Michael D. Farren, courtesy of the Mercatus Center Against the backdrop of a nation in turmoil, the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Jan. 8 reported the first decrease in jobs since the headlong plunge in employment at the beginning of the pandemic. The […]
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Rapidly Declining Unemployment Indicates Economic Recovery
By Lewis K. Uhler and Peter J. Ferrara, NTLF The unemployment report for June continued the great news in May, despite efforts to scare off recovery through further COVID-19 “shutdown scares”. May’s unemployment report showed an all-time one month record increase in new jobs of 2.5 million, producing a decline in unemployment of […]
Nicholson: Of course, we should do everything to stop Coronavirus. But maybe…
By Calum Nicholson, UK Correspondent There is a famous piece, by the comedian Louis CK, widely known as ‘of course…but maybe’. The clip‘s subtle power and disarming truth doesn’t survive transcription, but in it the American makes an important point: there are many things in life that, of course, are incontrovertible. But maybe, […]
Will Canada follow California’s war on the gig economy?
“The Sharing Economy: Destroying Jobs Won’t Help Low-Income Workers” By Peter St. Onge and Daniel Dufort, courtesy of the Montreal Economic Institute Will Canada import California’s job-killing experiment and risk putting freelance work out of the reach of Canadians who need it? A case currently under consideration before the Supreme Court, Uber v. Heller,(1) […]
Washington Beyond The Headlines: New Trade Deals Will Bolster Strong U.S. Economy
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor January 16, 2020 A BIG week in Washington! Impeachment staggers forward as the House finally sends articles of impeachment to the Senate. Of course, this is the government at work, so it’s all about process and now this will drag on for an indeterminate amount of time. […]
France shows the results of 50 years of short-term politics, statism
“Why did France choose unemployment and debt?” By Patrick Aulnas, courtesy of Contrepoints For half a century, France has made an implicit choice: mass unemployment and public debt . The two elements are linked because the size of the state weighs heavily on the economy and harms its dynamism. Hyper-regulation and massive taxes hamper the functioning […]
Macron is neither liberal nor a reformer (but he IS French)
Those who are fond of Voltaire’s famous quip about the Holy Roman Empire should take pleasure in the evisceration of Emmanuel Macron by CapX’s Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, who argues that the French liberal reformer is in fact none of these things — well, except that […]