Showing posts with label Jobs 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jobs 2016. Show all posts
Monday, December 19, 2016

Bill Cunningham repeating stupid: "95 million Americans can't find work"

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Last night in the first hour of the show. "Not in the labor force"  explained . They aren't LOOKING for work. They a...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Personally, I think Rex Nutting's a commie, but he couldn't be more right about the fake news of "not in the labor force"

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Rex Nutting is right. Our side has been trafficking in this piece of fake news for years, a factoid originating with Zero Hedge and endl...
Monday, December 5, 2016

What a hypocritical gasbag Rush Limbaugh is about Trump's spending plans

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Why, Donald Trump could be another FDR!, he says today. He could consolidate Republican rule for decades if he spends the money correctl...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

Academic Ann Douglas' analysis is a cloister-f*^k: "Even some white men feel they've been left behind"

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Here , where her attachment to the ideology of "sexism" blinds her to the real consequences of Obama's intentional inattenti...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Trump's Carrier intervention isn't just chilling, it's a crock of corporate welfare and perhaps explicit fascism

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Jimmy Pethokoukis, on whom I have been very hard in the past, is certainly right about this one, calling the implicit intimidation in this...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

ECRI notices what I noticed in September: Whites missed the job boat under Obama, have fewer jobs than nine years ago

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My post was about full-time jobs, here in September. Asians, blacks and Hispanics all had net gains in full-time jobs from their respec...
Monday, November 7, 2016

Vote Trump: Government work usurped real manufacturing work under liberal Republican George H. W. Bush in 1989

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Hillary can't claim she'll continue the good economy because it isn't a good economy

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From the macroeconomic point of view of GDP, jobs and homeownership, the economy under Obama has been a bad joke. Economic growth is l...
Friday, November 4, 2016

Carrying the water for Democrats, the NY Times lies about "healthy job growth": Additions are more than 20% behind the 2015 rate

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In "Last Economic Snapshot Before the Election Shows Healthy Job Growth" . The Bureau of Labor Statistics states up front i...

Compared to October 2007, there are just 2.6 million more full-time jobs in October 2016

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You talkin' to me? In October 2007 there were 122 million employed full-time, in October 2016 124.6 million. Meanwhile part-ti...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

If Republicans had any brains they'd be pointing out that GDP is running $2 trillion behind Bush and employment 6 million

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But no, they have their heads up their ass because Trump talked about grabbing pussy. Which proves that Republicans don't care a...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Rush Limbaugh's memory of 1980 is terrible

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He just said the unemployment rate in 1980 was in the double digits, but it wasn't. In 1980 the unemployment rate averaged 7.2%. I...
Saturday, October 8, 2016

Joe Pags thinks "not in the labor force" does not include the retired, but it does

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It's shocking how many people still think, wrongly, that "not in the labor force" includes huge numbers of people who coul...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Our enemy, the administrative state: Only Trump will reduce it

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Gut 'em.
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Hillary gets the best she can from Janet Yellen: Economy still too weak for the Fed to further normalize interest rates

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Actually, the Fed is too weak morally to normalize interest rates, and won't move until after the election. A December hike if Trump i...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Under Obama minorities have been hired to full-time jobs at the expense of whites

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Sunday, September 18, 2016

Les Deplorables: Under Obama full-time employment for Asians, Hispanics and blacks has recovered, but not for whites

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Hm. How did that happen? Maybe because race hiring quotas became de facto  mandatory for private employers in late 2013 because of 2010...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

Age discrimination update: Unemployment rate for those 55+ estimated to be 12%, 2.5 million want to work but can't get hired

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Reported by Reuters, here : Further, if you add jobless workers who gave up looking after more than four weeks, the 55-plus unemployme...
Monday, September 5, 2016

New York Times opinion piece against age discrimination never once mentions the main reason for it: The young can be paid much less

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The number one cost of doing business is employees, and employers will do anything they can to reduce it: fire the old and hire the young,...

Through past recessions full-time jobs bounced back by 12 million on average, but not under Obama who is 9.6 million short

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