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Adult males are seceding from the workforce – or being kicked out – in frightening numbers.

For any given shortfall of spending, an economy can respond either robustly or in a very fragile manner.

When the economy is booming, brute force labor is very much in demand.

…direct man-machine cooperation, focused on making very specific evaluations or completing very specific tasks, will revolutionize much of our economy…

…when immigration is rising as a share of employment in an economic sector, offshoring tends to be falling, and vice versa.

Immigration is vital to the future economic vitality of the United States.

For all the virtues of human, face-to-face instruction, it fares pretty miserably when it comes to economies of scale and scope.

Coaching is already remarkably important in our economy, and the high productivity of top earners will cause it to become essential.

People will respond to stagnant or shrinking entitlements by moving to cheaper areas.

…economists are finally realizing that we’re full-fledged human beings, not single-minded economic robots.