Posts Tagged ‘BLS’

  • Government Reports, Market Volatility and Big Government
    Posted by on October 12th, 2011 at 11:01 am, Comments: 0

    It occurred to me after reading this short blurb in Pork Network that government reports cost a lot more than they are worth. Rarely are [...]

  • Managing Expectations; We Are Still in a Hole
    Posted by on August 5th, 2011 at 9:32 am, Comments: 0

    Unemployment out today. At the beginning of this week, the expectation for non farm payrolls was 110,000. By midweek, it had dropped to 85,000. Yesterday [...]

  • Government Estimates
    Posted by on March 27th, 2011 at 9:37 pm, Comments: 0

    One of the services that government provides markets is statistical information. Virtually every government agency produces reams of statistics for people to chew on. The [...]