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Shooting The Messenger

August 19, 2025 One week after discussing the importance of the Chairman of the Federal Reserve’s tenuous position, the economy received somewhat of an “aftershock.” Rarely do we use the word aftershock when discussing the economy. It is quite often that we are subjected to economic shocks, many of which are surprises such as natural […]

More Jobs Than People?

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Every month for the past three years we have been singing the same refrain – the job market is hot. Except there is a limit to the number of jobs that can be created. And not every person qualifies for every job. For example, if there are many job openings for doctors, it is not […]

Another Month Strong of Jobs Gains

If the Federal Reserve is waiting for the economy to slow down before it eases interest rates, there is no doubt that they are watching the monthly jobs report for a significant clue. Thus far this year, there has been no sign that the economy is producing less jobs each month. The pace of the […]

The Employment Picture Clouds a Bit

August 8, 2023 The Federal Reserve and every market analyst have been waiting for the job market to cool down a bit so that one of the last bastions of inflation could fall. The June employment picture was a bit cloudier for the first time this year. Though the headline job data again was just […]

Recession Update

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June 27, 2023 Just about every market analyst has been predicting a recession sometime in 2023. Well, here we are ending the first half of the year and we have seen very few signs of a recession. To the contrary, as of last month the economy had added almost 1.5 million jobs in the first […]

Pulse of the Economy: Jobs

May 9, 2023 It has been a crazy first quarter. It is amazing that the economy produced approximately one million jobs during the first quarter of the year. Everyone knew that the pace of job creation was not likely to continue, especially since we have already replaced the number of jobs lost during the pandemic-induced […]

Triple Whammy Time

April 25, 2023 Every week seems to be a big week when it comes to economic data and events. However, it is not often we see the triple whammy of events which will occur this week and next. This period typically occurs once or twice per year. What are these events? First, this week we […]

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

April 11, 2023 Excuse our overuse of common cliches. But we can find no other description of the dilemma facing the Federal Reserve. We would not want to be in their place. On one hand, the jobs market has been red hot up until now and inflation is still a major concern. When you get […]

Can The Machine Continue Humming?

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April 4, 2023 The employment sector of the economy has been nothing short of amazing. Close to full employment, we lost an amazing number of jobs during the pandemic – close to 25 million. By July of last year, we had recovered those jobs and it was expected that the pace of job creation would […]

More Jobs

October 11, 2022 For months we have been predicting job growth would slow down. This prediction was not only predicated on the forecasts for the economy to slow down, but also because we have now recovered the jobs lost during the pandemic-reduced recession. From here on out, job growth will be a factor of the […]