The news is in from two classic American places this morning.  The first was discouraging but expected.  Washington, though, did better than Gobbler’s Knob.We were led to ant… Read More

This may be the closest our nation’s employment situation has ever come to being unchanged by a Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summary.The good news, and almost all th… Read More

This morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics employment data was superb.  All 9 of what I consider the front-line BLS statistics were positive.  Nonfarm payroll employment went… Read More

I didn’t know what to expect with this morning’s jobs numbers – and, looking over the press, most others didn’t either.  We’re creeping closer to recession… Read More

What’s been happening lately?  The smelliest story of last week, if not truly deserving of being the largest, was not quite how it was widely interpreted.  Our president&rsqu… Read More

The federal jobs data took a breather last month.Although seasonally adjusted employment bettered yet again, from 4.4% to 4.3%, this morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics report was a w… Read More

Four and a half years ago I released a book with the thesis that the jobs crisis was permanent.  I still stand by that, as although the official unemployment at press time was about dou… Read More

The Fed dodged its own bullet last week.About a year and a half ago, I wrote that Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, who took the position in February 2014, had the right attitude for this… Read More