Employment Archives - The Big Picture

Very useful dashboard via the St. Louis Fed, which maintains the fabulous FRED database. With a clean and simple interface, it puts all...

I wanted to drop a quick note about the endless spate of layoff announcements — and why you should (mostly) ignore...

Last Friday’s strong payroll data led to lots of chatter about the current labor situation. Often oversimplified and lacking in...

You may have missed this wonderful Josh Zumbrun column in the Wall Street Journal last week: “Inflation and Unemployment Both...

So, it was just Labor Day Weekend, and while we all should be out NOT laboring, I spent part of the long holiday weekend thinking about a...

Source: Visual Capitalist It’s light summer posting season! I am heading out of town for a wedding, and then...

Today is Fed day, when we get the 75 bps increase that dramatically increases the odds of a recession. The main storyline...

Today is NFP day: We learned employment increased by 428,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.6%. Job...

I have been wondering lately what the ramifications of the past two years will be. I enjoy thinking about things like this;...

The Nonfarm payroll report today showed strength in hiring, modest wage increases, and a substantial decrease in...