As the 5 year chart below reveals, there has been no wage pressure in the economy over the past 5 years. The most recent drop and snap...
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Let’s call the job and wage data somewhat contradictory. Perhaps nuanced is a better word. Understanding why the series has...
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The title to this post comes from Barron’s Alan Abelson in this morning’s column. It refers to the usual-suspect Street...
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I spend 5 minutes on Forbes talking with my hands; Hopefully, this was an aberration and not the start of some new, full body, spasmodic...
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Its the first Friday of the month, and you know what that means: Nonfarm Payroll data for the prior month. With the consensus...
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Consensus for tomorrow’s Nonfarm Payroll is pretty rich: 250,000 new jobs. I think that number is high (more on this tomorrow), as...
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"The concept of sitting in a rocking chair and retiring just doesn’t exist anymore" > So says Barbara Rice, a former...
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I will add very little, other than pointing to this pair of interesting income related articles over the past 24 hours. First up:...
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One of the odder bits of analyses we have happened across over the holidays is this bit of explicative: “Of course employment has...
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The latest meme making its way around the echo chamber is that because employment levels were so high in 2000, the recovery period...
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