What Santa Complains About

Whether looking at what Santa could be earning or a typical U.S. worker, wage growth is not as high as they would like it to be.

The Impact of a Legendary Economics Curve

Showing the connection between inflation and unemployment, the Phillips Curve has been re-interpreted, re-affirmed and condemned as a monetary policy tool.

Pondering the Bunker Hill Theory of Inflation

As the source of monetary policy, the Federal Reserve has to decide if interest rates should rise when inflation is low but a jobs recovery has begun.

Why the Fed’s Dilemma Just Got Worse

The monetary policy dilemma is when to take the punchbowl away after the party gets going. In other words, have jobs recovered enough to raise rates?