by Administrator | Aug 29, 2018 | No Spin News
The long end of the yield curve continues to trend sideways after pricing in the first two increases in the Federal Funds Rate. The peaks and valleys you see since trading day 50 are headline driven events. The two headlines the bond market is looking for are 1) the...
by Administrator | Aug 26, 2018 | No Spin News
While doing some work on another project I happened upon this series and the one on the next chart and I thought I would share them with you for the next several months. You are intimately familiar with the Unemployment Rate, which is the ratio of the number of...
by Administrator | Aug 24, 2018 | No Spin News
Now that we know something about the composition of the employment gain, we can start to look into what happened to unemployment. Just so you know, it is possible for the number of people employed and the number of people who are unemployed to increase at the same...
by Administrator | Aug 23, 2018 | No Spin News
The BLS asks every survey respondent (they survey 60,000 households every month) whether they are working full-time or part-time. Those who answer part-time are then asked whether they are working part-time because they have to or because they want to. Those who...
by Administrator | Aug 22, 2018 | No Spin News
The BLS breaks out part-time employment into two categories. This one counts the people who have to work part-time. They do so because they can only find part-time work, their employer limits their hours to less than 35 per week either because of slack work or because...
