Inside Those Employment Numbers
Before everybody gets “irrationally exuberant” over the latest employment data from the federal government, it’s important to consider exactly what sort of jobs are being...
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The Money Printing Desert
by FITSNews
Zero Hedge – which we have come to regard as the most fantastic economics website on the planet – has a great guest post up...
U.S. Unemployment Rate Down Slightly
by FITSNews
The U.S. economy created an estimated 165,000 jobs in April, while March’s disappointing data was updated to reflect the creation of an additional 50,000 jobs...
US GDP Misses Expectations
by FITSNews
The U.S. economy grew at a 2.5 percent clip in the first quarter of 2013 – up from its dismal fourth quarter performance but not...
The Housing “Recovery”
by FITSNews
Along with “happy happy joy joy” employment reports, the mainstream media has been vigorously applauding the “recovery” of America’s housing market. Home prices rose 8.1 percent...
U.S. Disposable Income: Going Nowhere
by FITSNews
Our new favorite website ZeroHedge.com has an interesting chart up this week showing the status of disposable income in the United States – a.k.a. the...
About Those Jobs …
by FITSNews
Unemployment in America is down from its recessionary peak, yet it remains chronically high. Then there’s the problem of our nation’s shrinking labor force –...