What the Fed Will Be Looking at in Today’s Employment Report
Today’s employment report may be hard to read: The severe weather in the Northeast and Midwest affected the Labor Department’s...
Youth Labor Force Participation Falls, but with Good Reason
Labor Force Participation Rate: 1955-2014 Labor Force Participation Rate Labor Force Participation Rate In School to Population Ratio:...
Are We Becoming a Part-Time Economy?
Compared with 2007, the U.S. labor market now has about 2.5 million more people working part-time and about 2.2 million fewer people...
Wal-Mart’s Crash Course in Labor Economics
Wal-Mart’s Minimum Wage Breakdown Wal-Mart plans to raise the wages of hourly workers because it didn’t have much choice as...
Private Sector Job Creation, 2010-15
More than 11 Million Private Sector Jobs Created Over 5 years Source: FRED Regarding our earlier conversation about the data...
More Dumb Economic Conspiracy Nonsense
Friday’s jobs numbers were big, and the revisions below the surface were huge. Yet even before the release, the...
More on Temp Help vs NFP
Invictus observes: Regarding temporary help as a leading indicator, try putting the two payroll series (TEMP and PAYEMS) on separate...
Looking Beyond Jobs Numbers Headlines
I keep telling investors to ignore the monthly frenzy surrounding the monthly jobs report (see this, this and this). It isn’t...