For the second year in a row, the esoteric process of revising labor market data is proving very popular with recession mongers and conspiracy theorists. Released on Tuesday, the preliminary benchmark ...
Happy Tuesday! President Donald Trump told CNBC today that he has narrowed down his list of potential successors to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to four candidates, including Kevin Hassett, ...
While it would have been nice to enjoy a four-day weekend, we had some business to attend this morning. The June Employment Situation report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), where 206K ...
The big jobs numbers out this week came from this morning’s U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) Employment Situation report, which surprised to the upside in a major way: 353K new jobs created for ...
The minutes from the latest FOMC meeting showed yesterday that ‘several’ Federal Reserve (Fed) officials were ready to cut rates at the June meeting, while ‘vast majority’ of them were convinced that ...
After President Donald Trump unceremoniously fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics following Friday’s disappointing jobs report, criticism and condemnation have come swiftly, as economists ...