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Robot Employee Worries?
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Jobs Are A Lagging Indicator
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The Most Common Jobs In The US
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Three Economic Puzzles Are Resolving
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Is a “Gig” a job, or just an odd-job?
How do we weigh the trend towards the “Gig” employment in the employment statistics? A recent article in The Economist examined the “gig” economy. You know, people selling crafts online, offering their...
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A Peek Inside GDP
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And, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said… U.S. job growth surpassed expectations in October. About 271,000 jobs were created across diverse industries: professional and business services, health...
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The News Is More Good Than Bad
So Why is Everyone Crying? There was bad news and good news in last Friday’s unemployment report. In the negative column, fewer jobs were created in the United States than economists had predicted, and...
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First Quarter Market Review
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Employment & Probability of a Fed Rate Hike
Statistics means never having to say your certain… and that was certainly true last week. The employment report, which was released on Friday, was a bit short on jobs. Analysts had predicted employers...
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Where Do Average Wages Stretch The Furthest
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Brexit Means ‘Brexit’
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Jobs Report – Good News or Bad?
WAS JOBS REPORT GOOD NEWS… OR WASN’T IT? The U.S. unemployment rate ticked higher last week. The September jobs report showed the United States added 156,000 new jobs in September. That was 16,000...
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Keep your eyes on the data. There was much to be said for U.S. stock markets’ performance during October. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index delivered their...
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And, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said… U.S. job growth surpassed expectations in October. About 271,000 jobs were created across diverse industries: professional and business services, health...
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So Why is Everyone Crying? There was bad news and good news in last Friday’s unemployment report. In the negative column, fewer jobs were created in the United States than economists had predicted, and...
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Q1 Market Review – What Do Markets Do? They Zig When Expected To Zag And Then They Zag When Expected To Zig. It’s like déjà vu all over again! This wasn’t the first quarter, or even the first year,...
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Statistics means never having to say your certain… and that was certainly true last week. The employment report, which was released on Friday, was a bit short on jobs. Analysts had predicted employers...
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