Guide to Data Sources
This list reflects the data I use most often, especially for the Businomics Newsletter. FRED database Most U.S. economic data and some foreign data are available through FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), a free service …
Origin of the Businomics Newsletter
How did I get the idea to print out economic charts and hand-write notes about what they mean? It’s a fun story. A long time ago I was a corporate economist who briefed the Executive …
AI and the Economy: my articles and videos
updated 4/2/2024 Articles: AI And The Economy: What Has Changed? AI And The Economy: Overview Of Job Losses And Gains AI And The Economy: Potential Gains In Industries, Occupations And Tasks AI And The Economy: …
Three Takeaways from Powell’s Jackson Hole Speech on Monetary Policy
Jerome Powell took three lessons from past inflations: “The first lesson is that central banks can and should take responsibility for delivering low and stable inflation.” Powell acknowledged global inflation and supply problems, but said, “There is clearly a …
Dr. Bill Conerly’s Inflation Track Record
Articles published on Forbes.com: Higher Inflation from the Fed’s New Strategy, August 28, 2020: “Add to the Fed’s new strategy their recent tactics: huge stimulus…. Yet the stimulus cannot be matched by increased production of …
Writing About Finance and Economics
Two computer software engineers asked me for advice about technical writing. Explaining economics and finance shares some of the challenges of technical writing, so I pulled together some notes. General Writing Tips Practice. Spending 20 …
Leadership in Today’s Tight Labor Market
Updated March 8, 2024 With low unemployment rates and very small growth of the working-age population in the United States, businesses are struggling with employee retention and recruiting. I’ve been studying the issue since I …
Recession 101: What Business Leaders Need to Know about Economic Downturns
Business leaders are worried about recession. Their responsibility, however, is not just to survive a downturn, but to capitalize on good times before the recession comes. I’ve held several workshops for company executives and owners …
Business Planning With Austrian Economics
The Austrian school of economics is an approach to the subject with some distinctive characteristics that help business leaders find profit opportunities. Like much of economics, professors tend to be focused either on pure theory …
Jordan Peterson’s Lesson for Business Leaders
Many people are reading my article over at Forbes.com, Jordan Peterson’s Lessons for Business Leaders: You Need Both Liberals and Conservatives. Quick summary: The labels liberal and conservative refer not just to Democrats and Republicans, …
What If Trump’s and Clinton’s Genders Were Reversed: Who Would Have Won the Debates?
That's the intriguing question asked by a New York University team. Their project, called Her Opponent, was to stage a debate using the words and gestures of the candidates, but portrayed by people of opposite sexes.
Kenneth Arrow
This obituary of Kenneth Arrow is worth reading by anyone interested in economics or ideas in general. Much of mathematical economics promises far more than it delivers, but Arrow's work has proved to be of enduring value.