Donal Curtin • Mar 02, 2015 •
You may have noticed that there is a rather ugly (in my view) effort underway to bring the US Federal Reserve under closer political control. The latest attempt to pass a so-called Federal Transparency Act was introduced by Kentucky Congressman Thomas ... Read More
Donal Curtin • Feb 25, 2015 •
I wrote a while back about the excellent data the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the US produces on the labour market - what they call the JOLTS data (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey). You can access it yourself here. The graph below shows the ke... Read More
Donal Curtin • Oct 22, 2014 •
...JOLTS being the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary that the American Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes every month. You can find the text of the latest one here and it's on FRED (the St Louis Fed's economic database) if you'd like to d... Read More
Donal Curtin • Oct 14, 2014 •
I've been engaged in a bit of tweeting to and fro about the rise in New Zealand's government debt in recent years, and what's behind it.The background is that there's been a fair bit of political point-making going on about the large rise in debt on Na... Read More
Donal Curtin • Aug 20, 2014 •
Here's a brilliant graph, from the Calculated Risk blog, an excellent site run by Bill McBride which mainly covers US macroeconomic developments. The graph came from this post, and I'm using it with Bill's permission.It's about the US labour market, an... Read More