Ray Keating

Why does unemployment remain so stubbornly entrenched?

Monthly national employment is still below replacement levels. Ray Keating joins Jim Blasingame to talk job numbers the U.S. needs to create each month to replace those leaving the workplace and why employment is still way behind.

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Ray Keating joins Jim Blasingame to report on recent research that shows small business owners are very much engaged in the 2020 election cycle, including the top issues they think are most important to them.
Ray Keating joins Jim Blasingame to discuss whether it’s time to reconsider if 3% GDP growth per year is still the perfect number, and what role productivity plays in that calculation.
Ray Keating joins Jim Blasingame to debate some of the nuances of research that shows how small business owners feel about their business and the overall condition of their economy.
Ray Keating joins Jim Blasingame to report on how two of the four largest U.S. states, California and New York, are losing workers, while Florida and Texas are gaining them, and the reason is bad policies, including being over-taxed.
Ray Keating joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the concept of free trade as a goal and possible reality, taken in context with the current negotiations going on between the U.S. and other countries.