Both full time jobs and overall civilian employment in Jan 2023 remain relatively strong but both are far from US potential: 12 million more could be working but are not

Full time as a percentage of civilian population dropped to 49.32% in January 2023 from 49.77% in December.

 

Peak full time at 53.6% in 2000 applied to 2023 would mean 10 million more working full time than actually do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Civilian employment as a percentage of civilian population dropped to 59.67% in January 2023 from 59.99% in December.

 

Peak employment at 64.4% in 2000 applied to 2023 would mean 12 million more working at all jobs than actually do.

 

Pathetic underperformance.

 

The shortfall with peak manufacturing jobs in 1979 at 19.4 million was 6.6 million in 2022. 

 

 

Natural gas prices have collapsed from the summer on unseasonably warm January temperatures meeting 2022 high production levels

 

top lines show full 2022 and start of 2023

 

Grand Rapids, MI, had its 5th warmest January by average temperature in Jan 2023 since 1892. Case is similar in many US cities which broke into the top 10 warmest Januaries on record, including Indy, Syracuse NY, Columbus OH, and Madison WI.

Meanwhile Joe Biden says half the women in his administration are women

 President Biden: 'More than half the women in my administration are women'

Good to know.

 

 

The damn fool Biden administration can't even shoot down a Chinese spy balloon

 

Chinese spy balloon flying over U.S. ‘right now,’ Pentagon says

The "tight" US labor market is a complete myth, the deleterious effects of globalization on US workers since 2000 the sorry reality

 Part of Trump's success in 2016 was his appeal to the former greatness of America, which resonated most with those who remembered what it was like in this country before the elites shipped their jobs to China.

Americans are not working up to their potential because it's not worth it. They have voted with their feet. 2019 was but a shadow of what might have been.

No cash, no hope, no jobs, no bacon. Alcohol, drugs, and accidental death.

 

 

 

 

This is the third anniversary of Andersen telling Fauci that some of the features of the virus look engineered and that Andersen and three others doubted the genome evolved

The virus was most likely illegally engineered at Wuhan in sub-standard lab conditions funded against the rules in part by Fauci's NIH, subsequently accidentally escaped, and went on to kill millions and destroy the economies and livelihoods of millions more.

I think one low-level guy went to jail for the 2008 financial crisis, but so far no one is even being investigated for the travesty which occurred under Fauci.

Thankfully @R_H_Ebright of Rutgers University won't let go of this story.

 

US Treasury Department in fiscal 2021 said US fiscal policy is unsustainable because debt to GDP will reach 700% by 2096

 Caused by deficit spending.

In other words, required spending by legislated programs is not being matched by required tax increases to fund that spending. The gap produces the deficits naturally year after year.

Eventually it goes to the moon.

 

Here.

I suppose they want tanks and fighter jets, too

 

U.S. should pay $14 trillion in reparations to Black Americans, say authors Darity and Mullen

People think he's dumb

 

President Biden: "Wages Are Up, They Are Growing Faster Than Inflation"

Noted "bond king" Jeff Gundlach is unaware of the existence of the 27th Amendment, and wants to decrease bond supply to increase its value!

What a shock, huh? No deficit spending means no borrowing, and no new bonds, making the existing dwindling supply worth more and more!

Seriously, if we continued to pay interest on the debt out of current tax revenues as we do, and then amortized the debt principal of ~$32 trillion, you'd have to extract ~$3,212.85 in additional taxes every year for thirty years for every man, woman, and child alive now to have a hope of paying it off ($1.066 trillion per year).

Current federal receipts average in excess of $4 trillion already, so that's an increase of annual revenues to the federal government through taxation in excess of 25%.

About as likely as spending curbs.

Noted billionaire real estate investor predicts Weimar Republic hyperinflation if Fed continues to raise interest rates, LOL

 

Herr Sternlicht thinks you are a Dummkopf.

You can donate your own blood for your own use, you know

 

FDA proposal would allow gay men in monogamous relationships to donate blood

 

How would you know? Because they said so lol?

 

Gay people are the most promiscuous on the planet.

 

Meanwhile . . .

 

Autologous donors have long been permitted to donate blood for their own use even if they do not meet certain donor eligibility criteria that apply to allogeneic donors because autologous donors are not exposed to new transfusion-transmitted infections in receiving their own blood. 

More.

 

Employers with workers who think like this don't deserve your business

"Tipping is about making sure the people who are performing that service for you are getting paid what they're owed," said Schenker, who's been working in the service industry for roughly 18 years.

More. 

Yeah, well, I'm pretty sure a US attack submarine tracked it and practiced sinking it before it got anywhere close to 1,000km of the coastline

 If they weren't too busy checking their pronouns.

Those poor dears

LOL, VP Mike Pence found to have classified documents in his house

 Way to go, Brownie!

Turkey's Erdogan is back at it, trying to stop Sweden's entry into NATO

Finland Floats Solo NATO Entry After Erdogan Rejects Sweden

. . . on Monday, Erdogan ruled out supporting Sweden’s bid after a far-right activist burned Islam’s holy book in Stockholm.

 Erdogan has an election coming up, and needs the Koran crowd's vote.

Recent inflation optimism ignores that gasoline is up 11.8% in the thirty days since Christmas

 

Breaking News: Americans discover they put Biden in the right place at the wrong time . . .

 Whole lotta refried confusion goin' on.

LOL, classified documents he wasn't supposed to have in the first place were "filed in the wrong place" Biden says

 

“We found a handful of documents were filed in the wrong place,” Biden explained Thursday during a tour of storm damage in California.

FBI found more documents Friday in a 13-hour search of Biden's home in the presence of Biden's attorneys. Trump's attorneys were not allowed to be present during the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago.