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December Non-Farm Payrolls Report Will Give Presidential Candidates Something to Talk About (that Would be ‘Recession’)
Today’s a day to just talk about the economy - as the Presidential candidates are no doubt finding out. The verdict from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on December was downright depressing: on net, non-farm payrolls (that’s jobs, as measured by the survey of establishments) rose by just 18,000 during the month. That’s the fewest […]
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A Dismal Week for the Economy
Once in a while I have to put the leisure economy aside and write about the actual economy–the one we have now, and the one that the markets have decided is so miserable in the United States that they have spent the last week selling off on. In truth, the leisure economy has a lot […]
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