[complex_pi]

Welcome to the world. A PhD guarantees nothing, tenured position barely exist anymore. Weird that economists did not realize this yet...

[hyperbovine]

A lot of the trends identified in this article are ubiquitous across academia, and in fact much worse in humanities -- having 99 TT positions open in a year would make my friends in the English department swoon!

It's just that economics, as a field, is better at making charts and loudly complaining about things.

[paulpauper]

agree. All job markets are 'bad'. The number of openings is greatly exceeded by people applying. this is true for pretty much everything.