Happy Tax Day! Now, lets get to work on that messy tax code of ours on April 24, 2016 The first thing I’d suggest you do on Tax Day is visit the website I Heart Taxes, which describes itself thusly: Welcome to I Heart Taxes, home of the proud taxpayer. We know that taxes do great things, like build roads and schools, pay our firefighters, and keep our air clean and our water […]
Low unemployment, check. Low underemployment, not check on April 10, 2016For the past six months, the unemployment rate has toggled between 4.9 and 5 percent, about the rate many economists consider the lowest jobless rate consistent with stable inflation. Does that mean we’ve arrived at the critical destination for an economic expansion: full employment, meaning a very tight matchup between labor supply and labor demand? […]