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Podcast: Notes on the Week Ahead
Episode: The Steady Normalization of the U.S. Labor Market
Description: In 1787, on the last day of the Constitutional Convention, a lady asked Benjamin Franklin what form of government had been agreed to. He famously replied, “A Republic – if you can keep it”. He was, of course, alluding to the danger that partisanship or ill-advised policies could yet return the young country to the monarchy it had so recently escaped.