Showing posts with label unemployment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unemployment. Show all posts
Friday, April 13, 2012

1955: Employment

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Let's start with a look at the overall level of unemployment: Remember that in the 1950s, the economy was operating at a very high ...
Monday, February 6, 2012

Is job growth getting ready to accelerate?

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- by New Deal democrat Just about the only drawback in Friday's employment report is that at the rate employment has been growing sinc...
Friday, January 6, 2012

1951, Employment and Income

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  Thanks to the economy being on a war footing, unemployment was incredibly low - coming in below the 5% most economists consider to be f...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Housing and the double-dip

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- by New Deal democrat Suppose my analysis is wrong, and we actually have a "double-dip" recession? How bad is it likely to...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Mileading sensationalism about current unemployment vs. Great Depression

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- by New Deal democrat Yesterday CBS news published an article with the sensationalist headline: "Chronic unemployment worse than Grea...
Friday, June 6, 2008

Unemployment Jumps

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From the WSJ: The U.S. unemployment rate posted its sharpest one-month increase in 22 years last month, suggesting U.S. consumers already ...
Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Jobs and Wages Are Up. But There's More to the Story

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So, the latest jobs report released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed more job growth than analysts anticipated, an...