…from the regional data during the shutdown. The Bonddad Blog ISM manufacturing confirms regional Feds’ reports: prices up, production improves slightly, employment contracting – Angry Bear by New Deal democrat…
…not thriving. They’re optimizing amid tight conditions. In this light, Walmart’s banger of a quarter shows growing strain and contracting confidence. American shoppers are looking for deals on bread and…
…Wednesday’s ISM services report assumes even greater importance. The Bonddad Blog “ISM manufacturing confirms regional Feds’ reports: prices up, production improves slightly, employment contracting,” Angry Bear by New Deal democrat…
…confirms regional Feds’ reports: prices up, production improves slightly, employment contracting, Angry Bear by New Deal democrat August industrial production: overall neutral trend continues, Angry Bear by New Deal democrat…
…as with the manufacturing survey, the regional Fed surveys, and this morning’s ADP report, the bad news (even if “less bad”) is that employment appears to be contracting: For the…
…market is either a hairs-breadth above contraction, or actually in contraction.” This month showed a contracting jobs market in all important metrics except the headlines (which, for the record, were…
– by New Deal democrat Last Friday I summarized the jobs report as “show[ing] a contracting jobs market in all important metrics except the headlines (which, for the record, were positive). …[A]lmost]…
…NBER has highlighted in determining whether the economy is continuing to expand, or is contracting. The below link includes nonfarm payrolls (blue), industrial production (red), real personal income excluding government…
…if the first report of the morning confirmed a moribund, if not outright contracting employment sector, the other news, in the ISM services report, showed that the 75% or so…
…*are.* And what yesterday’s release showed us, for the about the sixth month in a row, is that the coincident economy is stagnant (but not contracting!), with the big exception…