…indicated a HUGE gain of 1,136,000 jobs, which factors into the unemployment and underemployment rates below. The total number of employed is still -3,912,000, or -2.6% below its pre-pandemic peak….

…hourly wages also declined again, down another -0.3% at -1.6% below their recent peak last December and about 3% below their peak in spring 2020: Further, real aggregate payrolls, an…

…the 19.3% YoY peak in July. Meanwhile the Case Shiller national index rose 0.8% m/m, and is up 19.1% YoY, vs. its peak of 19.8% in August. This is similar…

…very sharp increase in a row, and which factors into the unemployment and underemployment rates below. The total number of employed is still -3,049,000, or -2,3% below its pre-pandemic peak….

…their pre-pandemic peak. Within the leisure and hospitality sector, food and drink establishments increased 43,000 jobs, and is still -653,000, or -5.3% below their pre-pandemic peak. Full time jobs increased…

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…below its pre-pandemic peak. U3 unemployment rate rose 0.1% to 4.0%, compared with the January 2020 low of 3.5%. U6 underemployment rate fell -0.2% to 7.1%, compared with the January…

…yesterday, cases in the US decreased to 42,000, a decline of over 33% in the last week, almost 95% from their Omicron peak, and the lowest since late last July. Deaths…

…is very much an Omicron, rolling in and out like a tsunami. Like BA.1, the BA.2 variant causes peak infections by or very shortly after it approaches 100% of all…

…price of existing homes now is virtually identical to what they were at the peak of the bubble. But if prices are equal to their bubble peaks, the story is…