Politicians and pundits cheer and jeer over individual companies' employment decisions. How weirdly corporatist we've become.
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GDP, unemployment, job creation, federal deficit, average hourly wage. These and other national measures are the way to evaluate national policy.
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Don't forget labor force participation rate. And don't go corporatist yourself by touting GDP, when GDP per capita is much more important to almost everyone. Consumer businesses would be happy to import 10 million welfare recipients, and focus on total GDP because it helps sales.
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Yes on labor force participation rate, but much of it factors into unemployment (U6) GDP and GDP/capita both useful. Although the latter can be misleading because it's an average Regardless, my point is all nat'l metrics measure the nat'l economy. What a few businesses do doesn't
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