I’ve run variations of this chart so many times, it seems redundant to do so once again. But since the debate with Cody generated...
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Today’s NFP number stunk the joint up: 75,000. That’s half of the monthly population growth, meaning the percentage of people working...
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Well, the markets liked it. NFP’s soft number 138k number for April — and the 36,000 downward revisions for the prior two...
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>Floyd Norris wades into the Unemployment debate. Over the weekend, the NYT columnist compared the current unemployment figures...
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Over the past 3½ years markets crawled higher, we have watched the gradual but steady build up of bullish expectations. You can see it...
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As we noted yesterday, I am flipping from the usual bet of taking "the Under" on NFP. This month, I will make the guess that...
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When it comes to the Non Farm Payroll data, I have been taking "the Under" for several years now. The bet has been...
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Short version: A group of Fed researchers presented a paper that rebuts the slack in the labor market argument. The Fed, therefore, is...
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Some highlights from the details of this NFP report: The average work week surprsingly fell -0.1 to 33.7 hours — that hardly...
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Should we put so much weight on NFP? Statisticians suggest "probably not." The WSJ lays the blame for the latest...
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