Great piece by Martin Feldstein in the FT: Misleading growth statistics give false comfort Bloomberg: "Harvard University...
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Jeremy Piger is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Oregon. He has put together a model that presents recession...
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Several economists and pundits have unequivocally stated that, since there have been no negative quarters of GDP, there is no...
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If you missed any of our payroll coverage on Friday and Saturday, here’s a full roundup: Bracing for NFP Day ...
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Excellent Sunday morning chart porn in the Business section of today’s NYT, regarding the various components of CPI inflation...
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In the comments of an earlier post, Roman asks "If you are going to not consider the birth/death adjustment, then its only fair to...
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In Barron’s this week, Alan Abelson laces into BLS on the NFP data: "We’re talking instead about something much more...
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Via the miracle of Bloomberg, we can back out of the NFP data the B/D adjustment By that metric, today’s number was actually very...
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Today’s chart porn will be the second to last of our Employment related posts: Gail Dudack’s Research Group was kind enough...
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Courtesy CNBC Fist off, the numbers: BLS reported Payroll employment dropped 20,000, far below the consensus estimates....
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