Showing posts with label job creation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label job creation. Show all posts
02 November 2017

Evaluating the Fed's First Woman Chair: How Labor and Stock Markets Performed During Janet Yellen's Tenure

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The U.S. got its first Federal Reserve Chair in 1914. 100 years later the first woman was appointed to Chair the Fed. Now, after she has ser...
06 December 2014

In Which Your Blog Author Manages to Turn a Big Stock Market Prediction into a Very Small Gain

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On October 13, I made a prediction about job numbers and a prediction about the stock market .  Here is the prediction I blogged abou...
05 December 2014

Is This Record Streak of Job Creation Finally Raising Wages?

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Today's job reports makes for some great facts. In November, the American economy created 321,000 new jobs. 365,000 jobs were announce...
05 September 2014

How the August Job Numbers Could Boost Your Stock Portfolio

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Economic forecasters were expecting 225,000 jobs last month but today the government reported just 142,000. If recent trends hold, you could...
06 June 2014

Job Numbers in Historical Context

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Here are some graphs and a couple of tables to compare this decade and administration with those of the last few decades. This first graph...
05 June 2014

This Jobs Recovery Has Quietly Crept Up on the Record for Longest Expansion

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Tomorrow's job report will probably extend the streak of months with uninterrupted job growth to 44, placing it 3rd among recorded strea...
02 May 2014

Today's April Jobs Report Adds to the Promise of 2014

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This is  the jobs report I prematurely forecast last month for March . It took a month longer to happen than I thought, but this ~300,000 jo...
05 April 2014

Two Reasons Why This Recovery Feels So Anemic (And Why Even Normal Could Create a Boom)

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The economy is recovering but we've yet to feel a wave of optimism sweep across the country. The two biggest reasons are that the 2000s ...
03 April 2014

Forecasting Job Numbers for Tomorrow and the Unemployment Rate for 2014 (and Beyond)

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Tomorrow the Bureau of Labor Statistics unveils their job numbers for March, reporting job creation and the unemployment rate. My prediction...
17 March 2014

Gallup Job Creation Index Back to Pre-Recession Levels

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Gallup tracks job creation in the US , posting a three-day running average. Its posted values go back six years. Here is a graph that plots ...