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Veronique de Rugy

Unemployment, underemployment and the Comprehensive Jobless Rate
07/20/2019 - 10:26pm
Veronique de Rugy
CJR: July 18, 2019 When he testified before Congress last week, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell made an interesting comment: “We don’t have any basis or any evidence for calling this a hot labor market.” He added that “to call something hot, you need to see some heat.” Come again? The unemployment rate is 3.7%, and this is somehow a lukewarm market? An...
Numbers betray Export-Import Bank advocates
Veronique de Rugy 06/06/2019 - 8:07am
EXPORT-IMPORT BANK: June 6, 2019 It’s amazing what can be done to a cause in a mere four years. Back in 2015, there was widespread agreement in Congress that the Export-Import Bank — the U.S. government’s export credit agency — was nothing but a crony bank, mostly serving the greedy interests of Boeing and other large...
Are politicians purveyors of outrage?
Veronique de Rugy 06/03/2019 - 7:28am
PAY GAP: May 30, 2019 One of the many problems with politicians is that it seems like they’re in the outrage business. Some act as if they won’t be needed unless there is some extreme wrong or insufferable unfairness to address. That’s how we end up with politicians fighting mostly imaginary battles, which they propose to address...
President’s immigration plan could use some work
Veronique de Rugy 05/27/2019 - 1:01pm
IMMIGRATION: May 23, 2019 Last week, the Trump administration released the outline of an immigration plan meant to reshape how and which people are allowed into the United States. The plan would prioritize merit-based immigration and high-skilled labor over those who already have family here. Far from comprehensive or sufficient, it’s a...
It’s time for a course correction in the trade war
Veronique de Rugy 05/19/2019 - 8:16pm
TRADE: May 16, 2019 President Donald Trump and his supporters often tell us that he is fundamentally a free trader. The current trade war with China, they say, is simply the small price we must pay now for a world of much freer trade tomorrow, when all governments lower their trade barriers in fear of Trump’s hard-bargaining techniques. LET...
The Fed is not the answer for real-time payments
Veronique de Rugy 05/12/2019 - 9:47pm
REAL-TIME PAYMENTS: May 9, 2019 There’s an inherent conflict of interest that occurs when an agency serves as both a regulator and competitor. Unfortunately, that describes the present state of the Federal Reserve. But rather than reform the agency to eliminate sources of conflict, the Fed is proposing to expand its market activities by...
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