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Guess I'm off Twitter -- teach me to make Elon Musk jokes

If the United Auto Workers can force down the pay of the industry's CEOs, they will have done a valuable service https://cepr.net/negotiating-on-ceo-pay-the-uaw-has-the-right-idea/

We had a really great GDP report today https://cepr.net/economy-grows-2-8-percent-in-third-quarter-led-by-consumption-and-equipment-investment/ It doesn't seem to be getting much attention. They told me the economy was the most important issue in the election.

The dockworkers strike has led to bizarre discussions of automation as though it is something workers as a group should fear. Automation is known as "productivity growth" and it is the reason are living standards are hugely better than they were a century ago. Unless we have braindead politicians (or corrupt) we can structure the economy so workers benefits https://cepr.net/automation-is-called-productivity-growth/

The GDP revisions make a good economic Biden-Harris picture look even better https://cepr.net/the-economy-after-the-gdp-revisions/

Thoughtful piece by Josh Bivens on what he got right and wrong about inflation and the recovery https://www.epi.org/blog/a-retrospective-look-at-inflation-which-predictions-were-wrong-or-right-and-what-remains-unclear/

CNN tells Harris she shouldn't talk about the economy, even though it is very good, because no one will believe her https://cepr.net/cnn-tells-harris-not-to-talk-about-the-economy/

The Harris campaign doesn't have to accuse the Trumper of hating women, they are now boasting about their hatred of women as loudly as they can https://x.com/america/status/1849924088359219706

We're getting the usual tariffs are bad rap from economists (largely true), but what about government-granted patent and copyright monopolies which are far more costly and mostly benefit those at the top? https://cepr.net/tariffs-and-government-granted-patent-monopolies-bad-and-good-forms-of-protectionism/

Some basis for hope in surviving a Trump administration https://cepr.net/is-there-hope-post-election-results/

Are workers better off than before the pandemic, some additional thoughts https://cepr.net/four-more-items-in-the-wages-outpacing-prices-debate/

My two cents on the jobs numbers today -- good news is the unemployment rate is still just 4.1 percent https://cepr.net/hurricanes-and-boeing-unemployment-steady-at-4-1-percent/

Are wages outpacing inflation? Four more items to add into the mix https://cepr.net/four-more-items-in-the-wages-outpacing-prices-debate/

The Biden-Harris job boom: at the Trump rate of job creation we still would not have gotten back the jobs lost in the pandemic https://cepr.net/the-biden-harris-job-boom/

The Biden-Harris job boom: at the Trump rate of job creation we still would not have gotten back the jobs lost in the pandemic https://cepr.net/the-biden-harris-job-boom/

Should Harris be celebrating the strong labor market? https://cepr.net/should-kamala-harris-be-celebrating-the-labor-market/