Showing posts with label Economic Boom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economic Boom. Show all posts
Monday, October 7, 2019

Twelve years ago under Bush 43 52.36% of Americans had full-time jobs, today just 50.72% do, a deficit of 4.242 million full-time jobs

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It's not an economic boom today anymore than September 2007 was, but after the catastrophe of 2008-2009 and the Obama years, some are j...
Thursday, October 3, 2019

Average miles traveled on US roads in 2019 through July looks flat compared with 2018

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To put the complicated calculation in a nutshell, travel per person 16 years old and over averaged about 12,497 miles for the first seven...
Friday, May 3, 2019

April 2019: 882K dropped out of labor force, labor force contracted 726K, employment level contracted 103K, participation rate fell to 62.8% (the 2016 average), average weekly hours so far in 2019 down 0.4 from 2018 average

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Data . Data . Data . Data . Data . But other than that it's an economic boom because total nonfarm is up 263K.
Thursday, March 28, 2019

This has never been an economic boom, just more meh

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Monday, March 11, 2019

Did Billy Cunningham mention the Trumpster's lousy February jobs number last night?

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If he did I must have missed it. 20,000 jobs in February, worst performance in 9 years, but Billy Cunningham blathered on about how soc...
Saturday, October 6, 2018

If this were an economic boom earnings for most people would be increasing 3-4% instead of 2-3%

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Friday, September 28, 2018

If this is an economic boom how come new home sales are at 1982 recession levels for a year and a half?

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(h/t Jeffrey Snider)
Saturday, September 8, 2018

Sorry Charlie: Jeff Cox of CNBC wildly exaggerates wages under Trump, "the last missing piece of the economic recovery"

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Here  in "Trump has set economic growth on fire": Friday brought another round of good news: Nonfarm payrolls rose by a bett...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

Noah Smith embraces the Trump narrative: "There’s no doubt that the U.S. economy is in a boom"

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Here for Bloomberg. After examining several indicators, which, however, are not unequivocal for their interpretation despite saying ...
Thursday, August 2, 2018

Good comparison of the presidents on GDP by Justin Fox at Bloomberg

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Guess Which Presidents Really Oversaw Economic Booms Fox well reminds his readers that GDP is an inadequate measure in many respects, ...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

If it's an economic boom why aren't inventories surging?

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h/t Jeffrey Snider
Friday, July 27, 2018

GDP hysteria

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Earlier in the week the economic calendar at FXStreet had indicated a consensus estimate of GDP at 4% for 2Q2018. With less than an hour t...
Saturday, June 16, 2018

Fake economic boom: Industrial Production went negative in May 2018

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Compared to the 1950s, this economy might as well be sleeping.
Friday, June 1, 2018

What economic boom? Show me!

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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Good Lord, Jeeves, The Atlantic fired Williamson but keeps nitwit writers who can't write

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For example, this boob , who are clearly a college graduate, for whom mines excavate and unearth miraculously all by themselves: But...
Friday, April 27, 2018

What economic boom? 1Q2018 real GDP at 2.3% disappoints again

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Saturday, February 3, 2018

Rush Limbaugh's "Not Working But Still Eating" soars to new record in January 2018: 96.7 million

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Some economic boom, huh.
Monday, June 2, 2014

How come Neil Cavuto of FoxBusiness is so misinformed about the average age of US vehicles on the road?

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Here : What’s surprising right now is that while auto sales are predictably sluggish, they could be a heck of a lot worse. Auto analysts tel...
Sunday, December 23, 2012

The Greatest Economic Boom Of Our Time Coincided With The Cheapest Gasoline

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Arguably the greatest economic boom period of the 20th Century, the period between 1986 and 2000, was fueled, quite literally, by the cheape...
Monday, October 8, 2012

Obama's Version Of Afroman's "Because I Got High"

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It's like I don't care about nothing man Roll another joint, ooh la da da da la da da la la da da I was gonna start an economic boom...