Posts Tagged ‘Unemployment’

  • Breakfast Links
    Posted by on February 20th, 2013 at 6:00 am, Comments: 0

    Raising the minimum wage will increase unemployment. The two things monetary policy can’t do are peg a real interest rate or the unemployment rate for [...]

  • Serious About Job Growth? The Council That Doesn’t Meet
    Posted by on January 18th, 2013 at 9:28 am, Comments: 0

    President Obama established a job council to deal with unemployment. He did it a year ago. They haven’t held a meeting yet.  If you say [...]

  • Quick and Dirty Unemployment Analysis-Stagnation
    Posted by on November 2nd, 2012 at 8:59 am, Comments: 0

    A better than expected number today on non farm payroll.  It won’t change one vote in the election.  Sifting through the data though, there are [...]

  • Those Who Have a Job, Want to Quit. Those Who Want a Job, Can’t Find One. Blame Entrepreneurism
    Posted by on May 31st, 2012 at 7:19 am, Comments: 0

    From time to time I have guest posts on my blog. I met Robbie Abed at a Technori meet up. He has a lot of [...]

  • Innovation is Great For Job Growth
    Posted by on March 25th, 2012 at 11:08 am, Comments: 0

    A lot of people get displaced by innovation. Software eats people, machines and robots eat people. But, the funny thing is as we progress down [...]

  • Venture Capital Is Shrinking In America
    Posted by on March 8th, 2012 at 8:15 am, Comments: 0

    If you have been following the venture capital (VC) news in America over the recent year, you might have noticed that several funds were able [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Economic Calamity
    Posted by on July 8th, 2011 at 9:05 am, Comments: 0

    One unemployment number doesn’t make a trend, but today’s was about as bad as they get. Hope you didn’t follow my advice yesterday and sell [...]

  • Obama’s Undeclared War
    Posted by on June 13th, 2011 at 7:17 am, Comments: 0

    Unemployment Rate Chart by YCharts The title belies a little foreign policy post but this editorial in the Wall Street Journal caught my eye.  Remember [...]

  • Updated Unemployment Chart
    Posted by on June 7th, 2011 at 1:38 pm, Comments: 0

    This is worth looking at. James Pethokoukis created an updated Sesame Street Economics chart. The unemployment rate is anemic. All the aggressive government action has [...]

  • Anemic Jobs Report
    Posted by on June 3rd, 2011 at 8:41 am, Comments: 0

    Wow, jobs grew by less than estimated in April, and were really anemic in May. How can anyone be optimistic after this? Unemployment is rising [...]

  • Unemployment and Where Does the Hot Money Go
    Posted by on May 6th, 2011 at 2:56 pm, Comments: 0

    Hot money flows through markets.  The hot money was in commodities, especially precious metals and oil.  Where will it go next? My gut tells me [...]

  • Unemployment, Some Quickie Analysis
    Posted by on May 6th, 2011 at 9:54 am, Comments: 0

    Non farm payrolls were up 244k.  The market liked it. It’s funny how they “manage” expectations on the non-farm payroll number.  They used to release [...]

  • Friday Breakfast Links
    Posted by on May 6th, 2011 at 12:18 am, Comments: 0

    Soros dumping Gold and Silver, Paulson buying. Who’s right? If you want to know more about yesterday’s Jobless Claim number.  This is pretty good. If [...]

  • Stocktwits Market Commentary, and Unemployment Tomorrow
    Posted by on May 5th, 2011 at 3:39 pm, Comments: 0

    Good luck trading tomorrow. Whisper number is somewhere between 150k-200k. Lot of economic headwinds, which makes me think GDP growth will be below 2.5% going [...]

  • Have We Had Our Unemployment Rally?
    Posted by on March 4th, 2011 at 6:18 am, Comments: 0

    Yesterday was a strong rally after a tepid break.  The sentiment on Monday for the unemployment number today was bullish.  But it wasn’t a close [...]

  • Unemployment Analysis
    Posted by on February 7th, 2011 at 5:21 pm, Comments: 0

    In the aftermath of the unemployment report Friday, there has been a lot of spin.  The headline rate drop of .4%, with no corresponding increase [...]

  • Unemployment Jan 2011
    Posted by on February 4th, 2011 at 6:11 am, Comments: 0

    Unemployment has always been a very volatile trading day.  But, recently, the action has been pretty muted.  I suspect today’s action will be muted as [...]