The Bonddad Blog

- by New Deal democrat Patience is said to be a virtue. So you must be a little patient with me until I get to my promised third installment...

From his recent testimony: The economic recovery that began in the middle of 2009 appears to have strengthened in the past few months, alth...

From the WSJ: A United Nations agency said this year's wheat crop is at risk in at least five Chinese provinces, echoing continuous war...

From Bloomberg: The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment insurance fell to the lowest level since July 2008 last w...

Over the last three days, I've normalized the employment numbers for the last three jobless recoveries to compare and contrast the perfo...

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It appears that each day we can find some website publishing an intellectually embarrassing screed from someone who tries to pretend they ac...

- by New Deal democrat This is the second of three posts in which I dissect last Friday's jobs reports. On Monday I showed that, eve...

Let's continue our look at jobless recoveries by looking at another way to divide the total establishment jobs report into distinct part...

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From the WSJ: Much of the $30 billion U.S. timber industry is still depressed because of weakness in the housing market, but some companie...

Let's continue our look at the performance of various employment numbers from the last three "jobless recoveries." For more b...

Today, it was announced that AOL (which I use to call America on Hold) will buy the Huffington Post. As you may know, I use to blog over th...

I am going to make an early award for dumbest blog post of the year for this absolutely moronic piece showcasing the complete inability of t...

- by New Deal democrat One month ago I described the disappointment syndrome , writing that ... with no more than three exceptions, every ...

The US economy is currently experiencing its third jobless recovery, or more accurately, recovery where the drop in the unemployment rate la...

- by New Deal democrat The big news of the week was the employment report, showing a "disappointing" +36,000 increase in jobs in...