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The September employment report was far stronger than generally expected. The unemployment rate edged down to 4.1 percent, while the establishment survey

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Donald Trump seems to have forgotten what the economy was like when he left office. He talks as though it was booming and then Biden sank it. In fact, the

CNBC, which is owned and controlled by people who will pay lower taxes with Donald Trump back in the White House, ran a PR piece for Donald Trump's tax agenda.

Ben Casselman had a useful piece in the New York Times examining the extent to which wages have outpaced prices since the pandemic. While he notes that

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The October jobs report showed little gain in hiring, with establishments adding just 12,000 jobs.

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Government policies, not technologies, cause our income and wealth inequalIty, but our best news organizations avoid this truth.

Dean Baker RFK Jr.'s main claim to fame, apart from his ancestry, is from saying crazy things about vaccines.