A few quick thoughts on this morning’s NFP data: Today’s number has a consensus forecast of minus 70k 50k, but as we’ve...
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Today’s Initial Unemployment Claims surprised quite a few people: In the week ending March 29, the initial claims...
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Yesterday, I referenced Matt Trivisonno’s chart on federal withholding taxes in order to defenestrate some wildly inaccurate...
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Here’s some more bad news for John Q. Public: We all know that the fun of the past few years Housing binge / ATM withdrawal / GDP...
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Lots of good looking infographics in the papers today: First up: The Wall Street Journal. This solo chart starts out simple, looking at...
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Wow, thats quite a wallop — the worst jobs report in 5 years: "Payrolls fell by 63,000, the most in five years, after a...
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We’ve been looking at various unemployment rates lately, heading into today’s NFP report at 8:30 am. A few things worth...
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Over the past few days, we’ve been discussing job creation and the various ways to think about unemployment. This has been a long...
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Construction and Financial Employment Changes Source: ADP, Macroeconomic advisors >Tomorrow we learn what BLS data shows for the...
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We have NFP for February getting released Friday, and in light of that, I want to direct your attention to David Leonhardt’s very...
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