It is a simple statistic that continues to warn of huge economic problems ahead for the United States. Some economists call it the “marginal productivity of debt (MPD).” It relates the change in the ...

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President Donald Trump sought to demonstrate a robust U.S. economy at the White House on Thursday after last month’s labor report revealed a slowdown in job creation and the highest Black unemployment ...

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