Excellent October housing report is good news for employment I’ll have a more comprehensive report up at Seeking Alpha, and I’ll link to it when it goes up, (UPDATE: It’s…

February jobs report: a blowout HEADLINES: +273,000 jobs added U3 unemployment rate declined -0.1% to 3.5% U6 underemployment rate rose 0.1% to 7.0% Leading employment indicators of a slowdown or…

…underemployment rates below. U3 unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.7%, compared with the January low of 3.5%. U6 underemployment rate fell -0.3% from 12.0% to 11.7%, compared with the January…

…high employment in the sector they represent. This means that a GM&UAW right to manage contract which specifies wages and working conditions and allows management to choose output, investment, and…

…and more volatile measure in the household report indicated a gain of 201,000 jobs, which factors into the unemployment and underemployment rates below. U3 unemployment rate declined 0.4% at 6.3%,…

…begin to roll over. One of them, the average manufacturing workweek, clearly has. Arguably so has temporary employment. Residential construction employment may have peaked. But total construction and manufacturing employment…

…here is the long term YoY look at total employment (blue), employment in goods-producing industries (red), and service providing (gold): Notice that goods-producing jobs are much more volatile; they decline…

…I want to focus on unemployment and underemployment. Economist Gloria Sahm’s Rule, namely that when the 3-month average unemployment rate rises a half percentage point above the low of the prior…

Real retail sales continue to suggest recession, decelerating employment gains  – by New Deal democrat The second of the three important datapoints this morning was retail sales for May. This…

…the leading indicators, particularly manufacturing and construction jobs, as well as the unemployment rate (which leads going into recessions) have meaningfully deteriorated. In May the headlines on employment were decent…