Since employment is a lagging indicator of economic activity, we learned over the years to dig deeper than the headline figure to get a read on where labor market conditions may be going.
September 10th, 2009 | Rob Parenteau | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "employment"
China, the Miracle Economy
There are some other ways of keeping score that tend to tilt the game in China’s favor – at least, on paper. When you add up all the scores – it shows China a big winner. But by the end of the day, it isn’t at all clear that China’s economy is growing at such a breakneck speed.
August 13th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | Continued
Household Debt Represents Spending Taken From the Future
But you can’t take an infinite amount from future earnings. You reach a point when the future can’t handle it. As more and more future earnings are absorbed by past consumption, pretty soon there’s not enough left to live on. At some point, so much of earnings are devoted to paying the interest…
August 11th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
If Americans Do Not Return to Work, There Is No Recovery
We have rallied based on one of the largest and most concerted propaganda campaigns ever waged, supported by government stimulus. But no government can stimulate forever…
August 7th, 2009 | Bill Jenkins | 0 comments | Continued
Fed’s Projections Show U.S. Economy Will Grow Quickly in 2010
The only negative note in the Fed’s forecast is that it reckons U.S. unemployment will keep growing to over 10%. That, presumably, is a drag on the economy. But if credit conditions improve, maybe all the people who’ve lost jobs because the U.S. economy is not producing and not competitive can, you know, get a credit card and live off of that
July 17th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
Investors Teased and Tickled by Waves of Good News
And now comes the big American holiday – July 4th. Investors pack their suntan lotions and head off to the beach for Independence Day. With Jaws in a cage, they had judged it safe to go into the water. But then came Thursday’s news.
July 6th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Can a Consumer Economy Boom If Consumers Have Less Money?
Consumer Costs Fall Most in Six Decades,” reports Bloomberg. Europe is already in deflation. America is not far behind. We had a hard time following the Bloomberg report…
June 19th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
