by Administrator | Dec 30, 2018 | No Spin News
Strong gains in full-time employment are the most welcome news in these reports. This is far more important than the headline rate of unemployment for the simple reason that, until you know what brought about the headline rate of unemployment, you don’t know whether...
by Administrator | Dec 29, 2018 | No Spin News
The November Household Survey report was a good report. The headline was consistent with the details, and the details had a lot (a technical term) of nice attributes. It was the kind of report that we should get at this stage of the expansion. The Federal Open Market...
by Administrator | Dec 27, 2018 | No Spin News
Public sector employment was down in November, as a 13,000 person drop in state employment more than offset small gains at the federal (+3,000) and local (+4,000) levels. Because we have previously seen major revisions to the state and local employment numbers, we...
by Administrator | Dec 25, 2018 | No Spin News
The moving average of the month-to-month change in private payrolls stayed on the same track we have seen in other expansions. Subscribe now!
by Administrator | Dec 23, 2018 | No Spin News
The final component of the Elite Eight is truck transportation employment where we saw a gain of 4,500 persons. Based on what we read in the trade press about the need for more truck drivers, one might be surprised that the gains on this chart are not larger than what...
