Is this government’s Brexit broken beyond repair? I hope so, it’s a shambles, and a sordid betrayal of the will of the people who voted in majority to leave the EU. We can just leave anyway, under WTO rules, and use the money we save, to kick-start our […]
The February Jobs Report – A Tale of Two Data Sets (Part 3) The ADP report was released last week to faint praise. The “jobs” number came in at 183,000. Commentators made off-hand remarks that this was down from the January level of 300,000 workers. We hadn’t seen […]
Private Sector Payroll Grew for All Sectors from January 2018 Levels The ADP Private Sector Annual Growth Rate came in substantially higher than January 2018. The annual growth rate for October was 2.00%. The annual growth rate for November was 1.96%. The December growth rate was 1.99%. […]
Fourth Quarter GDP Could be the Best Fourth Quarter since 2011 You have heard elsewhere, and possibly read elsewhere, that the Government Shutdown is/was going to negatively impact our Gross Domestic Product, or GDP. This column has produced an article titled “Government Shutdown may Not Show Up in […]
CNN was tipped off by “Special Councel” Robert Mueller’s office that they were going to conduct a predawn raid and arrest of former Trump political opperative Roger Stone at his home this morning. Armed with cameras, CNN recorded what looked like something out of “Casablanca” as members of […]
The ADP Payroll report gives us a preview of what to expect from the Monthly Employment Situation report, especially with regard to total private sector worker growth. We may get some insight as to which sectors are growing month to month and December to December, seasonally adjusted. The […]
The Monthly Jobs Report, or Employment Situation Report, contains a cornucopia of information. It is created using the Current Employment Statistics (CES) data on workers and the Current Population Survey (CPS) data on jobs. The data that is recorded is the non-seasonally adjusted data. The data that is […]
The World is Falling Down Around Us – The worst things imaginable loom over us daily. Our senses are over-saturated with nothing more than bad news on the doorstep every day from the border wall invasion, the Muslim takeover of Europe, the normalization of Pedophilia, people no longer […]
Unassuming GDP Report Last Month the Annualized GDP was reported at 3.5%. This month the final revisions for the third quarter is 3.4% This is Still a higher third quarter annualized GDP than we had during 2006 through 2013, and from 2015-2017. So what was revised? The Quarter […]
Some age groups lost workers and workforce population this month The November Jobs Report was tepidly received on Friday December 7th. The “headline jobs number” was lower than anticipated. Wages grew, just not at the employment level “wanted.” Unemployment dropped. The problem is that most individuals report on […]
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