Unemployment

Topic of the Day: Jobs Does Anyone Care About Unemployment Anymore? – Newsweek Insufficient Jobs Set the Stage for Slowdown in U.S. Recovery - BusinessWeek FiveThirtyEight: Why Aren't Businesses Hiring? Distraction of the Day:…

There's a reason economics is called the dismal science, and weeks like this just give it further meaning. In economics, there is what you see and what you don't. This week we are going to examine the headline data we all see and then take…

By Annaly Capital Management. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of Annaly Salvos, and we thought we would take advantage of this milestone to revisit the graph at the heart of our very first post. It is a snapshot of the…

This comes via Economix: The writers there have a two related pieces (with equally revealing charts) that I recommend reading: Bleak Outlook for Long-Term Unemployed The Recovery Is Losing Steam I guess this is why they call…

"I have this to say to my fellow Germans in East Germany: The introduction of the social market economy offers you every chance, in fact, even a guarantee, that (the East German states of) Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania,…

The unemployment rate fell to 9.5% from 9.7%, but this likely reflects people dropping out of the labor market.  The work week fell 0.1%, which is the equivalent of about 300k job loss.  The private sector 83k jobs and the May…

These charts were compiled by Pimco via data collected from the Federal Reserve and Credit Suisse. They show that U.S. companies are earning record amounts of money but are not re-investing it. Instead, companies are hoarding cash.…

On jobs, labour mobility and the stickiness of wages Macroeconomics Doubtbook, Installment 3, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty The Usual Fare AppleInsider | Apple sued over iPhone 4 reception issues…

US data have been disappointing.  The weekly initial jobless claim increase has been followed by a weaker than expected ISM manufacturing report.  The ISM fell to 56.2 from 59.7. The consensus had anticipated a smaller decline to…

While most people are tuned in to the failure of the ruling coalition in Germany to get their man Christian Wulff elected president, there are other more important numbers out today. Unemployment in Germany fell to 7.5% in the last month.…