Tag: unemployment

  • Unemployment in America

    Unemployment in America

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    Brendan Barry
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    On Tuesday I wrote about my new inflation tracker—I need a better, more marketable name for that. Well, as I was designing the inflation tracker, I concurrently designed an unemployment tracker to track, well, unemployment. And I figured if I shared the one, why not the share the other? Thus, my unemployment in America tracker…

  • Joblessness in the Developed World

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    We have been looking at tariffs a little bit this week, but unfortunately one of the side effects of tariffs is job losses. And of course when it comes to people losing jobs, not all countries in the  developed world handle them the same. Last month the Washington Post published an article examining how those…

  • Vive la France

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    Brendan Barry
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    Emmanuel Macron won the French presidential election yesterday. So Guess what we have a graphic or two of this week? If you guessed Mongolian puppies, you were wrong. Thursday afternoon the Wall Street Journal—they seem to really be upping their game of late—published an article breaking down the connection between a Le Pen support in the first…