The 'Take This Job And Shove It' Recession Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, So hey there Corporate America, the Fed and your neofeudal...
The Treasury department has issued its spending and revenue report for April 2021, and it’s clear the US government is headed toward another record-breaking year for...
"It's Not Great": Biden Stimulus Hits Turbulence As Pushback Grows Over Disincentivized Workers The Biden administration's latest push to further endebt the country with unnecessary stimulus...
The average price of US goods and services surged in April, leading some to worry the economy is beginning to experience dangerously high levels of inflation....
The Issue: The expansion of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in 2020 and 2021 through the COVID-19 pandemic has come in fits and starts, with benefits increasing...
The COVID Baby Bump That Wasn't Authored by Michael Gartz via The American Institute for Economic Research, The year 2020 generated several visible changes to the...
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused historic economic pain and hardship for families and households in the US. But much of this pain has been felt unevenly...
Today’s digression will be about prices. In particular, why and how they are rising and what this means to your portfolio. My preface is...
After falls in stock market valuations is nervousness taking hold among investors? Looking at consecutive declines in global equities this week, the answer could well be...
Gold Is Right Authored by Jim Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, Is the gold skid over? There are encouraging signs that the answer is yes. And,...
Soar Above Hubris and Overconfidence To Fortify Your Wealth "Neither Bull nor Bear" A growing deflationary hurricane is churning off the coast. At the same time,...
Inflation fears persist The noise level has risen to eardrum-bursting levels across the financial market space, with currencies, energy and precious metals having volatile intra-day sessions,...
Was The Worst Payroll Miss In History Inflationary? By Jim Reid, chief credit strategist at Deutsche Bank Does the biggest downside miss in history for employment...
Arizona Governor Signs Law Designating Gun Stores As Essential Firms Authored by Isabel van Brugen via The Epoch Times, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) has signed into...
The latest US labour report fell far short of expectations, dashing any hopes that the jobs market was now strong enough to allow the Federal Reserve...
Reflation Panic Sparks Global Stock Rout Yesterday was bad, but not too bad, and we titled our morning market wrap "Futures Flat As Soaring Commodities Depress...
It Has Never Been More Difficult For Small Businesses To Fill Job Openings When we looked last month at how "Biden's Trillions" in fiscal stimulus policies...
The federal government spends about US$2,500 a year on child care and early education per child under 5, about half of the European average.
What Was Behind Friday's "Literally Shocking" Payrolls Miss By Steve Englander, head global G10 FX research at Standard Chartered bank Summary: We see sampling issues and...
"Leadership Is Shifting": Goldman Says Business Sentiment, Job Growth And QE Have Peaked - What Happens Next Two weeks after Goldman speculated that this market was...
Shocking Chart Shows Most Workers Now Make More On Unemployment Than From Their Jobs Almost a decade ago, we explained that America had become a bizarre...
GOP Governors Slash Unemployment Benefits As Businesses Plead For Workers Authored by Isabel van Brugen via The Epoch Times, Expanded federal unemployment benefits that were implemented during last...
The DAX futures contract rose 0.2%, CAC 40 futures jumped 0.3% and the FTSE… The post European stock markets higher on optimism over recovery first appeared...
Uneven Recovery Leaves Working-Poor Communities In The Dust The US economy is fragmented more than ever. Millions of Americans continue to suffer job loss and housing...
One of the stark developments since the initial shock of the pandemic has been the aggressiveness of the US monetary and fiscal response. This was also...
Huge miss. Whopping dud. Maybe it wasn’t nearly that bad?The consensus forecast had called for payroll growth in April 2021 of something like +980,000, in line...
Unemployment due to voluntary quits remains extraordinarily low. The April employment report was considerably weaker than had generally been expected, with the economy adding just 266,000...
Wal-Mart, Sysco Fine Suppliers As Labor Shortages Cause Surge In Late Orders From the gas pump to the grocery aisle, Americans have been suffering from "sticker...
Today’s exercise in “confirming my priors“ is the big downside surprise in NFP – BLS reported a net 266,000 jobs in April, far...
Global stocks rally as commodity prices surge