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 ...

This paper explores the relationship between standard labor market tightness (vacancies divided by unemployment) and generalized labor market tightness (vacancies divided by a measure of effective ...

The Phillips curve essentially describes the relationship between wage inflation and unemployment as an inverse one, suggesting that reduced inflation accompanies rising unemployment. This principle ...

The Phillips curve predicts that when the unemployment rate drops, inflation will rise as businesses compete for scarce labor and drive up wages. The late William Phillips, a neo-Keynesian economist ...

David Bahnsen, discusses Kevin Warsh's approach at the Federal Reserve, noting that low inflation, strong economic growth, and low unemployment can coexist, effectively declaring the Phillips Curve ...

Government has no resources. It can only spend what it’s taken from us first. Yet Keynesian economists (meaning the vast majority of economists) believe government spending boosts economic growth.

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 ...

The Fed cut the Fed Funds rate by 50 basis points on September 18. The Fed’s twin mandate, keeping inflation under control and aiming for low unemployment is really in the service of the American ...

During the early 1960s, many economists and policymakers believed that monetary policy could exploit a stable trade-off between the level of inflation and the unemployment rate. One version of the ...

The Fed’s masterful use of the Phillips curve to adjust interest rates in the 1990s may have been “a stopped clock is right twice a day” phenomenon. Alan Blinder notes that in the 1990s he and others ...

A fundamental relationship of mainstream economic theory at the heart of the Federal Reserve’s strategy for setting interest rates has been a poor guide for policy makers for at least three decades, ...