We got another labor market indicator on Wednesday ahead of Friday’s jobs report. According to ADP, the private sector added 152,000 jobs in May. That’s fewer than were added in April, so a bit of a ...
The Phillips curve describes an inverse correlation between inflation and unemployment. It says that as inflation rises, unemployment goes down, and vice versa. The curve got its name from a New ...
I am so glad you asked this great question! Indeed, many of us study economic theory in classrooms, and the Phillips curve is typically covered in a macroeconomics class. However, it is natural to ...
About a half-century ago, my investment and economic mentor, Bradford F. Story, remarked that leaders at the Federal Reserve and Treasury would never succeed until they disabused themselves of the ...
We believe that the effects of Covid on the economy and financial markets are diminishing, and we believe that the Phillips curve is supporting this. Will history repeat in the second half of this ...
If you want to be remembered in economics, get yourself a curve. There’s the Lorenz curve, the Laffer curve, the Kuznets curve, and, probably most famous, the Phillips curve. Phillips was A.W.
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” (Usually attributed to Albert Einstein, this familiar quote may have originated with Max Nordau or others in ...
What is the Phillips curve? What is the Phillips curve? The Phillips curve is a model that attempts to show the relationship between inflation and unemployment. Central bankers who are responsible for ...
Repeat after me, class: Growth does NOT cause inflation. Write it on the blackboard 100 times. For decades, the economics profession has been trying to tell us all just the opposite. They keep ...