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
As Biden Pushes Trillions In Stimulus, Employers Struggle To Lure People Back To Work Today's payrolls print was the second biggest miss in history (second only...
Futures Rise Ahead Of Blockbuster Payrolls As Commodities Soar S&P futures rose overnight alongside European and Asian market in another quiet session, as commodities smashed higher...
"Literally Shocking Data" - April Payrolls Miss Huge, Just 266K Jobs Added Below Expectations Of 1 Million With expectations of today's payroll print soaring, consensus expecting...
In March, the United States created 916,000 jobs compared to the 647,000 expected. Could this positive data lead to a strengthening of the dollar?
My newest theme this year is contrarian versus consensus, and I am sure that’s to no bewilderment from the crowd since trying to find holes in...
Overview: Ahead of a report that is expected to show that employment jumped by around a million in the US last month, the dollar remains lower on...
Torrent Of Federal Cash Stifling Return To Work As Fed Repeats Historic Error... In Reverse Authored by Mark Glennon via Wirepoints.org, "Regarding the Great Depression,... we...
Montana Is First State To Cancel Unemployment Benefits In Response To Unprecedented Worker Shortage Three weeks ago, when looking at the unprecedented labor shortage that is...
Kolanovic: Most Are Unprepared For The Coming Inflation Shock For the past two years, JPMorgan's head quant and resident permabull, Marko Kolanovic, has been periodically predicting...
"An American Tragedy": Restaurants Ready to Hire, But Government Payments Keep Workers Home Authored by Bowen Xiao via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As more and...
The pandemic has changed many aspects of our lives, and new study shows it's also changed workplace dynamics — mostly to the detriment of workers.
The BEA announced the advance estimate for Q1 GDP showing an increase of 6.39%. The increase was largely fueled by a massive increase in in consumption...
Overview: Disappointing German, French, and Italian PMI reports helped send the euro to almost $1.1985, its lowest level in about two and a half weeks, and...
Yellen comments on interest rates send Nasdaq tumbling Treasury Secretary (and former Federal Reserve Chairperson) Janet Yellen perhaps wished she had used less extreme words last...
Since 1999, extreme poverty has declined while rates of young people in education and employment have risen. Without investment though, the impact of the pandemic could...
Investors AlleyOne Way to Earn Extra Cash from Financial Stocks The economy may be improving, but last week’s Federal Reserve statement made it clear that there...
Overview: After seeing its pre-weekend gains pared yesterday, partly due to some disappointing data, the US bounced back today. It is posting broad gains, and the...
The US dollar sharply reversed much of Friday’s month-end gains as ISM Manufacturing data disappointed. I suspect that much of the greenback’s rally on Friday was...
With the month of May already getting plenty of scrutiny as to whether investors should “sell and go away,” it seems pretty clear to me, based...
Today's housing fundamentals -- including supply, demand and overall financial conditions -- are markedly different than in 2008. The post History Not Repeating: Why Today's Housing...