the May 2012 Employment Situation report
the report The Bureau of Labor Statistics, a part of the Labor Department, released its monthly Employment Situation report last Friday before the opening of equity trading in New York. The stock...
View Articlethe Federal Reserve on US family finances, 2007-2010
US family finances, 2007-2010 Early this week the Fed released a report on its triennial survey of consumer finances. The 80-page, densely written document covers the period from 2007-2010–the heart...
View Articlethe Employment Situation report for July 2012
the report On Friday August 3rd at 8:30am EDT, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Labor Department in Washington released its Employment Situation report for July 2012. According to the BLS, the US...
View Articlethe Employment Situation report for August 2012
the report On Friday September 7th at 8:30 EDT, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, part of the Labor Department, released its monthly Employment Situation report for August 2012. The headline figure is...
View ArticleGavyn Davies on Bernanke’s change of heart
keeping inflation low Since the tenure of Paul Volcker began over thirty years ago, the mantra of the Federal Reserve has been to do what is necessary to keep inflation under control. Over time, this...
View Articlethe Employment situation report, September 2012
the Employment Situation report for September 2012 Last Friday at 8:30 am EDT, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Labor Department released its monthly Employment Situation report for September....
View Articlethe October 2012 Employment Situation Report: surprisingly good news
the report At 8:30 am Eastern time this morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Labor Department released its monthly Employment Situation for October. The report contains surprisingly good...
View Articlethe November 2012 Employment Situation Report
the report As usual, at 8:30am Eastern time, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Labor Department issued its monthly Employment Situation report. Economists had been expecting a gain of around...
View Articlethe January 2013 Employment Situation Report
the report At 8:30am est last Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Labor Department released its Employment Situation report for January 2013. According to the ES, the US economy added 157,000...
View ArticleFebruary 2013 Employment Situation report–surprisingly strong employment gains
the February report The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Labor Department released its monthly Employment Situation report for February 2013 at 8:30 edt this morning. Economist had been forecasting a...
View Articlethe March 2013 Employment Situation Report
the report At 8:30 edt this morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Labor Department released its monthly Employment Situation Report for March. Job gains for March came in at +88,000 net new...
View Articlethe April 2013 Employment Situation report–strong gains again
the report At 8:30 EST this morning, as usual, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Labor Department released its monthly Employment Situation report. The April figures, +165,000 net new jobs added...
View Articlethe May 2013 Employment Situation report–better than ADP led Wall Street to...
the May Employment Situation May As usual, at 8:30 edt this morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Labor Department released its Employment Situation report for May. The results were almost...
View Articletoday’s potential inflation threat
Yesterday I wrote about inflation in general. My two-post idea has morphed into three, though. Today I’ll write about the current situation. Tomorrow, I’ll write about what happened during the last...
View Articlethe June 2013 Employment Situation report–a blockbuster
the Employment Situation report As usual, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Labor Department released its monthly Employment Situation report at 8:30 am eastern time this morning. The numbers were...
View Articlethe July 2013 Employment Situation report
the Employment Situation Last Friday at 8:30 EDT, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Labor Department published its monthly Employment Situation report. The figures were, for the first time in...
View Articleunemployment–structural or cyclical? + trucks that drive themselves
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the question of whether the current high level of unemployment in the US is cyclical (that is, will fix itself as economic recovery continues) or structural...
View ArticleThe August 2013 Employment Situation: when bad news is good?
the August Employment Situation Last Friday was the first Friday of the month. So the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Labor Department issued its usual monthly Employment Situation report, an hour...
View Articlelast week’s jobs numbers
There were actually two sets of figures published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Employment Situation report, which is normally released on the first Friday of the month but which was delayed...
View ArticleOctober 2013 Employment Situation: eye-popping gains
the report Last Friday at 8:30 est, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Labor Department released its Employment Situation report for October 2013. Given the general tone of deep discouragement...
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