As Thanksgiving preparations arrive, I naturally find my thoughts veering to the evolution of demand for turkey, technological change in turkey production, market concentration in the turkey industry, and price indexes for a classic Thanksgiving dinner. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Imagine that at some point in your life, for your sins, you part of a panel to evaluate different methods of construction for a megaproject–say, an extension of a light-rail public transit system.
Men and women tend to sort into different college majors. Even given the same college major, they tend to sort into different jobs.
Part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the CARES Act) signed into law by President Trump on March 27, 2020, was a national moratorium on evictions.
United States consumer confidence has plummeted to a decade-low in November.
After the pension crisis and the “gilets jaunes”, the darkest hours of the pandemic and a 40-years-long-cycle of liberal economic policies starting in the 1980s, the issue of purchasing power has emerged as a central topic in the French public debate. But the very idea that purchasing power can be an indicator of progress and living standards needs to be questioned.