Tuesday: Job Openings, Small Business Survey
From Nick Timiraos at the WSJ: Why More Renters Aren’t Buying (Hint: Weak Incomes, Savings)A new survey says that younger workers and other renters aren’t...
Author : Calculated Risk
Duy on Fed’s “considerable time” phrase
From Tim Duy at Economist's View: Forward Guidance Heading for a ChangeThe lackluster August employment report clearly defied expectations (including my own) for a strong...
Public and Private Sector Payroll Jobs: Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama
By request, here is an update on an earlier post through the August employment report.Important: There are many differences between these periods. Overall employment was...
Sunday Night Futures
From Ben Leubsdorf at the WSJ: Services-Spending Report Gains Wider AttentionA quarterly reading from the Commerce Department has quietly emerged as one of the most...
Research: Much of Recent Decline in Labor Force Participation Rate due to “ongoing structural influences”
For several years, I've been arguing that "most of the recent decline in the participation rate" was due to demographics and other long term structural...
Update: Prime Working-Age Population Growing Again
Earlier this year, I posted some demographic data for the U.S., see: Census Bureau: Largest 5-year Population Cohort is now the "20 to 24" Age...
Schedule for Week of September 7th
The key report this week is August retail sales on Friday.----- Monday, September 8th -----3:00 PM: Consumer Credit for July from the Federal Reserve. The...
Unofficial Problem Bank list declines to 437 Institutions
This is an unofficial list of Problem Banks compiled only from public sources.Here is the unofficial problem bank list for Sept 5, 2014. Changes and...
Lawler: Latest Release Shows Sizable Revisions in S&P/Case-Shiller “National” Home Price Index
From housing economist Tom Lawler:This week’s S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Report for June 2014 contained two data “surprises.” The first was that the SPCS “National” HPI,...
Payroll Employment: Best Years, Worst Month
One of the dumbest comments I saw this morning was from Douglas Holtz-Eakin who wrote "Disaster in August jobs!"Really? Was this a "disaster"? I'm sure...