Showing posts with label National Economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Economy. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

A Minsky Moment?

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John Plender wrote in yesterday's Financial Times ,  " Complacent investors face prospect of a Minsky moment ."   One observ...
Friday, March 10, 2017

News from the FT & WSJ Today

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Bonfire of Wall St analysts burns some big names Snap's $19.7bn IPO explained The February Jobs Report in 11 Charts Analysis: Stro...
Friday, April 01, 2011

Employment Was Up in March

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported jobs on U.S. payrolls were up 214,000 in March and the unemployment rate fell to 8.8 percent. ...
Friday, January 07, 2011

America's unemployment rate dropped from 9.8% to 9.4%.

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its employment report for December. America's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped fro...
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Thursday, January 06, 2011

Maybe America's Employment Malaise Is Not as Bad As It Seems

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Tomorrow we get to see the December employment data.  It may well show that things are not as gloomy as we have been seeing.    Certainly Am...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Economic Update: Wichita and the World

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1) The world economy is eighteen months into an economic recovery. The U.S. economy lagged six months behind. Employment lagged another si...
Friday, July 31, 2009

Second Quarter U.S. GDP Down I

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How much America produces as measured by its Gross Domestic Product fell again in the second quarter which ended June 30th, 2009. The decli...
Thursday, July 02, 2009

Making Sense out of the Economic News: Not As Bad As The Dow Took It.

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We have just had a great deal of economic news come out. The Employment Report: The unemployment rate is up slightly to 9.5 percent (compar...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Turn in Thursday for News

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Thursday will bring two big releases of national economic data with significant implications for the Wichita economy. 9:00 A.M. Central Dayl...
Friday, June 05, 2009

Unemployment Jumps to 9.4%; Job Losses "Down" to 345,000

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My first quick thoughts: The May establishment survey shows 345,000 fewer jobs than in April. That is bad and makes my assertion that March...
Thursday, May 07, 2009

Signs of A Recovery?

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Australia's employment was up, unexpectedly, in March and the unemployment rate fell from 5.7 percent to 5.4 percent. Rupert Murdock ke...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

GDP Dropped at a 6.1% Annual Rate; Final Sales Down c.3.3%

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The GDP numbers are out for the first quarter. The Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis announced GDP declined at a 6.1 p...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

PPI and Retail Sales Down

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the Producer Price Index (PPI) for finished goods fell 1.2 percent in March (0.0 excluding ene...
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Friday, April 03, 2009

The Employment Report: Have We Hit Bottom?

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Measured by the survey of U.S. establishments, jobs fell by approximately two thirds of a million in March (661,000) and the unemployment ra...
Friday, February 06, 2009

Unemployent Goes to 7.6%; 2008 Payrolls Revised Down

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This morning's employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows a drop in payroll employment of almost 600,000 and ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Even GDP Numbers Are Now Showing A Widening World Recession

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The U.S. economic recession which began in the summer of 2007 is starting to manifest itself in published GDP growth data. The Financial Tim...
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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Economists Are Divided On Whether We are In a Recession

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Your friendly blogger, Malcolm C. Harris, has been saying for some time that the U.S. economy has been in recession since some time last yea...
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Sunday, August 10, 2008

Kelly Evans Talks about the Prospects for the Economy

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Friday, August 01, 2008

July Employment: The National Recession Is Still Bypassing Wichita

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its July Employment report and it gave cold comfort to those who deny we are in a national economic re...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Wichita Is Faring Better Than the U.S.

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Jerry Siebenmark reports the consensus that our local economy is sailing in a sheltered bay while the national economy struggles to stay afl...
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