Deceleration All Around (including the bad stuff)
– by New Deal democrat Angry Bear PM Take: It would seem like Fed Chair Powell feels good about the progress. The theme of the JOLTS report for June was…
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October employment situation: stagnant hiring, increased firing, continued wage growth
…was also shown in new job postings by Indeed, which declined further in October. Note that this source has closely matched the job openings data from the JOLTS series: Another…
The State of Freight is Mainly Recessionary
– by New Deal democrat This morning, we were supposed to get an actual, on-time JOLTS report for December. But with Pastor Mike Johnson having done what he does best,…
Economically weighted ISM services + manufacturing indexes strongly stagflationary
– by New Deal democrat We got a bunch of data this morning. I’ll discuss the JOLTS employment data from last month, and the ISM services report today. Since new…
Jobs Report July 30, 2024. Time for the FED to Lower Fed Rates
…was revised up by 24,000 to 1.7 million. July 30, 2024 Tables and Other data can be found at BLS News Release: Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLTS) June 2024….
Why Is Brazil Ahead of the US…fuel
…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…
Housing Update
…considered almost risk-free because if the borrowers default, Fannie or Freddie will pay off the loans (assuming Fannie and Freddie remain solvent). Non-conforming loans go into pools known as private-label…
Oh, dear. Another loopy challenge to yet another ACA provision, this one concerning the Independent Payment Advisory Board.*
…ridiculous. But it does have the advantage of carrying with it the Madisonian Freedom/Liberty tag, a label that the Koch right confers upon anything it wishes, because that surely will…
The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead
…political debates, is a disagreement about how far to turn the knobs when adjusting policy; it does not seem to call for a separate ideological label. That said, Mr. Konczal…
How do Americans get rich? (and stay rich?)
…that: think twice about calling it “income” — even with the Haig-Simons tag attached. I’ve received almost-universal pushback on the “comprehensive income” label, even from the most enlightened (and progressive)…