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1. Two Worrisome Economic Reports & A Pleasant Surprise 2. Record 5.9 Million Unfilled Job Openings in July – Why? 3. Many Workers Don’t Have the Skills to Do Today’s Jobs 4. Manufacturers Increasingly Demand Higher Educated Workers Overview On Wednesday of last week, the Labor...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. July Jobs Report Stronger Than Expected, 2 nd Month in a Row 2. The Real Unemployment Rate Went Up To 9.7% in July 3. The Worst Economic Expansion in 30 Years Continues 4. Maybe It’s Time to Dump the U-3 Unemployment Rate 5. Special Report: How to Maximize Your 401(k) - Advanced...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. September Jobs Report – Another Big Disappointment 2. ISM Manufacturing Index Continues Its Severe Slump 3. Consumer Confidence & Sentiment Up Again in September 4. Do Weak Jobs Reports Put Fed “Lift-Off” on Ice? Maybe 5. Head of IMF Issues New Warning on the Global...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Another Ho-Hum, Disappointing Jobs Report For June 2. June Consumer Confidence Was Up More Than Expected 3. Gallup Job Creation Index at Record High May/June 4. China’s Stock Markets Imploded Over the Last Month 5. Editorial: China’s Big, Misguided Stock Market Gamble Overview...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. April Unemployment Report – Not All Good News 2. Percent of Women in the Workforce Hits 27-Year Low 3. Margin Debt on New York Stock Exchange Hits Record High 4. Personal: Kids Graduate With Master’s Degrees On Saturday Overview Today we’ll start with a look at last...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Atlanta Fed Predicts Zero Growth in the 1Q 2. March Unemployment Report Was a Stunner 3. Implications For the Federal Reserve Rate Hike 4. What if the Official US Unemployment Rate is Wrong? 5. Measured Risk Portfolios WEBINAR on April 8 Overview Last Friday’s unemployment report...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Stronger Than Expected February Jobs Report 2. Will Strong Jobs Report Hasten the Fed Liftoff? 3. Where Interest Rates Are Headed: Fed vs. Futures 4. Consumer Spending Falls Two Months in a Row 5. 4Q Worker Productivity Fell More Than Expected 6. Webinar With Niemann Capital Management...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. November Unemployment Report Was a Surprise 2. November Jobs Report Was Not All Good News 3. America Still a Long Way From Full Employment 4. Conclusions on the November Jobs Report 5. Could Relief For Businesses be on the Way Next Year? 6. President Obama Considering Sanctions Against...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. August Unemployment Report – A Big Disappointment 2. Five Reasons Why the US Jobs Recovery is a Myth 3. Labor Force Participation Rate – Cyclical or Structural? 4. “Prime-Age” Men (25-54) Dropping Out of the Workforce 5. 35.4% of Americans Receive Government...
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Say’s Law Makes a Comeback The BEA Introduces Gross Output Time to Put a New Economic Tool in the Box First, Let’s Kill All the Regulations Where Did the Jobs Come From? More Videos from the Conference Whistler, Maine, Montana, and San Antonio conomists are at this moment called upon to say...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Consumer Confidence Highest Since Late 2007 2. Jobs Numbers Hit Milestone, Deep Problems Continue 3. Teen Unemployment Rate Tops 50% in Some Cities 4. A Third of 18-34 Year-olds Now Live With Their Parents 5. Household Formation in America Continues to Plunge 6. Over Half of Americans...
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There has been quite a lot of controversy in recent years around the idea that older workers – whose numbers are growing – have been taking jobs away from younger ones. Their numbers have certainly increased dramatically: the percentage of the labor force that is 55 or older grew from 29...
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Where Will the Jobs Come From? More Unintended Consequences The Great Divergence: Productivity and Wages A Most Dangerous Era How Do You Spell Assume? Los Angeles, Miami, Argentina, and South Africa "In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. December Unemployment Report Was a Stunner 2. Four Million Americans Are Still Long-Term Unemployed 3. Why Male Workers Are Disappearing in America 4. Absentee Dads – Single-Parent Households Soar 5. More Americans Say They’re Financially Worse Off 6. Niemann Capital Management...