Malthusian Dreams

Looks like some of my unemployment projections were picked up by Wired magazine! Note a small nitpick, I am not a chemist, but a Chemical ...

I took some time over the last few days to refine the projections from my last post. Note that unless the administrations most optimistic p...

projection is based on High and Low scenarios. Low scenarios assume an average of 500,000 jobs lost per month for 2009 and 2010, and the h...

Housing 1 ...

The employmeny data for the period of 1900 - 1947 may be found in Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonia...

I noticed an interesting relation between U3 and U6. if you compare the concurrent data sets avoidable from 1994 to Jan 2009, you will find ...

U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment rate) U-6 Total unemployed, plus all marginally attac...