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College Dropouts And Unemployment, At What Cost?
By EconMatters The American Institutes for Research (AIR) published a report in August this year taking a look at the economic impact of college dropouts. The AIR analysis estimated that the cost to...
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7 Sectors Most Likely To Gain Jobs By 2015
By EconMatters The job market is terrible, and the situation isn’t getting any better. The U.S. national unemployment rate is stagnant at 9.1% in September, and the jobs picture across America at...
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Laissez-faire: The Best Fed Policy Is To Stand Pat
By EconMatters There was nothing really new out of the 2-day FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting on Nov. 1-2 without much indication to the widely anticipated further quantitative easing...
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Infographic: Can Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin Really Get You a Job?
By EconMatters Roughly 13.3 million people were unemployed in November, yet the U.S. economy grew at a sluggish annual rate of 2% over the summer, and overall hiring was weak, according to a Federal...
View ArticlePresident Obama’s Favorite Chart
By Louise Basenese of Wall Street DailySeeing that the Republican primary season is well underway, I figured we’d mix in some politics, too. Yeah, yeah, I know – I’m asking for trouble. And I fully...
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The Black Hole of Jobless in America
By EconMattersJune employment report from the BLS said the economy added 80,000 jobs (+84,000 in private sectors, -4,000 in government jobs) in June. The unemployment rate is unchanged at 8.2% from...
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Bernanke’s Dual Mandate Trap
By EconMatters, Aug. 18, 2012After reporting an uptick of national unemployment rate of 8.3%, it is of little surprise that the Labor Dept. said on Friday that jobless rates rose in 44 U.S. states in...
View ArticleThe Market Rally Tells Us Nothing about the Economy
By EconMatters Just four months ago…Markets have had a good run from the third quarter earning`s selloff, the inevitable Santa Claus rally, and the first quarter new money being put to work. But all...
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U.S. Structural Jobs Paradigm
By EconMatters China-US Wealth TransferThere are usually unintended consequences from paradigm shifts, and the outsourcing paradigm of the last 25 years has been no exception. Where do you think all...
View ArticleThe Worst Risk/Reward Trade on Wall Street
By EconMatters The RiggingSo a bunch of folks in Hedge Fund Land have this idea that they can force a bit of a squeeze in the bond markets, and all the sudden the boring old bond market has been on...
View ArticleMay`s Employment Report to Top 300K
By EconMattersJob Market TighteningThe labor market is really starting to tighten and Thursday`s initial jobless claims coming in at 297,000 for the May 10 week is the lowest reading since May 2007. In...
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The U.S. Job Market is Gaining Traction
By EconMatters Claims DataThe Jobless claims data came out on Thursday and the trend is still in place and bodes well for the May Employment Report coming out next Friday as jobless claims fell...
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Doom and Gloom Sells
By EconMattersImproving Economic DataWe have noticed that despite an improvement in the economic fundamentals of the United States as per the robust manufacturing numbers, automobile sales data, and...
View ArticleEDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Inflation Eases in UK, but House Prices Still Soaring
Here are some highlights of news items you might have missed today. UK Inflation Slows, but Chances of Rate Rise Growing Despite a dip in inflation in the U.K., British interest rates are likely to...
View ArticleBond Yield Carry Traders Need To Fade Upcoming Econ Events
By EconMattersFading Strong Employment ReportsThe trend in the bond markets the last several months, and basically all of 2014 has been to buy bonds in the dead periods of econ reports, or the econ...
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Not As Much Labor Force Slack as Yellen Believes
By EconMattersFed Moving TargetsThe Fed keeps moving their targets when they originally thought it was a good idea to provide forward guidance for markets, then when that guidance was met, they started...
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Expect Another Strong Employment Report
By EconMattersSleepy August Closes OutLost in what is one of the lowest trading volume weeks of the year, and a really sleepy August month in general where many folks are getting to use some vacation...
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The Fed Cannot Wait For Wage Inflation to Raise Rates
By EconMatters5.9% Unemployment RateOn Friday the Employment Report came out reaffirming the stellar 2014 employment story, in fact the United States has created an amazing amount of jobs this year,...
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News Flash: 5.5% Unemployment Rate Represents Full Employment
By EconMatters3-5 Months Ahead of Fed Forecasts for Employment LevelsWhat has sort of gone under the radar recently with Ebola fear mongering, Europe throwing a tizzy fit until they get their ‘stimulus...
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The Fed Meets This Week Dealing with Alarming Bond Market Bubble
By EconMatters The Bond Market Bubble is Reaching Epic ProportionsThe 10-Year Bond now has a Yield of 2.08% right before the all-important Fed Quarterly Meeting and Press Conference this Wednesday, the...
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