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Showing posts with label unemployment rate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unemployment rate. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Reserve Army Of The Hungry — Brian Romanchuk

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I have returned from the 3rd annual Modern Monetary Theory conference, and I am now catching up on things. One of the observations that stu...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Is There Really A Trade-Off Between Inflation And Unemployment? — Brian Romanchuk

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Rather than attempt to explain what the mainly neoclassical economists are going on about, I want to step back and try to translate their d...
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Monday, June 24, 2019

America’s Finest Economists Have Been Needlessly Undermining Growth, Study Confirms — Eric Levitz

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A few lonely voices disputed this consensus. In their view, these two distinct mysteries weren’t actually distinct — or all that mysteri...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Bill Mitchell — US labour market – improves in June but still no growth trend is apparent

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A friend just enquired abut this. Bill Mitchell – billy blog US labour market – improves in June but still no growth trend is apparent Bi...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Edward Harrison — US jobs numbers come in high enough to prompt Fed rate hike

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The BLS released the latest employment numbers for the US, the last piece of major economic data before the Fed meets next week to decide o...
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Thursday, July 2, 2015

Robert Oak — Another 640,000 Drop Out of the Labor Force Causing Unemployment Rate Decline

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The June employment report brings some OMG, jaw dropping, are you kidding me numbers. Over 640,000 dropped out of the labor force. As a r...
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Friday, May 8, 2015

Bill McBride — Employment Report Comments and Graphs

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This was a decent employment report for April (not great, but not terrible). The year-over-year employment gains are still solid. Calcula...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Matias Vernengo — How bad is unemployment?

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It is worth remembering that the rate of unemployment depends on the participation rate that, as can be seen below, has been falling since ...
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Saturday, November 15, 2014

Danielle Kurtzleben — Americans think the unemployment rate is 32 percent

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The latest jobs report showed the unemployment rate was at its lowest level in six years, 5.8 percent.   But Americans aren't convinc...
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Saturday, May 3, 2014

Bill McBride — Goldman Sachs [Jan Hatzius] on the Labor Force Participation Rate

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From Goldman Sachs chief economist Jan Hatzius: • Since the start of the Great Recession in late 2007, the labor force participation rate...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

North Carolina — Proof that cutting unemployment benefits increases employment? No way.

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North Carolina has been without long-term unemployment benefits since last Summer, and so they might offer a glimpse of what happens when ...
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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Matthew Boesler — Goldman's Jan Hatzius: People Are Looking At The Wrong Unemployment Rate

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U3 v. U6. Business Insider Goldman's Jan Hatzius: People Are Looking At The Wrong Unemployment Rate Matthew Boesler
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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Paul Solman — Will We Ever Get to 'Full Employment'?

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When we talk about "full employment" of 4 percent (or even 6 percent) these days, do we mean the same thing we used to back when?...
Friday, March 8, 2013

Bill McBride — Employment Report Comments and more Graphs

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The 236 thousand payroll jobs added in February is from the establishment survey (a survey of businesses for payroll jobs), but the unemplo...
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Friday, October 5, 2012

Good jobs report. And who says the gov't can't create jobs?

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This was a good jobs report and it should help Obama. Unemp rate 7.8% Labor force participation rate went up: 63.6% Nonfarm payrolls +114...
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Friday, August 31, 2012

Catherine Rampell — Majority of New Jobs Pay Low Wages, Study Finds

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While a majority of jobs lost during the downturn were in the middle range of wages, a majority of those added during the recovery have bee...
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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Marshall Auerback — Spain is the New Greece

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This is a big deal socially and politically, therefore economically. The EZ is visibly beginning to disintegrate, visibly from the outside ...
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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Rebecca Wilder — Does the US Corporate Saving Rate Portend a Lower Unemployment Rate?

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There’s a very strong correlation between the corporate saving rate and the unemployment rate, 80% according to a simple bivariate OLS regr...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

The disturbing trend underneath the strong jobs report

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Total employment taxes (witholding) collected by the Federal Government so far this year, are running about $8 billion above last year. On ...