As I've outlined before , wages tend to be the one of the better predictors of inflation (or deflation) out there as wages tend to be ve...

The obvious argument for the trend shown below is that government workers provide needed services to the public, thus were able to keep thei...

The WSJ details: U.S. consumer spending rose twice as fast as income in March as saving dropped to its lowest level in 18 months and a clos...

Wages rose across the board! Good news right? Not necessarily. Per the WSJ : There were about 8.2 million fewer full-time wage and salary wo...

Tom Lindmark commented (in response to my post on private and government wages ): I thought the chart on total compensation was even more i...

Cato at Liberty with the details: In 2000, the average compensation (wages and benefits) of federal workers was 66 percent higher than the ...

Yesterday's post about the number of hours worked by the "average" person in the population ( full details here ) had some gre...