Employment & Revisions
The headline in the Establishment survey was quite a bit better than expected, but once again it was at odds with most of the rest of the employment report. The Household survey fell by 122,000 reported jobs, while 350,000 people left the labor force. The number of estimated persons not in the labor force rose .. read more
Weekly Economic and Market Review
So maybe the economy isn’t headed over another cliff after all? Last week’s economic data wasn’t great but it was enough to rally the market 3.5% just because it wasn’t as awful as expected. I haven’t been particularly worried about the prospect for a double dip into recession land because I’m an eternal optimist – .. read more
Weekly Economic and Market Review
I’m on vacation this week but just wanted to make sure and comment about the last week’s events. While the big news of the week was obviously the employment report Friday which triggered the big stock market selloff, the economic data actually continues to show pretty steady improvement. Whether that will continue is of course .. read more
Disgusted
From the Washington Post: The House ethics committee ruled Friday that seven lawmakers who steered hundreds of millions of dollars in largely no-bid contracts to clients of a lobbying firm had not violated any rules or laws by also collecting large campaign donations from those contractors. In a 305-page report, the ethics committee declared that .. read more
