Showing posts with label Millennials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Millennials. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

12/8/20: Beware of Longing for Pre-COVID19 Days

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  We tend to focus on shorter-term and sharper shocks than on longer-term trends, a sort of 'boiling a frog' conundrum in our behavi...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

21/5/20: Weekly Unemployment Claims: Updated

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In the previous post, I have updated one of the charts relating to the U.S. labor market, namely the chart on employment  https://trueecon...

21/5/20: The Horror Show of COVID19 Unemployment

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New initial claims data is out for last week, and so time to update one of my scary charts: Here is a summary table: At 2,174,...
Friday, May 15, 2020

15/5/20: Generational Effects of Ultra Low Interest Rates

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Just because jobs are so plentiful and careers are so rewarding in terms of potential growth in life cycle income. the Millennials are rea...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

3/5/20: Updated: The Scariest Chart in Economics

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Updating one of the two 'Scariest Charts' in economics with the latest data - preliminary, through April 25, 2020: This ...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

23/4/20: U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate Heading into COVID19 Disaster

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Adding to the two scariest charts in economic history (see  https://trueeconomics.blogspot.com/2020/04/1942020-two-scariest-charts-in-econ...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

19/4/2020: Two Scariest Charts in Economic History

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I have been posting quite a bit on U.S. unemployment and jobs destruction numbers coming from the COVID-19 pandemic. So here are two chart...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

16/4/20: Four Weeks of True Unemployment Numbers: #Covid19

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The U.S. has added 5.245 million more unemployment claims in the week ending April 11, 2020, with additional 9,000 claims added to the Apr...
Monday, April 13, 2020

13/4/20: Four Weeks of Unemployment Spikes: U.S. Jobs Losses in #Covid19

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COVID-19 social toll: according to Deutsche Bank Research, since the end of the 2008-2009 Great Recession through mid-March 2020, the U.S....
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

28/1/2020: Federal Tax Revenues Over Time

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Via the @SoberLook, WSJ's data / charts newsletter, a neat summary of changes in the U.S. federal taxation base over the years: W...
Friday, December 13, 2019

13/12/19: UK Vote and Younger Voters

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On foot of the UK General Elections results, here is a telling sign of the changing generational effects on voting with some questions for...
Saturday, July 6, 2019

6/7/19: American Pride: Another Divide

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A great nation, divided and wanting for change as it may be... But just how divided are Americans? Bloomberg chart on a recent Gallup Poll...
Friday, May 31, 2019

31/5/19: Generational Gap in Self-reported Satisfaction with Life is at Whooping 28 percentage points

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Commonly discussed in the media and amongst economists, generational gap in quality of life and socio-economic environments is also eviden...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

21/5/19: 'Popping up everywhere' or not? Entrepreneurship and start ups

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Much has been written, taught and said about the New Age of Entrepreneurship and the new generations of entrepreneurs, allegedly springing...
Friday, February 9, 2018

9/2/18: Angus Deaton on Monopolization and Inequality

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For anyone interested in the topics of wealth inequality, structure of the modern (anti-market) economy and secular stagnation, here is an...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

7/2/18: American Wages, Corporotocracy & Why the Millennials Should be Worried

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Pooling together a range of indicators for wages, Goldman Sachs' Wage Tracker attempts to capture more accurate representation of wage...
Sunday, January 28, 2018

28/1/18: Political Polarization: Evidence form the U.S. trends

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What's 'normal'? Pew Research data on political polarization in the U.S. (full report here  http://www.people-press.org/intera...
Monday, January 22, 2018

21/1/18: Student Loans Debt Crisis: It Only Gets Worse

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A new research from the Brookings Institution has shed some light on the exploding student debt crisis in the U.S. The numbers are horrify...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

11/1/18: Physical Mobility and Liberal Values: The Causal Loop

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One of the key arguments relating the decline in the Millennials' support for liberal democratic values to socio-economic trends, iden...
Saturday, October 28, 2017

28/10/17: Income Inequality: Millennials vs Baby Boomers

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OECD's recent report, "Preventing Ageing Unequally", has a wealth of data and analysis relating to old-age poverty and demog...