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Scenes from the March jobs report; and the Great Resignation as “Take This Job and Shove It!”  It’s been a little while since I took a more in-depth look at the jobs market, so let’s take a look. As I wrote last Friday, we are at historic lows in both the unemployment and underemployment rates. In the graphs below, the current values of each are normed to zero for easy comparison: Historically few people are involuntarily unemployed....

I spoke first to Eric Rubin, a career diplomat since 1985 at the State Department, a former U.S. ambassador to Bulgaria, and currently president of the American Foreign Service Association. He is crystal clear that “you cannot speak publicly against government policy. If you want to do that, you must resign. It’s anti-democratic. It is inappropriate to believe you know better than the people’s elected representatives.” Rubin also believes that resignations rarely have any impact on policy....

Press TV 26-12-2018 The video and some notes of my recent interview in Press TV News on the recent resignation of the World Bank president Jim Yong Kim follows. Kim – an Obama administration nominee – departs the World Bank stating that he had an unexpected offer to join a private firm focusing on investment in climate change and infrastructure in developing economies. The rumoured reason of the resignation is differences with the Trump administration over climate change. However, Kim...