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“But when you see the unemployment rate increasing, that's a pretty good sign that we may be in a recession,” Angel said.

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This paper develops a complete-market production economy with heterogeneous beliefs about TFP growth. Hiring occurs before TFP is known and is, therefore, risky (operational leverage). The firm's ...

At their basic nature, supply disruptions are stagflationary. If a fast-spreading strain of the bird flu, for example, ...

IN this volume Prof. Moore has undertaken to test statistically the theory that the fundamental cause of that curious swing in trade, which results, in alternate periods of depression and ...

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Officials extend pause on interest rates while projecting higher inflation and unemployment.

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