Jobs

John Hussman is out with his latest weekly and he discusses... the ECRI Leading Indicators of course. Everyone is talking about these numbers.  He is bearish, but as I have also noted the ECRI data are not yet predicting…

This is a post on demographics inspired by a conversation I had earlier today. Detroit was, in its heyday just after World War II, when the US auto industry was literally firing on all cylinders, the fourth largest in the U.S., Its…

A post by John Tepper of Variant Perception via John Mauldin “My best guess is that we’ll have a continued recovery, but it won’t feel terrific. Even though technically we’ll be in recovery and the economy will be growing, unemployment…

We got a huge pop in jobs in last month's employment report. And this was mainly responsible for the drop in the unemployment rate as over 400,000 temporary census jobs came online.  John Lounsbury figures that the individuals employed…

Everybody in the west knows the fabled effectiveness of weight-loss dietary programs designed around intense cardiovascular regimes which burn huge amounts of calories. The people who work hard, doing as much cardio as possible lose weight.…

In the next four months more than 500,000 job losses are baked in the cake. The reason? The temporary Census workers hired so far this year will be largely ending their assignments during the third quarter and will be looking for employment…

Lakshman Achuthan is a Managing Director at the Economic Cycle Research Institute. ECRI studies recessions and recoveries, forecasting economic and inflation cycle turns for all major market economies using a rigorous and objective…

The US employment data was disappointing.  The key measure of private sector job creation was only 41k compared with expectations for 180k and a 3 month moving average of 155.6k.  The fact that the unemployment rate ticked down is…

Highlights The US dollar trading higher just as the North American session is about to start.  However, position squaring in Asia and Europe had pushed short-term technical indicators into an over-extended condition and near-midday in…

By Comstock Partners In our comment of April 22nd we said that the impression that the economy was undergoing a normal economic recovery was highly misleading, and outlined a number of key economic series that supported our case that the…